Management Skills for Legal Professionals

Each of these topics and associated skills are explored in the context of working as a junior lawyer, including SQE students, NQs, and up to around three years post qualification. Though the examples we use focus on law firms, the same concepts apply if you are working in-house. The course is also useful to other legal professionals.

Course Details

• What is included: Online workbooks, lectures and interactive exercises
• Junior Lawyer Competency Skills: Personal Management, People Management, Project Management

Course Description

When in a high-stakes professional environment such as law, you need to manage your personal resources - your time, your emotions and your personal wellbeing.

This course covers four essential self-management topics:

• Stress, its management and its potential benefits
• Time management, identifying when you perform at your best and improving productivity
• Your default behaviour in teamwork and how that affects you and others
• Your personal accountability for maintaining professional standards, no matter how tired, stressed or pressured by others

We explore what we mean by stress, how it affects you in the workplace and potential ways of coping with, or even harnessing, its effects. We look at barriers you may encounter to effective time management, explain ways of dealing with procrastination, and suggest effective methods to improve your ability to prioritise. You will also have the opportunity to identify your default behaviour in teamwork situations and learn more about associated strengths and weaknesses of different team player roles.

Each of these topics and associated skills are explored in the context of working as a junior lawyer, including SQE students, NQs, and up to around three years post qualification. Though the examples we use focus on law firms, the same concepts apply if you are working in-house. The course is also useful to other legal professionals.

Course Details

• What is included: Online workbooks, lectures and interactive exercises
• Junior Lawyer Competency Skills: Personal Management, People Management, Project Management

Course Description

As a lawyer, you'll be required to be good at working well independently – but you also need to project manage broader work streams, scope required resources and communicate effectively with different stakeholders.

This course introduces three essential project management topics:

• Scoping time and resource requirements
• Stakeholder and risk management
• Utilising appropriate legal technologies

We cover the importance of time spent scoping the resources required, the associated risks, and the proper execution of a client matter, so that you can confidently deliver on time and on budget. We explain stakeholder management, communication challenges within disparate teams and where you might fit into that process. It also flags the need for greater understanding of, and collaboration with, the burgeoning area of legal technologies designed to streamline and improve processes and iterative tasks.

Each of these topics and associated skills are explored in the context of working as a junior lawyer, including SQE students, NQs, and up to around three years post qualification. Though the examples we use focus on law firms, the same concepts apply if you are working in-house. The course is also useful to other legal professionals.

Course Details

• Course Length: 90 minutes
• Junior Lawyer Competency Skills: Project Management, Dynamic Thinking, Solution Finding
• Learning method: Scheduled live workshop, virtual, interactive

Course Description

Being good at managing complex tasks is not just about being organised, it’s also about being innovative. This masterclass will give you tools to improve your efficiency, productivity, and work quality in managing cases and transactions.

Each of these topics and associated skills are explored in the context of working as a junior lawyer, including SQE students, NQs, and up to around three years post qualification. Though the examples we use focus on law firms, the same concepts apply if you are working in-house. The course is also useful to other legal professionals.

Course Details

• Course Length: 90 minutes
• Junior Lawyer Competency Skills: Personal Management, People Management, Project Management
• Learning method: Scheduled live workshop, virtual, interactive

Course Description

It’s frustrating to be an over-achiever and yet under confident about your performance at work. Don’t worry – you’re not alone, imposter syndrome is rife within the legal profession. This masterclass will help you recognise the signs and effects of imposter syndrome and give you the tools to master it.