Course overview
Leadership and management skills are a completely different ball game from the technical role of practicing law, but in-house lawyers must have these skills to succeed in a business setting.
By enhancing your management skills and your understanding of the main challenges facing business leaders today, you will understand how you can better support and advise your business from a legal viewpoint.
This course will enable you to discover key frameworks, tools, techniques and concepts to enhance your business knowledge and excel in your role as a valuable in-house lawyer. Overall it will enable you to become a more rounded business professional.
The expert trainers will share their own experiences from working in law and as business managers. By attending this intensive course, you will benefit from their considerable expertise and have time to explore new skills and ways of working to ensure you succeed in a demanding role.
Are you ready to build your skill-set as a lawyer by increasing your business knowledge?
Key topics covered in this comprehensive and interactive session include:
- Business strategy concepts and frameworks
- Operational effectiveness: process and quality management
- Balancing demands on legal services with business goals
- Building teams, motivation, engagement and a better culture
- Managing finance and understanding KPIs
CPD Hours: 18
Course Content
- Day 1
- Introduction
- Module 1: Business strategy and strategic planning
- Business strategy
- Operational effectiveness and efficiency
- Developing a strategy for legal services
- Day 2
- Module 2: Leading and managing strategic change
- People management and leadership skills
- Leading strategic change
- Module 3: Project management and teamwork
- Introduction to project management and working with stakeholders
- Day 3
- Module 4: Finance for business
- Accounting principles
- Understanding the statement of cashflow, profit and loss and the balance sheet
- Identifying accounting scenarios that illustrate good performance - profitability and solvency
- Identifying accounting scenarios that might raise legal concerns
- Module 5: Managing finance and the legal department
- Managing a budget for the legal department and external expenditure
- Managing fees with external law firms
- Traditional fee arrangements and more creative options
- Work-In-Progress - the great unknown
Speakers
Rupert Hawke
Rupert Hawke, founder of Hawke Legal, has a business degree and is a qualified management accountant. He spent the first 10 years of his career working in multi-national business. In 2007 he was appointed Finance Director of Cartwright King Solicitors - then a regional East Midlands firm. Firstly as FD and then as Managing Director (appointed 2013), Rupert oversaw CK’s journey to becoming a national law firm with 18 offices nationwide offering a wide range of legal services and renowned for a great culture, quality staff, and cutting edge IT systems.
Through his wide-ranging managerial experience in the legal sector, Rupert is a leading authority on law firm financial / strategic management and its application, and has contributed to numerous publications and spoken widely including for The Law Society.
After 12 years at Cartwright King Rupert decided he wanted a new challenge and started Rupert Hawke Legal - a consultancy that utilises the mass of experience and contacts Rupert has developed in his leading role in the legal sector.
Helene Russell
Hélène Russell, 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.
