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.

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.

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.

Website Terms vs Client Service Terms… What's the difference? Is there any? Can't we all just get long? Let’s break it down.

Verity White will be chairing an upcoming virtual workshop for Leo Cussen Centre of Law. Coming up Thursday 17th of November Verity will be joining a lineup of legal professionals to present a workshop on gaining confidence and how to hit the ground running when starting out as an in-house lawyer. The following legends in law will be sharing insights and tips from their own experiences.

Do you have a contract you hate working with? Do you get complaints about how long the contracting process takes? If you aren’t proud of your contracts, you can change them! You can re-design contracts to help better achieve your organisation’s strategy and reduce real business risks (instead of using the same old precedents!).

The Law Institute of Victoria Legal Innovation and Technology Committee in conjunction with PEXA present the ‘Legalpreneurs Expo’ to inspire and educate legal professionals and law students on the ever growing ways to embed legal innovation in your career. Verity White joined this Panel Discussion event, along with Tom Dreyfus and Sam Flynn from Josef and Eric Chin from Alpha Creates.

Verity joins Josef’s CEO and Co-Founder Tom Dreyfus to discuss about how legal professionals should prep for document automation.

Details for Verity White and Melanie Thomas's Contract Design Workshop event. A workshop to help lawyers and designers understand more about each other’s role in their industry.

Verity White participated in the Altacon 21 Legal Tech Conference and Expo in June 2021 discussing Delivering Digitisation with Design.

Ever wonder where your tech abilities sit in relation to other lawyers? Find out what your legal tech type is and then increase your tech-knowledge-y (see what we did there?) with some tailored tech homework.

Why waste a lot of time for no reason, right?

Those terms and conditions on a similar business’ website looks like they should be okay… Their business is fairly similar to yours…. Why not just copy and paste them, and change the business name?

There are a few good reasons why this is not a clever idea.

In this special episode, we go to the Sydney 2018 Legal Innovation and Tech Fest where Verity Presented on Legal Intrapreneur Basics.

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

Trying to do something different in a legal team gets overwhelming.

There’s lots of roadblocks. Heaps of competing priorities. Very little (i.e. zero) budget to spend. And on top of all of these challenges, lawyers are human (believe it or not!) and aren’t known for changing their ways in a hurry.

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.

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

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.

Legal teams must cut costs. But how can you innovate with no time and no money?

In this article, I share some ideas and tips on how to innovate your legal work with little to no extra funding.