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Designed for nonlawyers, this course is intended to avoid the needless creation of a damaging “smoking gun” document that can come back to haunt you during the course of discovery. This course outlines the “Top 10 Best Practices for Savvy Business Communications,” an easy-to-follow yet comprehensive set of practical suggestions, and illustrates their importance with a series of compelling real-world examples—many drawn from today’s legal headlines. In the course of dissecting these case studies, participants will gain a detailed understanding of the risks of ill-considered communications, along with common-sense strategies for drafting communications that reduce risk without reducing effectiveness.

topics

• Overview of the discovery process
• Top 10 Best Practices for Savvy Business Communications
• Keeping It Real: Case Studies
• Increased damages due to “smoking gun” communications
  • Destruction of damaging communications to cover up wrongdoing
  • Refusal to produce potentially damaging communications

who should attend?

• Employees
• Human resources professionals
• Managers and supervisors