Sentences with phrase «scope than management»

In a private company or a smaller - sized public company or non-profit, In - House Counsel are often called upon to play a role of broader scope than management of the company's legal issues.

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(i) Does the concerted, global regulatory reform agenda mean that there is now more scope than in the past for sound risk management practices to be set up prior to full liberalisation?

Given the detail that can be fed into a properly constructed Precedent H for a complex case, and given the scope for debate on contingencies and projections, an enthusiastic or fully competent judge can make the costs management process last for days rather than hours.

In Upjohn Co. v. United States, 6 the United States Supreme Court held that a company's attorney — client privilege extends to company counsel's communications with employees in certain prescribed circumstances.7 Rather than providing a simple objective test, the Upjohn court instead established five factors to guide courts in determining whether the company's privilege should extend to counsel's communications with its employees: (1) whether the communications were made by employees at the direction of superior officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; (2) whether the communications contained information necessary for counsel to render legal advice, which was not otherwise available from «control group» management; (3) whether the matters communicated were within the scope of the employee's corporate duties; (4) whether the employee knew that the communications were for the purpose of the company obtaining legal advice; and (5) whether the communications were ordered to be kept confidential by the employee's superiors, including that the communications were considered confidential at the time and kept confidential subsequent to the interview.8 When these elements are established, courts generally consider communications between company counsel and an employee to be within the scope of the company's attorney — client privilege.9

The scale and scope of the investigation required astute project management skills, involving the review of more than 30 million documents and 229 internal interviews, while interacting with three investigating agencies with different legal systems and enforcement approaches.