Practical LawConferences

• Defining the role of the GC in the context of the business and the wider external factors that may impact it
• How do you help protect the business?
• Understanding the role of the GC when it comes to board and non-exec expectations of GCs
• How do you deal with major international incidents in countries such as Ukraine and Syria, as part of your role as a GC?

• How do you run your department like the rest of the business?
• Dealing with different areas of the business effectively
– How do you ensure your business and your function is aligned to the business strategies and is focused on the areas the business thinks is important?
– How do you position yourself against your peers?
– Ensuring you can add value

A growing proportion of GC’s work is not strictly involved in legal matters but in commercial decision making, especially in the area of business and risk management
• Identifying different types of risk to your company; Legal risk mapping and understanding the framework of risk
• Ensuring your risk calculations are correct
• How do you help balance the opportunities to drive growth with the inherent risks associated with them?
• Assessing where you and your legal teams should be accountable in managing associated risks
• What processes need to be put in place to enable your teams to effectively deal with managing business risk, and how do you help your team do this?
• If you operate out of a number of different countries, how do you manage your risk strategies?

This session will look at the concept of innovation and how GCs can innovate and leverage both their in-house and external resources and capability.

As lawyers you need to be increasingly innovative in how you deliver services to the business. Hear what practical steps they have done to make this happen across their organisations br. This session will offer you insights how to stand out from the crowd and inspire loyalty.

• Capturing the strengths of both companies
• Aligning two (or more) different cultures
• Alignment of legal functions and rationalisation of legal spend
• Ensuring people, culture, and leadership are the  game makers

• Capturing the strengths of both companies
• Aligning two (or more) different cultures
• Alignment of legal functions and rationalisation of legal spend
• Ensuring people, culture, and leadership are the  game makers

Business expertise and numeracy, as well as legal skills are the basic foundations for a successful General Counsel role. Choose from one of our interactive business workshop sessions.

• Ensuring your message is received in the way it was intended
• Using the right language and the right message for your target audience
• Deploying effective negotiation skills to win the hearts and minds of the board

This session will give you the opportunity to fully understand how you source, install and budget for new technology. Examples include e-billing and document retention.

• Identifying technology needs
• Where do you go and how do you choose the right technology for you?
• What’s out there?
• Effective deployment tactics

• Building growth and career development in the context of business strategy and plans
• How can you recruit top talent and retain them?
• Training and personal development including soft skills
• What are the behavioural types that work well for your legal team to develop in your lawyers?
• Building a superior team of people who will create and execute a legal strategy that generates value for the business
• Keeping skills current and allowing them to move out of your team
• How do you provide career progression and retain engagement with those located regionally and internationally?

• What did delegates gain from Day One of the Forum?
• What are the remaining key challenges facing them they would like to hear tomorrow?
• What should be discussed at tomorrow’s Forum?