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You have to spend money to make money

Building on the helpful tips from conversations with General Counsel, Anna Lozynski former GC L'Oréal shares her tips on securing budget for legal technology.

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Why Trade Promotions Fail (and how to avoid the three most common pitfalls)

Plexus Senior Promotions Lawyer Sharmila Pamamull shares her quick tips to set you (and your trade promotion) up for success.

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Why persistence is vital to securing budget for legal technology

Tanveen Singh, Head of Legal at Interactive Research and Development (IRD) speaks with Anna Lozynski, Former GC L'Oréal ANZ about how she secured technology dollars for legal tech adoption.

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Doing the Tech Locomotion - Three Tips on Securing Budget for Legal Technology

Anna Lozynski, former L’Oréal GC speaks with Gavin Carney Executive General Counsel at Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) about his experience with securing budget for legal technology.

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What’s In Store?: How to get shoppers back in store in 2022

How retailers can buck the online shopping trend and get customers back into bricks and mortar stores in 2022.

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What execs want from their GCs and Legal teams

Learn the 6 ways Legal can become a business enabler according to former L’Oréal GC Anna Lozynski.

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The DIY Legal Tech Trap

Plexus CEO Andrew Mellett shares why out of the hundreds of times GCs have told us the story of choosing to work with IT to ‘build it themselves’, we have never heard of a single success.

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12 trends set to shape 2022 for general counsels

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12 trends set to shape 2022 for in-house legal

Plexus CEO, Andrew Mellett, shares the major trends set to shape the in-house legal space in 2022.

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Why Contract Management Matters And Why It Doesnt

In-house Legal Teams: Why Contract Management Matters & Why It Doesn’t

“Contract management is a little bit like democracy, it’s not important unless it is failing”. Learn how contract management can reduce the burden of manual tasks.

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Has the time arrived for lawyers to learn how to code?

Former L’Oréal GC Anna Lozynski explores the world of coding and what no-code/low-code means in the realm of legal tech.

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The Lean Legal Function

How the principles of Lean are impacting In-house Legal teams in the post pandemic environment and leading to the evolution of the Lean Legal Function.

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Legal AI: A Lawyer’s Friend or Foe?

Why does legal AI still (for the most part) exist only in the realm of theory? Jun Hu, Plexus Legal Technology Associate explores the complexities and pathway forward for A.I. and the legal industry.

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Optimise your Legal function to be a business asset not a cost centre

How to optimise your Legal function to be a business asset, not a cost-center

Rob Johnson, Plexus MD EMEA, sits down with Electra Japonas, Founder & CEO of The Law Boutique to discuss how legal functions can transform from a cost-centre to a business asset.

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A General Counsel’s top 3 ingredients to successful tech implementation

Anna Lozynski, former L’Oréal GC speaks with Jemma Stevenson Powerco GC and Company Secretary about her team’s award-winning legal tech implementation.

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Is The Future Of Legal Transformation Female?

New research suggests the most successful and innovative legal functions are increasingly led by women, writes former L'Oréal General Counsel Anna Lozynski

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5 Departments that Benefit from Contract Management Software

Learn how contract management software can increase the speed to execution and improve risk management across the whole business.

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Legal Transformation Strategy Basics

No matter how far along your legal transformation journey you are, it's always important to reflect and refine your strategy. Here are our top 5 five non-negotiables for any best practice legal transformation strategy:

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The Vaccine Lottery: From Legalities to Logistics

Could Australia open up faster with a vaccine lottery? Expert trade promotion lawyer Emma Tiberi looks at the legalities.

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Australian Trade Promotions Spotlight: September 2021

Learn how five leading brands are creating successful trade promotions that attract customers, foster brand loyalty and drive ROI.

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Five simple questions to assess your Legal department’s transformation maturity

Is your legal function an innovator, an early adopter or a laggard? Here are five simple questions to see where you and your Legal department sit on the maturity curve.

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The Future of Risk Management: Five tactics progressive functions are adopting now

Progressive Legal functions adopt a more methodical and agile approach to risk management. Here are five most common tactics you can deploy to better manage risk in your business:

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10 mistakes companies make when buying contract management software

The right CMS solution can unlock efficiencies across your business. The wrong one can cause more legal drag than before. Here are the ten most common mistakes to avoid.

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Legal Software - Buy the Future, Not The Past

When buying new technology, are you looking for tech that can plug your gaps right now, or tech that will grow with you?

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5 Legal Technology Trends Changing In-House Legal Departments

According to Gartner, In-house legal departments are in for big changes in the next 5 years. These are their predictions:

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Horse, then cart: Why your legal technology journey should start with contract management software

Legal technology is no longer a “why”, it’s a “where do we start”. Here’s why you should begin your journey with contract management.

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How much is your contract management process costing you

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How much is your contract execution process costing you?

Contract execution is never as simple as just putting pen to paper. Know the hidden costs in your processes and how to reduce them.

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The In-house Rainmaker: 3 steps to becoming a more influential General Counsel

How to build strategic influence within your business and elevate Legal from cost centre to competitive advantage.

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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 experience many of the same trends in 2021 as before. Have they learned from the past?

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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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Best Legal Podcasts

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

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How to Automate Workflows and Save Time On Contracts

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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Four 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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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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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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Learn conditions requirements competition draws

Competition Draws 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 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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Three Tips for In-house Lawyers Wanting to Progress Their Careers

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

Learn the legislation applicable 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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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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Top 5 Trade Promotion Mechanics and How to Use Them

Our top five trade promotion mechanics to drive sales and generate brand awareness: Online entry forms, manual entry forms, social media entry, Instant win, Attend an event for entry.

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How to juggle an overwhelming workload as a sole Legal Counsel

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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Re-thinking Legal Career Paths: Secondments and New Ways of Working

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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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 get your contracts approved and signed faster using Plexus Gateway

Learn how you can be more effective by speeding up execution with a digital workflow process.

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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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If You Want Your Legal Function to Succeed, Stop Treating it Like a Law Firm

Get your Legal transformation projects across the line by articulating the value from the In-house Legal Function to the whole organisation.

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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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How Legal Functions Can Escape The More With Less Trap

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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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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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 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 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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Leadership Lessons from a CEO: 22 Points On How to Have a Successful Career

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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Why is General Counsel turnover so high?

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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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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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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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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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

Why most GCs will fail to digitise their legal function

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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How Legal Automation Will Empower Your Team

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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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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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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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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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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5 Changes Every Legal Function Needs to Make

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: The New Playbook

"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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The Legal Capabilities of the Future

“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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The Future of 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?

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 Legal Teams in 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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What Australia's Top GCs are Focused On

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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A Better Model for Contract Negotiation

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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5 Dos and Don'ts for Running Your Next Trade Promotion Effectively

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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Legal Drag - a new definition of Legal value

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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The Heart Bleed Bug - 10 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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