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The Modern In-house Lawyer: Optimising Relationships for Growth and Success in an ESG Environment


ISBN13: 9781787429529
Published: November 2023
Publisher: Globe Law and Business
Country of Publication: UK
Format: paperback
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Relationships are top-of-mind for in-house lawyers today. Inherent tension in the relationship between in-house lawyers and their organisation, which is both their client and their employer, and the increasing scrutiny of in-house lawyers due to recent corporate and political scandals has put pressure on the management of their relationships with themselves, their teams and their client organisations. Appositely, CEOs, NEDs and boards not only struggle to navigate their relationship with in-house lawyers but also are often unaware of the underlying systemic problems in the function and profession, which can adversely affect organisational sustainability.

This book shows how in-house lawyers across the world can better manage their relationships with themselves and others, and how their client organisations can reciprocate. The main theme throughout is that reframing relationships, and then making small changes in them, can together have a big impact on individual fulfilment, organisations and society. It provides solutions for when specific relationship management problems occur, and other key features of this title include:

  • Exploration of the evolution of the legal function
  • Diagnostics and tools to assess and manage relationships with boards, law firms and the ESG movement
  • Strategies to address common relationship issues with key individuals including the CEO, CFO, compliance, the Group GC and other in-house lawyers
  • Guidance on allaying career concerns and dealing with an overwhelming workload which threatens work–life balance, and The nature of leadership as it pertains to the legal function

Written by Ciarán Fenton, who has worked with hundreds of in-house lawyers as well as CEOs, chairs and boards all over the world, The Modern In-house Lawyer draws on the author’s own consulting experience and successes and failures in relationship management – including case studies demonstrating what works, and what doesn’t – and the insights of other academics and experts. It provides in-house lawyers at all levels, members of the c-suite and private practice lawyers with the principles, tools and models to manage their key relationships and enhance their work.

Subjects:
Legal Practice Management
Contents:
Introduction
1. The in-house function: where is it heading?
2. A 7-step diagnostic framework for the in-house–client organisation relationship
a. Organisation Purpose, Strategy and Behaviour (Organisation PSB)
b. Legal’s Purpose, Strategy and Behaviour (Legal’s PSB)
c. Telling, not asking
d. Legal Operating Board
e. Relationship with law firms
f. The deal between Legal and the organisation
g. The GC as CEO of Legal
3. The 7 key in-house lawyer–organisation relationships
a. Yourself
b. Your team
c. The CEO
d. The management team/ExCo
e. The main board, chair and NEDs
f. Law firms
g. Macro-environment: regulators; ESG; post-pandemic workplace
4. Managing relationships: principles, tools and models
a. Personal PSB
b. Feel/Need/Do
c. Parent/Adult/Child
d. Formative years decisions
e. Soft balance sheet
f. Soft P&L
g. Career equity arc
5. The relationship grid
a. What is it?
b. How does it work?
c. Populating your grid
6. In-house lawyers as leaders versus
non-lawyers as leaders
a. What is a leader?
b. What do we mean by lawyers as leaders?
7. Troubleshooting
a. What can go wrong?
b. How to fix it?
c. Dispute resolution model