In this week's edition, we recap BT legal’s in-house trends for 2020, unearth a privacy policy actually worth reading (or watching), and take the Tesla approach to building a law firm from scratch.
InCounsel Weekly #62: Be Less Wordy, GDPR Ruining My Life and Amazon: The Law Firm
InCounsel Weekly #60: Chart of The Week; GCs in The Line of Fire and A&O's path to self-disruption
In this week's edition, we number crunch BigLaw's pre/post 2008 revenue growth (or lack of it) using some rather sexy-looking charts; head to the front line where Facebook's internal lawyers are living the reality of an elevated profile and take a look at A&O's continued march towards self-disruption.
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InCounsel Weekly #52: Sole GC Survival Guide, In-house @ School, Comic Contracts, ALSP Impact and A Chat With Dr. Beaton
InCounsel Weekly #51: Building Expert Systems Without Code, Diversity Truths, The Problem With Copy & Paste, A Contract Critique and How Not to Forget Stuff
In this week's edition, we discover a tool that lets anyone build an expert system, automate documents and more, get eight truths about diversity and inclusion, dive deep into the core problem with contract drafting (then critique one of Citibank's contracts while we're at it), then learn how to teach your brain something it won’t forget a week later.
InCounsel Weekly #50: Transformative Women GCs, e-Signatures, The Art of Sole Counsel, Microsoft on AI <> Law and Hiring Outside Counsel
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InCounsel Weekly #47: Intrapreneur's Dilemma, Legal Design, From Law to Global Startup, Smart Contracts for Dummies and The World's Biggest Hacks
Talking Legal Ops Software With Jodie Baker, CEO of Xakia
In what started as a research project in 2015, Jodie Baker was asking in-house legal teams one question: what irks you the most in your job?
And the answer was pretty consistent: "I have to do manual reporting, but I don't really know what my team is working on. That when somebody leaves, I don't know how I capture all of that IP."
Fast forward to 2017, Jodie and her team at Xakia now client over 30 in-house legal teams as clients, across Australia, Singapore and the US including some big names like Virgin Australia, Boral and Transurban.
We sat down to talk about her journey so far...