The Legalpreneurs Sandbox

This podcast was recorded as a video for the CLI - ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 On Demand program published on 1 February 2021. In this podcast, Michael Bacina , Partner, Piper Alderman and Steve Vallas , CEO Blockchain Australia discussed what's happening in blockchain AND, how/why/if it's shaping up to be the next legal service disruptor. If you would prefer to watch rather than list...

This podcast was recorded as a video for the CLI - ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 On Demand program published on 1 February 2021. In this podcast, Terri Mottershead , Executive Director, Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific) , facilitated a discussion with Schellie-Jayne (SJ) Price , Lead Lawyer, Gorgon and Wheatstone Operations, Chevron Australia Pty Ltd...

This podcast was recorded as a video for the CLI - ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 On Demand program published on 1 February 2021. In this podcast, Anu Briggs , Head of Capability, Development & Change, Gilbert + Tobin and Anna Lozynski , Problem Solver and Author, Legally Innovative discussed the challenges and opportunities of thinking differently in the legal world. If you would prefer...

In our evolving legal ecosystem, who should be regulated, by whom, how and why? These are critical and pivotal questions being considered and addressed (or not addressed) by legal regulators around the world right now? They are complex questions. The answers to them will almost certainly be different in different places. There are many things to be considered and balanced, not least of which is en...

As Helen Mackay , Director at Juno Legal discusses in this podcast, Juno was established from the get go with a different legal business model. Juno is a hybrid law firm and on-demand legal services business. The team comprises 21 experienced in-house lawyers and two legal professionals who serve a range of large corporates, high growth companies and public sector clients across New Zealand and be...

As 2020 draws to a close, we welcomed back our crystal ball gazers from 2019, innovation and legaltech gurus: Caryn Sandler, Partner and Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer at Gilbert & Tobin; Warrick McLean, CEO at Colman Grieg Lawyers; and Graeme Grovum, Principal at legal industry consultancy Alpha Creates, to discuss the year in review… Topics covered in our discussion included: 1. What sto...

What would happen if we disrupted legal education? Would law degrees become affordable? Could learning the law become an interactive, immersive, and holistic experience? Could things like digital literacy, agility, curiosity, creativity, problem solving, business acumen, EI, and relationship building...the tech and human bits...become critical graduate attributes in every law school? Would HOW law...

As Melissa Lyon and Adrienne Trumbull , Associate Principals at Hive Legal discuss in this podcast, Hive Legal is a new law trail blazer. In 2014, its founders launched a corporate commercial law firm with an entirely different business model. Starting with a clean slate, they drew on the experiences of users of legal services and those who deliver those services from traditional business models,...

The legal world has changed. What it takes to navigate that change, work with it and excel in it, is not the same today as it was nine months ago. And, it won't be the same nine months from now. While it might take a little longer for legislation to change, we've already lived through a legal work evolution – different ways to communicate, different ways to lead, different client and employee need...

We are at a juncture, right now, where we can take a breath and seize the opportunity not just to do a little better in how we have practised law but, a lot! We can't do that with ALL the same people, or thinking the same way, or doing the same things. We need to celebrate and embrace people from different backgrounds, different approaches, different points of view. And so, in many different ways,...

We have launched our new series:  ReinventED Legal Business: The Case Studies   to showcase legal businesses - law firms, in-house legal departments, ALSPs, Community Legal Centres, Legal Consultancies, Legal Incubators and Accelerators – that have reimagined, repurposed, or reinvented legal business and tell their stories. These legal businesses are not just part of, but are creating a new legal...

The world of legal internships has changed. Legal work experience is being redefined, literally right before our eyes! The good news is, there are more opportunities to gain that all important pre-first job experience, gain insights into what a legal career might look like, and identify and try out other roles and opportunities that might interest you too. The challenge is not expecting that to ha...

The changing legal marketplace has brought with it a new and evolving set of client needs and expectations. It's still essentially and importantly all about relationships but, it's equally important for legal businesses to be able to anticipate where value can be added for their clients and proactively offer it. That's increasingly hard to do if your legal practice doesn't analyse its client relat...

We read and hear a lot about legal innovation and transformation, more now than ever before, but it's hard to know how much of this is "innovation theatre" or "window dressing" versus real, tangible change. In this podcast on The Changing Face of Legal Innovation and Transformation – Who's zooming who? ,  Terri Mottershead , Executive Director,  Centre for Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand...

In the legal marketplace today, one that is increasingly client centric, legaltech enabled, data driven and where service/product delivery needs to be lean, nimble, and agile, having the right people, do the right things, at the right time and at the right price point is the only way a law firm gets to do what its clients want i.e. deliver its services and products effectively and efficiently. It'...

Contemporary legal practice may be tech fuelled but its also data driven. It's also increasingly less about imparting knowledge and more about sharing experience. The combination of knowledge and data analytics has created a new synergy that is guiding and even predicting where and how best to apply what we know to what we do as lawyers and allied legal professionals. It's spawned a whole new way...

As we reflect on the many changes in the legal ecosystem in the last 5 years, few specialist groups have evolved as quickly or had the same, significant impact as legal operations professionals. For example, the  Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC)  evolved from a handful of people to thousands in what seemed like just a handful of years! So, we wanted to explore where legal ops came from...

One of the many things that has been innovated during the current lockdown is the nature, diversity and reach of our networks. We've not see global networking on this scale before and we wanted to chat about that and what trends might be consolidating for legal practice management with the folks who have been in the global networks and networking business for quite some time –  Terralex . We spoke...

This podcast launched the  Centre for Legal Innovation 's (CLI) second series on  Reinvent Legal Business  (RLB 2). RLB 2 will explore areas like new legal businesses, new approaches to legal service and product delivery, new roles and, how all this combines. We're viewing these changes through a global lens in this series, so each session features specialists from more than one country - global t...

In the second podcast in the area of crisis communications, we discussed what law firms should be focusing on now that the impact of COVID-19 is being felt so acutely. What should they be communicating with their people, clients and the market more broadly? What do Mid-Crisis Communications for Law Firms look like? We welcomed back communications guru  Sharon de Bomford , Principal at  Write Resul...

In the tenth podcast in this collection focusing on providing practical support and assistance for those working in the legal ecosystem during this time of extreme change, we spoke with  Fiona Craig , Principal of  Fiona Craig consulting  about  Career Planning in a Crisis - is it possible?  And, what a discussion it was  - full of hopeful, helpful and insightful advice. We discussed Fiona's own c...

From February to June 2020, CLI held six roundtables throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Like all our roundtables since 2017, these discussions brought together industry thought leaders from law firms, legal departments, ALSPs, legaltech, and community legal centres, who shared their candid views and experience on what was really happening in practice. These discussion were, as they always...

In the eighth podcast in this collection focusing on providing practical support and assistance for those working in the legal ecosystem during this time of extreme change, we discussed with  Katherine Thomas , CEO,  Free Range Lawyers ,  Flexible Working in the New World  – and what a new world it has become! We kicked off with an explanation of what flexible working is today – it's not the same...

In the seventh podcast in this collection focusing on providing practical support and assistance for those working in the legal ecosystem during this time of extreme change, we discussed how our world of legal work has been turned upside down with  Katherine Thomas , CEO,  Free Range Lawyers  in  Remote Working…in a crisis. Working remotely has been on the agenda for law firms for a long time – no...

In the sixth podcast in this collection focusing on providing practical support and assistance for those working in the legal ecosystem during this time of extreme change, we discussed the financial management of legal businesses with  Warrick McLean , CEO,  Coleman Greig Lawyers  in  Making the Best Financial Decisions in Times of Uncertainty (for Law Firms). We focused on the information law fir...