e-learning courses for non-lawyers

One person can expose your company to huge fines, damage its reputation, or even destroy it entirely. What are you doing to manage this risk? Do your employees understand the legal limits to their actions? Where is your business most exposed? PLC Legal Risk is an online global compliance solution that enables in-house legal teams to educate their business in key areas of legal risk. It comprises practical online training courses and reference materials that are specifically written for non-lawyers.

PLC Legal Risk is now managed by the UK's leading work-place e-learning specialist Brightwave. Having developed the courses in partnership with PLC, Brightwave is providing a fully managed Legal Risk E-learning Service to help your organisation minimise risk and stay compliant, simply and effectively. Clients will benefit from direct support, increased customisation options, improved learner tracking and reporting as well as the assurance that the legal content on which the courses are based is regularly reviewed by PLC's team of legal experts.

Benefits of PLC Legal Risk:

  • Simple and quick to complete
    The courses and materials are straightforward and practical, conveying the key issues concisely.
  • Easy to set up and maintain
    Hosted and maintained by Brightwave requiring minimal input from legal and IT departments.
  • Great value
    e-learning is the most cost-effective way of educating large numbers of employees and our courses are very competitively priced.
  • Up to date
    The courses and materials can be relied on to reflect current law and practice.
  • Raises the legal department's profile
    Course customisation allows the legal department to raise its profile within the business, as well as including links to company-specific policies and guidelines.
  • International
    Many of the courses are suitable for international rollout and two are available in multiple languages.

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Key features

  • e-learning courses for business people
    Short and interactive with "real-life" scenarios.
  • SpeedBrief and glossary (click for examples)
    Practical summaries of key issues and definitions written in plain English for non-lawyers.
  • Launch and track system
    Enables you to keep a record of all courses and participants. Available in multiple languages.
  • Course customisation
    You can include links to company policies and legal department contacts.
  • Written and maintained by PLC
    Regularly reviewed and updated by PLC's team of over 120 specialists to reflect changes in law or practice.

 

Courses available

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Co-operating with competitors

Target audience

Anyone who may come into contact with competitors.

Jurisdiction

International. This course is available in the following languages: English, Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican-Spanish, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

Course description

The aim of this course is to alert people to potential breaches of competition law when dealing with competitors, reducing the risk of infringement by encouraging appropriate behaviour.

  • Clearly sets out the consequences of failure for individuals and organisations to comply with the law. For example, large fines and, in some cases, prison.
  • Explains the main examples of cartel activity, such as different forms of price fixing, bid rigging, market sharing and information exchange.
  • Sets out other forms of co-operation between competitors that may breach competition law, such as joint ventures, research and development agreements, and informal conversations and arrangements.

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Contract negotiations

Target audience

Anyone involved in negotiating contracts.

Jurisdiction

International.

Course description

This course covers the key issues business people need to consider when negotiating contracts.

  • Highlights the main questions to consider up front, including the identity of the parties, what is being bought or sold, price, and how payment is to be made.
  • Explains what to do if things go wrong and under what circumstances a party may pull out of a contract.
  • Sets out how to protect the business from competition or the poaching of staff by the other party.
  • Identifies the common negotiating pitfalls. For example, making sure that the other party is not misled during the negotiations and, if standard terms are involved, whose terms prevail.
  • Explains the importance of refusing any bribes or inducements to enter into a contract.
  • Clearly sets out the effect of signing a pre-contractual agreement, such as heads of terms.

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Data protection

Target audience

All employees.

Jurisdiction

International.

Course description

This course identifies the key issues to consider when dealing with personal data about employees, customers, suppliers and any other individuals that may be encountered in the course of business.

  • Sets out how personal data should be stored, protected and secured.
  • Explains what information is classed as personal data.
  • Highlights the penalties for failing to deal with personal data appropriately.
  • Identifies the circumstances in which personal data can be collected.
  • Explains how data collected on individuals can be used.
  • Identifies how enquiries about personal data should be dealt with.

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Discrimination and harassment

Target audience

All employees.

Jurisdiction

UK.

Course description

This course identifies the different types of discrimination and harassment that can occur in the workplace and explains unacceptable types of behaviour.

  • Deals with all the areas of working life that are protected by discrimination and harassment laws: the recruitment process (job adverts and applications), during employment, work social events and even after employment (job references).
  • Explains the different types of discrimination that are covered (sex, race, age, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief).
  • Clearly sets out the penalties for failing to comply with discrimination and harassment laws for the individual and the organisation.

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E-mail and online risk

Target audience

All employees.

Jurisdiction

International. This course is available in the following languages: English, Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican-Spanish, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

Course description

This course covers the main risks associated with using the internet and e-mail at work, sending work related e-mails or discussing details of your workplace on the internet.

  • Sets out how e-mails and internet postings can be used in the same way as a letter in legal proceedings.
  • Explains that an individual can be sued for merely forwarding a defamatory e-mail.
  • Identifies the need to take care when sending confidential information via e-mail.
  • Highlights that a legally binding contract can be made by a simple exchange of e-mails.
  • Outlines the hazards of writing about personal or work-related matters in e-mails or online.

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Handling a dispute

Target audience

Anyone who may be involved in a dispute (for example, sales or procurement).

Jurisdiction

International.

Course description

The aim of this course is to help your business people understand the key legal issues upfront and the pitfalls to avoid when an incident occurs or a dispute arises. It takes them through a practical checklist of do's and don'ts covering:

  • Who you should inform of the incident or dispute and who you should not (internally and externally).
  • The importance of obtaining legal advice early on.
  • How to deal with any regulator and the other side.
  • The need for caution when preparing reports and briefings.
  • Preservation of evidence.
  • Privilege and confidentiality.
  • Insurance and when to notify insurers.
  • Whether settlement might be a better option than commencing legal proceedings.
  • What you should consider for settlement negotiations.

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What our subscribers say

" The PLC Legal Risk courses are excellent - a really efficient way to get your business people up to speed. They cover all the key issues and are extremely user-friendly. Concise, focused and practical, the same qualities I'm used to with PLC's know-how for lawyers, but distilled for the non-lawyer. "

Jem Davis, Head of Legal Services,
APACS the UK Payments Association

" I found this course very useful. Really user-friendly for the non-lawyer. Great for use across geographies - because it is a desktop solution. And for me because I can reach out to many people in the business at the same time, whilst also tracking completion and seeing how well they have done. It fits well as part of an overall compliance programme. "

Nuns Moodliar, Vice-President, Legal & Corporate Affairs,
Hertz Europe Ltd

The sample question below if taken from the Co-operating with competitors course:

If you agree with a competitor to fix prices, you can be fined but not imprisoned.

This is FALSE. Price fixing is strictly prohibited by competition law and is subject to a range of serious sanctions. In some countries (such as the US and UK) individuals can be sent to prison for engaging in price fixing, even if they are not based in that country.

If you become aware that the company is involved in a price fixing cartel, you must contact the legal department immediately.

This is just one example of a question from the Co-operating with competitors course. Click here to view the full list of available courses.

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