Executive Education

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For additional information:

Joseph F. Hannigan
Director
Executive Education
j-hannigan@law.northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-4242

Scott H.Kapp
Assistant Director
Executive Education
s-kapp@law.northwestern.edu
Phone: (773) 218-0505

"The Northwestern program gave me a high level understanding of the law and demystified the law for me. The knowledge I now have would have saved my firm both time and money in connection with a joint venture I worked before the program."

- Eric L. Mulkay, ExxonMobile Upstream Research Company, participant in the Business and IP Law for Technology Leaders Program.

"Many of today's leaders know that corporate success, personal reputation and wealth are threatened by a management team that knows little about the law's protections and constraints. Executives who are unacquainted with the law and give their lawyers dominant responsibility for major decisions may fear they don't know enough to ask the right questions and flush out the best decisions."

- David E. Van Zandt, Dean and Professor of Law, Ph.D (in sociology) Northwestern University School of Law and Dipak C. Jain, Dean, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing; Chicago Tribune, 'Law and Business Find Common Ground' Sept. 25, 2005.

"One of the critical insights that Northwestern’s program can provide to a business executive is that Northwestern's law school can teach business executives how more profitably to work with their lawyers, and to reach a more confident understanding of legal issues affecting business."

Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern Law School Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History and Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

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