Our Thoughts

"It got me thinking about the essential ingredients of a legal business in 2020. What is a law firm today?"

The bend in the road only reveals itself to the traveller. The finish line isn’t there waiting as we start.

Commando crawling in mum’s office will be ‘sooooo twenty-tens’.

Writing is sharing. It can create change. It’s therapy. It’s also exposing and this is the reason why it has taken weeks of procrastination, encouragement and a leap of faith to land where I am today: introducing the Free Range Thinking blog.

Firms in Australia are continuing to announce working from home policies for all staff beyond COVID-19 times. Mitch and Nathan discuss what this means for the profession (including positive outcomes for clients) and laugh over a Harvard study endorsing leaving your web camera on all day to prove you are working from home!

In the seventh podcast in this collection focusing on providing practical support and assistance for those working in the legal ecosystem during this time of extreme change, we discussed how our world of legal work has been turned upside down with Katherine Thomas, CEO, Free Range Lawyers in Remote Working…in a crisis.

“Stay away from the office” is not a remote work strategy, but COVID-19 has made it a business continuity issue for office-based law firms, according to Katherine Thomas of Free Range Lawyers and Emma Heuston of The Remote Expert.

In the second of a two part series on innovation, Katherine Thomas looks at which areas of your business might be ripe for innovation.

There’s no substitute for ‘JFDI’. That’s my reflection on 2019. So here are the people who are JFDI-ing it and who, in turn, will leave the world a little better than they found it. They have all inspired me during this exhausting and exhilarating year.