To successfully protect their organizations in an increasingly risky and litigious world, it's imperative that risk managers and in-house counsel partner closely with each other. NU spoke with several members of our Risk Managers Advisory Board to hear about the most pressing challenges their legal and risk departments are working collectively to solve; and to get their advice on how risk managers can most effectively communicate with their attorney colleagues.

Karl Zimmel
Director, Risk Management Services
UniSource Energy Corp.

What are the top issues this year that UniSource's risk-management department is working closely with your organization's legal department to address?

To develop a policy and procedure regarding how to respond to customers and employees potentially affected by a database breach; and developing a process to preserve claim investigations as attorney-client privileged information. 

At UniSource, how do you communicate with the legal department in identifying issues and addressing them collectively?

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