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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.
9Sep
This might be the greatest challenge facing C-Suite and legal teams over the next few years. What does that mean for you?
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7Oct
As the pandemic recedes, we'll be getting back together, taking a look at what it means to be a lawyer in 2021 and to have a work-life balance.
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.
Emma Hinton discusses flexible contracts at our Manchester in house lawyers forum
Judicial thinking on data protection - hear from Matthew Alderton on recent case law
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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.
Read more about our latest real estate update aimed at in house lawyers (and other professionals) practising in the property and real estate sector.
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This month includes updates on safe use of council offices, recent changes to Part 36 Offers and leading through change.
We look at the latest Covid-19 employment status, IR35 developments and commercial updates including the use of crypto assets and cookie claims.
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 courts have long recognised that, on a societal level, women bear a greater burden of childcare responsibilities than men which can make it more difficult for women to comply with employer requirements for flexible working (known as the ‘childcare disparity’).
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Yesterday’s announcement already seems to be a seminal moment on the road to recovery from the impacts of the pandemic. Here are some of the headline points.
In Sethi v Elements Personnel Services Limited, the Employment Tribunal has considered the implications of dress codes on men.
In a lengthy majority judgment accompanied by two powerful dissenting opinions, the Supreme Court found yesterday that land acquired and held for statutory purposes cannot be registered as a village green where that registration is incompatible with the statutory purpose for which it is held.
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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