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.

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

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.

Do you ever wish you could write other people's emails for them? Perhaps you get requests that come through with missing information or unclear details? Maybe you want to direct certain requests to another person, but you don't want that person to get lump with lots of unclear requests.

The right tool can make a big difference. You can't easily hammer a nail with a spoon and it's hard to eat cereal with a hammer. There are lots of productivity tools and helpful apps out there for lawyers.

Most employers want to do the right thing by their workers. Different awards and pay rates and entitlements are often confusing for small to medium businesses. Even large corporations can make mistakes about the pay and entitlements of their staff.Speaking with your employer or writing a letter is the first step to ask your current or former employer to confirm your pay entitlements.

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