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.
For GCs
Hands down the best set of practical use cases I’ve seen for GCs to use ChatGPT 👏
Liability
An analysis of three limitation of liability clauses, spanning the good, bad and ugly 🚩
NSDR
Take 10 mins to reset you mind and body with a non-sleep, deep rest session 💡
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"It's great that it can hit both my legal and engineering interests in a single newsletter." – Stephen Myers, VP, Head of Legal at People.ai.
Quiet quit
Vendavo Senior Legal Counsel, Elizabeth Colombo asks whether 2022 will see the end of ‘Quiet Quitting’ 🙇♂️
On the money
Another $17 million has just gone into auto-redlining contracts with your preferred positions 💸
My time
A great summary of ‘My Time’ and ‘Our Time’ communication 🙌
Watch the extended version of this issue 📺
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"One of the only mail outs I genuinely enjoy reading." – Mandy Chapman at Beyond International.
RIF
How in-house lawyers can get back on their feet after a layoff aka RIF (Reduction in Force) 🆘
ChatGPT
A glimpse at what we’ll soon be using to help with legal advice, drafting contracts, and far more… 🧠
Finite
According to this benchmark data, NDAs that are proposed with a finite term of confidentiality are 15% more likely to get signed ✍🏻
Bonus track: Watch an extended version of this issue 📼
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"They are a nice ‘pause’ in my busy working day." – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
Compare
A handy comparison between two of most popular ‘standard’ NDA templates – oneNDA and Bonterms’ Mutual NDA 📑
Spellbook
An add-in for Word that reviews and suggests clause language for your contracts 🙌
Turnover
According to data [gated] from 16 firms, “roughly one-third of Australian associates left their firm over the past 12 months” 😧
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"They are a nice ‘pause’ in my busy working day." – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
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.
Money
The top findings from this year’s ACC compensation survey covering ~20,000 in-house legal professionals 💸
Lectures
Legal Tech Essentials kicks off today with a free lecture series on the future of the legal market 🔮
Unblock
If you ever get stuck part way through writing an article, this new word processor helps unblock your thoughts 💡
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"Best legal related snippets I have read/watched in ages." – Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation and Innovation Director at Simpson Grierson.
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.
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 :)
Robust
The biggest cause of drawn out contract negotiations is starting from unreasonable AKA “robust” standard terms 😭
Home
This country looks set to make working from home a legal right 🏡
NotLeap
A class-action for firms that have had to spend time and money moving from LEAP Legal Software ⚖️
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"Still one of my favourite sources of news on legal innovation and tech." – Shilpa Bhandarkar, CEO at Nakhoda.
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.
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 :)
CLM
I thought last year was big, but new funding for CLM in 2022 has already surpassed $1 billion 🤯
Password
How long would it take a hacker to crack your password? 🔓
Big Four
If the rumours are true, “the great obstacle to the Big Four in their efforts to build legal businesses” might soon fall away 💸
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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 :)
Portals
Eight firms, eight portals, eight passwords – why your client doesn’t want a client portal ⚠️
Trainees
Here's Invesco senior legal counsel, Emma Norman on how she formalised an in-house program for trainees 🧑🏫
Clean
The case for finally cleaning your desk 🧠
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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.
Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)
Practical
Ten tips for in-house lawyers to be more practical, and become sought-after partners to the business 🤝
Content
With all the shiny new automation, AI and digital tools – remember that "content is the critical asset, not the technology that surfaced it" ✍🏻
Syndicate
A first-year law student launches the world’s first investment syndicate focused on LegalTech 💸
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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 :)
Unprivileged
What it means for in-house lawyers who're not protected by legal privilege 🇫🇷
Beef
A few beefs with legal tech we can all relate to – jump straight to the meaty bits at 6.36 🍖
Longer
Remote hearings took longer according to this study 🧐
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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 :)
One of the best reasons I've read for GCs to be posting on LinkedIn
Events
A handy list of upcoming legal tech and innovation conferences around the world
BriefCatch
A patented legal editing tool for serious legal writers
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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.
"Best legal related snippets I have read/watched in ages."
— Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation Manager at Simpson Grierson.
