The Legalpreneurs Sandbox

In this podcast, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, CLI facilitated a discussion about how to start your NewLaw career journey with NewLaw careerists who have been there and done that! The panellists shared their experience and practical, candid insights into what you need to consider, where you can find the information you need, pitfalls to avoid, and people you should chat with along the way: Minnie Hannaford, Associate, Advance Delivery Services, Ashurst Advance, Ashurst Matt Hollings, Head of Business Development, Sky Discovery Rose Inglis, Founder, Rose Tinted Law Christine Zhong, Co-Founder and Managing Director, BotL and CLI Emerging Leaders Advisory Board member This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 17 May 2022. If you would like to know more about the other sessions at the Summit and the NewLaw Careers Series, you will find information here. 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.

Legal project managers are delivery specialists - they sit at the crossroads between the client, the legal team, and other support functions (such as marketing, finance and pricing, L&D and IT). Their role is to help ensure that legal services are delivered in a way that meets (and preferably exceeds!) the client's cost, time and quality expectations – all the while enabling a law firm's/legal department’s commercial objectives, driving technology-enabled transformation, and maintaining the mental well-being of its lawyers. Legal project managers have a lot on their plate - it's a good thing that they're organised! In this podcast, Peter Dombkins, Director, NewLaw, PwC Australia discussed how legal project managers make all the pieces fit together, with these fabulous specialists: Linda-Rose Daya, Head of Legal Project Management and Design, Gilbert + Tobin Liz Fernando, Head of Legal Project Management, Allens Joanne Rees, CEO, AllyGroup Kerryn Underwood, Head of Legal Project Management, King & Wood Mallesons This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 17 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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 do consultants, consult about? It’s a great question and the answer isn’t what it used to be! Sharing expertise and knowledge is no longer confined to LEGAL expertise and knowledge in law firms, legal departments, CLCs, or ALSPs. These organisations are increasingly required to solve problems holistically, use the expertise of “all” their specialists for the benefits of clients in a growing number of areas like technology, risk management, innovation/transformation, ESG and many more – “consultancy” is being redefined and reinvented in the legal world! In this podcast, Alison Laird, Senior Director, Legal Business Advisory, Morae Global and CLI Advisory Board member explored the role of a consultant with these gurus: Joel Kennedy, Head of Client Projects, Lander & Rogers Beth Patterson, Director, ESPconnect Emma Peters, Special Counsel, Cowell Clarke Mick Sheehy, Partner, NewLaw, PwC Australia This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 17 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

You can’t do and you can’t be what you don’t know or can’t see! Knowledge managers create processes, systems, and user-friendly opportunities to collaborate, share, use and manage knowledge to connect people to organisational knowledge in a timely way so they can do their job efficiently. Great knowledge managers are integral to an organisation’s performance, help create competitive advantage, lead and support innovation, agility, and continuous improvement. In this podcast, Mira Renko, Special Counsel - Knowledge and Practice Support – Finance, K & L Gates Australia discussed how knowledge managers play a pivotal role in legal practice, with these amazing specialists: Leona Blanco, National Knowledge and Information Manager, Clyde & Co Catherine Bryant, Knowledge Manager and Automation Lead, Tompkins Wake Fiona Evans, Director of Knowledge, Asia Pacific at Norton Rose Fulbright This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 17 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

Client-centric strategies, client journey mapping, legal design thinking and user experience (to name just some) – you’ve heard the terms, but do you know how they all combine to create an exceptional level of engagement, interaction, communication, and collaboration for outstanding service/product delivery for every client, every time? Client experience designers do! In this podcast, Melissa Lyon, Executive Director and Experience Designer, Hive Legal and CLI Advisory Board member discussed the role of a client experience designer with these exceptional specialists:   Sam Burrett, Manager, Clients & Markets, Clayton Utz and CLI Emerging Leaders Board member Carl White, Director, NewLaw, PwC Australia and Founder, CXINLAW Kim Wiegand, Partner, Beaton  This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 17 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

Legaltech is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. It is the key enabler of legal innovation and the legal industry’s transformation. It makes legal work better, easier and delivered faster and cheaper. It’s at the top of the list as a driver for continuous improvement but it’s also a large investment of time and money for any business.  The role of a legaltech developer is about understanding this context, working with clients, and then creating solutions that anticipate, exceed expectations, and deliver real value.      In this podcast, Gene Turner, Managing Director, LawHawk and CLI Advisory Board member discussed how all of this and much, much more influenced and impacted the journey from lawyer, business professional or consultant to legaltech developer for these amazing specialists:   Ben Farrow, CEO, FirmChecker and CLI Emerging Leaders Board member Sam Flynn, Co-founder, Josef and CLI Advisory Board member  Sacha Kirk, Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, Lawcadia Sam Lovrich, Co-Founder, Legal Tech Helper Toby Somerville, VP of Product Engineering, Josef This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 16 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

Legal technologists are problem solvers! What problems they solve, for whom and how they solve them is their secret sauce – but not everyone uses the same recipe – there will always be some tech but, the other ingredients may differ. Curiosity and enthusiasm for learning new tools are their tools in trade.  In this podcast, Fiona McLay, Principal Lawyer & Consultant, McLay Legal discussed the similarities and differences in the role of a legal technologist with specialists from law firms and a legaltech company: Ali Cook, Legal Technologist, Josef Matt Farrington, Lawyer + Legal Technologist, Juno Legal  Nam Truong, Digital + Innovation, Law Squared This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 16 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

Data, data, data – it’s everywhere! It helps us run our legal practices and it’s an integral part of every one of our legal matters too but, do we understand how, why, when, where and what data to use? Legal data analysts do!  In this podcast, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, CLI, discussed with an amazing panel of specialists from law firms and a legaltech company, the integral role that legal data analysts play in the business and practice of law: Jodie Baker, Founder & CEO, Xakia Technologies Gohto Saikawa, Executive, Ashurst  Stephen So, Head of Analytics, Lander & Rogers This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 16 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

The role of the legal operations professional is one of THE hot evolving specialisms in the legal ecosystem right now. So, what’s involved in this role? Why would anyone want to do it? What do you need to know to be successful in it? And, how will the role change in the future? In this podcast, Katrina Gowans, National Legal Operations Lead, Origin Energy and CLI Advisory Board member, discussed these questions and answered your questions too with legal ops professionals from law firms, consultancies and agencies: Catherine Adamson, Legal Operations Lead, Herbert Smith Freehills Matthew Duncan, Director of Legal Operations, QIC Jemima Harris, Legal and Strategic Projects Director, Megaport/Founder and Director, Invia Legal Operations  Mollie Tregillis, Director, Legal Optimisation Consulting, MinterEllison This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 16 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.

The legal ecosystem is complex, multidisciplinary and evolving. Delivery of legal services and products requires the capabilities of many people working seamlessly in collaboration with each other and customers/clients. Contemporary legal practice is all about new - new law, new professions and specialisms, new areas of practice, and new ways of conceiving, working on and solving new legal problems. In this podcast, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director, CLI discussed with legal innovation/transformation leaders how their firms have defined NewLaw careers; why they have evolved; how the roles have impacted the war for legal talent; and if the roles are reshaping legal practice:  Danielle Emerson, Senior Legal Transformation Manager, Herbert Smith Freehills Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation and Innovation Director, Simpson Grierson Michelle Grossmann, Chief Innovation Officer & Transformation Lead, Lander & Rogers Amber O’Meara, Innovation & Purpose Lead, MinterEllison This podcast was part of the COL-CLI NewLaw Careers Summit 2022 program on 16 May 2022. If you would like to know more about NewLaw Careers, you’ll find loads of information in our NewLaw Careers Series here. 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.