Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Training Course (Mar 13, 2026) - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Essential Skills of the High Achieving In-House Lawyer Training Course (Mar 13, 2026)" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The role of the in-house lawyer can be hugely stimulating and fulfilling but it can also be very stressful and fatiguing. It is tremendously important to take time periodically to step back from the day-to-day activities, which seem so pressing, to really consider the development of your, and your teams, performance.

This in-house lawyer training course has been specially designed to focus on and boost the essential skills you and the in-house team needs to grow and develop as a legal department within a commercial environment.

By focusing on your skill-set and career development options, you will open up new opportunities as you enhance your skills in:

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Management
• Influencing
• Problem solving
• Relationship building
• Business acumen

This one-day intensive training course focusses on these key areas to supercharge your performance. By developing your commercial skills in-line with your legal expertise you can become a high-achieving in-house lawyer.

Benefits of attending

By attending this course you will:

• Explore your competencies and career development options
• Boost client care techniques to have a greater influence on colleagues in other departments
• Integrate with business colleagues whilst maintaining professional independence
• Get to grips with using available resources to best effect
• Learn successful techniques for raising legal awareness across your organisation
• Understand the benefits the legal team can bring to a business
• Identify areas and techniques for personal development

Certifications:

• CPD: 6 hours for your records
• Certificate of completion

Who Should Attend:

All in-house lawyers who want to:

• supercharge their commercial and personal skills to have more influence on business decisions
• succeed in their role and raise legal awareness across their organisation
• raise the understanding of compliance and its importance
• become the go-to department for advice when business decisions are being made.

Key Topics Covered:

Welcome and introductions

Developing yourself

• Honest assessment and continuous improvement
• Legal know-how
• Behaviour and competencies
• Complementary management skills
• Career development options
• The unwritten rules

Making the most of being in a legal team

• Intelligent information sharing
• Ensuring communication and consistency
• Getting the best out of shared support staff
• Supporting and getting support from colleagues
• Reporting and managing upwards
• Setting expectation

Communication skills

• Verbal and written clarity
• Techniques for distilling complex information
• Executive summaries and elevator pitches
• Self-promotion through effective influencing skills

Managing upwards

• Transparency and accountability
• Delivering solutions to problems
• Reconciling your aspirations with the department's needs
• Getting more from appraisals

Understanding your client's needs to deliver effective legal support

• Knowledge of the business and business acumen
• Concentrating on what matters
• Building relationships while maintaining credibility
• Matrix reporting issues
• Client surveys

Influencing your clients to ensure legal compliance

• How they use you
• How they manage legal risk
• How they follow your recommendations
• Effective positioning and access to key clients

Raising legal awareness across the organisation

• Ensuring management support
• Defining the scope
• Proven techniques to raise Legal's profile
• Measurement and management
• Gaining mutual respect

Final questions

Speakers:

Helene Russell

The Knowledge Business

Founder of The Knowledge Business, is a UK solicitor (non-practising) and specialist in Knowledge, Learning and Innovation. After 8 years in practice, primarily in clinical negligence litigation defence, she has worked as a self-employed knowledge management consultant for 13 years. Hélène specialises in practical tools to improve the efficiency and profitability of real-life law firms.

Hélène has extensive experience in business strategy, project management and teaching leadership skills. She runs a popular 'KM Strategy + coaching' course in UK and has written short form and lengthy strategies for a variety of law firms, as well, of course, as writing her own business's strategy. Hélène has spoken at various events, including Ark's KM Legal, Lexpo-18, for UWE, St Andrew's University, BLS and Allice, and chaired international conferences.

She runs a global online KM training and networking group and is a core committee member organising the annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Conference and Chair of CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Special Interest Group. Hélène has an executive MBA with distinction (which included a strategy module), and she is the sole author of two textbooks, contributor to five of Ark's multi-author books and is currently contracted to Facet Publishing to write a handbook on KM Strategy.

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