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.

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.

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?

Creating a business case for legal innovation can be a major stumbling block for many legal professionals. In fact, it’s the one step of the legal innovation process that causes most people to come unstuck, not because it’s particularly difficult or time consuming, it’s a problem of translation.

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.