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Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Training Course (London, United Kingdom - ONLINE EVENT: July 3, 2024)

  • Training

  • 1 Day
  • Location: London, United Kingdom
  • July 3, 2024 09:00-17:00 GMT+1
  • Falconbury Ltd
  • ID: 5944336
OFF until May 29th 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.

Location

ADDRESS

Rembrandt Hotel
11 Thurloe Pl,
Kensington
London
SW7 2RS
United Kingdom


DIRECTIONS

The Rembrandt Hotel is located at 11 Thurloe Place, London, SW7 2RS. The hotel’s location in central London couldn’t be better, whether you’re travelling for business or leisure. You’ll be right between two of London’s most fashionable areas – South Kensington and Knightsbridge – within walking distance of museums, theatres, Harrods and Hyde Park.

You can hop on the Tube at South Kensington and take the District, Circle or Piccadilly lines direct to the City of London, Heathrow Airport and all other areas of the city. Look out of your window and you may well see the Victoria and Albert Museum – it’s right across the street.