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Kursplan
Day 1: Managing the Legal Consultation Process
Understanding the Role of the Legal Advisor
- The role and responsibilities of a legal consultant
- Moving from legal knowledge to practical legal advice
- Understanding the client's objectives and expectations
- Legal accuracy, professional judgment, and commercial awareness
- Maintaining independence and objectivity when advising clients
- Recognizing matters that require specialist or additional advice
Receiving and Clarifying Legal Instructions
- Understanding the initial client request
- Identifying the actual legal question behind the request
- Separating facts, assumptions, opinions, and legal issues
- Asking focused questions to obtain relevant information
- Identifying missing documents and supporting evidence
- Defining the scope of the legal assignment
Conducting an Effective Legal Consultation
- Preparing for a client consultation
- Structuring the consultation meeting
- Active listening and effective questioning
- Managing unclear or incomplete instructions
- Confirming the client's priorities and desired outcome
- Recording instructions and agreeing on next steps
Practical Exercise
- Conducting an initial legal consultation based on a client scenario
- Preparing an issue list and identifying information required before advice can be provided
Day 2: Legal Research and Information Analysis
Planning Legal Research
- Converting the client's issue into research questions
- Identifying relevant areas of law
- Developing a focused legal research plan
- Prioritizing research according to importance and risk
- Avoiding unnecessary or unfocused research
Working with Legal Sources
- Primary and secondary legal sources
- Legislation, regulations, case law, guidance, and commentary
- Understanding the hierarchy and authority of legal sources
- Assessing relevance and reliability
- Checking whether legal information is current
- Recording sources for later reference and verification
Researching Efficiently
- Developing effective legal search terms
- Using facts and legal concepts to refine research
- Expanding and narrowing a research question
- Cross-checking findings across reliable sources
- Identifying conflicting legal authorities
- Recognizing when sufficient research has been completed
Practical Exercise
- Researching a legal issue from a case scenario
- Preparing a short research note identifying the relevant rules, authorities, uncertainties, and further questions
Day 3: Legal Analysis, Reasoning, and Risk Assessment
Structuring Legal Analysis
- Identifying the material facts
- Identifying the applicable legal rules
- Connecting legal rules to the client's circumstances
- Distinguishing strong and weak legal arguments
- Identifying assumptions and information gaps
- Developing a logical legal conclusion
Applying Legal Reasoning
- Using issue, rule, application, and conclusion (IRAC) structures
- Comparing alternative legal interpretations
- Working with incomplete or uncertain information
- Assessing the effect of conflicting authorities
- Distinguishing legal possibility from legal probability
- Avoiding unsupported conclusions
Assessing Legal Risk
- Identifying legal, regulatory, contractual, and procedural risks
- Considering probability and potential impact
- Evaluating the consequences of different options
- Identifying practical risk mitigation measures
- Explaining uncertainty without giving unclear advice
- Connecting legal risk to the client's operational objectives
Practical Exercise
- Analyzing a complex legal scenario
- Preparing a legal issue and risk assessment
- Developing preliminary recommendations supported by legal reasoning
Day 4: Preparing Legal Opinions and Written Advice
Planning a Legal Opinion
- Understanding the purpose and audience of the opinion
- Confirming the questions to be answered
- Organizing facts, legal issues, analysis, and recommendations
- Determining the appropriate level of detail
- Separating confirmed facts from assumptions
- Managing qualifications and limitations
Drafting a Professional Legal Opinion
- Writing a clear introduction and scope
- Presenting the relevant factual background
- Framing the legal issues
- Explaining the applicable legal position
- Developing structured legal analysis
- Presenting conclusions and practical recommendations
- Identifying risks, qualifications, and areas of uncertainty
Writing Clear Legal Advice
- Using concise and precise legal language
- Explaining technical legal concepts to non-lawyers
- Avoiding unnecessary legal jargon
- Making recommendations clear and actionable
- Distinguishing legal advice from business decisions
- Reviewing advice for accuracy, consistency, and completeness
Practical Workshop
- Drafting a legal opinion based on a realistic client problem
- Peer and facilitator review of structure, reasoning, clarity, and recommendations
- Revising the opinion based on feedback
Day 5: Delivering Legal Advice and Managing Advisory Assignments
Presenting Legal Advice to Clients and Decision-Makers
- Preparing for an advisory meeting
- Presenting the legal position clearly
- Explaining legal risk in practical terms
- Communicating available options and consequences
- Making balanced recommendations
- Responding to questions and challenges
Handling Difficult Advisory Situations
- Advising when the legal position is uncertain
- Managing pressure for a preferred legal answer
- Communicating unfavorable legal conclusions
- Dealing with disagreement between stakeholders
- Managing changes in facts or instructions
- Knowing when additional research or specialist advice is required
Managing Quality in Legal Advisory Work
- Checking facts, sources, reasoning, and conclusions
- Maintaining consistency between research and final advice
- Documenting assumptions and limitations
- Keeping appropriate records of legal advice
- Following up after the consultation
- Developing practical quality-control habits for legal advisory work
Final Legal Advisory Simulation
- Receiving and clarifying a client instruction
- Identifying the key legal and factual issues
- Preparing a focused research approach
- Conducting legal analysis and risk assessment
- Preparing a concise written legal opinion
- Presenting the advice in a simulated client meeting
- Responding to client questions and alternative scenarios
- Receiving facilitator feedback on research, reasoning, drafting, and advisory communication
Krav
To benefit from this course, participants should:
- Have a basic understanding of legal concepts and terminology.
- Be involved in providing legal support, legal analysis, compliance, governance, or advisory services.
- Be able to read and interpret legal or regulatory documents at a basic level.
- Possess basic written and verbal communication skills.
- Have experience working in a professional or organizational environment.
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