Legal Operations

Tackle the contemporary operations challenges facing the legal profession.

Grounded in data-based decisions, this is the blueprint for advancing your knowledge of legal operations.

Practically-focused, you’ll develop the skills needed to support lean legal operations and share these ideas with specialist and non-specialist audiences.

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Graduate Certificate

This is a core subject for the Graduate Certificate in Legal Operations

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Flexible learning custom designed for online study

Duration

12 weeks

4 start dates a year

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What will I learn?

Grow your potential as a legal professional.

Explain how delivery models for the legal profession have evolved.

Recommend efficiency improvements to optimise legal operations.

Apply data analytic tools to inform decision-making in legal decision making process.

Prepare a business case to support an investment recommendation.

Develop key performance indicators to drive sustainable legal business operations.

Apply effective written communication skills to communicate improvements to legal business operations.

Learn from the best in the business

Steven Walker

Teaching Fellow

Steven was recently appointed Managing Director of Deloitte Legal Business Services. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Elevate's law department and contracts consulting business in APAC. He is a 20-year lawyer, having spent a decade at Hewlett-Packard in leadership positions covering several countries, with several years as Vice President, South Pacific General Counsel.

He has practised law at Norton Rose and Baker McKenzie in London, Sydney and Germany, specialising in IT, IP, technology M&A and information technology/ applications/business process outsourcing. Steven specialises in helping legal departments, law firms and legal service providers innovate and transform to the next generation of legal delivery and ops services.

Designed for:

Operations & Technology Managers

Managing Partners

General & Practice Managers

Anyone in a Corporate Legal department

Why students choose us?

“I applied what I learnt from day one.”

“Study at your own speed, balanced with workshops and learn from your peers.”

“I’ve sharpened my skills and updated them. Now I have confidence to apply this in my firm.”