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Dominique Butler
RST 410- Writing Assignment #8

LEISURE FUTURES, LLC

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
217-333-2171
November 11, 2016
Dr. Meyer-Rodriquez and Dr. Esteban Wozniak
111 Cottonweed Rd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear President Dr. Meyer-Rodriquez and Vice-President Dr. Esteban Wozniak,
I hope this letter finds you well. During this past week, weve invited a guest speaker by the
name of Dr. Toni Liechty, who presented an informative presentation regarding the importance of
legal issues of risk management in the RST managerial environment. We were able to open our
minds on the ways of looking at risk management as a positive instead of a negative asset toward
plaintiffs lawyers. She was able to explain ways in which the use of preventative legal strategies
can add value to our organization. This presentation was needed so that we can gain a
competitive advantage to make the organization better for employees, participants, and
spectators.
During the presentation of risk management, she touched on torts, including the three elements,
and the most common tort of all, negligence. In order to make better decisions for our
organization, we must make sure we are knowledgeable on torts and its elements, as well as
whether or not a situation is considered an act of negligence. Dr. Liechty gave us information on
the defenses to negligence. This will be also helpful and important for our organization so that
we have a preventative plan for if our organization is ever in jeopardy due to a situation where
our guest and/or employee is in risk of injury. Along with the purpose of risk management, Dr.
Liechty taught us aspects of preventative law and the difference between risk management and
preventive law. According to the reading Dr. Liechty recommended, mentioned that preventive
law looks at all the risks that could affect the institutions financial health, focusing on the
environmental, political, economic, regulator, institutional, and cultural risk of the
organization1. There are five main steps to the preventive law process which includes:
1 Sharp, L., Moorman, A., & Claussen, C. (2014). Sport law: A

managerial approach. New York: Routledge.).

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Identifications of risks, assessment of risks, evaluation of risks, development of preventive law

plan, and the implementation of preventive law plan. According to the reading, it mentions,
before any sport or recreation organization can develop a plan to prevent injury or loss, the legal
landscape of possible liability must be explored2 . For our company we must understand there
will come a time where our guest may get injured. We must plan ahead with risk management
plans as well as implementing the steps from the preventative law plan, to execute legal actions
that will protect our organization as well as our guest. Also during the presentation as well as the
reading, we were given a variety of scenarios of possible liability concerns for an organization
such as ours. Also according to the reading, the preventative law process is on-going and we
must have an organizational commitment3. That being said we must always keep in mind the five
main steps of preventive law when evaluating policies and procedures.
Here at Leisure Futures, LLC we hope to use the informative presentation to critique the
organizations site on risk management. The presentation and the reading were to help our
organization to make business more competitive to the marketplace. As for our upcoming event,
we hope to exercise what we learned to have a well thought out risk management plan as well as
designing effective training programs that will benefit our guest and employers so everyone can
have a safe leisure experience. I would like to also stretch the upcoming company budget that I
would like to negotiate with you all soon. Within that budget, I would like to include funds for
training programs to explain to employees their responsibility to foster a safe environment and be
aware of areas that could become a personal or financial risk regarding our guest and the
organization. Thank you for your time and hope to discuss business with you all soon.
Sincerely,
Dominique Butler

2 Sharp, L., Moorman, A., & Claussen, C. (2014). Sport law: A

managerial approach. New York: Routledge.).

3 Sharp, L., Moorman, A., & Claussen, C. (2014). Sport law: A

managerial approach. New York: Routledge.).