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Legal Business Management
About legal business management
Real-world skills you’ll actually use, making you a more holistic and impactful leader.Our Legal Business Management elective subjects enable you to obtain a greater depth of practical skills, guided by industry experts.
Your learning will involve applied practical, real-world learning experiences and activities. To ensure that you apply learning directly to your legal workplace.
Program options
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Add as an elective subject
These subjects are available to add as one of your elective subjects.
Existing students choosing one of these subjects as an elective for your LLM, please contact our Practitioner Education Team on Phone: 02 9965 7111 or Email: postgrad@collaw.edu.au to complete your enrolment.
Subject details
Leadership
Drawing on cutting-edge leadership theory and organisational psychology principles, this course will give you the self-awareness and critical thinking you need to become a transformational leader in legal business.
BUSINESS STRATEGY
The legal profession has changed. How does your business strategy stack up? It's time to ask some hard questions.
Should strategy always be centred on growth? Are there other barometers for success? Could collaboration – rather than competition – be a more effective strategy for your firm?
Now's the time to look through a critical lens at the age-old approach to legal business strategy.
LEADING AND MANAGING PEOPLE
As a leader, you achieve your firm (or departments) objectives through the people you lead. From this subject you will examine how successful organisations achieve high performance, learn how to motivate your people and develop your coaching skills.
INNOVATION
Significant changes in legal delivery are occurring around the globe. Traditional ways of doing business have given way to innovation at lightning speed.
Here you’ll learn how to identify and implement innovative solutions, to address legal services delivery challenges.
WHY AND HOW CLIENT BUY LEGAL SERVICES
Understand the client buying process, from the client's perspective.
In this subject you’ll uncover insights into the client buying experience, explore how to optimise your market reach, and learn how to grow your client base.
ATTRAcTING & RETAINING CLIENTS
This is the ‘how to’ of building client relationships. A hands-on approach to assessing your client base, developing a pipeline of prospects, pricing to existing and prospective clients and ongoing relationship building.
LEGAL OPERATIONS
Understand how to take advantage of new paradigm in which legal services are run like a business using data, metrics and technology. You will learn the key aspects of legal operations management to improve legal service delivery in your legal firm or department.
CAPSTONE PROJECT
The Capstone Project is taken as your final subject, as a culmination of the knowledge and skills attained throughout your Master of Legal Business. It will allow you to demonstrate your skills in legal business using real-life scenarios and case studies.