Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tzqv4c/the_minimba_for) has announced the addition of the "The Mini-MBA for In-house Lawyers Summer School (Cambridge, UK - 15th-19th of August, 2016)" conference to their offering.

This business school style five-day residential programme uses up-to-date MBA thinking and techniques to focus on the real and challenging issues that are confronting today's in-house legal departments.

In this seminar, the expert trainers from a legal and business background will share with participants their own experiences from working as in-house lawyers and business managers. They will refer to and explore up-to-the-minute management and leadership methodologies and techniques. The programme also offers a unique opportunity to share existing best practice and establish industry-wide norms with colleagues from different organisations and countries.

As a result of attending this programme, you will be able to:

- Refine and develop the role and strategy of the in-house legal function

- Review and analyse financial management procedures and strategies from the perspective of the in-house legal department

- Define and demonstrate the value of the legal department to the rest of the organisation

- Respond and contribute effectively to cost cutting pressures

- Create and implement strong working relationships with non-legal colleagues to influence behaviour towards legal issues

- Manage and lead the in-house legal team to high performance

- Access and enhance core leadership management techniques in the context of effective change management

- Understand and clarify the different roles and purposes of the legal team

- Develop and maintain a legal risk management strategy

- Learn and exploit how to get the best value from external law firms and gain value for money from their services

- Identify and evaluate alternatives to hourly billing when they are appropriate

- Examine and understand how successful Heads of Legal have applied a commercial and strategic focus to achieve results

- Leverage and utilize knowledge support from all areas of the business to achieve your goals within budget

- Measure and boost the performance of the legal team through valuable assessment and coaching

Unique case study

This exclusive programme is designed to be highly practical and promote an integrated learning approach. A five-part unique case study has been developed specifically for this course to provide a blended learning approach.

Participants will be divided into small working groups. This step-by-step case is integrated to run throughout the course providing the opportunity to put theory into practice and context under the guidance of our expert training faculty.

Each step will follow the key learning points at each stage of the programme:

1. Aligning the legal department to meet business needs

2. Getting better buy-in for legal services

3. Cost cutting challenge

4. Changing who does what to enhance delivery

5. Performance management

Through the case study new techniques will be put into perspective allowing the participants to understand how they will benefit their team and organisation.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tzqv4c/the_minimba_for