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Ensure success for your corporate compliance program with these easy steps

How to successfully launch and encourage adoption of your new corporate compliance program.

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Legal Industry Trends 2021

General Counsel will face the same trends in 2021 as before. Have they learned from the past?

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Engage Lawyers on Demand in Australia

It only takes one phone call to fill your Legal function capacity gap with the perfect lawyer. See how:

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In-house Lawyer Toolkit

In-house lawyers have a lot on their plate. But if you ask the industry’s top players how they do it you’ll find they share a few common tactics.

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In-house Legal Technology RFP Template

Choosing the right Legal Technology isn't easy. There is a broad array of functionality available on the market, and you must consider whether the product meets your needs now, as well as into the future.

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Measuring and Enhancing the Value of Legal

In an effort to support the in-house community, Plexus conducts an annual survey of senior legal professionals to identify and share best practice.

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Better measuring demonstrating legal value

Better Measuring & Demonstrating Legal’s Value

How GCs are effectively demonstrating the value that Legal provides to the business. Findings from quantitative and qualitative research of over 50 of Australia's top Legal functions.

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Gartner best practice: Measuring your legal function

Gartner's recent technology and analytics study found only 20% of legal departments have begun to leverage analytics to attain more sophisticated insights.

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Why Legal Tech Fails

A comprehensive guide to the top 8 reasons Legal Tech fails and the traps GCs need to avoid.

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Navigating Legal Automation

A comprehensive guide to risks we have identified and addressed when helping hundreds of legal functions transform their value through automation.

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The Legal Tech Shopping List

A comprehensive guide for tailoring Legal Transformation to the specific needs of your organisation.

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Implementing Legal Automation

This guide has been written to highlight many of the risks we have identified and addressed during the adoption of legal technology.

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Driving Competitive Advantage

Learn how progressive legal functions are harnessing the power of technology to stay ahead of the pack and drive competitive advantage.

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How to select the best legal automation software for your business

There are more legal automation platforms entering the market every year. Make sure you are choosing the best platform for your business.

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Agile Legal Project Management

Legal functions are business functions. That’s why leading Legal functions are taking a page out of IT’s playbooks and adopting agile legal project management tactics to increase efficiencies and better communicate value.

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Contract lifecycle management software for inhouse counsel

Contract Management Software for In-house Counsel

From decreasing cycle times to centralising your system of record, learn how contract lifecycle management software solves many of the core problems successful GCs are focussed on solving.

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Best Legal Blogs 2020

The only list you need to keep up with the latest in legal best practice, innovation and technology.

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Best Legal Podcasts 2020

We’ve crawled the internet to find the best legal industry podcasts so you don’t have to.

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Digital Transformation Guide

A General Counsel's guide to modernising their legal function.

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Contract Workflow Automation

How contract workflow automation is changing the game for Legal departments keen to take back time and scale their support to their business.

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Legal Secondments Frequently Asked Questions

We share our most frequently asked questions about legal secondments as more lawyers are choosing to progress their careers, achieve greater balance and capitalise on the increasingly mobile legal work economy.

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Legal Function Checkup Tool

Score your legal function against the world's best and receive a custom report outlining your greatest opportunities for improvement.

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What is document management?

It is critical that all businesses have a clear understanding of their sensitive documents and how to access them when needed.

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4 tips for maximising the value of legal secondees

How top GCs get the most out of their flexible talent strategies while creating resilient, happy legal teams.

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5 tips from Steve Jobs to convince skeptical lawyers to use technology

Here are the five tips to ensure that your hard fought technology project actually pays off.

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What is digital transformation?

In short, digital transformation is the term used to describe the process of utilising digital technologies to modify, re-invent, or create a new business process.

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What is contract management?

Contract management is a system or process that clearly outlines how a business documents and stores their contracts.

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Steak, muffins and chihuahuas: The unkept promise of Legal A.I.

Only a few years ago every publication and conference seemed to be screaming from the rooftops about ‘robot Lawyers’ coming to take our jobs. So what happened?

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G Cs using flexible talent builds legal department

How GC’s are using flexible Legal talent to create more effective Legal teams

In a time where most GC's need additional support but can't afford permanent headcount Agile Talent has never been more important.

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What is Legal Technology?

Legal Technology? A quick guide to in-house Legal tech in 2020. Legal teams want to upgrade their technology so they can meet the increasing demands of clients and adapt to the post-COVID operating environment.

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What is a game of skill?

Selecting the right game design is critical for achieving a strong ROI. Here are the benefits of running a game skill promotion.

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Twitter Competition Terms and Conditions

Social media is an increasingly popular platform to run a competition. Here is what you should know before running a Twitter contest trade promotion.

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Trade Promotions Legislation in Australia

Trade Promotions Legislation in Australia. Learn the legislation for trade promotions for NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, ACT, WA, TAS.

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Trade promotions involving alcohol

Conducting a trade promotion which involves the purchase of alcohol for entry or award of alcohol as a prize has certain restrictions. We have set out in this article the general requirements/considerations for alcohol promotions.

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What is a game of chance?

What is a Game of Chance? A game of chance is a game whose outcome is determined purely by chance. For example, it would be considered a game of chance if winners are determined by a random competition draw or a scratch and win mechanic, where no skill is involved in determining a winner.

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Learn conditions requirements competition draws

Competition draws in Australia

Draw Requirements for competitions in Australia. For national game of chance promotions, a prize draw must be conducted within 30 days of the close date. Where practicable, members of the public should be given the opportunity to witness the competition draw.

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Learn eligibility criteria considerations

Trade Promotion Eligibility Requirements

What Trade Promotion Eligibility Requirements should you consider? It is important to outline in your competition terms and conditions who entry is open to.

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Competition draws: Manual vs electronic

Here's what you need to know when drawing your trade promotion winner.

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Instagram Competition Terms and Conditions

Competition Terms and Conditions: Instagram has issued a set of rules for conducting promotions. Here is a breakdown of requirements for terms and conditions for trade promotions run on Instagram.

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Facebook Competition Terms and Conditions

Facebook Competition Terms and Conditions: Facebook competitions are very common, however, there are a couple of T&C's you need to consider when running your next Facebook trade promotion..

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In House Lawyers Tips

In-house lawyers have had their careers upended by the COVID crisis. Here are three tips for progressing your in-house career in 2020.

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Learn How Legal leaders are using COVID to build better Legal departments

How Legal leaders are using COVID-19 to build better Legal departments

Top-performers find opportunities in every environment... including remote working environments.

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Instant Win Terms and Conditions

Everything you need to know when running your instant win and game of chance trade promotions. Instant win promotions are usually considered games of chance in Australia.

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Trade promotion terms and conditions: winner notification requirements for Australian states

Know the various state and territory requirements for notifying winners once they have been drawn in a game of chance.

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What are the requirements for my trade promotion's electronic draw?

Ensure you are compliant when you run your trade promotion's electronic draw.

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When is a scrutineer required for competition draws?

How to know if your trade promotion draw requires an independent scrutineer

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Trade Promotion Permits in Australia

Trade Promotion Permits in Australia. Learn the legislation aplicable to NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, ACT, WA, TAS. Here is a break down of when you will and will not need a permit to run a trade promotion.

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Game of Chance Benefits

A game of chance promotion is a competition whereby the winner is picked at random and skill plays no part in the deciding of the winner. Choosing the right promotion design is critical for achieving ROI. Here is why you should consider a game of chance promotion..

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Trade Promotion Strategies

Trade promotion strategies: everything you need to know about running a trade promotion in Australia. A guide to running successful trade promotions.

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Trade Promotion Permits

Know how and where to apply for trade promotion permits before your competition goes live. Some states require a permit to run a promotion.

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Restarting Demand in a Post-COVID World

The team from Hive, IMI and Plexus share a wealth of research, insights, and case studies to help marketers understand and navigate the shifting landscape of consumer demand.

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Terms and Conditions Template

Terms and Conditions template for your promotions and competitions. Trade promotions require full competition T&C's, to set out the details of the promotion, protect the Promoter, and to comply with State and Territory regulatory requirements.

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Trade Promotion Mechanics

Trade promotion mechanics: Online entry forms, manual entry forms, social media entry, Instant win, Attend an event for entry.

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Game of Chance

Game of chance? Game of Skill? Choosing the right game design for your promotion is critical for successfully increasing brand awareness and sales, and promoting brand loyalty.

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Learn what is contract management software

Contract Automation Tools

Contract Automation Tools are important for success. While small Legal functions might get by using emails, templates and spreadsheets, this approach doesn’t cut it for companies looking to grow.

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Sole Legal Counsel Challenges

When done right, Legal can be a competitive advantage for any organisation! I strongly believe that. Optimise and expedite contracting processes, support the business in generating more revenue and be viewed as a strategic business partner.

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When to hire an additional in-house Lawyer

When to hire an additional in-house Lawyer? It’s clear fixed legal resourcing is putting businesses at a competitive disadvantage, and GCs seeking a better way.

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Automation Use Cases For Your Legal Function

Legal workflow automation software like Plexus Gateway enables in-house lawyers to four uses of legal automation technology, including: digitised approval and execution workflows, 'request Legal support, automated self service for common contracts, and automated marketing compliance.g in-house teams scale risk management across the enterprise.

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The Legal Technology Adoption Doom Loop

The guaranteed pathway to Legal technology project failure (and how you can avoid it).

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Measuring Legal: KPIs for In-house legal teams

In a world where every budget in the enterprise is now in question, the importance of value demonstration is greater than ever. Learn how to measure and report on the performance of your legal function with this simple guide.

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How to manage an overwhelming workload when you’re the only Legal officer

How to build the foundations of a strategic Legal function, empower your business to better manage risk with less Legal involvement, and secure budget for technology-driven transformation initiatives.

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Legal Secondments Guide

Legal Secondments Guide: There has never been a better time for Lawyers to consider alternative career paths. Traditionally, Lawyers have had two options: private practice or in-house.

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Marketing Compliance

Your legal marketing compliance is under control with Plexus Promotion Wizard. Read our strategies for implementing Legal review of marketing collateral and how to generate perfect terms and conditions.

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How to simplify your Legal processes to improve compliance

Learn how leading legal functions are making life easier for their businesses without increasing risk.

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Learn increasing producitivity reducing spend during covid

How progressive Legal functions are increasing productivity while reducing external spend during COVID-19

Forward-thinking GC’s are re-evaluating the resourcing of their functions to deal with fluctuations in the amount and type of Legal work they face.

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How-to: Approve, sign and store your agreements from anywhere in the world with Plexus Gateway

Watch how easy it is to complete an agreement digitally from draft through to negotiation and execution.

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The Corporate Counsel’s guide to COVID-19

The world is facing unprecedented ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’, and as a leader in volatile times it can be difficult to know exactly how to react.

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Learn how promotions drive switcch brands

What is a Trade Promotion?

What is a trade promotion? A trade promotion is a free-to-enter competition used by brands to promote products and services.

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How to Drive your Legal Budget Further

This short guide provides an overview of how forward-thinking GC’s are re-evaluating the resourcing of their functions to deal with workflow fluctuations.

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Value from the In-house Legal Function

Get your Legal transformation projects across the line by articulating the value from the In-house Legal Function to the whole organisation. When they think about improving their function, many in-house Lawyers still think about the technology systems they worked with when they were in a Law Firm.

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Digital Signature

Digital Signature Software for Lawyers: Everything you need to know about paperless execution, remote e-signatures and digital contracts. An electronic or e-signature is a visible representation of a person’s name or mark signalling their assent to a document.

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How to request Legal support

Triage the right support request to the right Lawyer, the first time, and without a million emails

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In-house Legal Team Challenges

In-house Legal Team Challenges: The importance of shifting the conversation of how Legal transformation is a value add to Legal to how Legal transformation is a value add to the wider business - including client example.

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What is NewLaw?

It’s a concept that’s been around for years, but with a rush of new firms claiming to be “NewLaw”, the legal industry today is struggling to answer one simple question: What does NewLaw mean?

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Legal Industry Predictions for 2021

Automation in legal industry is here to stay. Even the greatest industry troglodytes recognise that the confluence of market forces and technology is driving the most profound transformation The Law has ever seen.

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How Plexus Gateway automates your contract approval workflow

Plexus Gateway's productivity tools automate your contract approval workflow, giving your Legal and business users more time to focus on the important stuff.

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General Counsel Thought Leaders Report (2019)

In an effort to support the in-house community, Plexus conducts an annual survey of senior legal professionals to identify and share best practice.

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10 Tips For Securing Budget For In-House Legal Tech

How to articulate the value of your legal transformation initiative to the business and improve its chances of success.

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Trade Promotion Optimisation

Whether you are running a game of skill or game of chance, there are different things that you might consider for trade promotion optimisation.

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Contract Lifecycle Management

Businesses face contract lifecycle management challenges all the time. A contract lifecycle management system can help Lawyers add real value to the business by cutting down their repetitive, low-value administrative tasks.

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Legal Matter Management Tools

Legal Matter Management Tools such as The plugin for Outlook and Gmail lets you create and update tasks directly from your email, preventing manual data entry and double handling.

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Legal automation ROI calculator

Use our free tool to calculate the impact of legal automation on your business

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Legal Technology Buyers Guide

A fantastic Legal Technology Buyers Guide to help transform your organisation, it’s important to start with where you identify the greatest pain (vs. what the technology can do) and work from there.

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The future of how Legal Work Gets Done

Looking behind the data can help to identify opportunities and help scale Legal through automation, secondments and productised Legal services.

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Legal matter management software: How in-house teams are getting work done faster

How specialised in-house Legal tech can increase efficiencies across the entire business, including the 5 key features you should look out for.

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Legal is no longer a black box

Progressive General Counsels are using a new model of Legal service delivery to scale the Legal function impact and 'do more with less'.

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How Legal Automation Empowers In-house Counsel

A comparative case study. This guide has been written to highlight the most significant day-to-day changes experienced by in-house legal teams following the adoption of legal technology.

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The Legal Transformation Doom Loop

Most legal teams have never bought technology, but like any new competency, the common pitfalls can be avoided if you are aware of them and approach them in the right way.

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How to secure budget for Legal tech

Here we share the top ten tips for securing budget and resources to drive a technology enablement agenda within your organisation.

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Fixed vs Agile Legal Teams

Most General Counsel’s fixed view of talent models is outdated and holding them back, and results in overworked teams, and unnecessary outsourcing.

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Leadership Lessons from a CEO

22 Leadership Lessons from Andrew Mellett. How to have a successful career - 22 lessons on life. Founder and CEO Andrew Mellett speaks about the 22 lessons he has learned since beginning his working career at age 12 through to founding Plexus.

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General Counsel Turnover

Why is General Counsel turnover so high? And what can you do about it? General Counsels are under increasing pressure to drive value, increase efficiencies and better manage risk, and it's contributing to rapid turnover.

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The Core / Peripheral Matrix

How do you navigate this complex structure of modern in-house Legal functions and understand which tool in your growing toolbox is best for a particular activity?

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The Legal Transformation Playbook

Plexus CEO Andrew Mellett is joined by Peter Connor (AlternativelyLegal) to discuss the four key challenges top GCs are focussing on, and to outline the capabilities required to effectively address the Legal needs of the modern enterprise.

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How Legal Automation Works

Learn about the tools in-house Legal teams are using to deliver faster, better and more cost-effective Legal support.

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Plexus Customer Success Stories: Sonnedix

Learn how Plexus has helped the Legal team at global solar platform, Sonnedix, deliver an effective and high-quality level of support for their organisation.

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Plexus Customer Success Stories: L'Oréal

Learn how Plexus has helped global cosmetics and personal care specialist L'Oreal transform how their business interacts with their Legal function.

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Why Legal transformation fails

Andrew Mellett, CEO at Plexus outlines the top 4 contributing factors for Legal Transformation failure.

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Embracing Legal Automation

A supportive note to in-house Legal teams across the globe from your friends in marketing, Legal Automation will completely change the game for you and your Legal team!

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How to Measure the Performance of your Legal Function

Legal performance can be tough to quantify. Our comprehensive guide to setting up and tracking the right metrics for your function can help.

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Why the traditional GC playbook is failing

Unfortunately, the era where the ‘I keep you out of jail’ head fake still works is coming to an end. A legal function running a traditional playbook can’t keep up with business expectations.

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What is a legal secondment?

Why would an organisation opt for a legal secondee over engaging a law firm or hiring their own permanent resource?

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How we're using automation to improve access to justice

We’re in the business of creating efficiencies for in-house Legal teams, and now Plexus is on a mission to Transform the Value of Legal Services for the benefit of our clients, our team, and society at large.

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Why Legal systems of record fail and why you desperately need one

Legal operating systems using automation are on the rise. The very assets that make up all modern enterprises are scattered across the enterprise. They are lost in inboxes of departed employees, stuffed into desk draws, stored on laptops or not present at all.

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Gift with Purchase Promotions

What type of promotion drives the likelihood for consumers to switch brands? The answer is simple: Gift with Purchase Promotions. Make sure you are getting the most value out of your promotion.

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Legal Technology Adoption

The risks of thinking too small when adopting legal technology. We recently sat down with a prospective customer who was describing the lay of the legal technology landscape within their organisation.

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Free the lawyers

It’s time for talented people to have the impact they deserve. Free them from the admin. Free them from the barrage of emails. Free them from the churn.

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Gartner case study: Automating NDAs

The latest Gartner profile of Plexus Gateway: Sonnedix's Legal Automation Journey. Learn how to automate NDAs using Decision Rules.

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Learn Why most G Cs will fail to digitise

Legal Automation Advice

Legal automation advice: although 86% of General Counsels rate ‘investing in technology and automation’ as their top priority most will never get past the starting line.

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Why contract negotiations suck

It’s time to free inhouse teams to have a greater impact. And do it in a way that generates a competitive advantage.

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How to run a competition on social media

How to run a competition on social media? Social media platforms are enabling marketing to reach new levels of engagement, personalisation and reactiveness. But is it worth all the hype?

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How our customers help us build Plexus Gateway

So how does Customer Success fit in with the development of the Plexus Gateway Platform?

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Legal Tech Insights from the CEO: July 2018

We put together a collection of latest LinkedIn insights from our CEO, Andrew Mellett.

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Legal Automation Benefits

Automation of routine Legal tasks will ultimately free up the locked capacity of your Legal team to focus on “real” Legal work. This will allow you and your team to become more of a strategic partner to the business, hence transforming your team from transactional to one that proactively manages risks.

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Customer Success at Plexus Gateway

Heading up Customer Success means I speak to customers every week about, well, Success! But this means we actually speak about tons of things, because Customer Success transcends everything we do at Plexus Gateway.

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Where to Start With Legal Tech?

With so many tools entering the Legal space, it’s hard to know which is the best legal automation software for In-house Lawyers. How to choose the best option?

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What got you here, won’t get you there

One of the greatest paradoxes we encounter in our careers is that our greatest strength often becomes our greatest weakness. Our biases are holding us back.

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What is legal automation?

Legal Automation is a category of software that allows companies to streamline, automate, manage and measure legal tasks.

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Abridged Terms and Conditions

Abridged terms and conditions are part of marketing compliance. So you’ve organised the full terms and are ready with the creative – but have you included what you need on the creative?

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Artificial Intelligence in Legal Technology

Every week there's another law firm announcement of an ‘A.I. breakthrough’. And no one wants to be left behind. Yet, no one can find a lawyer who can point to tangible ROI from legal A.I.

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Marketing Compliance Terms and Conditions Template

What terms and conditions does your trade promotion require? Terms and conditions can vary depending on if the promotion is being run nationally or within certain states. Make sure you don't get caught out when running your next trade promotion.

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Contracts: the hidden danger in your desk draw

Contracts are the hidden danger in your desk draw. On average Legal functions spend 65% of their time on contracts, and 68% forecast contract volumes will continue to increase.

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5 changes every Legal function needs to make

A guide to accelerating your legal function and aligning with organisational innovation programs.

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Legal's role in innovation

Innovation often starts out as one idea which turns into something entirely different. This quick guide will help align your legal function with organisational innovation programs.

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Plexus Gateway: The world's most advanced Legal Operating System

Plexus Gateway is the world’s most advanced Legal Operating System. It enables in-house legal teams to manage risk at speed, reduce costs, improve productivity and enjoy happier clients.

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Introducing: Promotion Wizard

Promotion Wizard enables organisations to generate perfectly customised T&Cs and Permits for their competitions and promotions in less than 15 minutes and for 40% of the cost of a traditional law firm.

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The future of The Law

Plexus creates the Legal services of the future. Through world leading innovation we deliver unprecedented value for clients. See our story.

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Plexus Events: GC Thought Leaders of the Future

Most legal functions continue to cling outdated operating models with no transformation plan. They do so at their peril.

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Can you ask an entrant to purchase alcohol to enter a competition?

Promotions asking participants to buy a product to enter a competition is not a new thing, but it's not so straight forward when you ask them to purchase alcohol...

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Innovation in the Legal industry

Innovation in the legal industry often starts out as one idea which turns into something entirely different. Lawyers need to think of innovation as one of three phases of value creation.

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How to choose the right prize for your promotion

Prizes are an essential element of a promotion… People won't enter if they don't want to win the prize on offer. So how do you get it right?

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Legal Function Transformation

Competition is no longer about the big eating the small. It is about the fast eating the slow. It’s speed that will determine winners or losers. Functions that get in the way, do so at their peril.

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Why legal tech does not work: The top 8 mistakes GC's make

After many years of under-investment in technology, GCs are finally joining the party. Sadly, many of them are setting themselves up for a hangover.

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To do more, do less

Sounds strange but, it’s what we don’t pursue that makes us most successful. This is a revolutionary idea, but it is hidden in plain sight - and very hard to implement.

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Legal Transformation for In-house Lawyers

"Plexus Gateway is software that enables legal transformation for in-house lawyers. Part of the challenge is that while 77% of Legal functions rate ‘innovation’ as highly important to their future success, only 10% rate themselves as highly effective at it. "

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Legal Digital Transformation

“As CEOs plan their strategies to take advantage of transformational shifts,” the consultancy PWC suggested in their annual survey of CEOs “they are also assessing their current capabilities – and finding that everything is fair game for reinvention.”

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Stop Serving Your Clients

Stop Serving Your Clients. After many years of under-investment in technology, GCs are finally joining the party. Sadly, many of them are setting themselves up for a hangover.

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Legal Risk Management

Legal risk management is about mitigation. We define resilience as 'the speed to which an organisation can detect and mitigate a risk'.

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What do you do when you see a Lawyer drowning?

The Law has the highest rate of depression of any industry in Australia. There must be something wrong. No profession has more jokes about it than ‘The Law’.

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How much does a Lawyer cost?

How much does a lawyer cost? When everyone woke up from the party in the early 90s, they recognised that lean, highly focused businesses were dramatically outperforming bloated, vertically integrated organisations.

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One to one is over: Legal functions need to re-think service delivery.

Recent research suggests only 31 percent of corporate middle managers who had a legal problem went to the legal department with the problem.

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Four key focus areas for 2016

More than 70% of executives’ report that the pace of change has increased. There are several causes are responsible for this acceleration.

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Legal Core: A best practice strategy

A lack of a focused Legal strategy is diluting legal’s effectiveness. After hundreds of conversations with General Counsel over the past five years Plexus has distilled down four simple criteria to identify your Legal Core.

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Legal Automation in Australia

Legal Automation in Australia is a current trend. A study of 2454 internal clients by the General Counsel Round table suggests that 74% of stakeholders are dissatisfied with the ROI they get from their Legal function.

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Contract Negotiation Strategy

Contract negotiation is not an easy task. The way many lawyers approach negotiation is destroying value. There is a better way to negotiate contracts and add value at every stage of the process.

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Is it time to charge?

One of the most persistent complaints of GCs is that clients outsource their work and abdicate risk management to Legal.

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Trade Promotion Strategy

Trade promotions are a great way to “activate” your brand and drive revenues. They enhance the loyalty of existing customers and encourage new customers to try your products or services for the first time.

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The Legal industry: 2020 hindsight

Even the greatest industry troglodytes recognise that the confluence of market forces and technology is driving the most profound transformation The Law has ever seen.

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What Legal can learn from Sales

Few corporate functions are more poles apart than Legal and Sales. However, perhaps we can learn more from the sales function than we realise.

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Change in the Legal Industry

After conducting substantive research with over 80 Australian General Counsel’s and industry experts Plexus identified the ‘five forces changing legal’ and isolated how leading General Counsel’s are developing ‘The Legal Function of The Future’.

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Legal Industry Disruption

A misunderstanding of the nature of legal value may lead well-meaning legal counsel to disrupt value creation in their efforts to preserve it.

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Your Greatest Opportunity… And You Don’t Know About It Yet

It’s a big call. But if you want to know why many of Australia’s top GC’s believe this. In an era of driverless cars, half a century since man walked on the moon, The Law is still tilling fields by hand.

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Questions You Should Ask Your CIO

Here is a list questions you should ask to your CIO. The recent press about OpenSSL’s Heartbleed Bug – which has put most of the worlds websites at risk – is a timely trigger for legal functions to increase their vigilance of IT related risks.

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Why BigLaw Will Fail (And Fade Out)

In an era where 'The Blackberry' is the innovation embraced, it is little wonder ‘innovation management breakdown’ is one of the greatest potential risks for ‘Big Law’.

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Why Offshoring Is Over… And Legal Is Too Late To The Party

One report by Boston Consulting Group suggests that two-fifths of U.S. companies are ‘planning on’ or ‘considering’ moving outsourced activities back on shore.

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What Pilots Could Teach Us About Lawyering

How do airlines achieve such an astounding safety record? Systems, processes and checklists. Few, if any, law firms adopt adequate systems, processes and technology to ensure all key risks are addressed consistently.

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If You Want A Job Done Properly – Hire Less Lawyers?

Most in-house functions are missing out on one of the greatest opportunities to improve the value of their functions – non-lawyers.

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Law - Coming to a Supermarket Near You

We can't deny the legal industry disruption we are experiencing. Most commentary about disruptive legal models has focused on innovative methods of production. However, little has been written about the most rapidly evolving, and perhaps interesting space– legal service delivery.

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Plexus Thought Leaders: “The Legal Function of the Future” – Part I

On November 22nd Plexus’s Sydney Thought Leaders group met to discuss the key trends and likely outcome of ‘The Legal Function of the Future’. The discussion was lead by Plexus’s Andrew Mellett, Josh Box & Andrew Calvin.

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Ensure success for your corporate compliance program with these easy steps

Legal Industry Trends 2021

Engage Lawyers on Demand in Australia

In-house Lawyer Toolkit

In-house Legal Technology RFP Template

Measuring and Enhancing the Value of Legal

Better Measuring & Demonstrating Legal’s Value

Gartner best practice: Measuring your legal function

Why Legal Tech Fails

Navigating Legal Automation

The Legal Tech Shopping List

Implementing Legal Automation

Driving Competitive Advantage

How to select the best legal automation software for your business

Agile Legal Project Management

Contract Management Software for In-house Counsel

Best Legal Blogs 2020

Best Legal Podcasts 2020

Digital Transformation Guide

Contract Workflow Automation

Legal Secondments Frequently Asked Questions

Legal Function Checkup Tool

What is document management?

4 tips for maximising the value of legal secondees

5 tips from Steve Jobs to convince skeptical lawyers to use technology

What is digital transformation?

What is contract management?

Steak, muffins and chihuahuas: The unkept promise of Legal A.I.

How GC’s are using flexible Legal talent to create more effective Legal teams

What is Legal Technology?

What is a game of skill?

Twitter Competition Terms and Conditions

Trade Promotions Legislation in Australia

Trade promotions involving alcohol

What is a game of chance?

Competition draws in Australia

Trade Promotion Eligibility Requirements

Competition draws: Manual vs electronic

Instagram Competition Terms and Conditions

Facebook Competition Terms and Conditions

In House Lawyers Tips

How Legal leaders are using COVID-19 to build better Legal departments

Instant Win Terms and Conditions

Trade promotion terms and conditions: winner notification requirements for Australian states

What are the requirements for my trade promotion's electronic draw?

When is a scrutineer required for competition draws?

Trade Promotion Permits in Australia

Game of Chance Benefits

Trade Promotion Strategies

Trade Promotion Permits

Restarting Demand in a Post-COVID World

Terms and Conditions Template

Trade Promotion Mechanics

Game of Chance

Contract Automation Tools

Sole Legal Counsel Challenges

When to hire an additional in-house Lawyer

Automation Use Cases For Your Legal Function

The Legal Technology Adoption Doom Loop

Measuring Legal: KPIs for In-house legal teams

How to manage an overwhelming workload when you’re the only Legal officer

Legal Secondments Guide

Marketing Compliance

How to simplify your Legal processes to improve compliance

How progressive Legal functions are increasing productivity while reducing external spend during COVID-19

How-to: Approve, sign and store your agreements from anywhere in the world with Plexus Gateway

The Corporate Counsel’s guide to COVID-19

What is a Trade Promotion?

How to Drive your Legal Budget Further

Value from the In-house Legal Function

Digital Signature

How to request Legal support

In-house Legal Team Challenges

What is NewLaw?

Legal Industry Predictions for 2021

How Plexus Gateway automates your contract approval workflow

General Counsel Thought Leaders Report (2019)

10 Tips For Securing Budget For In-House Legal Tech

Trade Promotion Optimisation