Balfour Meagher offer law firms the following 1-hour CPD-aligned* presentations that can contribute to their in-house CPD programs:

  • Insights to Legal Project Management

    Aligned to CA2: Professional Skills

    This session helps to explain the global uptake of Legal Project Management (LPM) and what it really means in practice for planning and leading matters.  It will provide insights into how it is enabling alternate fee arrangements, better engaging clients and resulting in greater workplace performance.

  • Effective Time Management

    Aligned to CA2: Professional Skills

    This session focuses on how to seemingly get more hours in the day and what time management techniques can be used to achieve greater work output. It explores the key tools and methods used by high performers in progressing their work.

  • Effective Client Engagement

    Aligned to CA2: Professional Skills

    This session is focused on understanding the psychology of people engagement, including power models, identifying level of engagement and includes techniques to build rapport and relationships fast.

  • Communications Essentials

    Aligned to CA2: Professional Skills

    This session is focused on personal skills associated with being an effective communicator and engaging better with team members. It explores the different needs of behavioural styles and the level of information flow to avoid loss of trust, miscommunications or confusion.

  • Negotiating Essentials

    Aligned to CA2: Professional Skills

    This session is focused on the key elements of effective negotiations, whether it is with colleagues or clients, knowing the best approaches that help achieve win-win scenarios.

  • Effective Practice Area Leadership

    Aligned to CA3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility

    This session is focused on discussing the key attributes of practice area leadership and the role of partners in mentoring and  developing high-performance individuals and teams. It explores the characteristics of effective leaders.

  • Legal Team Performance Culture

    Aligned to CA3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility

    This session is focused on recognising the different traits in team members and how they add value. It looks at the key attributes that creates a strong,  positive and productive culture. It provides insights to retaining good staff and attracting new team members.

  • Resilience and Emotional Intelligence

    Aligned to CA3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility

    This session focuses on understanding what emotional intelligence means and how to take control of your emotions to become more resilient and focused in the workplace. It is designed to explain how to better deal with stress and avoid a sense of overwhelm and loss of control.

  • Effective Business Development

    Aligned to CA3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility

    This session is focused on how a team member can most effectively bring work into the firm by understanding their natural behavioural style and how it indicates aligned business development activities. It explains personal branding and the options to build productive relationships.

  • Legal Pricing Approaches

    Aligned to CA1: Practice Management and Business Skills

    This session focuses on the range of alternate fee arrangements, how pricing is calculated and the psychology behind pricing strategies.  It outlines different approaches to attract and retain clients.

 

  • Process Improvement Approaches

    Aligned to CA1: Practice Management and Business Skills

    This session focuses on approaches to assess and develop the systems and processes needed to  improve the practice management elements of the law firm.

 

  • Career Legal Project Managers

Aligned to CA3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility

This session is focused on developing a career path for non-legally qualified team members and lawyers who no longer want to practice law. It shows how they can contribute to the firm’s success in a legal project manager function.

 

*Note: whilst Balfour Meagher regularly presents CPD seminars for and on behalf of various business groups and professional bodies, it is not a registered CPD training provider.

 

How do I Get More Information?

Email Todd or call 0422 532 775.