Running a legal department is a leadership job as much as a legal one — a director has to weigh administrative law's reach into an organisation's day-to-day operations, decide how far internal rules can diverge from the rules that bind individuals, and keep contract and dispute risk under control at the same time. This course is built around that dual role.

Administrative law itself sits at the centre of the discussion: how it governs the organisation, activity and resources of public administration, how it differs across countries in structure and philosophy, and where it intersects with the disputes a legal director is expected to manage. The result is a programme that pairs legal-system fundamentals with the contract, negotiation and consultation skills a director uses every day.

Who Should Attend?

• Directors and managers of legal departments across companies and institutions.
• Law officers and legal-affairs staff in commercial firms.
• Businessmen and executives developing their legal-management skills.
• Law faculty students, graduates and trainee lawyers.

After completing the programme, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate contracts confidently: classification (civil vs. administrative), their benefits, legal nature, and the different types of management contracts a director signs off on.
• Apply international sale and delivery terms and standard contract conditions when reviewing agreements.
• Spot and resolve contractual problems before they escalate: prior limitations, financial exposure, and business-interruption risk.
• Lead negotiation, bidding and tender processes, including correcting tenders and managing exclusions and approvals.
• Protect the organisation's financial balance and steer crisis response when a contract dispute or cancellation is on the table.

Module 1: Legal Foundations Every Director Needs

• The concept of legal management, and legal provisions: definition, interpretation and importance.
• The principles of legal interpretation.

Module 2: Legal Memoranda, Drafting and Consultation

• Applications and examples in writing legal memoranda, and skills and methods of legal drafting.
• Stages and mechanisms for preparing legal advice, and an intensive study of the legal sciences.

Module 3: Contracts and Negotiation at the Director's Desk

• Contract preparation and conclusion skills.
• Negotiation and dispute-resolution skills, persuasion techniques, and drafting documents, memoranda and statements of various kinds.

Module 4: Specifications, Tenders and Contractual Risk

• Writing and analysing contract specifications and procurement processes.
• The legal importance of specifications and their relation to the "invitation to tender" process, doubtful and deficient specifications, different types of specifications and related risks, and the impact of language on contractual terms and legal conditions.