After the birth of her twins, Vimla Shah decided to take a couple of years away from her career as a company lawyer. During one of her coffee mornings with Joan Turnbull, Joan confided in her that although she was delighted at her husband Ronnie’s promotion to commercial director of his company, which was a large UK plc in the food industry, she had heard many horror stories about problems that company directors had encountered, seemingly through no fault of their own. She was worried about the implications of these obligations and responsibilities (whatever they were) that Ronnie had taken on. Vimla said she would write some notes about what being a director of a plc meant, provide some guidelines as to the type of things that Ronnie should be aware of, and to include some ways in which Ronnie might protect himself, which may all offer some reassurance to Joan. Prepare a draft of what you think Vimla’s notes for Joan may have included.