Elizabeth Bourlet

This Practice Note is intended for lawyers taking up a new role in-house. It is aimed at sole in-house lawyers but may also be relevant to you if you are joining an established legal team. It outlines key themes of the questions that the organisation’s auditors are likely to ask when they carry out their audit and to help you to prepare in advance for their visit.

If you understand your team’s workflows, including those of your external service providers, you are well placed to manage that work effectively. This Practice Note suggests some ideas you could adopt to better manage the legal department’s processes.

This Supporting procurement risk management guide identifies five key procurement risk management priorities and gives the heads-up on why each one is important. It includes a series of mini-action lists that suggest action points for each priority area and encourages you to record your organisation’s current level of compliance. This guide also signposts relevant content in LexisNexis®.

This risk management guide is intended for commercial organisations in the UK. It identifies five priorities for managing the risks associated with standard terms and conditions of purchase and explains why each one is important. It includes a series of action lists and action points for each priority, so you can record your organisation’s level of risk management.

This risk management guide is intended for commercial organisations in the UK. It identifies five priorities in relation to standard terms and conditions of sale and explains why each one is important. It includes a series of action lists and action points for each priority area so that you can record your organisation’s level of risk management.

This Practice Note suggests some initiatives to help in-house teams to understand the broader business goals of your organisation and to deliver legal services in alignment with them.

This risk management guide identifies five key priorities for in-house lawyers and compliance professionals in relation to supply chain risks. It explains why you need to pay close attention to these areas to assist in maintaining the smooth operation of the business. It includes a series of mini action lists that suggest action points for each priority area, encourage you to record your organisation’s current level of readiness and signpost relevant content in LexisNexis®.

This Practice Note is intended for new in-house lawyers taking up their first role in-house but joining an established legal team in their new organisation. It sets out a series of practical steps to take in your first few weeks, together with some longer-term projects that you may want to keep in mind and for which you could start to prepare. It refers out to a range of detailed Precedents, Practice Notes and Checklists to help you get started in your new role and rapidly become an effective part of your organisation.

This Practice Note is intended for new in-house lawyers taking up their first role in an organisation that has not previously had anyone in an in-house role. It sets out a series of practical steps to take in your first few weeks, together with some longer-term projects that you should keep in mind and for which you should start to prepare. It refers out to a range of detailed Precedents, Practice Notes and Checklists to help you get started in your new role and rapidly become an effective part of your organisation.

This Practice Note is intended for a new in-house lawyer joining an organisation to replace the organisation’s previous in-house lawyer. It sets out a series of practical steps to take in your first few weeks, together with some longer-term projects that you should keep in mind and for which you should start to prepare. It refers to a range of detailed Precedents, Practice Notes and Checklists to help you get started in your new role and rapidly become an effective part of your organisation.

This Practice Note suggests some methods you could consider to demonstrate the value that increased use of appropriate technology in an in-house legal team could provide to your organisation.

This Practice Note is designed to help you understand how your role as in-house lawyer can support your organisation’s contract management process.

This step plan sets out tasks you could undertake to better manage the legal department’s processes.

This Precedent is intended for general commercial organisations. It describes the scope and limits to signing and spending authority in an organisation and can be annexed to your procurement policy. In this example, authority to commit an organisation to make a procurement, whether by physically or electronically signing orders or contracts or by any other means, is differentiated by grade and a ceiling is placed on signing/authorisation limits.

This step plan helps an in-house team document actions on tasks suggested to help it to understand the broader business goals of the organisation and to deliver legal services in alignment with them.

This step plan helps you log tasks you could undertake in the in-house team to demonstrate the value that increased use of appropriate technology could provide to your organisation.