Table of Contents

"Part I - The Legal Advisor;1. Introduction; 2. Persuader not advisor?3. Professional Obligations under the various professional rules;4. Managing an in-house department - an overview;5. A crash course in corporate accounts - teaching hippos how to paint;Part II - Governance;6. Corporate Governance for In-House Counsel;Part III - Managing External Lawyers;7. Global Models and Procurement;8. In life retainer management;9. Termination;10. Costs and how to manage them;Part IV - Managing Your Team; 11. Supervisory Skills;12. Methodologies for assessing size and focus of legal department;Part V - Managing Your Company/What your Board wants from a Legal Department;13. How to demonstrate value;Part VI - Corporate Legal Knowledge Management;14. Corporate Record Keeping - Do I really need all those bits of paper?15. Training for your lawyers and training your business people; 16. Intranets, Extranets, Blogging and Twittering - a double-edged sword;Part VII - 'It's the law Jim, but not as we know it!' - The Future;17. The Future of Legal Services;18. The Legal Services Act;Part IX - Appendices; Precedents"

About the Author

Former Head of the Real Estate Legal team at BT PLC, a post he held since April 2004. He is a solicitor with a broad legal experience, including property, corporate/commercial and insolvency. In 2001, he led the in-house BT Legal Team which completed the BT/Telereal sale and leaseback financing deal.