While it’s widely recognized that business literacy is a key competency for lawyers with corporate
clients, many lawyers come to the practice of law without any formal business education or experience.
Successful lawyers fill in the gaps on their own over time, picking up what they can, where they can.
While that approach may have been sufficient in the past, today’s clients expect more.
They want legal advisers who not only understand how to solve complex legal problems, but
who also understand their businesses, and know the right questions to ask to grasp a business
challenge quickly.
The Hennick Centre for Business and Law has developed The Certificate in Business for Lawyers to fill the gap for lawyers without formal business education or experience. We’ve taken the key
components of business education and tailored it to what lawyers need to know, in a format that
respects the billable hour. The modules are tied together thematically with case studies and a
project that reinforces the learning from module-to-module.
Participants will take away a comprehensive understanding of the challenges of business today,
and a solid framework for better meeting their clients’ needs.
Key benefits - for you, your clients and your organization
- Fill the gaps in your business knowledge
- Better understand your clients’ businesses: their strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and challenges
- Learn business approaches to analytical and problem solving skills
- Be better equipped to ask the right questions of current and prospective clients
- Equip yourself to become a leader in your practice area or fi rm
- Learn to “think like a client” as well as a lawyer
- Provide more practical, valuable legal advice
Program Director
Doug Harris, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC)
OPD Program Lawyer
David Thomas
dthomas@osgoode.yorku.ca
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