Training courses

Checking and Proof Reading

Written accuracy is vital to a lawyer. The successful outcome of a client’s matter may
depend on the interpretation of a document. The ability to spot mistakes and avoid
other errors is therefore an important risk management skill for those with the
responsibility of checking proofs.
Objective:
To provide awareness of how mistakes occur in documents. To highlight potential
danger areas. To develop techniques to improve accuracy.

From NQ to Associate: The skills that set your emerging talent apart – taster session

Moving from Newly Qualified to Associate is one of the most significant and, often underestimated, transition points in a lawyer’s career. Technical capability gets them in the door, but it’s the broader professional skills that determine whether they thrive at the next level.

This webinar explores the three core capabilities that consistently differentiate high performing Associates and help firms build stronger mid-level talent pipelines.

If you’re responsible for developing junior lawyers, this session is designed to give you practical, immediately usable insight into strengthening Associate capability where it matters most – client conversations, commercial judgement and independent thinking.

Effective Time Management, Organisation and Planning Skills

This 1 day highly practical and interactive course aims to equip participants with skills to organise themselves and others and plan and gain control of time and effectively prioritise and manage their workload. Planning, organising, implementing and monitoring are essential elements of this workshop.

The session will help delegates:

• Understand time management and recognise their time management strengths and weaknesses
• Organise and plan time, resource and themselves more pro-actively
• Systematically review their use of time
• Prioritise their workload and organise effectively
• Make better use of time through effective delegation where this is appropriate – optional objective as appropriate to delegates
• Use ways of handling disruptions
• Produce an action plan to improve time management

Handling Difficult Conversations with Clients

Being able to deal with difficult conversations effectively is an essential business skill that is invaluable in maintaining good relationships in difficult situations and protecting the reputation of the Firm. Difficult conversations with Clients do arise and they need to be dealt with in an appropriate way that achieves the desired result and keeps the relationship intact.
This interactive practical online workshop will help those who find themselves in the position where they have to have difficult or awkward conversation with a Client where they might feel anxious and uncomfortable, maybe failing to get their point across in the way they want or even avoiding things altogether.
The course is aimed at helping those who would like to improve their confidence, skills and effectiveness in dealing with difficult or awkward conversations with Clients, especially in regard to being unable to accept a potential new assignment/case in times of large workloads when the need to manage workloads and prioritise new work means that the potential new assignment/case is lower in fee value than others.
It will help delegates display a confident, professional, and proactive approach when conveying difficult messages to Clients in such situations.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
• Use skills and techniques to help respond confidently, proactively and appropriately to manage and control difficult conversations with clients and achieve a professional and successful outcome
• Use techniques to overcome personal barriers to communicate difficult messages and have that difficult conversation
• Avoid confusion and misunderstanding or lasting damage to an existing or new relationship through their communication of difficult messages
• Know how to structure the opening of a difficult conversation more effectively
• Have increased their ability to manage their and others emotions successfully when having a difficult conversation with a client
• Use skills to bring the conversation to an amicable and professional conclusion
• Recognise the impact on others of the way they communicate

Essential Business Writing Skills

Lawyers and their support staff crucially depend on the accuracy of the written word to service effectively their clients’ needs. Understanding and implementing grammatical and stylistic rules is a critical element of developing effective writing skills.

To revise basic grammar as the foundation for clear and concise writing. To gain tips and techniques for getting your written message across. To understand the use of differing styles for differing written mediums.