Presented by
Falconbury
Presentation Skills for Lawyers: Maximising your Impact In-house Training
A workshop for lawyers who want to enhance their presentation skills to succeed in their role
- Format: Live online
- CPD: 3 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course overview
This intensive, practical and interactive workshop has been specifically designed to help legal professionals overcome presentation challenges and develop the skills needed to maximise their impact. Whether you're pitching to clients, briefing colleagues, addressing regulators or speaking at industry forums or conferences, your expertise deserves to be heard.
Yet many legal professionals find themselves undermined by presentation anxiety, unclear messaging, or audiences that tune out before the key points land. Delivering clear, engaging and confident presentations is essential for success.
Presentation skills matter in today’s fast-paced business and professional landscape, where effective communication is key. This course isn't generic presentation training - it'd designed specifically for lawyers and explores the specific challenges which lawyers face when presenting. Whether you are delivering a legal presentation, highlighting issues for your team, seeking to engage a regulator or public body, or speaking at an industry conference, this course can help you to maximise your impact.
The expert trainer, a lawyer who draws on over thirty years of presentation experience, shares theory, battle-tested strategies, practical tools and real-world examples that work in legal contexts. You'll master audience analysis, refine your delivery, structure compelling content, and engage effectively. He'll also look at the use of AI tools when preparing a presentation, and explore benefits and pitfalls.
This training course is part of our collection of Legal Function Training Courses for the in-house lawyer.
Benefits of attending
By attending this workshop-style course you will:
- Get to grips with a practical methodology for addressing specific challenges of presenting on legal topics
- Learn practical tips and techniques for designing content and delivering key messages
- Explore the use of reusable checklists and tools to assist with preparation and follow-up
- Understand techniques for an engaging delivery 'on the day'
- Examine tools for delivering so-called 'hybrid' and ‘virtual’ presentations
- Understand how to build continual improvement into your presenting capability
- Learn lessons from TED Talks
Who should attend?
This programme has been specifically designed for all those in the legal profession who would like to improve their performance through enhanced presentation skills, including:
- In-house lawyers
- Private practice lawyers
- Legal professionals
- Heads of legal departments
- Legal directors and managers
- Senior corporate counsel and advisers
This course will cover:
Introduction
- Overview of goals
- Roundtable discussion
Distinctive challenges for lawyers
- The age-old challenge of having too much to cover
- Livening up dry materials while maintaining authority
- Dealing with tough and even critical questions
- Balancing spontaneity and story-telling with rigour and authority
Taking an audience-centric approach
- Learning about audience needs in advance
- Understanding their environment
- Ensuring you understand risk areas and sensitivies
- Thinking about take-aways, before you deliver
Effective techniques for engagement
- Designing your structure, flow and key messages
- Techniques for opening up topics
- Effective story-telling
- Outlining new laws and regulations – tips and pitfalls
- Interaction and online tools
- The use of AI tools for preparing a presentation - benefits and pitfalls
Tools to help you excel
- Checklists for face-to-face and online seminars
- IT set-up checklist and healthcheck
Practical exercises
Building in continual improvement / insights from TED
- How to ensure you continually improve
- Coaching and mentoring with colleagues
- Where to find the best sources of guidance
- The gift of TED
Summary and final questions
Andrew White
E4
Andrew White is a solicitor and founder of consultancy E4. He was a partner at Bird & Bird for twenty years, having previously worked at Allen & Overy, Ashurst and Herbert Smith Freehills. Andrew is an Associate fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. At Bird & Bird he created and led the firm's contract education seminar programme for clients, delivering over 900 client events of all types, to highly positive client acclaim, as well as mentoring many colleagues and clients. His project received a commendation from the FT in its Innovative Lawyer Awards based on positive client feedback. Andrew has turned his experience as a presenter into a service to enable and empower others.
"Very sensible tips for a confident, structured and clear presentation..."
"Extremely interesting and useful in our day-to-day work as lawyers..."
Run Presentation Skills for Lawyers: Maximising your Impact Live online for your team
Pricing from:
- GBP 350
- Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
- Course tailored to your requirements
- At your choice of location, or online
We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.
Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:
