Podcast

In this episode of Legal Lightbulbs, Verity White sits down with Bec Taube, former General Counsel at Oxfam Australia, to explore how small legal teams can use strategy days to align, connect, and innovate.

Bec shares her practical approach to designing an offsite strategy day, from using the simple “Why, How, What” framework to bringing in external voices and gathering client feedback through surveys. She explains how lean and human‑centred design tools helped her team cut waste, redesign templates, and deliver more value to the business.

Packed with insights on professional development, building trust, and keeping momentum alive after the day, this episode is a must‑listen for in‑house lawyers who want to turn strategy from theory into action.

This solo episode of the Legal Light Bulbs podcast, hosted by Verity White, Legal Director at Checklist Legal, explores how metrics can transform the way legal teams work and prove their value to the business. Verity shares her journey from avoiding numbers to making them central to her practice, showing how the right data can uncover hidden demand, guide improvements, and build credibility with leadership.

She reflects on two pivotal “light bulb moments”: discovering latent demand through automating settlement agreements, and learning from a CFO how numbers act as vital signs for diagnosing business health. Verity then breaks down three key bundles of metrics, legal service delivery, efficiency and automation, and business alignment, that every in-house lawyer can start using today.

The episode also highlights practical strategies for visualising data and turning metrics into compelling stories that resonate with stakeholders. Resources, templates, and tools are linked in the show notes to help legal professionals put these ideas into action.

This solo episode of the Legal Light Bulbs podcast, hosted by Verity White, legal director at Checklist Legal, delves into the significance of metrics in the legal field. Verity shares her personal insights and experiences, highlighting the necessity for legal professionals to embrace metrics to demonstrate value, obtain necessary budgets, and manage their teams more effectively. Key highlights include lessons from automating settlement agreements revealing latent demand and the importance of understanding financial health indicators.

Verity also provides practical advice on implementing and tracking legal service delivery metrics, efficiency, automation, and business alignment to enhance the overall performance of legal teams. Resources and tools for metrics are linked in the show notes for further exploration.

In this solo episode of the Legal Light Bulbs podcast, Verity White, Legal Director at Checklist Legal, dives into the importance of metrics for legal teams. Verity discusses her personal journey with metrics, including two eye-opening 'legal light bulb moments' that transformed her perspective on numbers. She emphasises that metrics are essential for gaining visibility, demonstrating value, and asking for budgets.

This episode covers a variety of metrics, such as legal service delivery, efficiency and automation, and business alignment, along with practical advice on how to start tracking them. Verity also provides resources and tools for visualizing and managing these important data points, aiming to help legal professionals better serve their clients and businesses.

This video provides practical tips for making in-house meetings more productive and less draining. From giving meetings fun names to setting clear agendas, the speaker emphasises maintaining energy and team alignment.

Key steps include planning meetings with a five-step structure: top-of-mind topics, progress, problems, plans, and actions. Additionally, tips for efficient scheduling, such as starting meetings five minutes past the hour, are shared.

The speaker also highlights the importance of pleasantries and suggests following up with structured after-meeting emails to capture decisions and actions.

What does it really take to go from solo legal counsel to Head of Legal at a fast-growing B Corp?

In this episode of Legal Lightbulbs, we chat with Kate Sherburn, Head Legal Beagle at Who Gives a Crap, about building confidence, leading with purpose, and scaling a legal function with strategy and values.

Kate shares the lessons she’s learned from private practice to in-house, how she used tech and contract simplification to scale legal impact (not headcount), and why emotional intelligence is the superpower lawyers need most in the age of AI.

You'll hear how her small team handles legal ops, budget requests, contract design, and stakeholder education… all while staying aligned with the company’s bold sustainability mission.

If you’re a solo legal counsel or leading a small team, and Legal Ops feels overwhelming… this episode is your shortcut. We’re unpacking the starter pack with Katrina Gowans, Head of CLOC Australia and seasoned Legal Ops leader.

Join us for a relaxed, laugh-filled evening as we celebrate the launch of Legal Lightbulbs, a brand new podcast shining a spotlight on small in-house legal teams making a big impact!

Time to make your contract process more productive. This is the episode that puts together all the previous episodes and ideas into one full process overview… We run through the four big Secrets of Productive Contracts. We step through six steps of how to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract™  which makes use of those four contract secrets

Time to make your contract process more productive. On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we look at: How to create a mind map, My favourite application for creating mind maps, How to create process maps for more complicated contracts with lots of moving parts and of course our ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE that we have in every episode for you to try.

On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we look at: Why you have to get your contract process in sync with your contract document, An example of an out of sync, slow process and how process mapping fixed it, Why a visual map of a contract process is so useful, The common culprits of slow contract processes and how to fix them and of course our ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE that we have in every episode for you to try

On this episode, we look at the SLAPP test. This test gives some key tactics we can use to improve the productivity of the contract document.We’ll cover: Academic studies showing the effectiveness of visual contract elements, The picture superiority effect, Why easy to read is easy to like and Contract formatting tips.

On this episode, we look at the SLAPP test. This test gives some key tactics we can use to improve the productivity of the contract document. We’ll cover: • Academic studies showing the effectiveness of visual contract elements • The picture superiority effect • Why easy to read is easy to like • Contract formatting tips

Write for readability On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we are covering the Triple O Productivity way to approach your contract document.

Today’s show is all about the Delegate like Beyoncé checklist.