Episode 86 - Women Legalpreneurs SIG Series – How to choose the right tech for your new digital legal business

In this podcast, a session in our Women Legalpreneurs Special Interest Group 2021/22 series, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia- Pacific) facilitated a panel discussion that explored all things tech for digital legal businesses!

This super practical and candid session started by exploring if you need tech at all, then moved on to discuss questions you should ask of vendors; how to make the best choices for your law firm or in-house legal department or consultancy; how you should approach tech purchases from identifying the right requirements through to connecting new tech with legacy tech, your systems, your business strategy and, managing the change management piece in all of this too!

Terri was joined by a unique panel of legal, tech and knowledge practitioners and gurus from law firms, in-house, tech and legal consultancies:

• Sylvia Hands, Head of Legal, Medibank Private Ltd
• Katherine King, Chief Executive Officer/Dazychain Co-Founder, Yarris Technologies
• Fiona McLay, Principal Lawyer & Consultant, McLay Legal and CLI Legalpreneurs Lab Geeky Guru
• Nikki Shaver, Co-founder, Legaltech Hub

If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this session, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

Additional Resources

Dr Katherine King (Dazychain), The 5 steps to choosing legal tech is available here.

Fiona McLay:

• Reinvent Legal Business Series: Getting Started with Legal Tech Projects is available here
• Tech Talks: Tech tools that changed my legal world – Session one is available here
• Tech Talks: Tech tools that changed my legal world – Session two is available here
• For members of the Legalpreneurs Lab, don’t forget Fiona is also a Geeky Guru and available to consult with you

Nikki Shaver, Legal Techy Tuesday Series: Global Developments in Legal Technology with Legaltech Hub is available to Watch Here and Listen Here

In-house lawyers might like to connect with the Legal Technology and Innovation Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia.