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Working in house, the internal and commercial demands on your time can place you under considerable pressure.
Managing your organisation's legal issues, governance, procurement and suppliers as well as supporting directors, delivering contracts to commercial deadlines, managing change and even just managing your team can leave you needing access to external support and a safe pair of hands from time‐to‐time.
Here's where our team of specialist lawyers can help. We have been working with in house lawyers for years. We work with you to take up the strain or covering when you are busy or on leave, as an appointed advisor or as specialist consultants. We understand your challenges and so deliver pragmatic, timely and commercial advice at competitive costs in a format to suit you. Our lawyers who have a genuine interest in your world will develop an ongoing successful relationship with you.
We offer a range of products specifically designed for in house lawyers, giving in house lawyers the backing of a full service law firm, with the entire infrastructure, resources and specialists that you may need.
If you’d like to come along to our next in house lawyers update, which is running in September in different locations, then please do sign up – we’d love to see you there! As always it’ll cover the most relevant updates in the areas you need to know about. This time - by popular request - we’re also bringing in experts to speak about those other skills that you need running an in house team, including how to have an impact as an in house team and how to coach / mentor to get the best from your team.
In the meantime, here are some of the highlights from our last in house lawyers forum and, if you missed it, you can listen to the audio recording of the full sessions on SoundCloud now. Hear from our experts for the latest developments in contract law, competition law, and to hear about the new sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences.
Data also continues to be a hot topic and, with less than one year to go until the implementation of the GDPR, we are helping more and more clients ensure that they are ready for this important and far reaching legislation. If you’d like a summary of key priorities for your organisation and your use of data, then you should watch our video from Helena Wootton, our data privacy expert. We have a short five minute summary available or for those who crave more detail, we have posted the full talk that Helena gave.
ICO investigations and preparing for the GDPR - hear from Helena Wootton
Regulatory expert, Rachel Lyne, on the new sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences
In house lawyer workshops – every six months we run update sessions in the areas of law that most in house lawyers need to deal with. Our comprehensive programme of in house lawyer training sessions, workshops and updates provides any in house lawyers an opportunity to keep up to date with legal developments but also a chance to compare experiences with your peers. We provide examples of latest case law and legislative updates and case studies demonstrating how we work with our clients.
Secondments and temporary cover – we can offer a range of support at different levels of qualification. We see this as crucial to our development as a firm and believe that it gives our lawyers a real perspective of the in house role.
In house lawyer checker product – this product is designed to help where you are looking for a second opinion on a matter, or where you are unsure whether further advice is needed. With this checker product, our solicitors are available as if you were a colleague, to bounce something past or to check on a point that a specialist in the relevant area should be able to answer quickly.
Other services – ask us about our other services – such as supervision (where you don’t have budget to outsource), library support (e.g. for research) or use of our offices.
Helen Taylor and Alex Berkshire will be detailing the Government's proposals for a new immigration system and exploring the potential impact on UK business.
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In a recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Millgate Developments Ltd and others [2018] EWCA Civ 2679, developers were given a somewhat unwelcome reminder of the risks of ignoring restrictive covenants during development.
This month includes local government re-organisation, the Future High Streets Fund, restrictive covenants, litigation privilege, and Ofsted v Durand.
This month is a procurement special, with updates on European judgments, Faraday Development Ltd v West Berkshire Council; as well as disclosure, Enforcement Undertaking for environmental crime and planning enforcement notices.
Excellent engaging speakers. Matt Woodford continues to inspire, inform and entertain.
As always, topical, concise and relevant - thank you.
Great information and updates, interested to attend again.
Good seminar in bite sized chunks for understanding and interest. Richard Nicholas especially is excellent.
Better than other in-house lawyer seminars that I have been to.
The level of service and expertise that Browne Jacobson consistently provides constantly impresses me.
Providing a senior level secondee to a national telecommunications company to advise their business in a new and unfamiliar area that they were entering into. We did this on a rolling six month basis until full time in house support could be recruited into this new area.
Our recent in house forums, held across four of our offices covered commercial, employment, health & safety, property and competition law updates and attracted 250 in-house counsel - from different disciplines and backgrounds. What do they now know that you don’t? Join us next time?
Advising in house lawyers for a travel company advertising law they weren’t sure if they really needed external legal advice, so by using our free “Checker” product to speak to a specialist they were quickly assured that their gut instinct was right – no further external advice was required and they could proceed as planned.
The Government have claimed it’s the biggest reform of employment law in 20 years but with no draft legislation or even any dates or commitments to legislate, what exactly did the government announce yesterday?
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The Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has just delivered his latest budget and with it, a significant change to the way liability for IR35 breaches will be dealt with for private sector companies from April 2020.
Following the first gender pay gap reporting deadline earlier this year, the government have now launched a consultation looking at how organisations should disclose their ethnicity pay gap.
It is well understood that Employers may be liable for whistleblowing related dismissals. Since 2013 individual workers have also been at risk of personal liability for their own actions, where those actions are taken in response to a protected disclosure by a co-worker, which causes their co-workers to suffer some form of detriment other than dismissal.
Our checker service gives you access to a diverse range of legal experts - offering clear opinions and straightforward advice. As an in house lawyer you get a second opinion and you get to know us at the same time. It’s also free of charge - exceptional service, every time, from experts. Get in touch today for access to our checker service for in house legal teams.
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