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.
29 January 2024
+ 23 April 2024, 3 July 2024, 1-2 October 2024 »
from £499
- Format: Live online, Classroom
- CPD: 6 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
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- The 3-day Mini MBA for In-house Lawyers
- The Mini MBA for In-house Lawyers Summer School
- Essential Project Management Skills for In-house Lawyers
- Change Management for In-house Lawyers
- Essential Skills for Writing Successful Business Cases
- Understanding and Improving Business Processes
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.
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
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
29 January 2024
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 13473
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 814 970
Until 25 Dec
- 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
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
23 April 2024
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 13633
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 814 970
Until 19 Mar
- 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
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
3 July 2024
Classroom
Rembrandt Hotel
London
09:00-17:00 UK (London)
Course code 13831
Optional £275/€395/$450 per night
- GBP 599 699
- EUR 839 979
- USD 934 1,090
Until 29 May
- 1 day classroom-based training
- Optional accommodation - 1 night including breakfast, checking in the day before the course
- Meet presenters and fellow attendees in person
- Lunch and refreshments provided
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
1-2 October 2024
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 13978
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 814 970
Until 27 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
Not ready to book yet?
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.
Reviews of IPI's Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer training course
The seminar is the whole day but the speaker did a great job always involving the participants & with interactions.
Jul 5 2023
Renata Osnaya-Berlit 
Legal Counsel, HDI Global Specialty SE HDI AG
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Run Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Live online/Classroom for your team
1 day
Typical duration
Pricing from:
- GBP 450
- 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:
