The Legalpreneurs Sandbox

In this podcast, Melissa Lyon, Executive Director & Experience Designer at Hive Legal shared her experience in building a user centred approach to legal innovation projects. Topics covered in this session included: What “a user centred approach” means Why a user centred approach is important and impactful in contemporary legal practice How and what it takes to build a user centred approach in innovation projects: mindsets, processes and tools 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 referred to in this session: CLI Legal Design Thinking and Doing Series is available here. Information on the Stanford Legal Design Lab is available here. The Legal Design Book is available to purchase here.

In this podcast, innovation and legaltech guru Maya Markovich, Startup Advisor, discussed how an entrepreneurial mindset acts as a catalyst for legal innovation. Topics covered in this session included: What is an “Entrepreneurship Mindset”? Why is change in the legal space so challenging? Why is a different mindset necessary in advancing legal innovation? What are the benefits of thinking differently? What does it take to think differently? What are the opportunities through and after transformation? 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 referred to in this session: CIOF Working Group - Innovation Professionals Capabilities Survey Report  is available to download here. Clio 2021 Legal Trends Report is available to download here. Mosaic Personality Tasks are available here.

For this podcast, the Centre for Legal Innovation was delighted to collaborate with ACC Australia’s Legal Technology and Innovation Committee for a discussion on how law firms and in-house legal departments are innovating through knowledge management. Katrina Gowans, National Legal Operations Lead at Origin Energy and CLI Advisory Board Member and Carolyn Austin, Director, Knowledge and Practice Support, Australia at K & L Gates shared their experience and discussed the critical role that knowledge capture, management, and timely deployment plays in an increasingly volatile and dynamic legal marketplace. Topics covered in this session included: What Knowledge Management is and isn’t (Hint: it’s more than precedents!) The business case for KM – why, when, where and how to capture this critical asset Why it’s important to have a KM plan for your in-house team The relationship between KM, digital transformation, and sustaining a culture of continuous improvement and innovation Practical tips and a roadmap for implementing your KM plan as part of your innovation strategy If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

Are law firms REALLY innovating? It’s a question that is being asked more often now, sometimes with hope, other times with scepticism, but always with a follow up that resembles show and tell! Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is a law firm that can SHOW and TELL – it’s a fabulous innovation story and journey. HSF has a lot going on locally, nationally, and globally. Innovation for them is about changing mindsets, changing culture, and creating the places and spaces where the workforce of the future can thrive – it’s a workforce predicated on the seamless integration of digital and human resources and so, so much more… In this podcast, we chatted with Danielle Emerson, Innovation Lead at HSF and her colleague, Catherine Adamson, Legal Ops Lead about all of this AND a couple of their fabulous new initiatives too! Topics covered included: Whether or not there is a compelling argument for law firms to do things differently What’s driving the legal ops movement in law firms The ins and outs of HSF’s new Clerkship Innovation Lab The ins and outs of HSF’s membership of a law firm consortium that has developed a new program to train legal ops graduates What’s next on the legal change/transformation agenda Thanks sooo much Danielle and Catherine – you are doing amazing work that is moving the legal transformation needle forward – woohoo!

In this podcast, the final episode of seven in CLI’s Digital Literacy Series: Automation Mini Series, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific) facilitated a discussion about the series and the impact of legal automation now and in the future. Terri was joined by an amazing panel of highly experienced specialists in legal automation: Sam Flynn, COO and Co-founder, Josef Giles Thompson, Head of Growth, Avvoka Gene Turner, Managing Director, LawHawk Mark Tyndall, VP, Markets & Growth, APAC, Neota Logic Evan Wong, CEO & Co-Founder, Checkbox Topics discussed in this session included: Whether or not (and how) legal automation has changed the cost-speed-quality triangle If legal businesses can survive and thrive today without automation The importance of viewing and implementing legal automation in the context of a bigger picture i.e., people, process/systems, and tech Who is/should be responsible for leading legal automation in law firms and legal departments Whether or not the rise in no code automation options is THE game changer for legal practice The next big thing in legal automation and how it will impact legal businesses This mini series brings together a unique collaboration of leading legal automation specialists who address a number of different but related topics in legal automation. You’ll find details about the mini series here. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

In this podcast, Adj. Assoc. Prof Peter Dombkins, Director, PwC Australia, NewLaw took us through the A-Z of Legal Project Management fundamentals. Topics discussed in this session included: Planning and estimating the scope, costs and duration of your legal work Communications and team management - including how to delegate and provide feedback Crisis management If you would prefer to watch rather than rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here. Additional Resources A PDF of the Legal Project Management Foundations session PPT slides is available here.

In this podcast, the sixth episode of seven in CLI’s Digital Literacy Series: Automation Mini Series, Mark Tyndall, VP, Markets & Growth, APAC at Neota Logic and his guest presenter Adj. Assoc. Prof Peter Dombkins, Director at PwC Australia, NewLaw worked through a case study that illustrated the nature of and relationship between legal workflow automation and data. Topics covered in this session included: defining clear metrics designing automation solutions to ensure the capture of data needed to assess impact communicating your findings in a way that your team and others can easily understand and track over time This mini series brings together a unique collaboration of leading legal automation specialists who address a number of different but related topics in legal automation. You’ll find details about the mini series here. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

We often think about legal innovation and legal education as being separate and distinct but, what if they weren’t? What if students, not just law students, could pursue their passion for change in a way that led to more people, in more places, having access to justice? That’s the question that the Innovation4Justice (I4J) Lab asked and is answering today. Our guest for this podcast is Stacy Butler, the Director of the I4J Program. Stacy has a deep history in community advocacy and expanding the reach of civil legal services for under-represented populations. It’s that experience, her passion and drive, that led to the establishment of the I4J Lab and, is evident in all the amazing I4J Lab team members and those with whom they collaborate too. The I4J Lab is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the University of Arizona, the University of Utah, staff, students, the legal ecosystem, many other industries, and communities. It focuses on creating tools that provide empirical data where that’s been missing in policy formation/deployment and, solutions that enhance access to justice through user centred design and implementation. The I4J Lab is producing outcomes that make a difference. It’s also creating frameworks, models and adopting different ways to solve complex problems in a holistic way. Because the work is also scalable, it has practical application for the entire legal system and marketplace. There are elements of this work that are familiar but, there are many others that are new, and some would not have even been possible until quite recently. Thanks so much for the outstanding work you and the team at the I4J Lab are doing, Stacy – walking the talk and making a difference – it doesn’t get much better than that!

In this podcast, the fifth episode of seven in CLI’s Digital Literacy Series: Automation Mini Series, Gene Turner, Managing Director of legal automation specialists LawHawk shared his experience working initially as a lawyer and now in his own automation/tech solutions focused consultancy about how to choose the right automation solution for a legal practice. In this session, building on the first four sessions in the series, Gene discussed key considerations including: What you need to do to start and when you need to end your automation journey What to consider when identifying the type of automation solution you need How to leverage solutions you already have available What you need to consider for business continuity and security Identifying users and why it’s important to craft a user friendly solution What the solution should look like - P2P or E2E - and what customisations might be needed too The importance of training and ongoing support What to think about if you need to migrate information Document automation and workflow specifics This mini series brings together a unique collaboration of leading legal automation specialists who address a number of different but related topics in legal automation. You’ll find details about the mini series here. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

In this podcast, the fourth episode of seven in CLI’s Digital Literacy Series: Automation Mini Series, Evan Wong, CEO and Co-founder, Checkbox and his guest presenter Alex Rosenrauch, Manager, PwC NewLaw discussed building a business case for legal automation. Getting budget for legal technology is notoriously difficult and is often a breaking point in a legal team's quest to improve the way they work and deliver legal services to the business. The key is knowing how to build an effective business case. Topics covered in the session included: how to properly frame and communicate the value of legal automation; how to structure and present a winning business case; and how to handle common objections and pushback to new investments in automation. This mini series brings together a unique collaboration of leading legal automation specialists who address a number of different but related topics in legal automation. You’ll find details about the mini series here. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.