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Dear in-house lawyers, are you up for this challenge in 2024?
Who needs New Year’s Resolutions, when you can have a New Year’s Revelation? I’m starting 2024 by asking a couple of uncomfortable questions: Are in-house lawyers unwittingly perpetuating detrimental law firm behaviours, or are they themselves ensnared in a system...
3 reasons why the uptake of drafting-assist tech is accelerating.
Driver-assist systems in cars are groups of electronic technologies that assist vehicle driving and parking functions. They...
Why the future of transformation is female.
Last Sunday morning I'm on Instagram and see a Bloomberg Business post flash up on my phone screen. Its headline grabs my...
Why lawyers should have a linguist on speed dial in the 2020s.
Gartner predicts that by 2024, legal departments will replace 20% of their legal team with professional staff (actually they used the non-PC term,...
3 reasons why Legal Subscription Models are the way of the future.
I can very easily count the number of times I engaged outside counsel on a billable hour basis. As a modern General Counsel, I saw it as our team’s duty and part of our value prop to give the business cost certainty wherever possible.
I can’t keep this a secret any longer.
I’m delighted to introduce you to Laura. She is a really impressive operator. Unflappable, reliable, consistent. Every minute of every day. I’d go so far as to say that Laura is one of the most sophisticated contract managers I’ve dealt with in my legal career. After...
From side hustle to full time – the first few months in.
Almost three months ago, I put on my entrepreneurial shoes and launched Anna Lozynski Advisory - on a mission to help law & business adapt to the digital age. Going into 2021, I set an intention to realise a different meaning of success. In some respects, I have...
It’s time to transform legal tech product demos.
Gartner predicts legal tech spending to rise 200% by 2025. In the spirit of being curious and continuously sharpening my product knowledge, I have recently sat through many legal tech demos from new and existing players all around the world. Seeing a diverse bunch of...
A magic pill for in-house lawyers and GCs.
Ahh, transformation. Such a high achiever with its 1.49 million hits on Google. As Paris Hilton would say, “it’s so hot right now”. Transformation of the self. Transformation of industry. Transformation of legal teams, of law firms, of regulations, of leadership, of...
Here’s what I #choosetochallenge & it’s not what you think.
Happy International Women’s Day 2021. ICYMI, the theme for this year's IWD is #choosetochallenge. While the pandemic has been a wonderful wake up call to accelerate change in some areas, the research (and actions) is showing that it has had an adverse impact on women...
Why IT needs to be Legal’s bae
Gabrielle Chanel read for inspiration, until she became an inspiration herself. Research from the MIT Leadership Centre shows that the most innovative and successful leaders spend about 30 per cent of their work day actively exploring new ideas. It’s what I call...