[December 06, 2019]

Mini MBA for In-house Lawyers (London, United Kingdom - November 24-27, 2020) - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The "The Mini MBA for In-house Lawyers" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Business, commercial, financial and leadership skills to manage and develop a sound and strategically effective in-house legal department

Why you should attend

This intensive four-day programme uses the latest MBA thinking and techniques to focus on the real and challenging issues that are confronting today's in-house legal departments.

The expert trainers from a legal and business background will share with participants their own experiences from working as in-house lawyers and business managers. They will refer to and explore up-to-the-minute management and leadership methodologies and techniques. This programme also offers a unique networking opportunity to share existing best practice and establish industry-wide norms with colleagues from different organisations and countries.

What are the objectives of this course?

As a result of attending this programme, you will be able to:

• Engage with business colleagues when strategic choices are being made
• Review the role and strategy of the in-house legal function
• Define and demonstrate the rationale and value of the legal department to the rest of the organisation
• Achieve better outcomes by applying project management techniques
• Mobilise more effective teamwork within and outside the legal team
• Partiipate more confidently in discussions involving financial analysis
• Withstand cost cutting pressures by highlighting coherent resource priorities
• Establish strong working relationships with business colleagues in order to influence behaviour and attitudes towards legal issues
• Manage and lead the in-house legal team to high performance
• Access and enhance core leadership management techniques in the context of effective change management
• Pursue the best remuneration options with external law firms and gain value for money from their services
• Examine and understand how successful Heads of Legal have applied a commercial and strategic focus to achieve results
• Measure and boost the performance of the legal team through valuable assessment and coaching

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

Agenda:

Module 1: Business strategy and strategic planning

• Your strategy
• Strategy, tactics and choices
• Strategies for winning vs strategies for success

Module 2: Developing your strategy for legal services

• Selecting and selling the right options for the provision of legal services

Module 3: Leading and managing strategic change

• Strategy, change and people
• How you experience change
• The change toolkit

Module 4: Project management and teamwork

• The essentials of project management
• Teamwork

Module 5: Understanding the business from a financial perspective

• The history and the accounts
• The future and the need for business processes

Module 6: Managing a budget and external expenditure

• Managing fees with external law firms
• The problems with traditional fee arrangements
• Finding ways of operating more creative and winwin' fee arrangements

Module 7: People management and leadership

• Understanding and fostering motivation and engagement
• Emotional intelligence and leadership qualities

Module 8: Influencing and decision-making

• The view from the other side
• Question and answer consultation session with Mark Prebble

For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/56n6jw

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