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Managing In-house Legal Services
This report captures the vital elements of effective legal department management and provides a guide to the busy in-house practitioner, who needs to balance caseload with the pressures of managing a department.
Overview
Managing an in-house legal department can be hugely stimulating and fulfilling. 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 chart a way forward for the delivery of legal services to your organisation and to really consider the development of your team’s – and your own -performance.
This is especially pertinent today, given the changes over recent years in:
- How the law and in-house lawyers are perceived by business people.
- The relationships between in-house lawyers and private practitioners and the ability to move between in-house and private practice.
- Working practices.
Managing In-House Legal Services captures the vital elements of effective legal department management and provides a guide to the busy in-house practitioner who must balance caseload with the pressures of managing a department.
Who should read this report?
- Heads of Legal department
- In-house lawyers
- Compliance officers
- Company secretaries
This training course is part of our collection of Legal Function Training Courses for the in-house lawyer.
Content
Introduction
1. Establishing an in-house team
2. Getting the balance right between in-house and external resources
3. Aligning legal services with business needs
4. Supporting the compliance effort
5. Staffing the legal service
6. Essential elements for performance
7. Developing the in-house team
8. Raising legal awareness
9. Working well with external advisers
10. What next?
Bibliography
Appendices
Mark Prebble
Lawyers in Business
Mark Prebble
During his 21 years as an employed in-house lawyer, Mark worked for ICI and The BOC Group plc in the UK, and Biogen and SGS in Switzerland. He held the positions of General Counsel at SGS and Group Legal Adviser at The BOC
Group plc. In 1998 he set up Lawyers in Business, an organisation
dedicated to developing, coaching and supporting in-house lawyers and
promoting more effective use of legal services by businesses.
With contributions from Richard Norman.
As an international business lawyer, Richard has worked in Europe, Asia
and America for various multinational companies. He held the position of
Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Dell Inc. from 1993 to
2006. He joined Dell from Tektronix, Inc. where he was European Legal
Counsel based in Switzerland. Previously he worked for Hoover plc and
Grand Metropolitan plc. Richard is a consultant with Lawyers in
Business.