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Without question, the role of “legal operations professional” is a growing field among corporate legal departments. However, with more companies hiring individuals to perform specific legal operations roles, there are…
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How Legal Procurement is Helping In-House Legal Teams Get Better Results
In-house legal departments are under constant pressure to take on more work, but usually have little flexibility to add more lawyers to the team. It is more important than ever…
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Why Upskilling Junior Lawyers Should be Your Firm’s Priority
The law firm model is broken. Industry commentators and those who work within it are increasingly pointing out how the traditional pyramid law firm model (a select number of senior…
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3 Ways to Retain Your Firm’s Non-Lawyer Talent
In the past, traditional firms primarily distinguished themselves by their name or the calibre of their legal advice, and there was a perceived distinction between the revenue generators and ‘cost…
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Business Development: How to Increase Results for Your Law Firm
Many Australian law firms are currently failing to maximise their business development opportunities. Research shows 69 per cent of law firms with an ‘under developed’ marketing and business development function…
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Should Your Firm Join the Gig Economy?
A career in the legal sector has traditionally offered only two distinct paths: private practice or in-house counsel. In recent years, however, lawyers have forged a new path: freelancing. These…
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Cultivating Innovation in a Risk-Averse Legal Industry
Innovation has always been synonymous with risk. In the past, pure technical ability — not innovation — was the key differentiator between firms in a traditionally risk-averse and inherently conservative…
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Achieving Profitability with Alternative Fee Arrangements
With the increasing prevalence of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) – such as fixed, blended and capped fees and retainers – firms have the ability to increase the client’s perception of…
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Future-Proofing Your In-House Legal Team
When it comes to planning for the future, in-house counsel experience a different world than their law firm counterparts. Flatter hierarchical structures may mean a more challenging climb for ambitious…
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Bringing it Home: What the Decline of Offshore LPOs Means for Law Firms
Futurist and technology guru Richard Susskind recently envisioned a “decomposed” legal world where clients would pay less for processes and more for high-value advisory work. Susskind’s prediction isn’t new and it appears he was…
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