Events
In-House Counsel: Data-Driven Decision Making – How Legal Departments Can Use Metrics to Manage External Counsel Spend
29 January 2026
Time: 10:30 to 12:00
- Focus: Learn how to leverage spend analytics, matter benchmarking, and performance KPIs to negotiate better rates and optimise legal budgets.
- Key Points: The actual data you should be tracking (and what to ignore), how to use matter benchmarking and performance KPIs to challenge law firm fees, why reporting dashboards are only as good as the questions you ask.
Private Practice Lawyers: Beyond the Billable Hour – How Practising Lawyers Can Enhance Client Value
15 October 2025
Time: 10:30 to 12:00
- Focus: Explore smarter, client-centric approaches to pricing and profitability that go beyond time sheets.
- Key Points: Why the billable hour is under pressure and unsustainable, how to effectively negotiate and implement a new billing model, how to align pricing with value delivered, how to maintain cost predictability when billing parameters change, how technology supports new billing models.
In-House Counsel: Rethinking RFPs – How to Select the Right Law Firm at the Right Price
12 September 2025
Time: 10:30 to 12:00
- Focus: Find out how to select the right law firm at the right price.
- Key Points: How to design smarter RFPs, red flags in law firm proposals, how to get the most out of your law firm.
Construction and Engineering Law Postgraduate Certificate Course: Mandela Institute – Wits School of Law and LnP Beyond Legal
22 July 2025 to 28 October 2025
This 15-week online course is tailored for project managers, construction professionals, engineers and quantity surveyors, procurement specialists and legal professionals eager to understand and navigate the complex world of construction and engineering contracts.
In-House Counsel: Beyond the Billable Hour – Is There a Better Model for External Legal Spend?
Thursday 19 June 2025
Time: 10:30 to 12:00
- Focus: Evaluating alternative fee arrangements (fixed fees, blended rates, retainers, success fees).
- Key Points: Pros and cons, negotiation strategies, cost predictability, and value.
In-House Counsel:
Managing external legal panel costs effectively
Friday 24 January 2025
Time: 10:30 to 12:30 | Past Event
You are invited to join our first 2025 “Around the Table” session on 24 January where we will tackle one of the most pressing issues for in-house legal teams: In-House Counsel: Managing external legal panel costs effectively
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In-House Counsel:
Adapting to AI
Friday 8 November 2024
Time: 10:30 to 12:30 | Past Event
We are excited to invite you to our last 2024 “Around the Table” session. This interesting and topical session will take place, via Teams, on 8 November 2024, where the focus will be on In-House Counsel: Adapting to AI.
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Mine Health and Safety Webinar | “Must Haves” for your Mine
Thursday 19 September 2024
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 | Past Event
Feeling lost in the maze of the Mine Health and Safety Act, No. 29 of 1996 and the Regulations binding thereunder? Unsure if you’ve covered all bases from a mine health and safety perspective? Then, this webinar is for you….
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Building a Better Bond with Business: Strategies for In-House Legal Teams
Thursday 5 September 2024
Time: 10:30 to 13:30 | Past Event
LnP Beyond Legal is pleased to invite you to an exclusive free webinar tailored for in-house legal professionals like you. This event will provide valuable insights on a topic that is crucial to your role and the success of your organisation…
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