The Critical Role of Legal Operations in Fostering Corporate Compliance and Accountability

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Practice Areas:

Business and Corporation, Compliance, Corporate Law, Other, Paralegal

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This course is designed to help attorneys better understand the role legal operations play in an in-house legal department, especially as it relates to corporate governance and compliance.

Attendees will learn about the role of legal operations as members of an in-house legal team and how they can assist with meeting the organization's overall goals in compliance. This course will also examine current corporate governance.

Any attorney, both in-house and those serving as outside counsel to business organizations, along with attorneys unfamiliar with the role of Legal Operations, are encouraged to attend this course.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the core principles of corporate governance.
  2. Identify the role of a legal operations department within an organization.
  3. Analyze how the legal operations department enhances an organization’s corporate obligations.


Production Date: 8/8/2025 | Closed captioning (CC) available

About the Presenters

Hannah Barnhorn, Esq.

Pilot Chemical

Practice Area: Law Practice Management

Hannah Barnhorn is an attorney and paralegal educator who has been active since 2005. She is the former paralegal director of National College in Kettering, Ohio, where she successfully received ABA programmatic approval. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio; University of Cincinnati in Batavia, Ohio; and Midlands Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina, where she teaches legal research and writing and develops courses on various legal speciality topics.She has presented Continuing Legal Education programs on legal research and writing for NALA and the Cincinnati Bar Association. She is a frequent lecturer on the ...

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