Legal literacy is the knowledge, or competency, necessary to control how much legal risk you want to reduce, transfer, or avoid. It’s about making smart choices instead of leaving legal risk to chance. It’s about managing legal problems while they are small and relatively inexpensive. Legal Leverage®, on the other hand, is the amount of strategic business value derived from applying legal literacy. It can be as simple and straightforward as being in compliance with the law. Or it can be as sophisticated as applying legal literacy for the purpose of building new assets and protecting old ones.

Just think, less legal problems means more satisfied customers and less resources diverted to defend a corporate black eye. It also means more investor confidence and more resources available to grow the business: to enter new markets and to create new goods and services. You reduce unwanted risk without sacrificing your business objectives. It gives you more control over your business and creates a business sweet spot of unprecedented strategic value.

The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Needs To Know About The Law shows you how to use legal literacy to find your business sweet spot. It equips you and your organization with a new way to think about the law and the tools necessary to reduce your company’s vulnerability to unethical or illegal behavior. A step-by-step discussion of the Legal Leverage Process Portfolio and demonstrates how you can minimize risk while maximizing opportunity.