Common Legal Issues Affecting the Refining Industry

摘要

Some involvement with legal issues is inevitable for professionals, including individuals and the companies for whom they work. But too often, companies - their management, their personnel, and their counsel - accept the status quo as providing adequate protection from legal risks. They fail to see their practices as such practices might be viewed by regulators, who may mistrust business, or by the public, which may fear unknown impacts from the business operations, or by plaintiff lawyers, who see a moneymaking opportunity. Too often, management thinks that because "it has always been done this way," legal risks are minimal. The problem is, the way it has always been done may be precisely the reason exposures and liabilities exist.