ESGi Group Presents:
ESG Literacy for the Legal Profession
Addressing the growing client demands for enhanced ESG performance, advice, and counsel
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
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.
A practical to-do list will allow for immediate implementation of next steps to make sure you and your firm are prepared.
Practical Coursework:
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.
CHAPTER 1
What is Environmental Social and Governance?
- History of ESG
- Emergence over CSR / Social Impact
- Investor to Stakeholder
- Role of ESG in Business
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
- Dissecting ESG And What Those Letters Mean For Boards Today
- ESG Management Essentials
- Intelex Insight Report on ESG Trends
- Latham and Watkins Book of Jargon
- One Trust ESG Program Checklist
- Special Report - ESG Under Strain
- The Making and Meaning of ESG
- Chasing the Dragon
- Riding the Dragon
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 3
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 Clients
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
- Cisco Canada Case Study
- Millliman Case Study
- Nixon Peabody Case Study
CHAPTER 8
Governance
- Ethics / Board Performance
- Policies and Programs
- Reporting and Disclosures
- Incentives / Pay Equity
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
CHAPTER 8
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
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
- 2021 - 2025 Future of the legal and accounting professions
- ESG for Corporate Legal and Compliance Leaders
- The Year Ahead
- CEOs and Sustainability
- Change is Here to Stay
- Don't be on the Wrong Side of History
- ESG Toolkit for Law Firms
- ICAEW Sustainability Report
- Legal Reset: Why law firm culture must change
- Professional Service Trends
- State of the Profession
- The Law Society Climate Change Resolution
- WEF Global Risk Report
CHAPTER 10
Conclusions and Next Steps
- 3 Things to Tackle Now
- Continue the discussion
CHAPTER 10
Course Completion
To complete ESG Literacy for the
Legal Profession and receive a “ESG Ambassador” certification, you will need to complete the following three steps.
1. Further Steps
Download the Next Steps document above. This is your initial roadmap to help you develop your ESG journey.
2.Understanding
Download the Check for Understanding document above. Follow the instructions for completing the assignments and saving the file as a PDF.
3.Send
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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.
