Career Skills

The number one sales skill I’ve brought with me into my Legal Engineering Role… The world of legal technology is appealing to a wide range of students and young people just starting their professional careers. I’ve spoken with students with almost every imaginable academic background and there’s a lot of interest in legal tech opportunities. However, a tricky obstacle to overcome is the lack of entry-level and graduate roles especially in SME and mid-market organisations. Thi

Over the last two or three years this phrase 'Legal Front Door' has become more commonplace. It refers to a portal in which internal clients (ie people within a business that need legal support) can access support from the legal team. Traditionally people within businesses would request support from the legal team by either emailing the legal inbox, or emailing in-house counsel within the company directly. While the request is sent and the legal team receive it there are some

There are many types of roles in eDiscovery which require different skill sets, however all eDiscovery professions have a good understanding of technology and its application to real world problems. Expertise in eDiscovery technology in particular is particularly important and eDiscovery professionals spend much of their operating specialised document review or data processing technology. Often eDiscovery experts have skills in digital forensics (examining digital artefacts –

This is certainly the million dollar question in legal operations - how do you know the tech that you're procuring is right for your organisation? With an astounding amount of choice these days where do you begin? While every organisation is different, these are some considerations that should be taken into account when you're looking for new tech: Are you ready for tech? The first consideration isn't really about the tech at all - it's more around your preparation for gettin

The world we live in is more connected than ever. Through social media platforms like LinkedIn we are able to reach almost anyone in the business world. With so many people there is always a challenge 'standing out' among the crowd. To become more 'visible' in the crowd it may be beneficial to build and promote your own personal brand (distinct from the brand of the company you work for). There will be a number of different reasons why you would want to do this. It could be t

For quite a few people in legal operations they may be the only person in their organisation that does this type of work - especially those working in-house. Finding yourself with little in the way of network makes it difficult to assess what is 'best practice' or take inspiration from projects that others have done, for example. It is therefore useful to build up a network that not only helps your professionally - but also personally in the event you ever need to move on to

Happy belated International Women’s Day to all Legal Technologist readers! The accidental technologists (all being women) were keen to celebrate IWD and use this article to honour women in technology, carrying on the brilliant work of our Mills & Reeve “Inspiring Women in Technology” group. The accidental technologists thought long and hard about the themes we could cover in this article. In the end we decided to focus on positive change, sharing inspirational stories of our