LMS Events

• LMS Management Development Programme 2008
  5-8 October - Milton Hill House, Oxfordshire

• LMS Junior Lawyers Forum 2008
  Thursday, 2 October - The Law Society, London

• LMS Legal Business Development Forum 2008
  Thursday, 18 September 2008 - Holiday Inn Regent's Park Hotel, London

• LMS Legal Human Resources Forum 2008
  Tuesday, 30 September - Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill

• LMS Legal Finance Forum 2008
  Thursday, 16 October - Central Hall Westminster, London

• LMS Online seminar
  Monday, 20 October 2008 - Online

• LMS Lexcel Quality Forum 2008
  Tuesday, 14 October - Hotel Russell, London

Other Events

LMS Management Development Programme 2008
5-8 October
Milton Hill House, Oxfordshire
CPD Hours: 25.5

Managing a law firm is not getting any easier. The business environment changes constantly, including those changes arising from the credit crunch and the Legal Services Act 2007. These come on top of the ever present challenges of acquiring and satisfying clients, recruiting and retaining staff and improving financial performance. All this puts responsive and consistent management and leadership at the top of the agenda. It is more important than ever to ensure that you have the right level of management expertise to succeed.

The LMS Management Development Programme 2008 is a four-day residential course on law firm management. It is designed to help managing partners, partners (equity or salaried), directors and those involved at a senior law firm management level to manage and lead their firms to continuing business success. Combining the best in modern management thinking and practice, the LMS Management Development Programme 2008 will use a mix of short presentations, realistic case studies, facilitated discussions, practical exercises and individual attention. To ensure the best possible learning environment, numbers are limited to 30 delegates and sell out well in advance.

Don’t just take our word for it

“…It should be required attendance for most senior managers / partners and gives a useful insight into other firms’ issues and methods … It shows you are not alone!”

“…An excellent balance of academic analysis and practical help.”

“…Very good and well balanced course detail. This is a very worthwhile course with informative and proactive speakers. It represents good value for money.”

“… An eye-opening, educational and enjoyable course … It has prepared me for moving forward with many current issues in the practice.”

“I thought the delivery hit exactly the right note and got better through the programme as we all got to know each other.”

About the faculty

The faculty is drawn from members of Sherwood PSF Consulting, a management consultancy specialising in serving professional service firms, especially law firms.

Julian Boardman-Weston has been consulting since 1994. He has worked with lawyers and their firms in a wide variety of consulting and development projects in the UK, Europe, Canada, the Middle East and Russia. He studied law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, holds a Master of Science in
management from London Business School and has practised at different times as both a barrister and solicitor.

Simon McCall has 14 years’ experience in consulting, facilitating, training and coaching lawyers. He worked as an in-house lawyer in the oil industry and with American Express after qualifying as a solicitor with Lawrence Graham in London. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Cranfield School of Management.

Des O’Connell joined Sherwood in 2001, where he helps clients by advising on strategic and structural issues and creates and delivers bespoke leadership and management development programmes at senior level. He is a trained business coach. He has been a partner and managing
partner of Biddle (now part of Pinsent Masons), and an in-house lawyer with Barclays Bank Group Legal where he was projects and operations director. He qualified as a solicitor in 1982.

Sally Woodward is a professionally trained facilitator and business coach with 30 years’ experience working with lawyers and other professionals as a fee-earner, senior manager and external consultant. She spent 12 years at Freshfields in a senior management role and also practised as a solicitor with Allison & Humphreys (now part of Field Fisher Waterhouse). She has a Master of Business Administration from London Business School.

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LMS Junior Lawyers Forum 2008
Thursday, 2 October
The Law Society, London
CPD Hours: 7

The seventh LMS Junior Lawyers’ Forum satisfies the criteria for Management Course Stage One (MCS1), an important compulsory phase in your training that must be completed within three years of qualification, and is specifically designed for newly qualified solicitors, those seeking partnership and in-house lawyers interested in the management of a legal department.
 
The course covers essential management issues including finance, marketing, business development, quality, risk management and informative sessions on career development and preparing for partnership.
 
Delegates can choose from six in-house and private practice breakout sessions and have the opportunity to network during the wine reception and exhibition following the event. Delegates also receive free copies of Clarity for Lawyers (Mark Adler, Law Society Publishing, 2006, £29.95 RRP) and Solicitors' Guide to Good Management (Trevor Boutall and Bill Blackburn, Law Society Publishing, 2001, £19.95 RRP).

Please note: delegates must attend all seven hours to earn the MCS1 certificate.

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LMS Legal Business Development Forum 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Holiday Inn Regent's Park Hotel, London
CPD Hours: 5.5

In association with:

With the global credit crunch biting hard and competition becoming fierce, many firms turn to effective business planning and development of long-term client relationships as some of the keys to survival. The Law Management Section (LMS) planned the third annual LMS Legal Business Development Forum in association with Professional Services Marketing Group (PSMG). The Forum brings together an array of top-level speakers to provide insightful advice on how to address topics such as the global credit crunch and escalating competition in a productive one-day conference.

Adopting a forward-looking and positive approach, this CPD-accredited Forum will focus on practical issues, as well as the latest insight into marketing, business development and the achievement of profitable growth. The high-profile line up of speakers will assist delegates in bridging the gap between objectives and implementation.

David Bott, member of the LMS Executive Committee and managing partner of Bott & Co, will chair the Forum, which also includes ideal networking opportunities, refreshments and lunch and will be supported by an exhibition of related products and services.

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LMS Legal Human Resources Forum 2008
Tuesday, 30 September
Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill
CPD Hours: 5.5

The need to develop a workforce of top quality legal professionals is ever more intense in an ever increasingly challenging environment. Firms need to be innovative in their approach to recruitment and retention.

This year’s LMS Legal Human Resources forum provides new insights and ideas to help you achieve this, along with a choice of four breakout sessions, and a legal update.

It is designed for practice managers, managing partners, senior partners overseeing the HR strategy and dedicated HR professionals looking to build on their knowledge and expertise. Speakers and sessions booked so far include:

• Keynote address: Innovative Strategies for Retention/worklife balance: Jill King, Linklaters;
• Diversity: Caroline Wilson, Eversheds;
• Legal Update: Alison Downie and Shah Qureshi, Bindmans LLP; and
• More high profile speakers who are experts in the human resources field.

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LMS Legal Finance Forum 2008
Thursday, 16 October
Central Hall Westminster, London
CPD Hours: 5.5

This year sees the ninth Law Management Section (LMS) Finance Forum taking place at the Central Hall Westminster, London. This popular annual event once again brings you best practice information and support on how to grow and strengthen a practice. Topics include how to grow a legal aid firm; private equity – a law firm’s perspective on private equity and a new approach to measuring success through benchmarking. The Forum comprises four breakout sessions; plenary sessions, and a panel discussion on external equity.
 
Finance officers within legal practices and departments, including FDs and CFOs, managing partners, practice managers, senior partners, suppliers of financial services to legal practices and anyone with an interest in financial management of law firms will benefit from this event.

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LMS Online seminar
Monday, 20 October 2008
Online
CPD Hours: 1

Dealing with the credit crunch

Robert Mowbray, Macintyre Hudson LLP

Sponsored by:

Manage the impact of a slow down in the economy and the credit crunch

Robert Mowbray, principal of Macintyre Hudson LLP and managing director at Macintyre Advisory Services Ltd, will help you and your practice to deal with this challenge providing you with valuable advice on the following: 

• The impact of the credit crunch on law firms- are you feeling it yet?
• Managing budgets in periods with no growth or declining income
• Tightening up on lock up to improve cashflow
• Managing the relationship with the bank.

Also analysed in the survey you will find the importance that quality marks such as Lexcel hold with firms, time spent on practice management within the firm, new corporate structures such as limited liability partnerships and suspicious activity reporting to the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

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LMS Lexcel Quality Forum 2008
Tuesday, 14 October
Hotel Russell, London
CPD Hours: 5.75

With the new Solicitors Regulation Authority regime bearing down hard on solicitors in these turbulent times of credit crunch, strong competition and issues that needs to be addressed following the Legal Services Act 2007, the Law Management Section Lexcel Quality Forum 2008 provides useful insight into how to enhance business opportunities and achieve best practice management standard.
 
Developed to support in-house legal departments and private practices, Forum delegates will hear practical advice from highly experienced experts within the legal field. Topics include the impact of quality marks, enhancing client service, developing effective risk management processes and the effect of implementing the new Lexcel v4 standard.
 
This highly successful conference is designed to benefit delegates from all sizes and types of legal practice – Lexcel accredited or not. Delegates will be able to develop their understanding of key management challenges via formal presentations and practical sessions.
 
The wide range of expert speakers will share their experience across a range of practice management topics, including real case scenarios. Focused breakout sessions will give valuable insight into the impact of quality on the success and profitability of legal practices.

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Solicitors' Code of Conduct CPD Online (The Law Society)
Starting now
Online
CPD Hours: 2

The new Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007 came into force on 1 July. It introduced a number of significant changes to the professional conduct regime for solicitors, including the creation of a set of core duties, such as integrity, independence and the best interest of clients, that underpin the rest of the Code; and key changes from the previous Guide to Professional Conduct in the areas of client relations, conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, supervision and the business management of solicitors' firms.

These changes will impact upon the responsibilities of every solicitor in England and Wales.

To help you prepare for this important event, the Law Society has specially developed an online training course designed to enable you to gain an understanding of the contents of the new Code and get up to speed on the impact of the changes. The course also allows you to earn two hours continuing professional development, all at a time and place most convenient to you!

Read an introduction to the course by Fiona Woolf, immediate past President of the Law Society

To get started, simply register and pay online. A username and login will be allocated to you after registration and payment.

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Discounts are also available for group bookings as follows: 6 to 25 individuals receive a 10% discount and bookings for more than 25 individuals receive a 20% discount.

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Printed copies of the Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007 will be available from Prolog for £29.95. The Companion to the Solicitors' Code of Conduct, by Peter Camp, is also available from Prolog for £34.95.

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Risk management module: CPD online (Lexcel in association with PYV Legal)
Starting now
Online
CPD Hours: 2

In association with:

This online training course will show you how to identify and minimise risks confronting your firm. It carries two hours' continuing professional development.

It contains three scenarios of typical risk situations, including taking instructions from clients, client care, and supervising work. You then answer five multiple choice questions per scenario to test your ability to recognise and reduce the impact of the risks
involved.

You can request a PowerPoint demonstration of the course by e-mailing lawsocietycpd@lawsociety.org.uk.

Price

£55 + VAT per individual, for bookings before 1 December 2007. Bookings thereafter are priced at £60 + VAT.
Group discounts: six to 25 individuals receive a 10 per cent discount. Larger bookings receive a 20 per cent discount.

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Introduction by Andrew Holroyd, president of the Law Society
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About Lexcel

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The whys and hows of file auditing (Law Society)
various dates through Monday, 17 November
various locations
CPD Hours: 2

New dates just added!

This seminar focuses on file auditing and aims to translate your professional obligations into a practical audit. It aims to complete the following tasks:

• explain the practice rules relating to supervision and risk;
• outline the benefits of file auditing;
• offer advice on implementing a file audit strategy; and
• help you develop a relevant file audit for your firm.

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Commercial awareness programme (Cass Business School and The Law Society)
September 2008 through June 2009
Cass Business School, London

Cass Business School, in association with the Law Society, has launched an innovative programme to help lawyers understand more about the commercial environment in which their corporate clients work. It combines the essential elements of strategic awareness and relationship management, with an insider's guide to key business disciplines including corporate finance, banking, risk and insurance.

Who should attend?

Any solicitor, from senior associate to new partner level, wishing to build a greater understanding of their corporate clients, as well as in-house lawyers from large organisations, particularly in the City. The course starts in September 2008 and runs through to June 2009.

For more information, contact:
Cass Executive Education Team
Tel: 020 7040 8710
E-mail: cassexec@city.ac.uk
Cass Business School, Executive Education

Details

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Personal insovency law – An end in sight to the relentless rise of personal insolvency? (Law Society)
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
The Law Society, London
CPD Hours: 2

With personal insolvency at record levels, this seminar explores the causes of the explosion, assesses the impact of the Enterprise Act reforms and highlights the responses of creditors and the government to the current personal debt crisis. The seminar will deal with the proposed measures that, it is hoped, may go some way to reducing bankruptcy numbers in the future.

The seminar will accomplish the following tasks:

• provide an introduction to the current personal insolvency regime;
• explore the reasons for the debt crisis and rise in personal insolvency numbers, paying particular attention to the effects of legslative change;
• examine the trends in personal insolvency and the consequences of these changes for debtors and creditors alike;
• look at the new statutory measures to tackle over-indebtedness and assist the socially excluded, including a new County Court Administration system, Enforcement Restriction Orders, Debt Relief Orders and Debt Management Schemes;
• deal with the rise of IVAs and the effect of new protocols; and
• look at the future for IVAs, including possible new forms of IVA.

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Regulation, risk and compliance - Is your firm fully prepared for changes? (The Law Society)
various dates through September 2008
various locations
CPD Hours: 2

The Legal Services Act 2007 introduces major changes to the legal landscape. In particular, the arrival of the Solicitors Regulation Authority has altered the approach to regulaton and further changes are likely. The new Code of Conduct is already being amended to enable the establishment of Legal Disciplinary Practices and the introduction of firm-based regulation. It is vital for all solicitors to understand and keep pace with the rules and regulations governing the profession. Firms must act now to ensure that they are fully prepared to deal swiftly and effectively with disciplinary and regulatory matters in a rapidly changing world.

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