In this episode of Legal Lightbulbs, Verity White sits down with Bec Taube, former General Counsel at Oxfam Australia, to explore how small legal teams can use strategy days to align, connect, and innovate.

Bec shares her practical approach to designing an offsite strategy day, from using the simple “Why, How, What” framework to bringing in external voices and gathering client feedback through surveys. She explains how lean and human‑centred design tools helped her team cut waste, redesign templates, and deliver more value to the business.

Packed with insights on professional development, building trust, and keeping momentum alive after the day, this episode is a must‑listen for in‑house lawyers who want to turn strategy from theory into action.

This solo episode of the Legal Light Bulbs podcast, hosted by Verity White, Legal Director at Checklist Legal, explores how metrics can transform the way legal teams work and prove their value to the business. Verity shares her journey from avoiding numbers to making them central to her practice, showing how the right data can uncover hidden demand, guide improvements, and build credibility with leadership.

She reflects on two pivotal “light bulb moments”: discovering latent demand through automating settlement agreements, and learning from a CFO how numbers act as vital signs for diagnosing business health. Verity then breaks down three key bundles of metrics, legal service delivery, efficiency and automation, and business alignment, that every in-house lawyer can start using today.

The episode also highlights practical strategies for visualising data and turning metrics into compelling stories that resonate with stakeholders. Resources, templates, and tools are linked in the show notes to help legal professionals put these ideas into action.

This solo episode of the Legal Light Bulbs podcast, hosted by Verity White, legal director at Checklist Legal, delves into the significance of metrics in the legal field. Verity shares her personal insights and experiences, highlighting the necessity for legal professionals to embrace metrics to demonstrate value, obtain necessary budgets, and manage their teams more effectively. Key highlights include lessons from automating settlement agreements revealing latent demand and the importance of understanding financial health indicators.

Verity also provides practical advice on implementing and tracking legal service delivery metrics, efficiency, automation, and business alignment to enhance the overall performance of legal teams. Resources and tools for metrics are linked in the show notes for further exploration.

In this solo episode of the Legal Light Bulbs podcast, Verity White, Legal Director at Checklist Legal, dives into the importance of metrics for legal teams. Verity discusses her personal journey with metrics, including two eye-opening 'legal light bulb moments' that transformed her perspective on numbers. She emphasises that metrics are essential for gaining visibility, demonstrating value, and asking for budgets.

This episode covers a variety of metrics, such as legal service delivery, efficiency and automation, and business alignment, along with practical advice on how to start tracking them. Verity also provides resources and tools for visualizing and managing these important data points, aiming to help legal professionals better serve their clients and businesses.

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.

A special 'fair terms' contract design workshop

What to expect:

🔸 A fun, hands-on workshop that equips you with the skills to make your contracts easy-to-read and understand

🔸 Insights into the updated Unfair Contract Terms laws and how contract design can help

🔸 CPD Points (1 x Practice Management and 1 x Professional Skills)

Look out Auckland, it’s time for Legal Design!

What to expect:

🔸 Small group discussion with some of the best creative minds in contracting

🔸 Insights into comic contracting, large scale contract design projects, and using AI for contracting

🔸 Lots of fun and new legal design friends!

More details: https://checklistlegal.typeform.com/events

Event Details

📅 Date: Wednesday, 31 May 202

⏰ Time: TBC

📍 Location: TBC

Look out Wellington, it’s time for Legal Design!

What to expect:

🔸 Small group discussion with some of the best creative minds in contracting

🔸 Insights into comic contracting, large scale contract design projects, and using AI for contracting

🔸 Lots of fun and new legal design friends!

More details: https://checklistlegal.typeform.com/events

Event Details

📅 Date: Tuesday, 30 May 202

⏰ Time: TBC

📍 Location: TBC

A special *fair terms* edition of our popular hands-on contract design workshop.... Excited to deliver this one in real life in Sydney!

📅 Date: Wed, 3 May 2023

⏰ Time: 6pm for 6.10pm start

📍 Location: The Commons, George Street, Sydney

What to expect:

🔸 A fun, hands-on workshop that equips you with the skills to make your contracts easy-to-read and understand

🔸 Insights into the updated Unfair Contract Terms laws and how contract design can help

🔸 CPD Points (1 x Practice Management and 1 x Professional Skills)

Look out Western Australia, it’s time for Legal Design!

What to expect:

🔸 Small group discussion with some of the best creative minds in contracting

🔸 Insights into comic contracting, large scale contract design projects, and using AI for contracting

🔸 Lots of fun and new legal design friends!

More details: https://checklistlegal.typeform.com/events

Event Details

📅 Date: Thu, 20 April 2023

⏰ Time: TBC

📍 Location: TBC

Coming up on Tuesday 21st of March 2023, Verity will join Fiona McLay, Principal Lawyer & Consultant at McLay Legal and author of the Tech Enabled Lawyer for a FREE in-person informative and practical session on everything legal business and tech.

This session is hosted by Centre of Legal Innovation. Verity will also be joined by Emma Maxwell, Director and Family Lawyer, Anchored Family Law and Laura Vickers, Director + Principal Lawyer, Nest Legal.

In this second part of the video series, Verity dives into the background of how she built the Fair Term Checker, which assists in-house lawyers in complying with the unfair contract terms laws set to be implemented in Australia in 2023. She explains how she planned out the app using mind mapping tool Coggle and why having a visual flowchart is essential to building a chatbot app.

Verity White check out Canva’s new Text to Image app and discover how AI is predicting the future of law.

Our Founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White has been working with the Legal Innovation & Tech Festival for many years now. Here are some of her Contract Design Presentations, Tips and Resources from Legal Tech Fest.

How to create contracts clients want to sign.

If I could have one birthday wish (yes… it is my birthday today!), it would be that everyone who writes contracts tries hard to make them readable and understandable. It’s more important now than ever that our contracts are clear, actionable, user-focused, and automated. It was an absolute delight contributing a chapter to Juro’s Modern Contract Handbook

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

Dealing with a tricky government contract you want to simplify? Government lawyers pushing back on your updates to their agreement?