Presented by
Falconbury
Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Training Course
This in-house lawyer training course is a highly focussed one-day event that has been specially designed to give in-house lawyers the essential skills they need to succeed as a valuable and integral part of their organisation.
★★★★★ "Highly informative, extremely enjoyable - I thoroughly recommend this webinar and this speaker."
26 September 2025 »
from £599
- Format: Live online
- CPD: 6 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
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Course overview
The role of the in-house lawyer can be hugely stimulating and fulfilling but it can also be very stressful and fatiguing. It is tremendously important to take time periodically to step back from the day-to-day activities, which seem so pressing, to really consider the development of your, and your teams, performance.
This in-house lawyer training course has been specially designed to focus on and boost the essential skills you and the in-house team needs to grow and develop as a legal department within a commercial environment.
By focussing on your skill-set and career development options, you will open up new opportunities as you enhance your skills in:
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Management
- Influencing
- Problem solving
- Relationship building
- Business acumen
This one-day intensive training course focusses on these key areas to supercharge your performance. By developing your commercial skills in-line with your legal expertise you can become a high-achieving in-house lawyer.
This training course is part of our collection of Legal Function Training Courses for the in-house lawyer.
Benefits of attending
By attending this course you will:
- Explore your competencies and career development options
- 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
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.
This course will cover:
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 clients 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
Helene Russell
TheKnowledgeBusiness
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.
NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:
- 30% off the 2nd delegate*
- 40% off the 3rd delegate*
- 50% off the 4th delegate*
Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates
26 September 2025
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14959
- GBP 599 699
- EUR 839 979
- USD 963 1,119
Until 22 Aug
- 1 day live online training
- Browser-based, no download usually required
- See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.
Reviews of IPI's Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer training course
Excellent - [speaker] was wonderful and really spent time addressing our organisational/team and individual needs very knowledgeably and with facility.
Jan 27 2025
Kareen Holliday 
Senior Legal Counsel, SEFE Marketing & Trading Limited
Jan 29 2024
Highly informative, extremely enjoyable - I thoroughly recommend this webinar and this speaker.
Samantha Verhaeghe 
In-house lawyer, Genfit SA
Jul 5 2023
The seminar is the whole day but the speaker did a great job always involving the participants & with interactions.
Renata Osnaya-Berlit 
Legal Counsel, HDI Global Specialty SE HDI AG
United Kingdom
- Orion Clinical Services Limited
- QinetiQ Limited
- SEFE Marketing & Trading Limited
Netherlands
- Huisman Equipment B.V
- TIP Trailer Services Management B.V.
France
- Genfit SA
Germany
- HDI Global Specialty SE HDI AG
Saudi Arabia
- LFSH
Run Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Live online for your team
1 day
Typical duration
Pricing from:
- GBP 475
- 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:
