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Women practitioners benefit from New Law approach. Karin Derkley, Law Institute Victoria 27 April 2023

New Law careers have proliferated in recent years, with women especially benefiting from a new approach to delivering legal services that prioritises flexibility for both clients and practitioners. Panelists shared their experiences of developing careers in New Law at last week’s From Lawyer to NewLaw Careerist webinar hosted by the Centre for Legal Innovation and facilitated by Hive Legal executive director Melissa Lyon.

From Lawyer to NewLaw Careerists – how to crush the transition

Come and join us this Wednesday at 1pm AEST as Liz Fernando, Kate Greenwood, Melissa Lyon and I chat with Terri Mottershead about our stories as NewLaw careerists. Link to sign up: https://lnkd.in/gWgmWHtA

Book Recommendation: Tech Enabled Lawyer by Fiona MacLay

In 'Tech Enabled Lawyer' Fiona McLay has created a rare thing: a book about technology that is not only practical and useful, but is a jolly good read. Intricately researched and thoughtfully presented, Tech Enabled Lawyer stimulates with ideas and assists with practical tools

Remote? Office? Sort this out and I don’t care where you work.

Some displacement activity is insidious because it distorts our relationship with reality. It appears so legitimate that we genuinely believe it's a valid use of our time.

Free Range Thinking… The best are full of doubts

Do we – in the rush to display our ‘personal brand’ through confidence, presence and certainty, deny room for doubt, curiosity and learning?

Free Range Thinking… Measuring everything but that which makes life worthwhile.

States Kennedy, “we have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.” Society still encourages us to value our work and even our leisure according to the economic value they generate. But how much longer can this go on?

Free Range Thinking… Insects of WA

And when I think this, I remember the power of the small. The power of the personal. The power of reflection. The power of one person’s story to enlighten, provoke, challenge and comfort.

Free Range Thinking… Work that works for people, not the other way around

The way we work is not a law of nature. It’s not like this because it has to be. It’s like this because we created it this way.

Free Range Thinking… In sync by choice

And so, it dawned on me that it’s this very thing our Free Range lawyers want: enough control to synchronise their time with what’s important to them.