This session will provide information about the duties of directors of not-for-profit organizations. It will emphasize recent benchmarks for good governance.

Many associations can benefit from a 'legal audit'. The lawyers from the Borden Ladner Gervais' Not-For-Profit Focus Group will describe the steps involved in a 'legal audit'.

A senior industry CEO will describe why his successful association decided that it needed a legal audit. You will learn how it used the legal audit to provide better governance and better compliance with legal requirements and to make changes in its letters patents and bylaws.

This interactive session will involve practical advice, audience participation and time for questions.