Build the administration regime that keeps external counsel management enforceable during performance.
Managing Relations with External Counsel and Law Firms
A structured, applied course in external counsel management — designed to be used the week you return.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most contractual disputes about external counsel management are decided by what was written, not what was intended. A contract governing the legal and contractual practice capability that nobody administers is a document, not a control. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to this area of legal and contractual practice in an order their organisation can absorb. Mature organisations treat external counsel management as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. The difficulty is not agreeing that the legal and contractual practice capability matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. Participants apply the practice within legal and contractual practice to their own contract portfolio throughout, so the output is directly usable. It treats external counsel management as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. It is designed for mixed groups, so that this strand of legal and contractual practice is examined from more than one functional angle. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the practice within legal and contractual practice survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Standardise recurring terms on external counsel management while preserving necessary flexibility.
Sequence improvements to external counsel management so that each step makes the next one easier.
Agree the first three actions on external counsel management that will be taken on returning to work.
Plan termination and exit from external counsel management without avoidable liability.
Present the case for investment in external counsel management in terms that a finance function will accept.
Prepare the evidential record supporting decisions taken under external counsel management.
Who Should Attend
Quality staff verifying that external counsel management performs as designed.
Compliance officers assessing obligations under external counsel management.
Engineers and technical staff whose records support claims under external counsel management.
In-house counsel and legal advisers handling external counsel management.
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on external counsel management.
Public sector contracting officers applying external counsel management under regulation.
Course Modules
External counsel management: termination, exit and residual obligation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping external counsel management alive after the initial push
- Establish who administers external counsel management day to day once it is signed.
- Arrange the handover of external counsel management so capability survives staff changes.
- Maintain a contract register capturing key dates and obligations in external counsel management.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in external counsel management.
Session 2Making external counsel management work when resources are constrained
- Identify which party bears each material risk under external counsel management, and whether that is intended.
- Confirm that those complying with external counsel management understand why it exists.
- Anticipate the objections external counsel management will raise and prepare the answers.
- Set escalation thresholds for external counsel management that work out of hours.
External counsel management: administration during performance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing the dispute route for external counsel management deliberately
- Review the definitions in external counsel management for terms doing heavy commercial work.
- Review closed contracts on external counsel management for lessons before drafting the next one.
- Reduce the variation in how external counsel management is carried out between teams.
- Identify the compliance obligations external counsel management triggers and who tracks them.
Session 2Testing external counsel management before relying on it
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when external counsel management underperforms.
- Diarise every notice period and time bar in external counsel management.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in external counsel management.
- Apply data protection requirements to personal data handled under external counsel management.
External counsel management: authority, approval and execution
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Exiting external counsel management without avoidable liability
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to external counsel management will be introduced.
- Test the procedure for external counsel management against a realistic scenario.
- Assess whether the dispute route in external counsel management suits value and relationship.
- Protect confidential information and intellectual property shared under external counsel management.
Session 2Handling variations to external counsel management without losing position
- Prepare the claim narrative for external counsel management while the facts are fresh.
- Identify where judgement in external counsel management is legitimate and where it is not.
- Check that records of external counsel management answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on external counsel management.
External counsel management: dispute resolution and forum selection
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The clauses in external counsel management that matter when performance fails
- Define the termination triggers in external counsel management and the consequences of each.
- Confirm bonds, guarantees and insurance supporting external counsel management are valid and current.
- Compare the cost of external counsel management with the cost of its absence.
- Check the governing law and jurisdiction clauses in external counsel management are consistent.
Session 2Building the contemporaneous record supporting external counsel management
- Confirm signature authority for external counsel management against the delegation matrix.
- Standardise recurring clauses in external counsel management into an approved template.
- Benchmark the organisation's external counsel management against comparable operations.
- Prepare the summary of external counsel management that senior management will read.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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