The Mini MBA for In-house Lawyers Summer School In-house Training

Course overview

This inspirational summer school has been designed to draw on the latest MBA thinking to focus on real issues confronting todays in-house legal departments.

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.

It will enable you to discover key strategic business 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 summer school, 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.

Key topics covered in this comprehensive and interactive summer school 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
• Negotiating techniques and process

This training course is part of our collection of Legal Function Training Courses for the in-house lawyer.

Benefits of attending:

By attending this comprehensive and interactive summer school you will:

• Enhance your core management and leadership techniques
• Understand how to enable effective change management
• Learn key business strategy concepts and frameworks
• Achieve better outcomes by applying project management techniques
• Understand the challenges facing businesses today and how the legal dept can provide support
• Establish a motivated and engaged legal team
• Get to grips with corporate culture and use it to your advantage
• Develop your finance and accounting principles knowledge
• Enhance your budgeting skills
• Identify creative options for fee arrangements
• Understand the process of negotiation in more depth
• Recognise different negotiation styles and body language and learn how to react to them including cultural style and context

Who should attend?

This summer school has been specifically designed for the legal professional who wants to succeed in their role, including:

• Heads of legal departments
• Legal directors and managers
• Senior corporate counsel and advisers
• Key corporate law team members
• Private practice lawyers seeking to switch to an in-house role