The pressure on in-house counsel is mounting with budgets being squeezed and the need to illustrate value to internal clients becoming paramount. The regulatory landscape is creating new risks and challenges, with the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010 putting the onus on organisations to ensure that they have ‘adequate’ anti-bribery procedures in place. Our July webinar will examine the impact of the Bribery Act one year on.
The UK government has announced major changes to UK competition law, which aim to ‘maximise the ability of the competition authorities to secure vibrant, competitive markets that work in the interests of consumers, to promote productivity, innovation and economic growth’. If implemented, there will be a profound impact on companies doing business in the UK. Our February webinar will examine these proposals and their likely ramifications.
Furthermore, apart from the continuing need to stay on top of all the latest regulatory and legal changes, the in-house lawyer needs to acquire a range of business and management skills to help their business achieve its goals. Our September webinar will equip you with the latest techniques to ensure that your team maximises its effectiveness, illustrates value to the rest of the organisation and positions itself so it can influence key decisions.
Forthcoming Webinars
Here is the schedule of forthcoming webinars for this practice area.
On Demand Webinars
Here is a list of previously broadcast webinars that are now available on demand.
22nd Feb 2011
How to approach outsourcing?
This webinar covers:
- Outsourcing - current trends and opportunities
- What work can you outsource, and how?
- Who can you it outsource to, and where?
- The outsourcing process
- Managing the relationship - making the process work
30th Mar 2011
Financial management – invoicing and cost control – doing more with less
This webinar covers:
1) Controlling costs when recruiting good people.
• Being creative in your recruitment
• Why psychometric testing helps
• How to scope the role
• Remuneration and the value of opportunity
• Advertising
2) Increasing the offering without increasing the costs
• Flexible working hours
• Results based working
• Use of training budgets to suit both lawyer and the company
• Job titles
• Maximising the social budget
• Strengths based leadership
• Personal development plans
• Devastating honesty and openness
• Outplacement
3) Other thoughts on costs control and getting best value
• Managing the legal function via 'remote control' - Contract management systems
• A few words on legal process outsourcing and potential benefits
4) Tools (eg Serengeti)
5) Relationship with finance
6) Relationship with external law firms (including secondments and virtual support)
7) Relationship with the Business (including allocation of roles and responsibilities)
8) Adding value
16th May 2011
Corporate Governance developments
This webinar will cover:
• A review of the UK corporate governance code including the inter relationship between the board members and the role of the executive directors and independent directors, the critical role of the Chairman and company secretary and the relationship between the board and other stakeholders including long term as well as short term shareholders
• A review of the institutional shareholders including the stewardship code
• The role of an annual general meeting
• Strict liability for directors in areas such as competition law, health & safety, employment legislation and general compliance including the bribery act
• Developments from abroad including US Federal Sentence guideline changes
• Hot topics such as document retention
• The UK Code on Corporate Governance in practice
• Developments in the financial services sector
• Control of remuneration
• International developments - EU and US
29th Jun 2011
Managing external lawyers - including alternative fee arrangements
This webinar will cover:
• Panel law firm to trusted advisor – what should firms be doing
• How external firms can add value
• Hourly rates and billing – managing expectations
• Setting objectives and KPIs for external counsel
• Aligning the in-house team with external advisers
• Choosing external advisers - are there any imperatives?
22nd Sep 2011
Showing value in the legal department
This webinar will cover:
• Demonstrate commerciality - measure lawyers' perceived value with internal stakeholders
• Pro-actively manage legal risk - take the lead in forward looking legal risk management
• Manage legal costs - quantify, understand and manage legal costs
• Get full value from Panel Firms - quantify and measure ""value-add"" from law firms
22nd Nov 2011
Anti corruption in a global market
This webinar will cover:
• Global scope of Bribery Act
• The new corporate defence and adequate procedures
• Some grey areas - hospitality and facilitation payments
• Investigations and prosecutions
• Hidden consequences
• The international perspective
