Managing and Leading an Effective In-House Legal Department
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Description
Early booking discount are available in certain periods and multiple booking discount are also available upon request. Please call Customer Services on +44 (0)20 7729 6677
Course overview
Two-days to understand current best practice and creative value-added solutions to your management challenges
Why you should attend this programme?
A legal department has no right to exist. It needs to justify its existence and develop clarity and consensus about what it focuses on and how it is resourced. This has to be done in the context of how the organisation manages legal risk and uses legal services. Overwhelming volume of activity, demanding response time and shortage of resource seem to be the fate of many legal departments.
Some heads of legal departments have no appetite for managing others, but find themselves in that position due to seniority. The temptat…
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Early booking discount are available in certain periods and multiple booking discount are also available upon request. Please call Customer Services on +44 (0)20 7729 6677
Course overview
Two-days to understand current best practice and creative value-added solutions to your management challenges
Why you should attend this programme?
A legal department has no right to exist. It needs to justify its existence and develop clarity and consensus about what it focuses on and how it is resourced. This has to be done in the context of how the organisation manages legal risk and uses legal services. Overwhelming volume of activity, demanding response time and shortage of resource seem to be the fate of many legal departments.
Some heads of legal departments have no appetite for managing others, but find themselves in that position due to seniority. The temptation to concentrate on matter rather than people management can be great.
This seminar enables you to take a step back from the overloaded in-box and explore the options open to you. It includes discussion on issues and solutions, with concurrent workshops, as well as the evaluation of sample materials.
The presenters from Lawyers in Business have experience of supporting in-house legal departments internationally, as well as managing them.
Concurrent practical workshops
The programme features concurrent workshop sessions that addresses the key challenges faced by all organisations when trying to refocus resource to meet the demands of the business. The workshop is split by interest depending on whether you have a multi jurisdictional team or are based in one location.
Who should attend?
- Heads of legal teams or those aspiring to manage other lawyers
- Legal affairs directors and managers
- Private practice lawyers contemplating a move to a senior in-house role
Please note that this seminar is relevant to whatever jurisdiction you are practicing in. It is relevant to those working in one in-house team in one location as well as those working in dispersed in-house teams covering several jurisdiction.
What are the objectives of this programme?
Over the course of two intensive days training you will learn how to:
- Establish the role and strategy of the in-house legal function
- Demonstrate the value of the legal function
- Respond to cost-cutting pressures
- Manage and develop the in-house legal team
- Understand the different roles and purposes of the legal team
- Develop a useful legal risk management strategy
- Assess current trends in the use of outside counsel
- Manage the long-term relationship with outside counsel including partnering
PLUS: As well as receiving full background notes and documentation, delegates will also receive a copy of the recently published Thorogood publication, Managing In-House Legal Services.
The timetable
Registration will take place on day one from
9.00-9.30.
Day one: 9.00-17.00 • Day two:
9.00-17.00
The course consists of two full days of interactive training with time allowed in the schedule for group and individual learning and coaching. Each day will have refreshment breaks and one hour scheduled for lunch.
Programme - Day 1
The challenges confronting in-house lawyers
- Pressures on the organisation and the legal team
- Career perspectives
- Attitudes to management
The need and demands for legal services
- Building the full picture
- Supporting business development and preservation
- Assessing future needs
- Risk appetite and corporate culture
- Compliance roles
Resourcing legal services- in-house
- Resource options
- In-house capability decisions
- Specialists or generalists
- Qualified or unqualified
- Permanent or contract
- Cost allocation options
- Developing a blueprint
Resourcing legal services – external providers
- Remit
- Selection methods
- Business involvement in:
- Selection
- Remit
- Review
Concurrent Workshops
Refocusing legal department resource
Workshop 1 In-house team in one location covering one jurisdiction
OR
Workshop 2 Dispersed in-house team covering several jurisdictions
Expectations of the legal team
- Client care
- Aligning legal strategy to organisational strategy
- Reporting lines
- Client discipline
- Setting expectation
- Supporting the commercial objectives
Developing the in-house team
- Competency profiles
- Skills development training
- Performance management
- Coaching
Programme - Day 2
Legal awareness for non-lawyers
- Getting management buy-in
- The case for legal awareness
- Developing an awareness programme
- Proven techniques
Business acumen for in-house lawyers
- Management processes
- Useful tools and jargon
- Bottom line impact of legal activity
- Increasing commercial awareness
Orchestrating the cost effective contribution of external providers
- Scoping effort
- Remuneration options
- Securing added value
- Cultural nuances
Maximising resources within budget constraints
- Optimising portfolios
- Quality assurance
- Information management
- Support staff
- Work environment
Influencing skills
- Why do we need to influence?
- What is influence?
- How can we go about developing influence?
- How this can make a difference in practice?
Concurrent Workshops
Leadership and performance management challenges
Workshop 1 Functional responsibility without authority
OR
Workshop 2 High-performer with adversarial or non co-operative attitude
Developing yourself
- Honest-self-assessment
- Continuous improvement
- Staying up-to-date and engaged
- Networking
A year in the life of a head of a legal team
- Planning your effort
- Reconciling your efforts
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