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Ep3 Maximise Meeting Productivity: Tips and Tricks for Legal Professionals
This video provides practical tips for making in-house meetings more productive and less draining. From giving meetings fun names to setting clear agendas, the speaker emphasises maintaining energy and team alignment.
Key steps include planning meetings with a five-step structure: top-of-mind topics, progress, problems, plans, and actions. Additionally, tips for efficient scheduling, such as starting meetings five minutes past the hour, are shared.
The speaker also highlights the importance of pleasantries and suggests following up with structured after-meeting emails to capture decisions and actions.
Ep2 From Solo Lawyer to Head Legal Beagle: Building a Tech-Savvy Legal Team with Kate Sherburn
What does it really take to go from solo legal counsel to Head of Legal at a fast-growing B Corp?
In this episode of Legal Lightbulbs, we chat with Kate Sherburn, Head Legal Beagle at Who Gives a Crap, about building confidence, leading with purpose, and scaling a legal function with strategy and values.
Kate shares the lessons she’s learned from private practice to in-house, how she used tech and contract simplification to scale legal impact (not headcount), and why emotional intelligence is the superpower lawyers need most in the age of AI.
You'll hear how her small team handles legal ops, budget requests, contract design, and stakeholder education… all while staying aligned with the company’s bold sustainability mission.
Ep1 Legal Ops Starter Pack for Small Legal Teams with Katrina Gowans from CLOC
If you’re a solo legal counsel or leading a small team, and Legal Ops feels overwhelming… this episode is your shortcut. We’re unpacking the starter pack with Katrina Gowans, Head of CLOC Australia and seasoned Legal Ops leader.
Legal Lightbulbs Podcast Launch
Join us for a relaxed, laugh-filled evening as we celebrate the launch of Legal Lightbulbs, a brand new podcast shining a spotlight on small in-house legal teams making a big impact!
Ep12 - Legal Intrapreneur Basics - Live recording from Legal Innovation & Tech Fest (Sydney, 2018)
In this special episode, we go to the Sydney 2018 Legal Innovation and Tech Fest where Verity Presented on Legal Intrapreneur Basics.
Ep11 How to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract – the high level process for creating a powerfully productive contract
Time to make your contract process more productive. This is the episode that puts together all the previous episodes and ideas into one full process overview… We run through the four big Secrets of Productive Contracts. We step through six steps of how to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract™ which makes use of those four contract secrets
Ep10 How to map a contract for productivity
Time to make your contract process more productive. On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we look at: How to create a mind map, My favourite application for creating mind maps, How to create process maps for more complicated contracts with lots of moving parts and of course our ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE that we have in every episode for you to try.
Ep09 How to make your contracting process more productive
On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we look at: Why you have to get your contract process in sync with your contract document, An example of an out of sync, slow process and how process mapping fixed it, Why a visual map of a contract process is so useful, The common culprits of slow contract processes and how to fix them and of course our ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE that we have in every episode for you to try
Ep08 Is it time lawyers lose the legalese?
On this episode, we look at the SLAPP test. This test gives some key tactics we can use to improve the productivity of the contract document.We’ll cover: Academic studies showing the effectiveness of visual contract elements, The picture superiority effect, Why easy to read is easy to like and Contract formatting tips.
Ep07 SLAPP your contract into shape: The SLAPP test for productive contracts
On this episode, we look at the SLAPP test. This test gives some key tactics we can use to improve the productivity of the contract document. We’ll cover: • Academic studies showing the effectiveness of visual contract elements • The picture superiority effect • Why easy to read is easy to like • Contract formatting tips
Ep06 How to make a contract document more productive (with Triple O Productivity)
Write for readability On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we are covering the Triple O Productivity way to approach your contract document.
Ep 04 How to delegate like Beyoncé
Today’s show is all about the Delegate like Beyoncé checklist.
Ep 03 Be a lazy lawyer
Can you delegate that?
In this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast we discuss… Why minion is not a dirty word, We look at the different types of minions available to you, Examples of some basic Robot Minions to try, Tactics for approaching minions and What to do if you have no minions.
Ep 02 A contract is not a bit of paper
Do you have an EXTRAordinary skill set?
On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we’ll go through: What a contract is and what it could be, Who is a contract for? Who is the user of a contract, Why your ordinary laywering skills are not enough anymore and why you need an extraordinary skill set, What does it mean to think digitally? and How does digital thinking apply to building a contract?
Ep 01 Productive Contracts: Reverse Sandwich Contracts with Verity White
This episode Verity discusses the Reverse Sandwich Contract method.
Ep 00 - Intro to the Checklist Legal Podcast
What’s coming up on the Checklist Legal podcast