Leading & Managing an In-house Legal Department

Course level

Intermediate

Delegates

This course is designed for in-house lawyers who have responsibility for providing legal support internally and for managing external legal resources. The course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to ensure that you are an effective leader and manager, and ensure your in-house legal function provides added value to your employer.

Overview

An interactive course designed to give you an insight into how to enhance your and your department’s performance and add value to your employer. Many departments are under the relentless pressures of cost control, demanding response times with inadequate internal resources. Therefore delegates will benefit from this intensive course by learning how to balance their time between developing legal services and delivering these to exceed their employer’s expectation and take their team with them.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Understand your strategic & operational role as legal departmental head and your client employer’s perceptions and requirements for the strategic development of legal services as well as the day to day support
• Understand what size and structure your legal team should be, how to build high performance teams and how to delegate to them effectively
• Deepen your skill competencies for departmental heads e.g. leadership, communication, and time management
• Lead and manage a project
• Enhance your relationship management skills with best practice techniques for building trust & influence with your key clients
• Decipher the corporate governance issues and business and legal risks affecting your employer and your team
• Employ best practice strategies and tips for managing external lawyers
  
  

  "A CPD certificate of completion will be provided by BPP Professional Education Limited upon request, following attendance."

  
  

  Course Dates

  Location	Dates	Time	Availability
  London	01 Jun 2020	9:30 AM - 5:00 PM	Spaces	Book Now
  London	04 Nov 2020	9:30 AM - 5:00 PM	Spaces	Book Now