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Managing and Leading an Effective In-House Legal Department Training Course
Two practical days to understand current best practice and generate creative, value-added solutions to your management challenges.
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Course overview
Overwhelming volumes of activity, demanding response time and shortage of resources seem to be the fate of many in-house legal departments. The department 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.
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 programme enables you to take a step back from the overloaded inbox and explore the options open to you. It will give you the skills to achieve the balance and focus needed to succeed in your role, and includes discussion time on issues and solutions, with concurrent workshops, as well as the evaluation of sample materials to help embed learning.
Concurrent practical workshops
The programme features concurrent workshop sessions that address the key challenges faced by all organisations when trying to refocus resources 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.
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.
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 practising 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 jurisdictions.
Programme
The challenges confronting in-house lawyers
- Pressures on the organisation and the legal team
The need and demands for legal services
- Building the full picture
- Supporting business development and preservation
- Assessing future needs
- Aligning legal strategy to organisational strategy
- Matching in-house resources to needs
- Specialists or generalists
- Qualified or unqualified
- Contract managers
- Cost allocation options
Resourcing legal services – selection
- Alternative legal service providers
- Selecting law firms
- Business involvement in selection
Resourcing legal services – cost-effective use
- Scoping effort
- Remuneration options
- Securing added value
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: 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
- Management processes
- Useful tools and jargon
- Bottom-line impact of legal activity
- Increasing commercial awareness
Maximising value within budget constraints
- Legal resource plan
- Quality assurance
- Effort targets
- Information management
- Work environment
- Encouraging coherent use
- Reciprocal assessment
Risk appetite and compliance challenges
- Corporate culture and attitudes
- Compliance roles and responsibilities
Legal awareness for non-lawyers
- Getting management buy-in
- The case for legal awareness
- Developing an awareness programme
- Proven techniques
Relationship management
- Clarity of role
- Building trust
- Team engagement
- Feedback and surveys
- Influencing techniques and scenarios
Developing the in-house team
- Teamwork and working styles
- Performance management
- Coaching
- Practical exercise: Matching needs and opportunities
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: Leadership and performance management challenges
Workshop 1
Functional responsibility without authority
or
Workshop 2
High performer with adversarial or uncooperative attitude
Competency profiles
- Skills development training
A year in the life of a head of a legal team
- Planning and prioritising your effort on all fronts
- Managing your dreads and attaining your wishes
Developing yourself
- As a leader
- As a manager
- As a lawyer
Presenters
Anthony Inglese (More...)
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.
Mark Prebble (More...)
Mark Prebble worked for ICI and The BOC Group plc in the UK, and Biogen and SGS in Switzerland during his 21 years as an employed in-house lawyer. 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. He has written Managing In-house Legal Services for Thorogood Publishing.
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