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,
The Knowledge BusinessFounder 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.
