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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.

5 July 2023
+ 2-3 October 2023
from £499

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Format: Live online
CPD: 6 hours for your records
Certificate of completion

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Why you should attend

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

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

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.

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The Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer course will cover:

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 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

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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.

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Book Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Live online training

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

5 July 2023

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 12843

GBP 599
EUR 859
USD 970

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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2-3 October 2023

Live online

13:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
14:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
08:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 12844

GBP 499 599
EUR 719 859
USD 814 970

Until 28 Aug

2 sessions of 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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for 7 days, no obligation

* 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.