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My birth story – the ultimate mindset challenge.
Birth is a mystery, reflected my Doula Leah during the debrief of my experience. While we couldn’t predict how or when our son-shine would arrive Earth side, I knew I could control my mindset to be as Rhea Dempsey calls it, a “savvy birthing woman”. Plan A in my...
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...
Hello 2021
2020 - what an unforgettable year it’s been for all of us, on so many levels. At the top of my 2020 intentions list was for life to slow down. Be careful what you wish for! Personally, I am feeling a lot of gratitude because everything has led me to this moment right...
APIs – the future of legal tech leadership
What's on my mind at the moment is APIs. "An API is a platform that allows different pieces of software, or applications, to communicate with one another. The term is used broadly in the context of programming languages, the web, operating systems, etc. For example,...
It Mightn’t Get Easier, You Just Get Better.
Earlier this year, I was honoured to be invited to speak at the Managing Partners’ Conference and deliver a keynote about innovation from an in-house perspective. I listened intently to the content, keen to understand how Australia’s law firm leaders viewed the legal...