Business Law for Consultants
Not what you're looking for?
Please help answering the questions below:
Q1. What are some of the potential tort risks that you might face as a consultant? How are they similar to and different from each other? Are there any differences in what a consultant faces as opposed to a business manager? What are some ways you can protect yourself, as a consultant, from tort risks?
Q2. When should you seek legal counsel for potential tort issues? Are there any warning signs that you should be aware of when a potential tort issue arises?
Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary
The potential tort risk that you might face as a consultant is determined. The legal counsel for potentials tort issues are discussed.
Solution Preview
1. When an organization engages a consultant to provide certain services, tort risks are seldom discussed. These consultants are critical for functions they perform and hence are subject to significant tort exposure arising out of intentional or unintentional harm to the person or property of the company which whom the consultant is engaged. There could be negligent failure to perform duties as per defined structure resulting in consumer injuries. Torts for consultant are mostly similar and of negligent nature as in most cases there are no written procedures for consultant's exposure to torts.
A business manager can limit exposure to torts by clearly establishing ...
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Six Sigma for Process Improvement
A high level understanding of Six Sigma and what it is all about. This just gives you a glimpse of Six Sigma which entails more in-depth knowledge of processes and techniques.
Understanding Management
This quiz will help you understand the dimensions of employee diversity as well as how to manage a culturally diverse workforce.
Motivation
This tests some key elements of major motivation theories.
Production and cost theory
Understanding production and cost phenomena will permit firms to make wise decisions concerning output volume.
Learning Lean
This quiz will help you understand the basic concepts of Lean.