Promoting Future-Oriented Legal Thinking in Long-Term Strategic Planning
Southern Law Journal, Volume 29, Number 1, 69-101, 2019
33 Pages Posted: 3 Aug 2020
Date Written: 2019
Abstract
Despite the growth of scholarship highlighting the importance of greater involvement by in-house counsel in company business processes to the promotion of a future-oriented, proactive law perspective, scholars have largely failed to address methods for putting the concepts generated by such discussions into practice. There is a critical need for further scholarship on practical methods for involving in-house counsel to a greater degree in future-oriented company business processes. The purpose of this article is to outline a way to increase the involvement of in-house counsel in long-term strategic planning through incorporating Delphi consensus building into crisis management team (CMT) response processes to organizational crises. Incorporating Delphi consensus building into the CMT context will support the increased involvement of in-house counsel in future-oriented, proactive strategic planning while reducing the challenges to CMT decision-making posed by organizational conflict.
Keywords: legal strategy
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