The Legalpreneurs Sandbox

In this podcast for CLI's ReinventED Legal Business: The Case Studies series, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific) chatted with Fiona Kirkman, Principal of Kirkman Family Law about her work and her businesses in family law. Fiona's vision is to empower families to obtain more amicable, efficient and cost-effective resolutions without court. Her passion is finding ways to utilise legal technology and dispute resolution processes to craft new ways to practise law. After working for over 15 years in traditional family law firms, Fiona brought her vision and passion together by starting her own family mediation firm - Kirkman Family Law - and a legaltech start-up with her techy husband Tim. In this session, Fiona discussed how the legaltech products that they've developed - LawSwitch & FamilyProperty - work in her dispute resolution practice. If you would also like to see a demo of their FamilyProperty platform, you will find it here. 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.

In this podcast for CLI's ReinventED Legal Business: The Case Studies series, Riz McDonald, Founder and Director of Foundd Legal discussed how she turned her dream about being her own boss into a reality and combined her passion for small business with her knowledge and understanding of the law to make Foundd the go-to legal service provider for businesses in the creative sphere. Since its inception, Foundd has grown into a practice that is known for putting its clients first, supporting the growth of small businesses, and delivering an outcome-focused service that stays in touch with the needs of its clients. Essentially, Riz is a part of each client's team, as an in-house lawyer of sorts - except in her own house! Foundd operates entirely online, and offers comprehensive contract templates, custom services for the tailoring and review of legal documents, and short courses geared towards like-minded entrepreneurs who are ready to learn how to make their business legally legit. 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 Don't forget to also check out and save the date for the other fabulous FREE ReinventED Legal Business: The Case Studies webinars - you'll find the details and registration links as we add them here.

Do we know what our clients really want from us? Is it the same as what it used to be and if not, how do we know and what's changed? Should the client experience of our legal practices differ in the B2B or B2C market or, are there some things that every client wants? Are we providing legal services and products that best suit lawyers or those that truly cater to clients? What have we learnt from working with clients differently during COVID-19? What can we learn and emulate in the world of client experience from other industries? In this session, Howard Wilbury, Managing Director, Dutch Uncle, facilitated a discussion with those who "walk" this "talk" every day in the legal world of client experience: Justine Lamond, National Marketing and Business Manager, Nexus Law Group Melissa Scott, Senior Legal Counsel (Global), Megaport Carl White, Chief Experience Officer and Director, CXINLAW This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 11 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

Can we profile today, the next legal services or products client? What do we know? What don't we know? What are the key factors to consider? Do things like geography matter in a tech based, borderless world? How will we communicate and what tools will we use? How far ahead should we go – a year or a decade? What do we know today that MUST influence our clients' choices tomorrow? What can we learn from other industries? In this podcast, Melissa Lyon, Executive Director and Experience Designer, Hive Legal and CLI Advisory Board member, facilitated a panel discussion focused on developing a profile of the next legal services/products client: Debra Filippin, Head of Business Development Asia Pacific, Pinsent Masons Michael Morrissey, Managing Director, Founder, Principal, Morrissey Law + Advisory Marlo Osborne-Smith, Director, NewLaw, PwC Carolyn Reynolds, General Counsel, Vicinity Centres This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 11 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

Don't think social media marketing is important in the legal world? Well, it might be time to think again! In this podcast, digital marketing gurus Kaitlyn Gillies and Hayley Peters, Co-Founders, Oh My Digital Agency stepped us through the dos and don'ts of social media marketing. They were joined by Adriana Giometti, Chief Marketing & Client Relations Officer, Holman Webb Lawyers and Rizwana McDonald, Founder and Director, Foundd Legal, who discussed how they have used social media as an integral part of marketing their firms and connecting with their clients. This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 11 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

What's the connection between innovation, legaltech and business performance – people! As we fast approach a marketplace where legaltech is widely available and affordable, legal practice will be less about what you know or can do with that tech and all about how you work collaboratively and leverage your experience through it. In this world, the dots between the engagement of your people and business performance are inextricably interconnected – it's not people versus profit, its great people or no profit! In this podcast, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific), facilitated a discussion exploring how connecting the dots between people and business performance is influencing and impacting strategic talent management in the legal industry, and every industry, from recruitment to succession planning and everything in between. Terri was joined by people centred thought leaders and doers: Jason Elias, Chief Executive Officer/Specialist Legal Recruiter, Elias Recruitment and Australian Recruitment Leader of the Year 2020 Emily Mortimer, Director Human Resources, Piper Alderman Deborah Stonley, Director of People & Culture, Maddocks Natasha Winton, Senior Director HR, Asia Pacific, The Boston Consulting Group This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 10 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

In 2017, Thomas Friedman challenged us to reflect on how we would all work differently in the age of technology. In 2021, it's time to ask the tough questions and…act! So, if machines can do what lawyers used to do, better, cheaper, and faster, why do we need lawyers? How will lawyers continue to add value? How do we define that value? Could it be, at a time when there is so much focus on technology, that ethical responsibilities, humanity, and purpose, our "hearts," will be our most enduring and endearing asset? In this podcast, Karen Finch, CEO, Legally Yours Pty Ltd, facilitated a discussion with the people who are re-shaping the future of legal work and, consequently, supporting the evolution of a new and different legal workplace culture: Martine Barclay, Principal Psychotherapist, Leadership Coach & Wellbeing Expert, Redefine Your Edge Tom Dreyfus, CEO & Co-Founder, Josef Sarah El-Atm, General Manager, August Louise Ferris, Chief People Officer, McCullough Robertson This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 10 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

In 2020, the legal workplace changed, permanently! Remote work became the norm. Flexible work, for a long time a reality, became a necessity. Work was disaggregated, reaggregated and turned into something completely new. In between, legal businesses scrambled to engage in this new global proof of concept and found along the way that remote and flexible working really did…work! In this podcast, Emma Heuston, Founder & Principal Lawyer, The Remote Expert and Katherine Thomas, CEO, Free Range Lawyers, discussed how and why people are now, and will continue to work, differently. They also shared their experience on turning today's best practices into next practices, for the benefit of your people, your clients, and your organisation. This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 10 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

In this podcast, Nathan Bellgrove, Head of Ashurst Advance Delivery (APAC); Tae Royle, Head of Digital Products, APAC; Emilie Vittini, Digital Services Manager; Shannon Saxby, eDiscovery Manager and Jennifer Priestley, Legal Analyst Manager, discussed with Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific), the work of their firm's global delivery centre (GDC) in Brisbane - home to the firm's NewLaw capability in APAC. Topics included how the GDC compliments Ashurst's business; how it supports the firm's vision to be the most progressive global law firm; how it promotes collaborative, multi-disciplinary work practices; and it's shaping the future of legal practice. This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 9 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.

We've all seen and heard the words, digital strategy, but what is it? What does it do? And, more importantly, do you need one? In this podcast, Katrina Gowans, National Legal Operations Lead, Origin Energy and CLI Advisory Board member; Denise Doyle, Legal Enablement Lead, Telstra; and Matthew Vaughan, IT Manager, Tompkins Wake discussed what digital strategy is, what it does and more importantly, whether you need one. This podcast was part of the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 Live program on 9 February 2021. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free resource hub here.