How to Develop Essential Skills & Techniques For In-House Practice

Introduction

Many in-house lawyers can suffer from stress and other mental health issues as they feel undervalued, unappreciated, or otherwise because they struggle to cope with the demands of their day-to-day role.

This virtual classroom seminar will explore how using soft skills and practical techniques will make you stand out as a trusted and valued member of the team.

This session provides worked examples of typical challenges in-house lawyers face and provides helpful hints and tips to overcome them.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Delivering advice effectively - examples of common complaints from internal clients about the advice they get and tips on what you could do to avoid them
• Managing competing demands - an overview of the demands that an in-house lawyer has to cope with and the approach you should take to avoid feeling overwhelmed whilst ensuring the internal client is satisfied
• Responding to challenging individuals/circumstances - common challenges that in-house lawyers face and how they can be dealt with to achieve harmonious interactions and collaboration between the legal and non-legal teams
• Thinking like them - how you can demonstrate value within your business/organisation

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.