Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Accountants are often involved in engaging, selecting, supervising, and working with lawyers from law firms, and in large organizations, inside counsel. This is often an expensive, frustrating, and slow task. This course provides dozens of tips to help you in this domain. It even helps in dealing with internal lawyers, where you are not worried about a bill, but must overcome delays.
Note: Some of this content is taken from Stephen Priddle’s course, Practical Tips for Controllers & CFOs as well as his NFP and Government Accountant course.
Other Available Session
- Session for October 31st (2024) available here.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand how to challenge lawyers.
- Learn how to scrutinize and question legal bills.
- Know how shorten the meetings with lawyers and when to exclude them.
- Gain various ways to reduce legal fees.
Who Will Benefit
Accountants, as well as non-accountants who deal with lawyers and legal fees.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Stephen Priddle, CPA, CA, CMA, is the President and Founder of Practical PD, Seminars for Accountants, and Vice-President Finance and CFO of Fidus Analytics Inc. He has held financial leadership positions in several industries and has extensive teaching and case-writing experience. Stephen has developed numerous practical seminars for accountants based on his diverse experience.