Product Description

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy bridges the gap between law and business by translating legalese into language that makes business sense and offers a new way to think about the law¾as a useful business tool. The book is filled with dozens of real-life examples that illustrate a step-by-step process for avoiding lawsuits and transforming potential business legal problems that threaten growth and profitability into opportunities for

·        Building stronger business relationships

·        Delivering sustainable shareholder value

·        Improving competitive advantage

·        Embedding compliance into the corporate culture to achieve organizational excellence

This much-needed resource makes the connection between law, business, decision-making psychology, quality management, organizational change, and leadership and shows how these disciplines influence the company’s legal risk profile.   It tackles legal literacy on both the employee and organizational levels and identifies the infrastructure needed to support legal literacy and promote effective communications throughout the organization.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #522504 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Review
"Anyone who is serious about business ethics needs to understand the law. Hasl-Kelchner provides a clear roadmap for business people to understand how to do the right thing."
—Steve Odland, chairman and CEO, Office Depot and chairman, Business Roundtable Corporate Governance Task Force

"At last, a book that demystifies the relationship between business and the law . . . . I found it easy to read and full of real-life examples.  The Business Guide to Legal Literacy should be required reading for every business manager."
—Gary Krall, chief operations officer, BioSignia, Inc.

"As a small business owner without corporate counsel I've used Hanna's rubrics to avoid pitfalls and maximize opportunities. Her use of cases, related conversationally instead of legalistically, drives the legal points deep into long-term memory."
—Tamela M. Rich, managing member, Thor Industrial Services, LLC

From the Inside Flap
Business managers who don't understand the legal playing field risk running afoul of the law and creating unnecessary and expensive problems. Ignorance can also rob companies of opportunities for a competitive edge.

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy bridges the gap between law and business by translating legalese into language that makes business sense and offers a new way to think about the law—as a useful business tool. The book is filled with dozens of real-life examples that illustrate a step-by-step process for avoiding lawsuits and transforming potential business legal problems that threaten growth and profitability into opportunities for:

• Building stronger business relationships
• Delivering sustainable shareholder value
• Improving competitive advantage
• Embedding compliance into the corporate culture to achieve organizational excellence

This much-needed resource makes the connection between law, business, decision-making psychology, quality management, organizational change, and leadership, and shows how these disciplines influence the company's legal risk profile. It tackles legal literacy on both the employee and organizational levels and identifies the infrastructure needed to support legal literacy and promote effective communications throughout the organization.

This groundbreaking book concludes with an impressive Appendix filled with reference tools for the line manager, including a legal primer, lessons from Sarbanes-Oxley, and an inside look at the federal guidelines used by prosecutors to decide whether to criminally indict a company or its management.

From the Back Cover
Praise for The Business Guide to Legal Literacy

"Anyone who is serious about business ethics needs to understand the law. Hasl-Kelchner provides a clear roadmap for business people to understand how to do the right thing."
—Steve Odland, chairman and CEO, Office Depot, and chairman, Business Roundtable Corporate Governance Task Force

"At last, a book that demystifies the relationship between business and the law. I found it easy to read and full of real-life examples. The Business Guide to Legal Literacy should be required reading for every business manager."
—Gary Krall, chief operations officer, BioSignia, Inc.

"As a small business owner without corporate counsel I've used Hanna's rubrics to avoid pitfalls and maximize opportunities. Her use of cases, related conversationally instead of legalistically, drives the legal points deep into long-term memory."
—Tamela M. Rich, managing member, Thor Industrial Services, LLC

"Hanna Hasl-Kelchner has developed a straightforward and easily understandable approach to legal problems in the business context. She answers a number of critical questions.This work is successful because, in a number of unique and creative ways, it bridges the communication gap that sometimes exists between lawyers and their corporate clients."
—Larry D. Thompson, senior vice president government affairs, general counsel and secretary, PepsiCo, Inc., and former deputy general counsel, U.S. Department of Justice

Customer Reviews

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Should Know About the Law
This book provides a refreshing perspective of the legal pitfalls that face business managers, sales personnel or anyone within an organization who maintains contact with their customers. The discussion of smoking guns gives clear and concise examples of what not to say or write and provides a means to develop competent communication both with the customer and internal to the company without the "litigation lighning rods" that can happen in our fast-paced business world. This is a must read for business majors entering the workplace, as well as all sales and business managers. The writer has a sense of humor which keeps you turning the page.