Teardown
Privacy expert Avishai Ostrin, details the crucial elements of a DPA and flags a few issues/gaps in Slack’s DPA 🔍
GC 4.0
An evolution of the General Counsel over the past century – from 🦍 Paleo GC to GC 4.0 🚀
New role
The tradecraft of legal research evolving into the new role of ‘Legal Prompt Engineer’ 🤓
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"InCounsel manage to find the best of the web for this newsletter." – Jeremy Stevenson, Managing Director - Legal & Risk at CPE Capital.
Jail
Ben White unearths a great GC story: "… the only thing that kept me out of jail was some good luck and an outstanding General Counsel, and the right organizational design." ⛑
Matters
A useful guide for in-house teams on what a ‘matter’ is, and isn’t 💡
Demo
Dubbed “The Mother of All Demos” – how we’ve been augmenting human intellect, since 1968 📺
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"Still one of my favourite sources of news on legal innovation and tech." – Shilpa Bhandarkar, CEO at Nakhoda.
Top ten
Ten issues for in-house lawyers to pay attention to over the coming 12 months 🔍
ALSPs
Thomson Reuters biennial report on the ALSP market is out 📈
Locked in
It should never be this frustrating to change software providers 😭
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"InCounsel weekly is the one email I always read and click on all the links!" – Natalie Truong, Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Ad Standards.
Survey
ACC's annual survey of global chief legal officers and general counsel is out 📊
CLM cuts
Layoffs in CLM have started with Icertis and SirionLabs cutting staff despite recent capital injections ⛅️
Sounds
Treat your ears (and mind) to a free repository of pure, immersive natural soundscapes from around the world 🎧
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"I open your emails as soon as I receive them!" – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
Support
What happens when a GC spends time answering customer support tickets 🤲
Alliance
How a strong legal and procurement alliance can form the backbone of any business 💪
Subscription
A book that looks set to become the leading authority on the subscription model for professional firms 📖
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"I love reading these gems each week with a fresh coffee." – Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel at Megaport.
Demo
How we get our signed contracts from inbox to repository with minimal data entry ⚡️
Bill
A GC reacts to being billed 0.4 for a 5 minute exchange of 4 emails 😤
Brain
What back-to-back video meetings do to your brain 🧠
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"My favourite newsletter and the only one I ever actually read. Love it 🥰" – Electra Japonas, CEO at tlb + Co-Founder at oneNDA.
DPA
Tech lawyer, Shahed Kader breaks down the anatomy of a Data Processing Agreement 🔍
Prioritise
A few tips on how to prioritise legal ops projects 🚥
Negotiate
These charts show how people from different countries tend to negotiate 🤝
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"InCounsel manage to find the best of the web for this newsletter." – Jeremy Stevenson, Managing Director - Legal & Risk at CPE Capital.
Bad news
There comes a time when all in-house counsel must deliver bad news – here’s how to do it 🤲
Academy
A brand new, on-demand legal ops training platform has just launched 🚀
Password
If you’re thinking about changing passwords, keep this mind 🔒
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"InCounsel weekly is the one email I always read and click on all the links!" – Natalie Truong, Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Ad Standards.
GC vs. CLO
Former GC-turned-CLO, Adam Wardel explains how the roles differ, and how to know which one might be right for you 🤲
Demo
A short demo of a tool that helps you optimise your contracts for fast acceptance, or spot inbound contracts that need surgery 🚨
No one cares
If you’re leading a project – training, new process, revised template etc – remember, no one cares about it as much as you do 😟
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"I always look forward to it landing in my inbox."– Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel at Megaport.
Super GC
A quick 6 min clip on the rise of the ‘Super GC’ 🦸
Process map
Alex Herrity at adidas on the friction created by asking a legal team to ‘map out your current processes’ 🤦
Well said
“All the change management in the world cannot make users adopt a bad experience…” 👏
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"I open your emails as soon as I receive them!" – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Budget
Three tips for an in-house legal budget as we approach 2023 💸
Standards
A global list of legal standardisation projects from task codes, to metrics, template docs, and more 🔍
Whinenot
Because life’s too short for average wine and billable hours 🍷
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"I love reading these gems each week with a fresh coffee." – Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel at Megaport.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Canvas
Throw back to our Service Model Canvas for Legal Departments 💁
Takeaways
Three takeaways from last week’s ILTACON – North America’s largest legal technology conference 📣
Handshakes
The importance of handshakes in the contracting process 🤝
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"They are a nice ‘pause’ in my busy working day." – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Send it
10 factors to consider when deciding when to send work to outside counsel, and when to bring it back 💸
Privacy
A ‘Wikipedia’ for global privacy laws 🌏
Billable art
An AI art bot was asked to create a piece of art with the title "The Billable Hour" 👾
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"My favourite newsletter and the only one I ever actually read. Love it 🥰" – Electra Japonas, CEO at tlb + Co-Founder at oneNDA.
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What is ‘market’?
Get free access to a new product that provides real market data on hundreds of contract terms 📊
Liability limits
… and a deep dive analysis of said data on ‘what is market’ for limitation of liability clauses 🛡
Know-it-all
How sole GCs can manage the expectation to ‘know all the laws’ 🦸
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"Best legal related snippets I have read/watched in ages." – Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation and Innovation Director at Simpson Grierson.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Zero
A step-by-step guide for lawyers to reach ‘inbox zero’ 📭
Survey
The top 5 findings from the ACC’s latest law department survey 📊
Test
An ‘on the spot’ accuracy test of an AI tool flagging key data/clauses in a randomly-picked MSA ✅
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InCounsel weekly is the one email I always read and click on all the links!" – Natalie Truong, Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Ad Standards.
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Imposter
How in-house lawyers can recognise and escape the clutches of imposter syndrome 🌤
Refresh
A refreshing take on a move back from in-house to private practice 🌈
Billing
When reading billing guidelines, I keep thinking these should be issued by a firm to all its clients, not the other way around 🤷
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"I always look forward to it landing in my inbox."– Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel at Megaport.
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Recap
Happy EOFY! Here's a recap of your three most popular items (by click through) so far for 2022...
#1 Templates
A (small) collection of free, open source template contracts vetted by a solid crew of in-house lawyers 💪🏻
#2 LinkedIn
One of the best reasons I've read for GCs to post on LinkedIn ✍🏻
#3 Automate
An in-house guide to document automation 📝
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"I love reading these gems each week with a fresh coffee." – Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel at Megaport.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Climate clauses
Get free access to the clauses and tools you need to align your contract drafting with net zero 🍃
At CLOC ‘22…
"Stand up if you have CLM" "Stay standing if it's working well for you" Half of audience sits down 🤦
Spend
Codat’s sole counsel, Rebecca McKenzie on how she tracks external spend using a shared spreadsheet 📊
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"One of the only mail outs I genuinely enjoy reading." – Mandy Chapman at Beyond International.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Clusters
A new eDiscovery tool to help lawyers sort through millions of documents, featuring a 30,000-foot snapshot and a granular, down-to-the-document view 🔍
Clause library
The ultimate guide to building clause libraries 👏
Question
At a company where legal ops is new, which of the ‘Core 12’ would you start with? 🤷
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"They are a nice ‘pause’ in my busy working day." – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Contracts per hr
The math that shows 👆 how improving productivity from 1 to 2 contracts per hour is more impactful than going from 2 to 50 🤯
oneDPA
After several rounds of feedback from 1,000+ lawyers reviewing, commenting and voting on the project, the oneDPA is go 🚀
Overflow
Why outsourcing "overflow” work is not only bad for the supplier, but also bad for you 🚨
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"InCounsel manage to find the best of the web for this newsletter." – Jeremy Stevenson, Managing Director - Legal & Risk at CPE Capital.
"Best legal related snippets I have read/watched in ages."
— Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation Manager at Simpson Grierson.
