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The Hennick Centre for Business and Law is pleased to announce the 2nd offering of The Certificate in Business for Lawyers, a unique post-LLB/JD certificate program for practicing lawyers interested in gaining an understanding of business. This is a joint program with Osgoode Professional Development and the Schulich Executive Education Centre.

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.

What: The Certificate in Business for Lawyers

Where: The Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, 222 Bay St., 5th Floor, Ernst & Young Tower, Toronto Dominion Centre

When: January 24 - April 18, 2011; 9 Modules over 13 weeks

Download a PDF brochure and registration form.

Read more at Osgoode Professional Development.