Prioritising Effort to be broadcast on 26 March addresses the daily dilemmas which most in-house lawyers face. Unless we make an effort to focus on the activities which are important it is hard not to be hijacked by the supposedly urgent….
The programme of webinars kicks off on 17 April with a half hour session on Managing your personal development, looking at how you can meet the competence expectations of your employer and the SRA. As I have remarked before the…
For larger legal teams there are likely to be in-house specialists orchestrating litigation. In smaller teams it probably not a regular occurrence. In the forthcoming webinar for the C&I Group on 10th October I shall be sharing some ideas how to keep…
Regular work needs to be handled in a way which limits its consumption of the in-house legal resource. As head of a team you need to be working with senior managers to develop or improve processes which facilitate business goals…
A good legal team meeting is one at which Participants gain a better understanding of an important business challenge or activity Know-how which is relevant to a majority of those present is shared A collective view on an important issue…
Business managers need to take primary responsibility for managing legal risk, but are often tempted to abdicate that responsibility to the legal team. As head of a team you should work towards restoring that responsibility through the strategy you are…
Some of the functions in your organisation will be more obvious ‘clients’ / users of the legal team e.g. Sales, Procurement. Others such as Finance and HR tend to have a more complex relationship with the legal team, potentially as…
Although some private practitioners in some jurisdictions still take the stance that they are the ‘real lawyers’ and the in-house team is in some way second rate, there is little to be gained by keeping business people away from external…
Whilst the new regime which the Solicitors Regulation Authority in England has introduced, to replace the quest for 16 hours CPD, may cause some consternation on the part of in-house lawyers, it should rightfully be seen as an opportunity to…
I was pleased to run a 2 day module on Managing Legal Risk for IEMBA students at ZHAW in Winterthur last year and look forward to repeating it this year. I have long felt that it is a shame that…