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Solving the Meeting Paradox
There is something awkward with meetings: On the one hand, it feels like we have too many of them and they absorb too much of our time. On the other hand, it feels like we need ever more of them: there are so many issues that need to be discussed. Many of us may feel stuck in this "we need less/more meetings" paradox.
11 Key Issues to Explore Before Setting up a Compliance Unit
You are about to set up a compliance unit in your company. However, no laws require you to do so nor prescribe how you should do it. You can design it at your convenience. This freedom can pose significant challenges: how do you make the right choices when possibilities are unlimited? To navigate this complexity, you should consider a series of foundational questions that will shape the core of your compliance architecture and strategy.
What Does Critical Thinking About AI Mean for Company Lawyers?
By now, every company lawyer has been told that using AI calls for critical thinking. But critical thinking about what, exactly? About AI’s output, obviously. About the tools and one’s own use of AI, fair enough. But about the company's AI choices? About what AI is doing to society?
When Performance Is Systemic, Black-Box Training Won’t Work
Corporate training rarely fails because the curriculum is poor. It fails because the organisational system actively forbids employees from applying it.
Six Questions About Risk Management in Legal Practice
After hours of analysis, I realised that formally defining "legal risk" is actually useless. In fact, limiting lawyers to purely legal risks is a profound mistake.
The Impact of AI on Legal Fees: Revolution or Business as Usual? Maybe Both.
It is hard these days to attend a conference about AI without hearing one or several panellists announcing that the traditional time-based pricing model of law firms is fast becoming obsolete and that a new pricing system is inevitable.
The Legal Mind Revolution: an interview with its author
In this conversation, author Antoine Henry de Frahan explains why corporate lawyers must abandon their rigid rule-based thinking to become true strategic business partners.
What Is Strategy Really About for Law Firms? Streams, Waves, and Flat Seas
Exhausting business development is often a symptom of weak market positioning. Here is how successful firms stop chasing work and start effortlessly capturing it.
The Real Challenge of Innovation for In-House Lawyers
Innovation is becoming the new mantra among legal departments. But in what direction should in-house lawyers direct their innovation efforts? Where are the real challenges of innovation for in-house lawyers?