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Deputy General Counsel

Overview

As Deputy General Counsel, your role increasingly demands more than legal expertise. These courses provide a solid foundation in accounting, financial analysis, capital markets, and business strategy—enhancing your ability to contribute to strategic decision-making, support sound governance, and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.

Complete Professional Library. Everything. One system. One investment.

Includes:

  • All Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced courses
  • Every toolkit, framework, checklist, and template
  • Customized toolkits and templates
  • One hour of one-on-one executive coaching each month with Chaka
  • All future courses and toolkits included
Value: $11,725.00
Price: $9,495.00

Course outline

Financial Essentials

Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Lawyers

In Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Lawyers, you’ll gain the financial fluency needed to navigate complex legal matters involving business transactions, litigation, and regulatory compliance. You’ll learn how to interpret financial statements, assess corporate valuation, and uncover financial risks giving you a strategic edge in negotiations, due diligence, and courtroom arguments. Mastering these financial insights will not only enhance your legal expertise but also elevate your ability to advise clients, win cases, and drive business success.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be equipped to integrate financial insight directly into legal judgment, strategy, and decision-making.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Beginner
Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis for Lawyers

In Essentials of Financial Statements Analysis for Lawyers, you will develop a deep understanding of financial statements, which is essential for lawyers advising businesses, negotiating contracts, or handling litigation involving financial matters. This course will equip you with the skills to analyze balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, empowering you to detect red flags, assess financial health, and make informed legal decisions. Mastering financial statement analysis will give you a competitive edge in corporate law, litigation, and regulatory practice, ensuring you can confidently interpret financial data and advocate effectively for your clients.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to translate financial statement analysis into strategic legal advice, anticipate business and litigation risks, and influence outcomes at the negotiating table, in the boardroom, and in court.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Economics

In Essentials of Economics for Lawyers, you’ll develop crucial skills for crafting stronger legal arguments, assessing financial damages, and navigating regulatory frameworks with confidence. This course will equip you with essential economic principles like market dynamics, cost-benefit analysis, and game theory, so you can anticipate business strategies, evaluate legal risks, and advocate more effectively for your clients. Whether you’re negotiating contracts, handling antitrust cases, or shaping policy, mastering economic reasoning will give you a powerful edge in your legal practice.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to apply economic reasoning to shape legal strategy, evaluate tradeoffs and incentives, and influence outcomes in negotiations, litigation, and regulatory decision-making.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Beginner
Essentials of Risk and Return

In Essentials of Risk and Return for Lawyers, you’ll master how financial risks impact legal decisions, from corporate transactions to litigation strategy. You’ll learn to assess investment risks, interpret financial statements with confidence, and apply risk-return principles in contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, and damages assessments. Gain the financial fluency to advise clients more strategically, protect their assets, and elevate your legal expertise, because in today’s legal landscape, understanding risk isn’t optional, it’s power.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to identify, quantify, and strategically deploy risk and return concepts to drive better legal outcomes in transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Time Value of Money

In Essentials of Time Value of Money (TVM), you’ll develop critical skills necessary for lawyers handling settlements, damages, corporate deals, and estate planning, as TVM directly impacts how financial decisions are valued over time. This course will equip you with the tools to assess present and future values of cash flows, calculate fair settlements, and negotiate financial terms with confidence. Mastering TVM will give you a strategic edge in legal practice, ensuring you can effectively advocate for clients in cases involving structured settlements, business valuations, and financial disputes.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to apply time value of money concepts to structure settlements, evaluate deal terms, and make financially sound legal recommendations that stand up to scrutiny.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Quantifying Financial Loss in Legal Cases

In Essentials of Quantifying Loss in Legal Cases, you’ll master the critical skill of calculating damages with precision, ensuring they maximize client outcomes and strengthen case arguments. They will learn how to apply financial and economic principles to assess lost profits, diminished value, and other compensatory claims, making their legal strategies more persuasive and defensible. With expert guidance and real-world case studies, this class empowers lawyers to confidently present and challenge financial evidence, giving them a competitive edge in high-stakes litigation.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to quantify, explain, and defend financial loss calculations in a way that strengthens liability arguments, withstands expert scrutiny, and drives favorable litigation outcomes.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of GAAP v. Non-GAAP Adjustments

In Essentials of GAAP v. Non-GAAP Adjustments, you’ll gain a deep understanding GAAP vs. non-GAAP financial reporting—knowledge that is critical for lawyers advising clients on corporate transactions, securities regulation, and litigation involving financial statements. This course demystifies the key differences, showing how companies use non-GAAP metrics to tell their financial story – and when those adjustments may raise red flags for investors, regulators, or opposing counsel. Mastering these concepts will give you a strategic edge in negotiations, compliance, and litigation, ensuring you can spot financial manipulation, assess risk, and advocate with confidence in high-stakes financial matters.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate GAAP and non-GAAP disclosures critically, identify when adjustments cross the line from clarification to manipulation, and use that insight to drive smarter legal, regulatory, and litigation strategy.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Capital Markets

In Essentials of Capital Markets for Lawyers, you’ll gain a clear understanding of how financial markets work, the key players involved, and the legal frameworks that shape transactions. You’ll learn how to navigate securities regulations, assess risks in capital raising, and advise clients on IPOs, debt financing, and mergers with confidence. Mastering these essential concepts will not only elevate your legal expertise but also make you a more strategic, high-value advisor in corporate and financial law.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to anticipate market and regulatory risks, guide clients through capital markets transactions with confidence, and align legal advice with business and financing strategy.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Valuation

In Essentials of Valuation for Lawyers, you’ll master the critical financial principles behind valuing businesses, assets, and damages – skills essential for high-stakes negotiations, litigation, and deal-making. You’ll learn how valuation experts determine fair market value, assess risk, and apply key methods like discounted cash flow and market comparables, empowering you to challenge or leverage financial arguments in court. With these insights, you’ll gain a strategic edge in corporate transactions, shareholder disputes, intellectual property cases, and economic damages claims – making you a more effective and financially savvy advocate.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate, challenge, and strategically use valuation analyses to shape negotiations, strengthen litigation positions, and influence outcomes in complex financial matters.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate

Business Essentials

Understanding Corporate Structures

Corporate structure and capital strategy determine control, risk, and value creation. This course equips lawyers to understand how entities, capital choices, and governance shape enterprise outcomes. Participants learn to decode business architecture, align legal design with growth and capital objectives, and engage credibly in strategic discussions beyond formalities.

Outcome: Acquire the capability to analyze and shape corporate structures and capital decisions in ways that support control, resilience, and long-term value creation.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Beginner
Trusted Advisor Accelerator

Being right is not enough. Influence comes from shaping decisions at the moment they are made. This course equips GCs and senior lawyers to move upstream—translating risk into outcomes, framing clear options, and accelerating executive decision-making. Participants learn the behaviors, frameworks, and communication discipline that turn Legal from a late-stage reviewer into a trusted strategic advisor.

Outcome: Build the judgment, framing discipline, and executive communication skills required to influence high-stakes decisions when they are being made—not after they are finalized.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Advanced
Legal As A Competitive Weapon

In modern competition, value is created—or lost—through structure, speed, and execution. This course shows how Legal can move beyond risk reduction to become a source of competitive advantage. Participants learn how contracts, governance, and decision design shape value capture, accelerate execution, and build durable moats.

Outcome: Learn how to design legal structures, contracts, and governance models that improve decision speed, protect enterprise value, and contribute to sustained competitive advantage.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Advanced
AI Fluency for In-House Lawyers

AI is reshaping how companies innovate, allocate capital, and make decisions at speed. Yet AI adoption often outpaces governance, leaving Legal accountable without influence. This course equips GCs to move upstream—embedding legal judgment into AI strategy before risks harden. Participants learn how to translate AI risk into strategic tradeoffs, design clear yes-paths, and use governance and contracting to enable faster, more confident execution.

Outcome: Develop the ability to integrate legal judgment directly into AI strategy—shaping innovation, capital allocation, and risk decisions early enough to influence outcomes rather than manage consequences.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Guidance and Consensus

In Essentials of Guidance and Consensus, you’ll learn how companies craft financial guidance for investors and how Wall Street analysts interpret and react to it, shaping market perceptions and legal risks. You’ll gain critical insights into earnings forecasts, disclosure obligations, and the legal pitfalls of selective or misleading guidance, equipping them to advise clients on regulatory compliance and shareholder litigation. By mastering the intersection of finance, securities law, and investor communications, you’ll enhance your ability to protect clients, anticipate market-driven legal challenges, and add strategic value in high-stakes corporate environments.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate financial guidance through the lens of market expectations and legal risk, advise clients on compliant and credible disclosures, and anticipate how guidance decisions can drive litigation and regulatory outcomes.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of the Annual Report/10K, the Proxy Statement

In Essentials of the Annual Report/10K and the Proxy Statement, you’ll gain critical financial literacy by mastering the Annual Report, 10-K, and Proxy Statement, equipping you to spot red flags, assess corporate health, and provide sharper legal advice. You’ll learn to decode financial statements, understand risk disclosures, and analyze executive compensation – essential skills for corporate governance, M&A, securities litigation, and regulatory compliance. By the end, you’ll confidently navigate these key filings, making you an indispensable advisor in boardrooms, courtrooms, and deal negotiations.

Outcome: You will be able to use insights from core public filings to anticipate legal and business risks, challenge disclosures and compensation decisions, and shape strategy in transactions, governance matters, and litigation.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate

Course outline

Financial Essentials

Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Lawyers

In Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Lawyers, you’ll gain the financial fluency needed to navigate complex legal matters involving business transactions, litigation, and regulatory compliance. You’ll learn how to interpret financial statements, assess corporate valuation, and uncover financial risks giving you a strategic edge in negotiations, due diligence, and courtroom arguments. Mastering these financial insights will not only enhance your legal expertise but also elevate your ability to advise clients, win cases, and drive business success.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be equipped to integrate financial insight directly into legal judgment, strategy, and decision-making.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Beginner
Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis for Lawyers

In Essentials of Financial Statements Analysis for Lawyers, you will develop a deep understanding of financial statements, which is essential for lawyers advising businesses, negotiating contracts, or handling litigation involving financial matters. This course will equip you with the skills to analyze balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, empowering you to detect red flags, assess financial health, and make informed legal decisions. Mastering financial statement analysis will give you a competitive edge in corporate law, litigation, and regulatory practice, ensuring you can confidently interpret financial data and advocate effectively for your clients.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to translate financial statement analysis into strategic legal advice, anticipate business and litigation risks, and influence outcomes at the negotiating table, in the boardroom, and in court.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Economics

In Essentials of Economics for Lawyers, you’ll develop crucial skills for crafting stronger legal arguments, assessing financial damages, and navigating regulatory frameworks with confidence. This course will equip you with essential economic principles like market dynamics, cost-benefit analysis, and game theory, so you can anticipate business strategies, evaluate legal risks, and advocate more effectively for your clients. Whether you’re negotiating contracts, handling antitrust cases, or shaping policy, mastering economic reasoning will give you a powerful edge in your legal practice.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to apply economic reasoning to shape legal strategy, evaluate tradeoffs and incentives, and influence outcomes in negotiations, litigation, and regulatory decision-making.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Beginner
Essentials of Risk and Return

In Essentials of Risk and Return for Lawyers, you’ll master how financial risks impact legal decisions, from corporate transactions to litigation strategy. You’ll learn to assess investment risks, interpret financial statements with confidence, and apply risk-return principles in contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, and damages assessments. Gain the financial fluency to advise clients more strategically, protect their assets, and elevate your legal expertise, because in today’s legal landscape, understanding risk isn’t optional, it’s power.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to identify, quantify, and strategically deploy risk and return concepts to drive better legal outcomes in transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Time Value of Money

In Essentials of Time Value of Money (TVM), you’ll develop critical skills necessary for lawyers handling settlements, damages, corporate deals, and estate planning, as TVM directly impacts how financial decisions are valued over time. This course will equip you with the tools to assess present and future values of cash flows, calculate fair settlements, and negotiate financial terms with confidence. Mastering TVM will give you a strategic edge in legal practice, ensuring you can effectively advocate for clients in cases involving structured settlements, business valuations, and financial disputes.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to apply time value of money concepts to structure settlements, evaluate deal terms, and make financially sound legal recommendations that stand up to scrutiny.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Quantifying Financial Loss in Legal Cases

In Essentials of Quantifying Loss in Legal Cases, you’ll master the critical skill of calculating damages with precision, ensuring they maximize client outcomes and strengthen case arguments. They will learn how to apply financial and economic principles to assess lost profits, diminished value, and other compensatory claims, making their legal strategies more persuasive and defensible. With expert guidance and real-world case studies, this class empowers lawyers to confidently present and challenge financial evidence, giving them a competitive edge in high-stakes litigation.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to quantify, explain, and defend financial loss calculations in a way that strengthens liability arguments, withstands expert scrutiny, and drives favorable litigation outcomes.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of GAAP v. Non-GAAP Adjustments

In Essentials of GAAP v. Non-GAAP Adjustments, you’ll gain a deep understanding GAAP vs. non-GAAP financial reporting—knowledge that is critical for lawyers advising clients on corporate transactions, securities regulation, and litigation involving financial statements. This course demystifies the key differences, showing how companies use non-GAAP metrics to tell their financial story – and when those adjustments may raise red flags for investors, regulators, or opposing counsel. Mastering these concepts will give you a strategic edge in negotiations, compliance, and litigation, ensuring you can spot financial manipulation, assess risk, and advocate with confidence in high-stakes financial matters.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate GAAP and non-GAAP disclosures critically, identify when adjustments cross the line from clarification to manipulation, and use that insight to drive smarter legal, regulatory, and litigation strategy.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Capital Markets

In Essentials of Capital Markets for Lawyers, you’ll gain a clear understanding of how financial markets work, the key players involved, and the legal frameworks that shape transactions. You’ll learn how to navigate securities regulations, assess risks in capital raising, and advise clients on IPOs, debt financing, and mergers with confidence. Mastering these essential concepts will not only elevate your legal expertise but also make you a more strategic, high-value advisor in corporate and financial law.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to anticipate market and regulatory risks, guide clients through capital markets transactions with confidence, and align legal advice with business and financing strategy.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Valuation

In Essentials of Valuation for Lawyers, you’ll master the critical financial principles behind valuing businesses, assets, and damages – skills essential for high-stakes negotiations, litigation, and deal-making. You’ll learn how valuation experts determine fair market value, assess risk, and apply key methods like discounted cash flow and market comparables, empowering you to challenge or leverage financial arguments in court. With these insights, you’ll gain a strategic edge in corporate transactions, shareholder disputes, intellectual property cases, and economic damages claims – making you a more effective and financially savvy advocate.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate, challenge, and strategically use valuation analyses to shape negotiations, strengthen litigation positions, and influence outcomes in complex financial matters.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate

Business Essentials

Understanding Corporate Structures

Corporate structure and capital strategy determine control, risk, and value creation. This course equips lawyers to understand how entities, capital choices, and governance shape enterprise outcomes. Participants learn to decode business architecture, align legal design with growth and capital objectives, and engage credibly in strategic discussions beyond formalities.

Outcome: Acquire the capability to analyze and shape corporate structures and capital decisions in ways that support control, resilience, and long-term value creation.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Beginner
Trusted Advisor Accelerator

Being right is not enough. Influence comes from shaping decisions at the moment they are made. This course equips GCs and senior lawyers to move upstream—translating risk into outcomes, framing clear options, and accelerating executive decision-making. Participants learn the behaviors, frameworks, and communication discipline that turn Legal from a late-stage reviewer into a trusted strategic advisor.

Outcome: Build the judgment, framing discipline, and executive communication skills required to influence high-stakes decisions when they are being made—not after they are finalized.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Advanced
Legal As A Competitive Weapon

In modern competition, value is created—or lost—through structure, speed, and execution. This course shows how Legal can move beyond risk reduction to become a source of competitive advantage. Participants learn how contracts, governance, and decision design shape value capture, accelerate execution, and build durable moats.

Outcome: Learn how to design legal structures, contracts, and governance models that improve decision speed, protect enterprise value, and contribute to sustained competitive advantage.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Advanced
AI Fluency for In-House Lawyers

AI is reshaping how companies innovate, allocate capital, and make decisions at speed. Yet AI adoption often outpaces governance, leaving Legal accountable without influence. This course equips GCs to move upstream—embedding legal judgment into AI strategy before risks harden. Participants learn how to translate AI risk into strategic tradeoffs, design clear yes-paths, and use governance and contracting to enable faster, more confident execution.

Outcome: Develop the ability to integrate legal judgment directly into AI strategy—shaping innovation, capital allocation, and risk decisions early enough to influence outcomes rather than manage consequences.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of Guidance and Consensus

In Essentials of Guidance and Consensus, you’ll learn how companies craft financial guidance for investors and how Wall Street analysts interpret and react to it, shaping market perceptions and legal risks. You’ll gain critical insights into earnings forecasts, disclosure obligations, and the legal pitfalls of selective or misleading guidance, equipping them to advise clients on regulatory compliance and shareholder litigation. By mastering the intersection of finance, securities law, and investor communications, you’ll enhance your ability to protect clients, anticipate market-driven legal challenges, and add strategic value in high-stakes corporate environments.

Outcome: By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate financial guidance through the lens of market expectations and legal risk, advise clients on compliant and credible disclosures, and anticipate how guidance decisions can drive litigation and regulatory outcomes.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate
Essentials of the Annual Report/10K, the Proxy Statement

In Essentials of the Annual Report/10K and the Proxy Statement, you’ll gain critical financial literacy by mastering the Annual Report, 10-K, and Proxy Statement, equipping you to spot red flags, assess corporate health, and provide sharper legal advice. You’ll learn to decode financial statements, understand risk disclosures, and analyze executive compensation – essential skills for corporate governance, M&A, securities litigation, and regulatory compliance. By the end, you’ll confidently navigate these key filings, making you an indispensable advisor in boardrooms, courtrooms, and deal negotiations.

Outcome: You will be able to use insights from core public filings to anticipate legal and business risks, challenge disclosures and compensation decisions, and shape strategy in transactions, governance matters, and litigation.

Course Contents: This course includes an executive-level instructional video, downloadable presentation slides, a detailed white paper, and a customizable toolkit of frameworks and checklists for ongoing reference and application.

Intermediate

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