Our free online seminar series, TLF On Speaker, powered by Legally Yours, invites future-focused legal minds from all over the globe to share projects and ideas that matter. With only 20 minutes to present (plus 10 minutes of audience questions), each short and sharp session will be bursting at the seams with real-world case studies, personal learnings, and useful data.
Innovation expressed at a high level can seem like common sense. TLF On Speaker will move past introductions to legal innovation and generalised hypotheses on the positive impact of a change. We’ll bring you industry leaders talking about their real-world stories of ‘doing’.
Season 3 of TLF OnSpeaker kicks off on 26 July 2021.
Check out our playlist of Series 1 and 2 of On Speaker here.
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NÓRA AL HAIDER
Nóra Al Haider is the Policy and Design Lead at Stanford's Legal Design Lab. She’s interested in combining the fields of law, tech and design to find human-centered solutions for complex problems. She holds a Bachelor (Honours) and Research Master in Law from Utrecht University. Her portfolio can be viewed at: www.noraalhaider.com.
Nóra is invited to present on her early work building digital tools, like her Reddit Divorce Bot and Map, and her work at the Legal Design Lab, where she moves towards more systematic impact.
JUSTIN NORTH
Justin is the Founder of Janders Dean – an organisation started in Australia in 2007 that has grown to be one of the world’s most respected advisory teams to international law firms and large corporate legal team leaders. Janders Dean has clients from all over the globe and some of the world’s large international corporations. Justin specialises in major transformation projects aimed at improving firm productivity, profitability, and client experiences. He is a founding sponsor of TLF, a sponsor and mentor of LawWithoutWalls.org, and founder of the APAC Legal Innovation Index, #LawIsBeautiful, and the annual Janders Dean Legal Horizons Conferences. Justin also sits on the advisory board of Maanch, an impact investment initiative aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Justin is invited to speak about the perceived ‘deflation’ of legal ops roles across the globe. In what aspects has legal ops delivered or failed on its original promise? And what does it need to do differently to continue delivering value to law firms and businesses?
A believer in drawing fresh talent from industries outside of the law to foster innovation, Justin will also talk about which industries he thinks there’s still more to draw from.
NICOLE BRADICK
Nicole Bradick is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Theory and Principle, a legal technology product design and development firm. Theory and Principle works with global law firms, foundations, and legal technology companies to build innovative digital products related to law and justice. They are on a mission to improve the legal experience for all through thoughtfully designed digital products. For her work in this area, Nicole was named a 2012 ABA Journal “Legal Rebel” and was named to the Fastcase 50 list of global legal innovators in 2014. You can reach Nicole at nicole@theoryandprinciple.com, or on Twitter at @NicoleBradick. You can read her blog at www.medium.com/@nicolebradick.
Nicole is invited to spotlight the importance of UX/UI design principles in building legal tech products. She’ll speak about the projects she’s worked on, the strategy behind them, and the ways in which they’re manifestations of her objective to prioritize the user experience.
SU-ANN TAN BURKE
Su-Ann is a Senior Advisor at Proximity. Proximity has matured from an innovative ‘new law’ firm founded in 2011 to a professional services organisation providing legal, commercial and governance advisory solutions. Proximity is highly regarded for its client-focused service delivery models and holistic approach to complex problem-solving. Su-Ann joined Proximity in 2017 for the opportunity to be more than a lawyer. Her previous roles included working in-house for some of the world’s best known brands (Toyota, Lexus and Cadbury) as well as specialist intellectual property firms.
Su-Ann is invited to talk about her experience graduating in 2008, a time when employers were shedding staff and freezing hiring due to the global financial crisis. Jobs and graduate positions were scarce. Su-Ann failed to secure any graduate opportunities with employers that were hiring. The feeling of hopelessness at the time was challenging but Su-Ann found ways to find and create her own opportunities.
With obvious parallels to the current disrupted job market due to COVID-19, Su-Ann will share how she navigated the unexpected setback to come out with a job and new opportunities.
MAYA MARKOVICH
Maya Markovich has been central to Nextlaw Labs, Dentons’ tech-focused innovation catalyst, since its industry-first launch in 2015. With her unique background spanning behavioral science, law, investment, and change management, she delivers next-generation technology, process, and business growth services across the globe for the world’s largest firm and its clients, including acceleration of legal tech startups in the Nextlaw Ventures portfolio. Collaborating with legal tech communities and experts worldwide, she continually evolves Nextlaw Labs' partnership and investment strategies.
Maya also serves on the boards of Legal Access Alameda, LexLab, and OneJustice, and as mentor for LegalGeek’s Women in LawTech, The Legal Forecast, and University of Arizona TechLaw Fellows programs, supporting legal tech initiatives to improve access to justice and gender equity. She frequently speaks at conferences, and broadcasts and writes on legal tech and innovation. She was named one of five “Influential Women of Legal Tech” by ILTA in 2020, a “Woman Leading Legal Tech” by The Technolawgist in 2019, and an ABA Legal Technology Resource Center “Woman of Legal Tech 2018” for her work in encouraging, designing and implementing the future of the legal profession around the globe.
Maya will be speaking about what VCs are looking for in legal tech. What are the key criteria to meet when pitching? What kind of start-up founder are they looking for? Are there any strategic priorities or key growth areas? How do you ensure the product is not only adopted, but sustainable in the long term?
Duc V. Trang is a Managing Director with Major, Lindsey & Africa, a global advisory and executive search firm exclusively focused on the legal sector. Duc advises law firms and in-house legal departments on the design and implementation of transformation projects to achieve sustainable strategic value and profitable growth. Duc brings a unique combination of almost three decades of experience as general counsel, global law firm attorney, author, business leader, educator, executive coach and consultant. He has worked in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and recently published the highly acclaimed book, Architecture of Deals: Strategies for Transactional Lawyering, which focuses on innovation in legal education and training. Duc previously was adjunct professor of law at National University of Singapore and Central European University.
Duc is invited to speak on “legal innovation”, and how the lack of discipline in conceptualising “innovation” hinders the adoption of key changes in the legal profession and industry. Duc will discuss some conceptual tools to help organisations—law firms, in-house departments, allied legal organisations—make more informed investment decisions.
JENNIE PAKULA
Jennie Pakula was admitted to practice in NSW in 1988 and spent 6 years in private practice. Since 1994 she has worked in various roles in NSW and Victoria in legal regulation, including managing the VLSB+C’s complaints Assessment and Resolutions Team from 2010 – 2018. She is currently Manager, Innovation & Consumer Engagement at the VLSB+C. Jennie is a member of the Technology & Innovation Executive Committee of the LIV.
By reading over 15,000 complaints, Jennie gained a deep understanding of what clients hate. It has given her invaluable insights into the pain points in legal services, and what causes that pain (for lawyers and consumers!). It helped her to understand what clients really want from their lawyers. It also gave her first-hand experience in the acquisition of heuristics in legal practice and that gives her some ideas about how young lawyers can work with old lawyers to make the law a lot better.
ANDREA PERRY-PETERSEN
Andrea Perry-Petersen is a consultant, lawyer, sessional academic at QUT, researcher, and host of her podcast ‘Reimagining Justice’, with a background in community law, human rights and community development, legal design and technology, tertiary education and research.
For 12 years, Andrea was a clinical legal educator supervising public interest projects including preparing visual materials to communicate the law. She designed the ‘A2J & Innovation’ clinic, the first of its kind in Queensland to practically examine how digital innovation could assist CLCs and self-represented litigants with access to justice. As a researcher with the TC Beirne School of Law, she subsequently undertook empirical research about the benefits and challenges of using technology to deliver legal services.
Andrea recently travelled to the United States, The Netherlands and England as a Churchill Fellow to investigate how human-centred design, multidisciplinary collaboration and digital innovation may improve access to justice. She’ll be presenting on this exciting new research.