ESGi Group Presents:

ESG Literacy for the

Legal Profession

Addressing the growing client demands for enhanced ESG performance, advice, and counsel


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OVERVIEW

ESG Literacy is now simply table stakes in the legal profession.


Client expectations of their advisors, and their need for informed ESG advice and counsel is exploding.


Completion Time: 

3.5 Hours 

 

Style: 

On Demand Self Study Training 


Faculty:

Pamela Cone

ESG and Sustainability Sage, Amity Advisory

CEO, ESG Intelligence Group


Available:

21/11/22



Participant from AmLaw25 firm:

“The ESG Literacy Course provides a condensed but holistic view of each component of ESG and how they converge to impact a company and its stakeholders. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to quickly get up to speed and is starting their ESG journey”


Take your ESG efforts further, faster. 


The rules have changed for law firms and for legal professionals. Your firm, and the advice you provide clients, must be ESG literate to understand this quickly evolving environment. Clients need you! You need to be a powerful agent of change as society transitions to the next “new normal.” 


Completing this course will position you to: 


  • Lead your firm on its own ESG journey. 
  • Engage and advise clients as they navigate their own ESG strategies, programs, practices and policies. 
  • Differentiate your firm as a leader toward a more just and viable society. 

 

What you will learn from this course: 


Upon course completion, graduates will understand the growing stakeholder expectations around ESG, the emerging regulations around the globe, the external frameworks for reporting and disclosures, and how to move from transactional to transformational social impact. 


Practical Coursework: 


A practical to-do list will allow for immediate implementation of next steps to make sure you and your firm are prepared. 


This will include multiple checks for understanding, along with assignments designed to take the course materials and overlay the ideas and concepts from the course across the participants existing business. 


Upon successful completion of the coursework, graduates will receive “ESG Ambassador” certification. 


Exclusive offer:


Enroll in the ESG Literacy for the Legal Profession course before October 18th and save 50%


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CURRICULUM 


Chapter 1: 

What is Environmental Social and Governance?


  • History of ESG
  • Emergence over CSR / Social Impact
  • Investor to Stakeholder
  • Role of ESG in Business


Chapter 2: 

Growing Stakeholder Expectations


  • Clients
  • Employees / Recruits
  • Communities
  • Shareholders / Vendors / Suppliers
  • Public Perception


Chapter 3: 

Regulations and Ratings


  • Regulations around the Globe
  • Clients need Lawyers’ help


Chapter 4:

Reporting Frameworks


  • Discussion of major reporting frameworks
  • United Nations Global Compact


Chapter 5: 

Supply Chain Assessments – What? Why? How?


  • Procurement Power
  • EcoVadis, SupplyShift, IntegrityNext, CDP
  • Custom Questionnaires from Client

Chapter 6:

Environmental


  • Measuring Carbon / GHG Footprint
  • NetZero
  • Science Based Target initiative
  • What does 1.5degrees mean?
  • GHG Protocol – Scopes 1, 2 and 3
  • Law firms’ Carbon


Chapter 7:

Social Impact / Societal Impact


  • Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging
  • Transactional vs. Transformational
  • Case Studies


Chapter 8:

Governance


  • Ethics / Board Performance
  • Policies and Programs
  • Reporting and Disclosures
  • Incentives / Pay Equity
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging


Chapter 9:

ESG – The Business Opportunity of a Lifetime for the Professions


  • The Cost of ESG / The Cost of Doing Nothing
  • Accounting Industry Response
  • Legal Industry Response


Chapter 10:

Conclusions and Next Steps


  • Things to Tackle Now
  • Continue the discussion

FACULTY

Pamela Cone

ESG and Sustainability Sage

Amity Advisory

CEO

ESG Intelligence Group

Pamela Cone consults with leaders at professional services firms and their global networks to uncover, understand, explore and embrace their unique, strategic ESG practices, programs and positioning. 


Given her entire career in professional services firms and her graduate education, experience, and expertise in ESG, she is uniquely qualified to advise and counsel firms to move their efforts from "transactional" toward achieving greater "transformational" outcomes. Stakeholders expect nothing less.


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ENROLLMENT


Enroll in the ESG Literacy for the Legal Profession course before October 18th and save 50%


Additional team rates are available on request, please contact us for more information


Individual Enrollment


Access to ESG Literacy for the Legal Profession for one individual


$1,495

($747 through October 18th)


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