The Business Guide to Legal Literacy

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

The Author.

Section I: How to Create a Winning Legal Attitude.

Chapter 1: The Need For a Paradigm Shift.

Chapter 2: How Behavioral Economics Influences Decision Making.

Chapter 3: How Latent Legal Liabilities Escalate the Cost of Doing Business.

Chapter 4: How Legal Leverage Creates Value and Competitive Advantage.

Section II: How to Achieve Legal Leverage: Developing Tools to Minimize Risk and Maximize Opportunity.

Chapter 5: How to Integrate Legal Literacy into the Value Chain: Who Needs to Know What.

Chapter 6: How Miscommunications Create Liabilities: Avoiding Smoking Guns.

Chapter 7: How to Keep the Wheels On: Managing and Mediating Expectations.

Chapter 8: How to Transform Legal Obstacles into Strategic Opportunities: The Role of Good Decision Making.

Section III: How to Maintain Legal Leverage: Developing a Supportive Corporate Culture.

Chapter 9: How to Stay on Course: The Role of Continuous Learning and Knowledge Management.

Chapter 10: How to Stay in Synch: The Role of Lawyers.

Chapter 11: How to Stay on Message: The Role of Communications.

Chapter 12: How to Stay Centered: The Role of Ethical Leadership.

Epilogue: Winning From the Beginning.

Appendix A: Legal Literacy Toolkit Charts.

Appendix B: The ABCs of Legal Literacy.

1. International Law.

2. Contracts.

3. Product Liability.

4. Unfair Competition and Antitrust.

5. Intellectual Property.

Appendix C: The Lessons of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Appendix D: Excerpts from Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines.

Appendix E: Excerpts from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Appendix F: The Thompson Memo.

Bibliography.

Index.

Hanna Hasl-Kelchner is a corporate lawyer whose career spans private, government, and in-house practice. She is a former adjunct professor at top-ranked Duke University Fuqua School of Business where she taught Legal Leverage to executive MBA students. She is currently associate general counsel and national counsel for trademark enforcement at Lorillard Tobacco Company. A frequent guest speaker on the subject of preventive law, she is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Ethics Education. She received her law degree from Rutgers University and her MBA from Cornell University.