Guiding Business Units to Compliance via Legal Guidelines

Discover how in-house legal teams can drive compliance and efficiency by leveraging Legal Guideline Resources. You will work through real-world success stories and gain actionable strategies for creating, deploying, and promoting legal guidelines that empower business units. Learn how to identify when guidelines are needed, craft them in a user-friendly style, and host them for maximum visibility. Walk away with tools to enhance your legal team's impact, reduce routine support requests, and focus on high-value legal work that truly moves the needle.

Tuesday, 21 October 2025
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Attend and earn 1 CPD Hour

1.00pm to 2.00pm Guiding Business Units to Compliance via Legal Guidelines

 

A practical session to share success stories on how Legal Guideline Resources can be deployed within in-house legal functions to boost compliance, reduce legal support requests and improve accessibility to legal services. 

  • What is a a legal guideline resource?
  • Ways to identify when a legal guideline resource will support and supplement the in-house legal function
  • How to get started on creating legal services guidelines in a style that your business units can understand and follow
  • Where to host and crucially, how to promote the guidelines 

  

After this workshop, you will walk away with practical, actionable steps that will enable you to: 

  • Boost your legal compliance within your organisation
  • Enhance your team’s profile through a service delivery that focuses on how to best add-value to your organisation
  • Free up your precious bandwidth to deal with the high value, high-risk matters that you both want and need to manage to best serve your organisation  

Presented by Sian Wingate, Legal and Compliance Consultant, Sian Wingate Advisory

Learning Objectives:

 

  • Understand how to use Legal Guideline Resources to boost compliance and improve accessibility to legal services for the In-House legal function 
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Sian Wingate, Legal and Compliance Consultant, Sian Wingate Advisory
Sian Wingate is a seasoned in-house counsel specialising in short to medium term contracts with in-house legal teams to support process improvement and tackle complex legal projects. Through her advisory consulting firm sianwingate.com, Sian also helps General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers with legal services and legal compliance reviews to identify areas for improvement. She sets up frameworks to implement her recommendations and supplies hands-on support to design, implement and embed changes. Sian has more than a decade of in-house experience in successfully implementing her tried and tested techniques across telecommunications, utilities, local government and central government agencies through to private sector. Additional services include legal operations audits, legal guidance resource creation, template vault development, team intranet knowledge banks and legal compliance framework design.




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Tuesday, 21 October 2025
1.00pm to 2.00pm New Zealand
CPD Hours 1
$130.00
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