By Connor Amor-Bendall
Collaboration
Tips for Alternative Legal Service Provider first-timers
In-house teams are increasingly interested in using ALSPs – the new kids on the block of legal services. Engaging an AL...
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By Christoper McGavin
Collaboration
True collaboration is a work in progress
Collaboration is often billed as something which can be solved quickly through a small change or implementation. While conven...
By Christoper McGavin
Innovation
What does it mean to be a modern in-house counsel?
Where previously in-house counsel were regarded as guardians of their companies, they are now considered to be stewards of th...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Innovation
Working smarter with Electra Japonas
Electra Japonas, Co-Founder and CEO of The Law Boutique and Co-Founder of oneNDA sheds light on her journey to become a legal...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Innovation
Staying in one lane isn’t always the best route
Staying in one lane isn’t always the best route. By moving industries, Helen Doukas has created a skill set as a Genera...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Innovation
What is Legal Design with Joseph Stoker
Providing better legal services starts with understanding what your client, or (in the case of in-house legal), business need...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Collaboration
Winning in both the court of law and the court of public opinion
Communications teams are often seen by legal teams as oversharers. On the other hand, the legal team is perceived as the Depa...
By Sian Simpson
Communication
Building trust through communication
A large part of in-house lawyers’ work is based on parsing and understanding information, and communicating clearer, more con...
By Sian Simpson
Communication
Fortifying your in-house-external legal relationships
We think law firms can benefit from legal tech just as much as in-house teams. In fact, they can fortify their relationships ...
By Christoper McGavin
Communication
Keep, It, Super, Simple: KISS is better with Mayo Ishigami
Words are a lawyer’s weapon, yet they don’t always communicate what we want. Mayo Ishigami realized that to eleva...
By David Webb
Communication
Legal lingua franca: bridging the gap between legal and the business
A fundamental value proposition of legal tech is that it can be an enabler for others – not just legal. To deliver resu...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Communication
Mastering Emotional Intelligence: transforming lawyers into powerful communicators
Good communicators are everywhere, but great ones are seldom. Lawyers are not notoriously praised for their communication sty...
By Christoper McGavin
Communication
The people vs legalsplaining
Legalese. Legalsplainig. Lawyer talk. There are many not-so-nice names for the occurrence of a lawyer failing to explain in p...
By Christoper McGavin
Communication
The scourge of the semicolon
Lawyers are a pedantic bunch and we love nothing more than precise writing. This means lawyers have a love/hate relationship ...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Communication
Communication is a two-way street
Lawyers often struggle to communicate the law to non-legal folk effectively. Maria Pozza, Senior Legal Counsel at NZ Post, ha...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Communication
Law and storytelling: the art of persuasion
We discuss the power of storytelling in the legal profession and how it can be used as a tool for persuasion in-house. What a...
By Connor Amor-Bendall
Communication
What to do when your executive wants to get political
Business and politics are mixing increasingly due to CEO activism and a consumer demand for corporate social responsibility. ...
By Sian Simpson
Business
Behind the veil of in-house legal with Legal Leaders champion Alexander Petrie
For an in-house legal team to truly provide value to an organization many strategies can be engaged. Alexander Petrie discuss...