Learning Outcomes

The following is the ABA Standard 301 Statement regarding learning outcomes for the Compliance and Risk Management Certificate: 

Knowledge of Legal System

• Knowledge and Understanding of Substantive Law
  
  • Demonstrate knowledge of state and federal regulations and agencies.
  • Demonstrate an ability to research, understand, and stay up to date on regulatory changes that affect business choices.
• Knowledge and Understanding of Procedural Law
  
  • Analyze existing case authority in implementing current and future compliance policies.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Develop an understanding of how to ensure compliance with laws and regulations that govern various industries.
• Analyze legal issues relating to compliance structures, risk processes, and roles and responsibilities within organizations.
• Apply risk management skills to identify, measure, assess, reduce, and manage legal risks in the workplace.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate effectiveness of compliance programs.
• Formulate conceptual frameworks for future compliance and risk management strategies.

Professionalism and Ethics

• Analyze ways in which organizational policies and procedures can influence ethical business conduct
• Articulates and challenges a tradition, assumption, or prevailing business practice by raising and examining relevant ethical perspectives
• Distinguishes activities and judgments particularly subject to ethical issues from those that are less subject to ethical issues
• Use leadership and communication skills to effectively interact with a diverse range of stakeholders