Robert C. Bird is a professor of business law and the Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Connecticut. He has authored over eighty publications, received numerous research and teaching awards, and served as the editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal and president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the international disciplinary organization for law teachers in schools of business.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Legal knowledge in organizations; 3. Factors that influence legal knowledge acquisition; 4. Legal knowledge in competitive environments: avoidance, compliance, and prevention pathways; 5. Legal knowledge in competitive environments: value and transformation pathways; 6. Applications of legal knowledge: case studies and optimal utilization; 7. Strategic legal risk management: managing volatility and uncertainty; 8. Strategic legal risk management: managing complexity and ambiguity; 9. Leveraging contractual knowledge to create and preserve value; 10. Building an ethical culture of legal knowledge.

Robert C. Bird is a professor of business law and the Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Connecticut. He has authored over eighty publications, received numerous research and teaching awards, and served as the editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal and president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the international disciplinary organization for law teachers in schools of business.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Legal knowledge in organizations; 3. Factors that influence legal knowledge acquisition; 4. Legal knowledge in competitive environments: avoidance, compliance, and prevention pathways; 5. Legal knowledge in competitive environments: value and transformation pathways; 6. Applications of legal knowledge: case studies and optimal utilization; 7. Strategic legal risk management: managing volatility and uncertainty; 8. Strategic legal risk management: managing complexity and ambiguity; 9. Leveraging contractual knowledge to create and preserve value; 10. Building an ethical culture of legal knowledge.