Managing and Developing Your Career as an In-house Lawyer
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Managing and Developing Your Career as an In-house Lawyer

Edited by Ian White · Simon McCall
Globe Law and Business May 2023

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ISBN-13
9781787428515
Publisher
Globe Law and Business
Publication
May 2023
Format
Paperback , 80 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In-house lawyers need and want to develop their professional and management skills. But unlike lawyers practising in law firms, there may not be dedicated resources designed to support them. It will often be a case of DIY.

Managing and Developing Your Career as an In-house Lawyer by Ian White and Simon McCall is a companion to their report Your Role as General Counsel: How to Survive and Thrive in Your Role as GC. It seeks to provide practical ideas and tips on how a busy in-house lawyer can actively manage their own development. The aim is to help them perform more effectively in their current role and also prepare them for promotion or a move elsewhere.

It covers:

  • Taking responsibility for your own development;
  • Being a businessperson as well as a lawyer;
  • Doing an MBA – or recreating the MBA experience by learning from other people in the business;
  • Moving into a leadership role;
  • Honing key personal skills – delegating, giving feedback, listening, motivating;
  • Becoming a coach or mentor to your team;
  • Developing your career beyond the GC role – within or outside your organisation; and
  • Taking on a non-executive director role.

This Special Report is essential reading for any in-house lawyer wanting to continue learning and developing and enhance their career prospects. It is relevant for recently appointed in-house lawyers all the way up to more established GCs.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1. Careers as a lawyer
2. And why they must be managed – by you!
3. The importance of planning and phasing
4. Skills you will need
5. And those to discard as you go on
II. Moving in-house
1. Why?
2. Is it for you?
3. No longer a one-way street
4. What makes it different?
5. Becoming a business person first
6. Adapting to the culture
7. When is the right time?
a. Junior to mid-level
b. Don’t leave it too late
c. Although going in at GC level is possible, how easy is it?
8. Going back to private practice
9. Diversity and inclusion
10. What in-house can lead to
III. Learning about other functions
1. Recreating an MBA experience on the job – or doing an MBA. What is going to be of interest and useful to you?
Exploring the range of business issues:
a. Leadership
b. Change management
c. Economics and finance
d. Strategy
e. Marketing
f. Operations
g. People management
IV. Effective skills for the in-house lawyer
1. Managing and delegating
2. Developing your team
3. Less law the more senior you become
4. Listening
5. Listening again!
6. Advising – being a trusted adviser
7. Moving upwards
V. The lawyer as coach and mentor
1. Why these are great skills and attributes
2. What’s the difference between the two?
3. Mentoring your team
4. Coaching
a. Coaching upwards and downwards
b. Becoming an internal coach
c. Training to be an external one
d. Building a separate career
e. Using coaching in all the work you do
VI. Developing your career away from law (law firm)
1. Taking on a management or support role in a law firm
2. PSFs
3. Heads of L&D/HRD
4. Other roles
VII. Developing your career away from law (in-house)
1. Serving on ExCo
2. Taking on the company secretary role
3. Some other options:
• Head of risk
• Compliance director
• HRD
4. Going into the business
5. Becoming CEO!
6. Leaving business
VIII.Developing your career after law
1. Plan early
2. And don’t leave it too late
3. Re-designing your CV
a. Why it needs to be very different
b. Transferable skills and experience
4. Getting help
a. Career transition coaches
b. Mentors
c. Outplacement
d. Why you should read Peter Drucker
5. Becoming a non-executive director
a. What precisely do they do?
b. Beware boards don’t like lawyers – current or former
c. What it takes
d. What does it entail?
e. Make sure you want to do it
f. Which sector?
g. And how many roles?
h. Getting help
IX. Conclusion and practical checklist
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