Prevention, crisis intervention and litigation strategies....
Elegant Solutions Consulting Can Resolve Even the Toughest Business Ethics Issues!
"I have worked with Lauren as a member of our Board of Directors and as an ethics/corporate governance consultant to our Board.
Her work is top notch, and I highly recommend her for those difficult assignments where you have to have the very best."
— Drumm McNaughton, Chair, Board of Directors, Institute of Management Consultants USA
Running an ethical business today is not only an essential business practice, but one that will keep you on the right
side of the law and in good stead with your clients and customers.
It's easy to say, but not easy to do, without the right mindset and direction from the corner office on down.
Attorney Lauren Bloom will work with you to establish an open, blame-free and
cooperative work environment that avoids playing the "blame game" if somebody does something wrong, unintentionally.
Businesses that strive to be perfect and expect people to be perfect are bound to run into problems when people hide
their mistakes. That's when ethics can be comprised and trouble arrives.
Elegant Solutions Consulting helps professional firms, companies and non-profit associations reduce their litigation
risk by implementing good preventative business practices and straightforward dealings with clients and customers.
Our Menu of Services
Contracts
• Development of sample contracts and engagement letters for your firm;
Document Review
• Development or review of your company's internal policies, including
employee
manuals, document retention and peer review policies;
• Review of your company's business practices for legal and professional
compliance;
Ethics Compliance Training
• Training your executives, managers and staff in good practices that will
reduce your
company's litigation risk;
Mission Statements and Code of Ethics
• Developing the mission statements, values statements and codes of
ethics that will help your organization
get and stay on the ethical
"high road";
• Establish a "culture of upbeat compliance" in your company, where
teamwork,
mutual cooperation and respect, and clear communications
work together to foster highly
ethical business practices.
Consulting Services for Actuaries
After serving for more than fourteen years as General Counsel of the
American Academy of Actuaries,
Lauren is among the nation's foremost experts on actuaries' legal and professional responsibilities. She is available to consult
with firms and individual actuaries on the following topics:
- Litigation Risk Management, including the use of professional literature in litigation;
- Professional Standards Compliance;
- Use of Contracts and Engagement Letters;
- Peer Review;
- Communications with Clients, Regulators, and Other Interested Parties;
- The actuarial profession's standard-setting and discipline processes
Lauren has published extensively in the actuarial profession's publications, and has been a frequent speaker on
professionalism topics at actuarial meetings across North America and in Europe.
Here's What Our Clients Have To Say!
"Lauren Bloom has counseled and educated the entire actuarial profession for many years. She has been the
unparalleled authoritative source for all professionalism matters, and was a major force in shaping the profession's
structures and processes. I would look to no one else as a higher authority or better counselor in these matters."
— Bill Bluhm, President, American Academy of Actuaries
"I have known Lauren Bloom professionally and personally for over ten years. I have sought her counsel several
times over that period, and was always very satisfied with her advice. I am impressed by her judgment, legal analyses
and knowledge of the actuarial process and its risks." — Bob Rietz
"Lauren really knows actuaries and their issues. She is a great resource and was a tremendous help!"
— William C. Cutlip
"Lauren is committed to promoting the highest ethical and professional standards." — Greg Vass,
Senior Policy Analyst, America's Health Insurance Plans
"Lauren Bloom is an experienced, knowledgeable and sympathetic advisor. While working at the American
Academy of Actuaries, Lauren was involved in the development of an ethics and standards program, and was
involved for many years in building and managing a very strong structure for managing professional ethics and
professionalism.
Lauren also helped train at least two generations of actuaries in the issues they might face and how to deal
with them appropriately, given the profession's code of conduct and guidance on professional matters. Lauren
is a pleasure to work with and I look forward to continuing to ask her for advice and to recommending her to
those who ask my advice."
— Anna M. Rappaport, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Anna Rappaport Consulting
"Lauren Bloom is a proven expert in business ethics and with distinction from her legal background and
superior training skills. Her practical and no nonsense approach in applying codes of ethics and standards
is uniquely refreshing from the more traditional legal work by others. You know what advice and direction
is being given and, just as an importantly, her advice is always of superior quality and it works!"
— Charles Day, CMC, FIMC, Charles E. Day Consultant
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