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Management Level

Running a law firm can be both rewarding and very challenging. Law school may have taught you how to run a case but they failed to teach you how to run a business. Law firm managers have to learn ‘on-the job’. Whilst we 100% love experiential learning, sometimes you need an external view.

The benefits of management training include

keeping up with industry changes: The legal industry is constantly evolving, and law firm management needs to stay up-to-date on the latest trends, technologies, and regulations in order to provide the best possible service to clients.
improving leadership skills: Effective leadership is essential for any successful law firm. Management training can help develop leadership skills such as communication, motivation, delegation, and decision-making.
enhancing business acumen: Law firm management must have a strong understanding of business concepts such as finance, marketing, and strategic planning in order to run the firm efficiently and effectively.
increasing productivity and efficiency: Training can help law firm management learn new tools and techniques to streamline operations, manage resources, and optimize workflow, leading to increased productivity and efficiency.
fostering a culture of learning: Investing your own training and development management can inspire staff to do the same and create a culture of growth and improvement.

The SRA continuing competence framework (CCF) requires that all solicitors maintain their competence and identify their learning and development needs. They must then create and implement a learning and development plan to address these needs. The plan should cover a range of areas, including business and practice management. You should maintain records to show how you have reflected on your training needs and implemented a program of development.

We offer an range of business and business management training either for individuals in management or aiming to be, or for management teams.

Some of areas we can help with are

legal operations
Business improvement modelling
Designing effective systrems
Undertanding operations from a client perspective
KPIs, OKRs and other metrics to make your management reports work for you
Using knowlegde management and knowledge transfer
How to use analayise tools to improve performance – SWOT, PESTLE and 5-Whys
Leadership, finding your style
Project management – from the big to the little, use PM systems for everything to improve efficiency
The strategic lawyer
Positioning your firm and your self within the market. Creating as USP.
Supervision Skills to manage risk and devlop your teams
Various compliance related subjects

Our courses are avaialble in person, in-house or online through our portal which offers stand-alone and full program. We tailor our in-person and in-house session so that they are bespoke to those attending. We don’t charge any more for making our courses relateable to your own circumstances.

How to access our services

We are happy to arrange a free no-obligation call discuss exact training requirements and offering suggestions to get a training program that fits your needs. Click [here] to pick the time that suits you best

If you would like to discuss an in-house program or course, we are happy to schedule a meeting with you. Click [here] to register your interest and we will contact you to arrange a convenient time for you.

Register for our training portal. Our in person courses are being transformed into interactive online courses and programs. Once you have registered your preferences, you will be emailed when your preferred courses are available.

Solicitor

Wherever you are in your career path we can support you

Continuing Professional Development (CPD

The SRA continuing competence framework (CCF) requires that all solicitors that solicitors maintain their competence and keep their knowledge and skills up to date throughout their careers. Under the CCF, solicitors are required to reflect on their practice and identify their learning and development needs. They must then create and implement a learning and development plan to address these needs. The plan should cover a range of areas, including legal knowledge and skills, ethics and professionalism, and business and practice management. Solicitors must record their learning and development activities and reflect on how these activities have improved their competence. They must also declare annually that they have complied with the requirements of the CCF.

We can support you with analyzing your training needs, sourcing effective training either through our own in person/online products or from one of our trusted partners.

Skills Development:

Training courses can help you develop new skills or refine existing ones. For example, a course on negotiation skills can help you become more effective at settling disputes, while a course on marketing and business development can help them grow your client base. At The Law Coach we like to promote power skills, those soft skills that make you a legal dynamo. We offer a range of courses with in person or online looking at areas such as

Time management
Client management
File management
Understanding the vulnerable client
Creating client profiles to give better service
Interpersonal skills
Development your network
Overcoming imposter syndrome
Communicating the way the clients needs you to communicate
Developing your business skills
Project managing your own career
Reflection, when and how to reflect

This is just a sampling of our courses that will increase your skills as a lawyer.

Specialization:

Whilst our focus is on core competency skills, we have a range of trusted partners who can deliver disciple specific courses (property, litigation, HDR, Plevin) either through our training portal or in person.

How to access our services

We will also let you when our next in person courses are running. Our sessions take place in our legal training school in Wavertree Village Liverpool which has parking and refreshments, including lunch on full day courses, are always provided.

Trainee

We understand that you are busy and so our services are designed to fit around your working life. We offer online services and training courses and a Saturday solicitor school too. We are also quite flexible so if online or Saturday simply doesn’t fit in with your life we are more than happy to discuss what you need. Our membership page sets out some of our standard options

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

SUPPORT

In the good old days, becoming a solicitor was called being an articled clerk. You would sit with your master and literally learn by watching what they did and how they did it. Over the years this form of mentorship has slowly started to disappear. As the legal profession had commoditised and become more of a business, the role of a trainee has become more of a fee earner and as such opportunities just to watch and learn by copying have lessened. With SQE, this need for independent learning has increased.

Our membership includes ongoing support. If you have a question, even if you think it’s a silly question, you can ask us – there is no need to find someone in your office who has the time and desire to help you develop. After all, they have targets and pressures to deal with and they may just not have the time that you need.

MENTORING

We want you to be the absolute best lawyer possible. Our whole aim is to help you develop. We are here to help you find your feet, develop your own professional practice, climb to great heights. Your achievements are our reward. Yes, that means we will sometimes push you out of your comfort zone. But we will be here to help you every step of the way. Law is a competitive profession; you need a mentor to help navigate and find introductions and new opportunities.

CAREER COACH

Sometimes the legal profession can be one giant treadmill. Your aim is to qualify, this is then replaced with another – manager, department head, partner, senior partner, own firm. These predetermined goals may not actually suit you and once you are on that treadmill there isn’t always time to reflect if its right for you. We are here to help you work out what type of lawyer you are and what you want to be and do. Have you ever thought of alternative careers such as legal ops, legal project management etc? We can help you plan what you need to get to where you want to be, your own professional development plan.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Does your current role not offer the opportunity to develop some of the professional skills such as advocacy, drafting, and meeting clients? We understand that some paralegal roles can be quite restrictive and repetitive and not have much opportunity to develop your professional competencies. We can offer you opportunities to practice and develop skills with genuine feedback and, more importantly feedforward.

COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS SKILLS

With SQE we anticipate that there will be a lot of newly qualified and early career lawyers looking for advancement. We have run law firms; we know what the commercial and business skills are that we look for in new recruits. We can help you develop those skills, developing both a theoretical and practical understanding so that you can add value in your current role and any new position you see.

We offer a number of training courses and professional development workshops to develop you.

LEARNING A NEW AREA OF LAW

If you need to develop your knowledge and skills in a new area of law, we can help you.

We offer two ways of accessing our services

We run in person or online courses
We offer a membership services – [link]

Trainee membership