New Partner Practice Management Course | Programme
Course Dates
Course dates have been confirmed for 2026 and we are now open for registration.
Programme
Session One: Essential responsibilities of becoming a partner
Speakers will share their experience upon becoming partners, and discuss the main upcoming changes and challenges facing the legal profession.
Session Two: Regulations and ethics
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
Session Three: Essential skills and behaviours
This session will help you understand and replicate the most common behaviours and attitudes that successful rainmakers live and breathe. It will provide insight into how to get into the right frame of mind and how to develop and maintain relationships in a way that keeps momentum and translates into chargeable work.
- Technology and AI
- People management
- Flexible working
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
Session Four: Strategic thinking and decision making
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