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It is aimed at lawyers selling the services of their firm externally, or those providing internal services as in-house lawyers.</p> <p>The workshop is divided into five sessions:</p> <ol> <li>Building your network,</li> <li>Listening to internal and external clients,</li> <li>Describing your solutions in ‘feature’ language, but also ‘benefit’ language,</li> <li>Presenting yourself and your services, whether you are a lawyer in a larger or smaller law firm, or an in-house lawyer, and</li> <li>Providing good external or internal client service. </li> </ol> <h2>Trainer </h2> <p>The trainer is Henry Hely Hutchinson, who delivers courses on negotiation skills, interpersonal skills, and management skills for lawyers, bankers, and professionals worldwide. </p> <p>He has a first-class degree in Modern Languages from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from Henley Management College. </p> <p>He started his career at the Commerzbank in Frankfurt and has worked at DC Gardner Training and Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC for 25 years. </p> <div class="author mt-2"> <div class="row clearfix"> <div class="col-14"> <a style="color:black" href="/gazette/author-articles/?author=Gazette Desk"> <h6 class="small-secondary mt-1 text-left">Gazette Desk</h6> </a> <div class="tiny color-lgrey-darker text-left"></div> <div class="tiny color-lgrey-darkest text-left">Gazette.ie is the daily legal news site of the Law Society of Ireland</div> </div> </div> <hr class="lgrey-thin mt-3"> </div> <div class="row back-link clearfix"> <a class="prev" href="/gazette/top-stories/">Read more stories</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-4 col-pl-1 articleNobile mobileWidth" style=""> <div><div> <div class="block gazettepagelistblock span12"> <div class="news"> <div class="latest-news latest-list mb-4"> <a href="/link/b3dcd8b68ab04f6fa83aa2a293d0703c.aspx"> <h4 class="mb-3 text-block page-list-heading"> <span>Latest top stories</span> </h4> </a> <div class="item mb-2"> <div class="img "> <a href="/gazette/top-stories/2025/february/hourly-lawyer-rates-in-britain-now-at-1600/"> <img src="/link/3d6b662e21b9459d8a7b864661dd8dcd.aspx" alt="" /> </a> </div> <div class="desc pl-3"> <div class="teaser-date">14 Feb 2025 - 14:00</div> <a href="/gazette/top-stories/2025/february/hourly-lawyer-rates-in-britain-now-at-1600/" class="title"> <h5 class="">Hourly lawyer rates in Britain now at £1,600</h5> <p class="text-sml">Critic says costs now ‘out of control’
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