Overview
There was a time when saying nothing was the safe choice for a company, but that is no longer true. Speaking out, staying silent or changing course without comment can all send a message to someone, whether employees, customers, investors, regulators or governments. General Counsels are increasingly being asked to help the business make sense of it and decide what to do next.
For GCs and CLOs with global remits, a statement intended for one market can be heard in all of them, and a position welcomed in one region may create legal, commercial or even staff-safety risk in another. For those leading UK-focused businesses, the pressure can come from closer to home, whether from employee networks, customers, the media or investors looking for a view on issues such as DEI, climate or international conflicts that resonate in the UK. However your business operates, and whatever your sector, these are questions many legal leaders are now being asked to help answer.
- When to speak, and when to stay silent. We'll get practical about how companies decide whether and when to take a stand, when silence is a sound strategic choice, and when it becomes a liability that is read as complicity.
- Values that hold under pressure. Who sets a company's principled limits, and how do those limits survive when different markets, legal regimes or stakeholder groups want opposite things?
- The GC as the advisor. How leading GCs map their exposure before a crisis hits, from sanctions and supply chains to employee activism, engage with government and regulators, and turn complex risk into clear advice for leadership.
You'll leave with a clearer way to judge when your company should speak, a sharper view of where your exposure sits, and practical ways to turn corporate values into decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
Join us in London to hear from the panel and exchange experience with fellow legal leaders.
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Steve Harmon
