SAL-INSEAD Legal Strategy Programme 2025

8.00am - 8.30am  

Registration 

8.30am - 9.00am

Programme Introduction

9.00am - 1.00pm

Strategic Thinking and Growth Strategy for Legal Professionals
This session works on the strategic thinking abilities of managers and reviews some of the key strategic challenges faced in the legal industry and legal profession. We will discuss several tools and frameworks to help us better understand a legal firm’s success, and how firms can develop a more effective competitive strategy to improve their performance and attain competitive advantage in their sector. Further, given the pivotal role of human capital in this sector, we will also discuss ways of attracting, retaining, and motivating talent. We will then explore the fundamental trade-offs and challenges faced when pursuing growth in legal firms and corporates. We will discuss different growth strategies and best practices that leaders in legal firms as well as corporates can implement to pursue growth in their organization, as well as means to overcome some of the key challenges to growth. 

2.00pm - 6.00pm

Strategy Execution for Legal Professionals
Firm success depends to a large degree on strategy execution. Legal professionals in law firms or companies are sometimes asked to contribute towards the execution of a growth initiatives, but often struggle to execute them effectively. In this session, we will explore the challenges to successful strategy execution in legal companies. Participants will be introduced to a systematic process of execution and implementing strategic initiatives. We will also discuss various tools to help participants successfully implement strategy and change in organisations.

8.00am - 8.30am

Registration 

8.30am - 12.30pm

Effective Corporate Governance
This session will focus on corporate governance and introduce key terms essential for effective boards. We will examine how leaders can establish and understand rules, processes, procedures, and structures to maintain the highest levels of ethical behavior, accountability, transparency, and fairness at the board-level. Furthermore, we will highlight exemplary corporate governance practices from some top-performing organizations. We will then apply our learnings to a boardroom scenario in Virtual Reality based on a recently produced INSEAD VR-case study where senior managers make decisions to engage in a major strategic initiative (an acquisition), navigating conflicts of interest and board room tensions, and where we better understand corporate governance flaws and best practices, as well as non-financial considerations of acquisitions. This session will also feature an interactive discussion with an experienced BOD practitioner.

2.00pm - 6.00pm

Strategic Partnerships in the Legal Industry
This session focus on strategic partnerships between firms. Participants will learn when law firms and corporates should enter partnerships with other companies to drive revenue, cross-sell services, enter new markets and gain access to new capabilities. Through a partnership simulation, participants will learn about the challenges and problems that emerge in strategic partnership and how to resolve such problems. Participants will also get exposed to best practices of successful partnerships and the learnings from failed partnerships. We will also learn how to make your firm more attractive as a partner-of-choice for others. 

9.00am – 10.30am

Networking Breakfast @TechLaw.Fest