Managing and Leading an Effective In-House Legal Department

Date	15-16 Mar 2012
Venue	DoubleTree by Hilton London-West End · Please contact us for help with booking accommodation
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Date	15-16 Oct 2012
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Course overview

Two-days to understand current best practice and creative value-added solutions to your management challenges

Why you should attend this programme?

A legal department has no right to exist. It needs to justify its existence and develop clarity and consensus about what it focuses on and how it is resourced. This has to be done in the context of how the organisation manages legal risk and uses legal services. Overwhelming volume of activity, demanding response time and shortage of resource seem to be the fate of many legal departments.

Some heads of legal departments have no appetite for managing others, but find themselves in that position due to seniority. The temptation to concentrate on matter rather than people management can be great.

This seminar enables you to take a step back from the overloaded in-box and explore the options open to you. It includes discussion on issues and solutions, with concurrent workshops, as well as the evaluation of sample materials.

The presenters from Lawyers in Business have experience of supporting in-house legal departments internationally, as well as managing them.

Concurrent practical workshops

The programme features concurrent workshop sessions that addresses the key challenges faced by all organisations when trying to refocus resource to meet the demands of the business. The workshop is split by interest depending on whether you have a multi jurisdictional team or are based in one location.

Who should attend?

• Heads of legal teams or those aspiring to manage other lawyers
• Legal affairs directors and managers
• Private practice lawyers contemplating a move to a senior in-house role

Please note that this seminar is relevant to whatever jurisdiction you are practicing in. It is relevant to those working in one in-house team in one location as well as those working in dispersed in-house teams covering several jurisdiction.

What are the objectives of this programme?

Over the course of two intensive days training you will learn how to:

• Establish the role and strategy of the in-house legal function
• Demonstrate the value of the legal function
• Respond to cost-cutting pressures
• Manage and develop the in-house legal team
• Understand the different roles and purposes of the legal team
• Develop a useful legal risk management strategy
• Assess current trends in the use of outside counsel
• Manage the long-term relationship with outside counsel including partnering

PLUS: As well as receiving full background notes and documentation, delegates will also receive a copy of the recently published Thorogood publication, Managing In-House Legal Services.

The timetable

Registration will take place on day one from 9.00-9.30.
Day one: 9.00-17.00 • Day two: 9.00-17.00

The course consists of two full days of interactive training with time allowed in the schedule for group and individual learning and coaching. Each day will have refreshment breaks and one hour scheduled for lunch.

Programme - Day 1

The challenges confronting in-house lawyers

• Pressures on the organisation and the legal team
• Career perspectives
• Attitudes to management

The need and demands for legal services

• Building the full picture
• Supporting business development and preservation
• Assessing future needs
• Risk appetite and corporate culture
• Compliance roles

Resourcing legal services- in-house

• Resource options
• In-house capability decisions
  • Specialists or generalists
  • Qualified or unqualified
  • Permanent or contract
• Cost allocation options
• Developing a blueprint

Resourcing legal services – external providers

• Remit
• Selection methods
• Business involvement in:
  • Selection
  • Remit
  • Review

Concurrent Workshops

Refocusing legal department resource

Workshop 1 In-house team in one location covering one jurisdiction

OR

Workshop 2 Dispersed in-house team covering several jurisdictions

Expectations of the legal team

• Client care
• Aligning legal strategy to organisational strategy
• Reporting lines
• Client discipline
• Setting expectation
• Supporting the commercial objectives

Developing the in-house team

• Competency profiles
• Skills development training
• Performance management
• Coaching

Programme - Day 2

Legal awareness for non-lawyers

• Getting management buy-in
• The case for legal awareness
• Developing an awareness programme
• Proven techniques

Business acumen for in-house lawyers

• Management processes
• Useful tools and jargon
• Bottom line impact of legal activity
• Increasing commercial awareness

Orchestrating the cost effective contribution of external providers

• Scoping effort
• Remuneration options
• Securing added value
• Cultural nuances

Maximising resources within budget constraints

• Optimising portfolios
• Quality assurance
• Information management
• Support staff
• Work environment

Influencing skills

• Why do we need to influence?
• What is influence?
• How can we go about developing influence?
• How this can make a difference in practice?

Concurrent Workshops

Leadership and performance management challenges

Workshop 1 Functional responsibility without authority

OR

Workshop 2 High-performer with adversarial or non co-operative attitude

Developing yourself

• Honest-self-assessment
• Continuous improvement
• Staying up-to-date and engaged
• Networking

A year in the life of a head of a legal team

• Planning your effort
• Reconciling your efforts

The expert faculty

The training faculty

The presenters from Lawyers in Business have experience of supporting in-house legal departments internationally, as well as managing them.

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. Since 1998 when he established Lawyers in Business, Mark has worked with in-house legal departments, providing coaching and support for in-house lawyers, wherever located, on management issues, legal department performance and projects involving raising legal awareness. Mark runs workshops for in-house lawyers in Europe and Asia. He also undertakes project management work for businesses, which have no legal department and interim management of legal departments.

RICHARD NORMAN As an international business lawyer, Richard has worked in Europe, Asia and America for four multinational companies. Most recently he held the position of Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Dell Inc. from 1993 to 2006, where he built up and managed the 40-strong European legal team from inception as well as establishing the Asia Pacific Legal Department. He was a key member of Dell’s European Management Team and played a significant role in the multi-billion dollar growth of the EMEA business. He was a member of General Counsel’s executive staff and also managed Government Relations issues in individual countries and with the EU in Brussels. Richard joined Dell from Tektronix, Inc. where he was European Legal Counsel based in Switzerland. Previously he worked for Hoover Plc and Grand Metropolitan Plc in London.

Past delegates’ comments

Some of the comments received by participants on this course:

“Knowledgeable trainers, able to expand the issue on demand”

Olle Wallen, Electrolux Home Products Corporation NV

“Well presented and structured-held your attention. Obvious intelligence and experience of presenters”

Sandra Vandewalle, South African Breweries

“Thanks a lot for the very well prepared course and the the lovely atmosphere during it. I am sure the good ideas given will be helpful at work”

Monika Piotrowska, National Bank of Poland

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Client portfolio

Our client portfolio for this course includes the following companies:

AS Hansabanka	Electricity Authority of Cyprus	OAO Group Ilim
Adobe Systems Europe Ltd	Electrolux Home Products Corporation NV	Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation
Aircelle	Elite Litigation Services	Pokon & Chrysal BV
Aker Kvaerner Netherlands BV	European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)	Porsche Bank Romania SA
Alfa Mobile	Eversheds LLP	RPMI
Askari Commercial Bank Ltd	FGH Bank NV	Registers of Scotland
BHP Billiton International Metals BV	Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd	Ricoh Europe Netherlands
BP Egypt	GEA Process Engineering AS	Rockwool International AS
Bayer Consumer Care AG	ING Real Estate BV	Sanofi Aventis Groupe
CIGNA International	Icad 1	South African Breweries
Cable & Wireless	Ieoc Egypt Branch	South Eastern Education & Library Board
Cadence Design Systems Ltd	Invensys Plc	Storebrand Livsforsikring AS
Caja de Ahorros de Galicia	Islandsbanki	Strabag AG
Capital One	JSC “Severstal-metiz”	TMF Management BV
Commercial Bank of Ceylon Ltd	Landsbankinn	Technip Offshore UK Ltd
Commercial First Mortgages Ltd	Liberty Global Europe Ltd	The Crown Estate
Corporación Medichem, SL	Lincoln Financial Group	The Salvation Army
Costcutter Supermarkets Group Ltd	Litasco SA	The Supreme Commission for Tourism
DAS Legal Expenses	Lloyds Register EMEA	Thuraya Satellite Telecommunication Company
DSM NV	MTN Nigeria Communications	Times Newspapers Ltd
Daikin Europe NV	MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd	UBS AG
De Montfort University	Mobilink GSM	Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd
De Nederlandsche Bank NV	National Bank of Poland	Vodafone Romania
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	Niger Delta Development Commission	YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
Eaton Industries Manufacturing GmbH	North-West University	Zurich Insurance Plc
Edinburgh Research & Innovation	Nova Ljubljanska Banka DD	iTouch Ltd

Continuing professional development

Solicitors Regulation Authority

This course is accredited for 11.00 CPD hours (CPD reference CSC/FALI).