Leveraging In-House Attys' Reporting Obligations

Michael Peregrine and William Schuman wrote this bylined article about a recent decision of the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission that enables boards and senior management to better understand the “reporting up” and “out” obligations of in-house counsel, and how those obligations can best support effective risk oversight practices. Board oversight, the authors wrote, “will be enhanced when there is a shared governance/management understanding of the in-house lawyer’s upstream reporting obligations.”

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