The OCC course Information Security: A Practical Overview was released today for both fee earners and support staff based in the UK and internationally. This short, iPad-friendly refresher course is accredited for 0.5 CPD hours, and provides a framework for ongoing training in the important area of information security. Leading law firms are increasingly identifying information security as a key area of risk, and an important part of their ongoing compliance and risk management training programmes.

 Click here to review the Information Security: A Practical Overview course

This Practical Overview includes engaging scenarios and practical advice on how to implement information security best practice with regard to:

• Mobile devices
• Composing email
• Clear desk policy
• Passwords
• Viruses and malware
• Social networking

The course also includes a customisable page allowing each firm to insert links to their own procedures and policies. If you currently license the OCC Compliance Suite, this new course has been automatically added to your Learning Management System. Otherwise, you can license this course or upgrade your current subscription to the OCC Compliance Suite. Contact us for a demonstration or quotation at [email protected].

 

A new online course developed by the Online Compliance Consortium USA Core Group

Does this phone call sound familiar?

US Partner: …You can’t be serious. I have known these clients for over 10 years. Whose side are you on any way?

UK Partner: Give me a break! I am on your side, I am on the side of the firm and I am on my side. If I fail to do the required client due diligence and as a result fail to report a suspicion of money laundering, the firm’s international reputation is at stake and I personally can go to prison. So think about your responsibility to the firm and your colleagues and just ask for the documentation.

Click here to Demo: US Client Due Diligence

Tension between US attorneys and their colleagues practicing in AML regulated jurisdictions is all too often the result of confusion over the varying international compliance requirements. This 30 minute course, collaboratively developed by leading US law firms, is intended to: help relieve that tension; clarify the international CDD and AML requirements imposed on US attorneys; protect the firm’s reputation; and help support international compliance.

If you are interested in more information, please email Howard Finger at [email protected], or call him at +44(0)7503270236.

Collaboratively developed by Bird & Bird, Clyde & Co, Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown and Weil Gotshal & Manges, this new accredited course uses engaging video, animation and interactive scenarios (or an optional text-only version) to ensure that everyone in your firm can understand sanctions and appreciate the risks and damages associated with failure to comply.

Click here to view a demo of the new Sanctions course

The course explains:

• What sanctions are and why they are imposed
• The different types of sanctions in force
• The way sanctions are used, applied and imposed
• The licensing of transactions that otherwise would be prohibited
• The related offences and consequences of breaching sanctions

If you currently license the OCC Compliance Suite, this new course has been automatically added to your Legal Learning Management System.Otherwise, to deploy this course across your firm or for a demonstration or quotation contact [email protected].