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Self-study course

The Self-Study course consists of the 2.25 hour video accessed via Vimeo for 60 days and the course material. It costs $90 Canadian plus applicable taxes (charged to Canadian customers only).  To purchase access to this material consisting of the video on Vimeo and the course material via PDF,  click here .  It is 40% cheaper with our Passport. For international customers, approximately one US dollar will purchase $1.20 Canadian on a credit card.

 

There is an optional quiz for accountants whose body requires one to obtain verifiable or structured CPD hours.   If you have any questions, please email contact@practicalpd.com  

How To Manage Lawyers & Legal Fees

Accountants and business people are often involved in engaging, selecting, supervising and working with lawyers from law firms, and in large organizations, inside counsel.  This is often expensive and frustrating and slow.  This course is taught veteran CFO and course presenter, Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA, and provides dozens of tips to help you in this domain and should help reduce legal fees. It even helps in dealing with internal lawyers, where you are not worried about a bill, but must overcome delays. There are dozens of examples of real-life lawyer work situations and the lessons you can learn from them. Reducing legal fees from lawyer-drafted material is possible and will be explained.  And yes, there will be a few lawyer jokes! 

 

Note: A portion of this course content is the same as in Stephen Priddle’s internationally-known, full day course, Practical Tips for Controllers & CFOs, which nearly 12,000 have attended, as well as the NFP and Government Accountants versions of this course.

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AGENDA

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  • Dealing with their risk-averse mindset wisely

  • The lawyer as reviewer not drafter

  • Re-writing what they wrote without getting in trouble

  • What things you may be able to do instead of a lawyer

  • Challenging lawyers and managing projects

  • Selecting lawyers and firms

  • Shortening the meetings

  • Questioning their bills

  • Knowing when to exclude them

  • Tales from experiences with lawyers and lessons from them

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Who will benefit

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This course is for all accountants, as well as non-accountants who deal with lawyers

 

Past feedback

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  • I overall enjoyed the tips.. around the lawyers and contract drafting

  • This will help me at work, especially with when I have to deal with lawyers

  • Great course. So many good tips re lawyers & legal fees

  • I liked how you dealt with different types of negotiators (lawyers etc), and the creative ideas you shared

  • I did enjoy the course and practical examples (and jokes….. lawyer ones!)

  • I thought the course was good info.  Anything we can do to help minimize costs of going to the lawyers all the time!

  • Really enjoyed how to deal with lawyers

  • You gave me confidence in my approach and I thank you for that

  • I like when you translated into legalize

  • All true, I was a lawyer (and a CPA)

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