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Leading & Managing an In-house Legal Department


BPP Professional Education

Summary

Price
£478.80 inc VAT
Study method
Classroom
Duration
1 day · Full-time
Qualification
No formal qualification
CPD
6 CPD hours / points
Additional info
  • Tutor is available to students

Location & dates

Location
Address
Venue may change up to 14-days before the course start date
BPP University, St James Building, 79 Oxford Street
MANCHESTER
Lancashire
M16FQ
United Kingdom
Address
Venue may change up to 14-days before the course start date’
9-10 Portland Place
West London
London
W1B1PR
United Kingdom

Overview

SRA Competence

C, D

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.

Venue may change up to 14-days before the course start date. Enquire for dates.

CPD

6 CPD hours / points
Accredited by BPP Professional Education Limited

Description

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


Under the SRA’s new approach to continuing competence, solicitors are expected to use the Statement of Solicitor Competence to identify and address their learning and development needs. The competence statement requires the following competencies:

  • A - Ethics, professionalism and judgement
  • B - Technical legal practice
  • C - Working with other people
  • D - Managing themselves and their own work

Who is this course for?

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.

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Study method describes the format in which the course will be delivered. At Reed Courses, courses are delivered in a number of ways, including online courses, where the course content can be accessed online remotely, and classroom courses, where courses are delivered in person at a classroom venue.

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. If you work in certain professions or for certain companies, your employer may require you to complete a number of CPD hours or points, per year. You can find a range of CPD courses on Reed Courses, many of which can be completed online.

A regulated qualification is delivered by a learning institution which is regulated by a government body. In England, the government body which regulates courses is Ofqual. Ofqual regulated qualifications sit on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), which can help students understand how different qualifications in different fields compare to each other. The framework also helps students to understand what qualifications they need to progress towards a higher learning goal, such as a university degree or equivalent higher education award.

An endorsed course is a skills based course which has been checked over and approved by an independent awarding body. Endorsed courses are not regulated so do not result in a qualification - however, the student can usually purchase a certificate showing the awarding body's logo if they wish. Certain awarding bodies - such as Quality Licence Scheme and TQUK - have developed endorsement schemes as a way to help students select the best skills based courses for them.