Rob Eastaway and John Condliffe will give a training session or sessions to help your lawyers work better with the numbers and data in their documents and deals. We can tailor the content and number of sessions to suit you, but some topics which we can cover are:
- The benefits of strong numeracy, through avoiding costly mistakes, and delivering better client service
- How to build confidence in dealing with numbers and applying mathematical techniques.
- Revision of essential arithmetical techniques and shortcuts, including percentages, orders of magnitude and ‘BODMAS’
- Commercial terms including inflation, interest rates and indices
- Techniques for estimation
- Numbers and formulae within documents, including profit calculations, indexation clauses (with case studies)
- Due diligence, including the statistical basis for sampling, spreadsheet techniques for analysing data
- The basics of machine learning and artificial intelligence