In-house training for lawyers
We offer tailored courses for lawyers on a variety of topics. Training is provided by experienced speakers who are able to structure the training they give around case studies and from their own experiences.
All training is provided free of charge (including all course materials) and can be held at a time and location convenient to you, for groups of six or more.
We are happy to restructure these to meet individual requirements and to provide tailor-made courses. Our courses are accredited for CPD with the Law Society.
Our seminars include
Dispute resolution
- breach of warranty
- the effective use of experts in civil litigation
- completion accounts - an accountant's perspective
- contentious valuations
- forensic technology
- coping with electronically stored information
Fraud
- fraud in financial statements
- fraud awareness
- forensic technology
- asset tracing and recovery
- disclosing electronically stored information: a step by step guide
Personal injury
- loss of earnings to the self employed
- loss of earnings calculations in complex personal injury claims
- loss of employee benefits
- loss of pension calculation
Contact us
For more information, or to book a course, please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
Forensic technology
Duration: 1 hour
CPD points: 1
Who should attend
Litigators, employment specialists, in house counsel, human resources professionals, health and safety lawyers, competition and anti-trust lawyers
Speaker: John Holden
Keeping up to date with developments in this area can be demanding. Our overview will help you understand the potential of new forensic technologies, including:
- how best to maintain proportionality within an e-disclosure exercise
- Advice you can give to your clients on how best to retrieve their data
- new ways of searching data – the transition from keywords to concepts
- how to recover deleted, encrypted and other types of data
- how review and annotation methods have moved from a local to a worldwide solution
- methods used to hide data from investigators.
For more information or to book a course please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
Disclosing electronically stored information: a step by step guide
Duration: 1 hour
CPD points: 1
Who should attend
litigators, employment specialists, in house counsel, human resources professionals, health and safety lawyers, competition and anti-trust lawyers
Speaker: John Holden
In November 2009, Lord Justice Jackson finalised his review of civil litigation costs, including a proposed change to the practice direction in Part 31 of the Civil Procedure Rules and the inclusion of a questionnaire to accompany it. After many revisions the practice direction has now been finalised, with the use of the electronically stored information (ESI) questionnaire set to become more commonplace.
The seminar answers the following questions
- What exactly is a document?
- What is a ‘custodian’?
- What are dumb PDFs, and why are they a problem?
- How do you search password protected data?
- What are the issues surrounding data exchange?
- How can costs of reviews be brought down?
For more information or to book a course please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
Loss of earnings to the self employed
Duration: 2 hours
CPD points: 2
Who should attend
Lawyers involved in personal injury and/or in clinical negligence claims
Speaker: Simon Philpott
Other information: This course is suitable for groups of 6 or more The delegates are split into small groups and work through guided examples together.
This is a case study based course which takes you through calculating losses for self-employed claimants. An initial introduction explaining how self-employed individuals present their earnings is followed by step by step case studies designed to provide practical advice on how to approach loss of earnings calculations.
The topics covered include:
- approach to calculating losses from short term absences from work
- approach to calculating losses from longer term absences from work
- other factors affecting the loss calculation
- standard list of documents required
For more information or to book a course please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
Loss of employee benefits
Duration: 1½ - 2 hours
CPD points: 1.5
Who should attend
Lawyers involved in personal injury and/or in clinical negligence claims
Speaker: Simon Philpott
Other information: This course is suitable for groups of 6 or more. The delegates are split into small groups and work through guided examples together.
This course is interactive and case study based t provide practical examples of the theory behind calculating loss of employee benefits.
The topics covered include:
- loss of car benefit
- loss of private medical insurance benefit
- loss of Sharesave scheme benefit
For more information or to book a course please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
Loss of pension calculations
Duration: 1½ - 2 hours
CPD points: 1.5
Who should attend
Lawyers involved in personal injury and/or in clinical negligence claims
Speaker: Simon Philpott
Other information: This course is suitable for groups of 6 or more. The delegates are split into small groups and work through guided examples together.
With practical case studies, this course aims to guide case handlers through the minefield that can be loss of pensions calculations.
The topics covered include:
- identifying different types of pension and the approach to take for each
- 10 steps to calculating loss of pension in final salary schemes
- loss of pension calculation – deferred pension
- loss of pension calculation – ill health pension
- other complications affecting the pension loss calculation
For more information or to book a course please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
Loss of earnings calculations in complex personal injury claims
Duration: 2½ hours
CPD points: 2.5
Who should attend
Personal injury case handlers who deal with more complex claims
Speaker: Simon Philpott
Other information: This course is suitable for groups 6 or more. The delegates are split into small groups and work through guided examples together.
This course is case study based and provides practical examples of complex claims. After an initial introduction, case handlers are encouraged to calculate losses with the guidance of the experienced instructors.
The topics covered include:
- a quick introduction explaining the components of a profit and loss account
- loss of earnings to a sole trader
- future loss of earnings
- loss of earnings in partnerships
- losses to director/shareholders
For more information or to book a course please contact:
Jo Franklin
tel: 020 7131 4234
email: Jo Franklin
