@allocatur

Liz Harris:lawyer, consultant to law departments and law firms on legal cost management, legal project management, law department value, client relationships

 Melbourne, Australia
ovidconsulting.com.au/
Joined February 2009
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Fact: Less than 2.5% of Victorian lawyers received a complaint last year. Most involved minor mistakes or misunderstandings. Just 6% of 574 closed files involved more serious disciplinary matters. See our annual report for more about complaint outcomes. lsbc.vic.gov.au/news-updates…
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Signing a deal today with Oxford University Press @OUPLaw for the publication of a 3RD EDITION OF TOMORROW'S LAWYERS. Out in Spring 2022. A major re-write and update, along with new chapters on lawtech start-ups, innovation, the impact of Covid, and the four dimensions of lawtech
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WORST NIGHTMARE. Someone just accidentally unmuted themselves while calling a barrister a "fuckwit" in the Supreme Court.
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Fascinating look at the future of meetings mspoweruser.com/microsoft-po…
Another Microsoft Teams tip. In a Teams meeting, you can pop out apps - planner, calendar, To Do. Great for creating and allocating tasks across the team, and for arranging future meetings ow.ly/3xNL50DARMm
Coca-Cola to penalise outside firms for insufficiently diverse teams legalfutures.co.uk/latest-ne…

Coca-Cola to penalise outside firms for insufficiently diverse teams

Drinks giant Coca-Cola is to start penalising its panel law firms with reduced fees if they fail to deliver on diversity commitments, in a shift starting in the US and then expanding globally.

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ON DEMAND program videos from the CLI-ALPMA Innovation and Legaltech Week 2021 - all 18 sessions - now available to the public free of charge here: bit.ly/3rSRofP and also most are in CLI's The Legalpreneurs Sandbox Podcast series here: bit.ly/2NrJBXw.
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I wonder what the Australian position works be. surely a step towards better access to justice? artificiallawyer.com/2021/01…

Bakers/KPMG Survey: 65% Say All Hearings Less Than 1 Day Should Be Virtual

A new survey about the longevity of demand for virtual court hearings by Baker McKenzie and KPMG has found that 65% want all hearings that are less than one day to be virtual. That could have a pro…

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My mother's computer has a better graphics card than my brothers, sister or mine... I'm so proud of her. @allocatur
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Some Australian lawyers believe the Legal Profession Regulations prevent aligned pricing - this articles explains why that thinking is wrong. The Meaning of Value linkedin.com/pulse/meaning-v… via @LinkedIn #alignedpricing #valuepricing #australianlawyers

The Meaning of Value

Summary The Legal Profession Uniform Law and Legal Profession Acts support the subjective theory of value – value is in the eye of the beholder, with the beholder being the client. Value is subject...

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Lots of great links to all things #legal #strategy #pricing #vbp #CRM #clients #customers #innovation #auslaw #assail #uslaw #uklaw to read in this week's Issue 226 of my weekly digest pos.li/2ggpj7
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Lawyers have a bad case of Baumol’s cost disease @jordanlcouch via @wihender legalevolution.org/2020/07/w… Why lawyer fees escalate over time without adding more value + what to do about it

We've got a bad case of Baumol's cost disease (184) | Legal Evolution

Fortunately, there are treatments. If you work in the legal industry, the above graph from Thomson Reuters’ 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market

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Wonderful post from @RWS_01 on effort vs effectiveness - Not every step is an equal step rws01.com/2020/07/26/not-eve… via @wordpressdotcom

Not every step is an equal step

When it first became apparent that COVID-19 was a pandemic – and one that we truly needed to be concerned about here in suburban Sydney, my doctor gave me a call. The call went something like…

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Interesting suggestions based on different work types - How to Increase Collaborative Productivity in a Pandemic feedproxy.google.com/~r/mits…
Some great solutions for #remotework - Microsoft details new Time and Task Management tools in Microsoft 365 mspoweruser.com/microsoft-de…
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Covid-19 "will change law firm offices forever"

A global law firm has predicted that as many as 80% of its workforce will remain transient or permanently working from home after Covid-19, with only around a fifth being full-time office workers.

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Altman Weil Survey: 98.7% of hourly rate fees are discounted

One of the most surprising take-outs from this year’s Altman Weil ‘Law Firms in Transition 2020‘ report is how little full freight fee collection is happening. Keeping in mind that the collec…

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Great suggestions about creating division between work and home when remote working #remotework Ask Ariely: On Lockdown Losses, Creative Commutes, and Life Lessons danariely.com/2020/06/27/ask…
Interesting findings. 56% of clients prefer video conferences to phone calls and say many face to face meetings unnecessary. #newwayofworking What Clio’s 2nd Legal Trends Report Briefing Says About the State of the Legal Economy attorneyatwork.com/managing-…

What Clio’s 2nd Legal Trends Report Briefing Says About the State of the Legal Economy

Clio's latest briefing on its Legal Trends Report research is a snapshot of a time period unprecedented in modern history. Jared Correia has five takeaways, not for the faint of heart.

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