New Partner Practice Management Course | Programme
Course Dates
Course dates have been confirmed for 2025 and we are now open for registration.
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Programme
09:30 Introduction and housekeeping from Chair
Chair
David Lee
Session One: Essential responsibilities of becoming a partner
09:35 Back to the future
Speakers will share their experience upon becoming partners, and discuss the main upcoming changes and challenges facing the legal profession.
2 Speakers
10:05 Financial hygiene and good law firm funding
10:40 AML essentials: What practice managers really need to know
11:05 Comfort break
Session Two: Regulations and ethics
11:20 Financial compliance: Accounts Rules overview
12:00 Adherence to ethical standards and the complaints process: Case studies
Complaints avoidance and handling are routinely identified by partners as the single most important aspect of partnership. It is therefore vital that all partners understand and adhere to the complaint’s regime. This includes:
- Common causes of complaint
- Complaints process
- Ethics
- Professional conduct
2 Speakers
12:50 Lunch break
Session Three: Essential skills and behaviours
13:40 Business development session
14:25 Panel discussion: Essential skills and behaviour
- Technology and AI
- People management
- Flexible working
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
3 Speakers
15:10 Comfort break
Session Four: Strategic thinking and decision making
15:25 Workshop groups: Design your firm strategy
Groups will be assigned one of the topics below to discuss as a leadership group, and asked to devise a policy document for a firm on that topic, identifying key commitments that a law firm should make to self, staff, clients and profession:
- Developing people
- Wellbeing
- Exit strategy and succession plan
- Marketing and business development
16:10 Future proofing the profession: what do the next ten years look like?
16:25 Closing remarks
Chair
David Lee