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CLL provides advice, insights and support to help you find your feet and build your career as an in-house lawyer. We cover everything from your first 100 days in the role, through team building and gaining respect across your organisation, to succession planning.

Regulation Forum 2024

CLL host a quarterly forum for senior leaders in major regulators and in the organisations that they regulate.

In-House Survival Peer Group for Future Legal Leaders!

A mid-level survival peer group for in-house legal professionals, focused on supporting junior to mid-level professionals in their shared challenges, career growth and promotion aspirations.

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The Lead In-House Lawyer

Are you a senior in-house lawyer looking to enhance your personal leadership skills? If so we are delighted to once again bring you this virtual course in collaboration with The University of Law.

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Community Clinic

An initiative for you and by you. This community clinic is a space where in-house lawyers (you) can submit questions to each other in relation to the role of the in-house lawyer, to help with career growth and development.

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2024 Legal Leaders series for in-house lawyers

We are delighted to be continuing our special content partnership with Thomson Reuters into 2024, with four virtual events brought together under the existing title of 'Legal Leaders Programme'.

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Mapping a development plan / Progressing my Career on 08/10/2024

Mapping a development plan

We hope that this will help you take your career forward and give you ideas to discuss and develop as you grow as an in-house lawyer.

Helpful articles

Skills and behaviours you will need - mid-level

Building a legal team's people function

The evolving role of in-house counsel

Practical tips and advice from those new to in-house

Legal risk in an organisation

Managing trainee lawyers

How do I change the perception of the legal function within the business?

How to stay relevant in a changing legal landscape

Reading between the lines when advising internal clients / Delivering Services on 11/10/2024

Reading between the lines when advising internal clients

One of the key strengths of practising in-house is the ability to build close links with internal clients – and to understand the context in which your organisation operates.

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10Oct 2024

Webinar report: Avoiding the meeting groan

Joanna Gaudoin talked us through 'meeting bloat', a phenomenon long in the making and accelerated by the pandemic.

19Sep 2024

RPC's Retail Compass Live! 2024

ESG evolution: leading beyond compliance, reporting and risk mitigation.

16Sep 2024

Legal Geek Conference 2024

The Centre for Legal Leadership is attending the 2024 Legal Geek Conference in London which is free to attend for in-house lawyers.

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20Nov 2024

Community Clinic

Knowledge

An initiative for you and by you.

This is a space where in-house lawyers (you) can submit questions to each other in relation to the role of the in-house lawyer, to help with career growth and development. Learn more.