Date: 2nd October 2018
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Location:
Law Society of Scotland
Atria One, 144 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EX, United Kingdom
CPD Hours: 5hours
This one-day course will enhance participants’ business acumen and provide practical tips to be more commercially successful in the legal sector.
The legal profession faces unprecedented competition from within the sector and beyond.
Learning and applying business skills in addition to the technical and professional work is no longer an optional extra but a fundamental competency for all lawyers.
The course will improve attendees’ - whether senior partners or aspiring trainees - commercial awareness and skills to better identify, take advantage and maximise business opportunities.
- Why lawyers need to develop business?
- How to develop business?
- What works for the individual lawyer
- Learning to be commercial
- Sharing the benefits of being commercial for the lawyer and organisation
Organisational benefit
The ability for lawyers to foster business is a key skill for all lawyers, bringing wide-ranging benefits to any organisation concerned with the legal sector.
Graeme McKinstry has built, managed and developed his practice with significant success from a one-man band into a full service practice across three offices comprising five partners and a complement of over 40 people.
Graeme is a winner of the Managing Partner of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland, and has over 40 years’ experience in the legal profession and business.
