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Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Training Course (ONLINE EVENT: October 1-2, 2024)

  • Training

  • 2 Days
  • Oct 1st 13:30 - Oct 2nd 17:00 GMT+1
  • Falconbury Ltd
  • ID: 5944335
OFF until Aug 27th 2024

This in-house lawyer training course has been designed to focus on and boost the essential skills the In-house team needs to grow and develop as a legal department within a commercial environment. This one-day intensive training course will supercharge the in-house lawyer's performance by developing their commercial skills in-line with their legal expertise.

By attending this course you will:

  • Explore techniques for effective portfolio management
  • Boost client care techniques to have a greater influence on colleagues in other departments
  • Integrate with business colleagues whilst maintaining professional independence
  • Get to grips with using available resources to best effect
  • Learn successful techniques for raising legal awareness across your organisation
  • Understand the benefits the legal team can bring to a business
  • Identify areas and techniques for personal development

Certifications:

  • CPD: 6 hours for your records
  • Certificate of completion

Course Content


Welcome and introductions
Developing yourself
  • Honest assessment and continuous improvement
  • Legal know-how
  • Behaviour and competencies
  • Complementary management skills
  • Career development options
  • The unwritten rules
Making the most of being in a legal team
  • Intelligent information sharing
  • Ensuring communication and consistency
  • Getting the best out of shared support staff
  • Supporting and getting support from colleagues
  • Reporting and managing upwards
  • Setting expectation
Communication skills
  • Verbal and written clarity
  • Techniques for distilling complex information
  • Executive summaries and elevator pitches
  • Self-promotion through effective influencing skills
Managing upwards
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Delivering solutions to problems
  • Reconciling your aspirations with the department’s needs
  • Getting more from appraisals
Understanding your client's needs to deliver effective legal support
  • Knowledge of the business and business acumen
  • Concentrating on what matters
  • Building relationships while maintaining credibility
  • Matrix reporting issues
  • Client surveys
Influencing your clients to ensure legal compliance
  • How they use you
  • How they manage legal risk
  • How they follow your recommendations
  • Effective positioning and access to key clients
Raising legal awareness across the organisation
  • Ensuring management support
  • Defining the scope
  • Proven techniques to raise Legal’s profile
  • Measurement and management
  • Gaining mutual respect
Final questions

Course Provider

  • Helene Russell
  • Helene Russell,
    The Knowledge Business


    Founder of The Knowledge Business, is a UK solicitor (non-practising) and specialist in Knowledge, Learning and Innovation. After 8 years in practice, primarily in clinical negligence litigation defence, she has worked as a self-employed knowledge management consultant for 13 years. Hélène specialises in practical tools to improve the efficiency and profitability of real-life law firms.

    Hélène has extensive experience in business strategy, project management and teaching leadership skills. She runs a popular 'KM Strategy + coaching' course in UK and has written short form and lengthy strategies for a variety of law firms, as well, of course, as writing her own business’s strategy. Hélène has spoken at various events, including Ark’s KM Legal, Lexpo-18, for UWE, St Andrew’s University, BLS and Allice, and chaired international conferences.

    She runs a global online KM training and networking group and is a core committee member organising the annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Conference and
    Chair of CILIP’s Knowledge and Information Management Special Interest Group. Hélène has an executive MBA with distinction (which included a strategy module), and she is the sole author of two textbooks, contributor to five of Ark’s multi-author books and is currently contracted to Facet Publishing to write a handbook on KM Strategy.

Who Should Attend

All in-house lawyers who want to:

  • supercharge their commercial and personal skills to have more influence on business decisions
  • succeed in their role and raise legal awareness across their organisation
  • raise the understanding of compliance and its importance
  • become the go-to department for advice when business decisions are being made.