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Each member is required to appoint a risk management
partner for continued participation in PilotLegis.
This appointment is required to insure that each member is cognizant
of the benefits, direct and indirect, of risk management. In
many firms, the risk management partner is assisted by the administrator
in fulfilling the functions of this position.
Members of PilotLegis are convinced
that risk management will materially reduce the direct and indirect
cost of risk for most, if not all firms.
What
is the role of the risk management partner?
- Focus all risk management functions.
- Create awareness of the benefits of risk management,
with all members of the firm.
- Motivate everyone in the firm to understand the real
risks of malpractice and how they can be reduced with
a significant fiscal advantage to the firm.
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How
does the risk management partner accomplish this role?
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- Participate in the firm's annual PilotLegis
risk management review, implementing goals and considerations
timely.
- Develop an annual risk management plan including major
risk management objectives for completion during the
year.
- Create, publish and update risk management procedures.
- Initiate periodic reviews of key systems, such as
client intake, docket and conflict of interest to ascertain
that they are working properly.
- Develop an impaired attorney assistance program.
- Arrange for risk management topics to be discussed
at various in-house meetings during the year.
- Attend PilotLegis risk management meetings.
- Attend bar and other professional programs relating
to ethics and law firm risk management.
- Involve staff in risk management. (Many firms delegate
the authority to the firm administrator, but it is the
responsibility of the risk management partner to ascertain
that this is done effectively.)
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