Executive Education

What Non-Lawyer Business Leaders Need to Know About the Law
Business executives have long recognized that success in the executive ranks requires broad knowledge, including familiarity with the business or industry, accounting and finance, marketing, sales, operations, and human resource management. Astute observers of modern business enterprises recognize that there is also a need for understanding the law and how to use it to protect and advance the interests of an organization. In recognition of the convergence of business and the law, ask yourself:

• Do you worry about winning an alliance but losing your intellectual property?
• Are your managers and lawyers strategic collaborators or testy adversaries?
• Will you spend millions on your defensive game that you would rather spend on offense?
• Would you rather invest in your managers' knowledge of business law than spend millions to defend their ignorance of it?

Northwestern University School of Law has solutions: We provide broad, practical instruction in law for executives, so that business leaders

• work more effectively with counsel
• ask the right questions
• leverage the protections the law affords
• avoid the landmines that squander time, money, and reputations
• improve their organization's profitability

Our approach:

• Northwestern's custom programs for non-lawyer executives provide instruction at just the right level.
• We don't try to make lawyers out of executives.
• We enable intelligent executives to know enough about the law to protect and enhance reputations -- theirs and their firm's.
• We help executives to anticipate, avoid, and manage problems before they become crises.
• We use our renowned faculty to provide your organization's leaders with a basic understanding of critical legal concepts.

The Northwestern School of Law/Kellogg School of Management Partnership
We collaborate with the Kellogg School of Management, a consistently top ranked business school, to provide custom programs, including content in leadership, ethics, and business law. Here, our educational programs are more than just legal theories, they are applied and customized. When you choose Northwestern, you enter into a partnership with a leader -- we are the best source for serious, effective legal education for business executives.

To view Kellogg's Executive Education Web site, visit http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed