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How and why to start scoping what you outsource
After speaking with over 50 GCs, we realised that most legal teams have to rework external legal advice to make it usable internally. Many are at a loss as to how to get the commercial advice they need first time round. They just accept that it’s inevitable. But at Lexoo, we don’t accept that “it’s…
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In-House Roundup – #14
First published on the 6th of July 2018 How to be (even) more efficient Lexoo CEO Daniel van Binsbergen spends a lot of time speaking with general counsel about their team structures and how best to procure external resources. In this Crafty Counsel video, he shares his top four tips on how in-house legal teams can become (even)…
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In-House Roundup #15: decision trees, scaling legal, and 7 steps to moving in-house
Outsource or in-house? A quick decision tree to help you decide We hear from lots of GCs and legal teams who’d like to have a clear process for team members to determine which matters work should be outsourced and which should be kept in-house… So we got a couple of GC friends to put together a…
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5 Tools to Supercharge Your Legal Function in 2020
Individuals and teams across the legal industry face radical change in the way they operate over the next decade. Organisations are grappling with tech-driven change and need the in-house legal function to keep up by innovating and being commercial, in everything they do. This means adopting and integrating the right tech, facilitating (or at least…
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How We Redefined our Company Values
Lexoo is now 6 years old. We’ve grown from an idea in our CEO’s mind, to a seed company with a team of 5–6 people, to a leading European legal tech company with a team of over 20 people at post-Series A. With all that growth came a need to change our company values. About…
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How we integrated Design System components into our user interfaces
After 6 weeks working with our contractor Nicolai, development of our new design system components was nearly complete. We were all excited, but there was still a long way to go before we could unveil our re-design. Here are a few things we considered before putting our shiny new components into action. Where to start?
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Creating the Lexoo Design System
Earlier this year, we decided to build a design system for Lexoo – see this post on our thinking behind this. Once the decision was made and we had audited our existing designs, the next step was to work closely with our designer, Jack, to actually create the design system. This post explains the process…
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Communicating your way to influence: top tips for in-house legal teams
A few months ago, Thomson Reuters organised the GC Leadership Summit, which focussed on becoming an innovative GC during times of change. I was asked to facilitate a panel on “Effective communication skills to influence across the business”. Veena Marr (Global Head of IP at eBay) and Clare Belcher (Head of Legal at Travelex) joined me on…