Two-days to for legal counsel to get-to-grips with current best practice and creative value-added solutions to their legal department management challenges
Two practical days to understand current best practice and creative value-added solutions to your management challenges
Overwhelming volumes of activity, demanding response time and shortage of resource seem to be the fate of many legal departments. 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.
This programme 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.
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.
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.
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.
The challenges confronting in-house lawyers
The need and demands for legal services
Attitudes within your organisation
Resourcing legal services
Refocusing legal department resource case studies
Workshop 1 In-house team in one location covering one jurisdiction
OR
Workshop 2 Dispersed in-house team covering several jurisdictions
Business acumen for in-house lawyers
Maximising value within budget constraints
Legal awareness for non-lawyers
Orchestrating the cost effective contribution of external providers
Expectations of the legal team
Influencing others
Developing the in-house team
Leadership and performance management challenges
Workshop 1: Functional responsibility without authority
OR
Workshop 2: High-performer with adversarial or non co-operative attitude
Competency profiles
Developing yourself
A year in the life of a head of a legal team
Mark Prebble
Mark Prebble, during his 21 years as an employed in-house lawyer, has worked for ICI and The BOC Group plc in the UK, and Biogen and SGS in Switzerland. He held the positions of General Counsel at SGS and Group Legal Adviser at The BOC Group plc. Since 1998 when he established Lawyers in Business, Mark has worked with in-house legal departments, providing coaching and support for in-house lawyers, wherever located, on management issues, legal department performance and projects involving raising legal awareness. Mark runs workshops for in-house lawyers in Europe and Asia. He also undertakes project management work for businesses, which have no legal department, and interim management of legal departments. He has written ‘Managing In-house Legal Services’ for Thorogood Publishing and ‘Right in It – where in-house Lawyers should be’.
Anthony Inglese
Anthony Inglese was the top lawyer in five government departments before his retirement. His last legal department won two awards in 2013 for Best In-House Public Sector Legal Team. He is the leading trainer of lawyers within the Government Legal Service on professionalism and ethics, having trained over 2,500 lawyers during the last 25 years.
Ruth Sweetman
Ruth Sweetman has worked and lived in Australia, Hong Kong, USA, Italy and England and is legally qualified in 3 jurisdictions. She was in private practice for 11 years with Baker & McKenzie and as a partner with Dentons, before first moving in-house as Assistant General Counsel, Europe with a US based global media entity. Over the course of 16 years Ruth has held senior regional in-house roles and managed legal teams at five companies, both globally listed and national, across media, IT and data industries, and is a specialist in managing and training small under-resourced legal departments. For five years she took a step into direct business roles, both operational in a law firm and sales in a globally listed communications operator. As a Senior Director at PanAmSat, a global satellite operator, she headed up their SE Asia division. She has experienced the all-round business perspective from roles in senior sales management, law firm management and business consulting.
This course qualifies for the following CPD programmes:
| 7-8 Mar 2019 | |||
| 7-8 Mar 2019 | Cavendish Hotel, London | GBP 1,299.00 EUR 1,819.00 USD 2,026.00 + VAT @ 20.00% |
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| 3-4 Oct 2019 | |||
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