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.

Gain a deeper understanding of electronic signatures and empower yourself to make informed decisions in the realm of digital contracts.

Discover the Design Pyramid, a powerful framework that sheds light on the challenges faced in innovation, transformation, and digitisation projects. From Information Design to System Design, this blog explores each layer of the pyramid, offering insights and examples on how to address complexities and achieve success in legal innovation endeavours.

Is a 'Fair Terms Officer' your new business bestie (and first line of defence against multi-million dollar penalties!) 🦸🏼‍♀️

In the world of business, we have dedicated officers for operations, first aid, privacy, and more. But get ready for a new addition to the team – the Fair Terms Officer!

With expanding laws and growing penalties for unfair contract terms in Australia and globally, having someone to ensure fairness in your contracts and business dealings is becoming essential.

This is the first episode in our new Clause Play video series where we unpack common contract clauses and give tips to help you improve your legal documents.

We’re excited to announce our Founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast here at Checklist Legal will be an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Verity will take students through the wonderful world of contract design for automation.

Introducing the Contract Design Canvas! Recently launched for the first time with the Victorian Society of Computers and the Law…and discussed in brief in Legal Business World. Very keen to hear your thoughts!

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