Olga Mack spoke with Nada Alnajafi who detailed four effective ways to prevent “redline rage” for #inhousecounsel during contract negotiations from her new book, Contract Redlining Etiquette™.
Have you transformed any of your communications into visuals? Present visually incorporating images that illicit emotions and you’ll see audiences relate and comprehend better.
Who says lawyers aren’t creative? It’s in you — you just need to exercise the tools to bring it out, and you’ll find solutions to problems and new ways to express yourself. #ACCDocket #TechTuesday
Communicate for your laypersons and use images to simplify and clarify — it’s not just better, it’s become mandatory in some instances and will be required more and more. #ACCDocket #communication
Instead of avoiding or even banning emojis in work communications, lawyers can use them as social cues in texts, emails, and social media to emphasize meaning and improve comprehension.
Productization allows you to deliver customer-focused legal services at scale and cost-effectively to make a more significant impact on your bottom line.
Contract negotiation can get frustrating when it drags on for months, but using standardized contract language can help shorten that timeframe and ease the mistrust between lawyers trying to write a contract from scratch.
I’m calling for the defenders of user privacy — the market leaders who want to make law more accessible — to adopt the following three practices within the next five years.
Social media is now one of the main — and still mainly free — tools CEOs use to communicate directly with the public and investors (especially during pandemic lockdowns). It’s the modern way to build a positive brand image, earn trust, and lead through uncertainty. As corporate counsel, your role is to de-risk your CEO’s social media adventures, not stop them. Here’s how.
The answer was, and still is, to insist that outside counsel also embrace digitization. Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software digitizes contract processes end-to-end, allowing lawyers to create, negotiate, and manage contracts and related documents entirely online.
By using technology and a data-driven approach, you gain big picture clarity and understanding that rids you of the random uncertainties that feed the Bad News Bingo terrors.
If you’re like the 82 percent of corporate counsel who recently identified “the greater use of technology to improve productivity” as the most significant change ahead, you’re probably evaluating your software options now or will be soon.
During a crisis, corporate counsel deal with many unknowns that make answering a question like this a tricky business. We often need to make decisions long before all the facts are revealed. There are no rulebooks; no straight lines that lead to all the right answers. We can, however, take advantage of technology to ensure we are better informed during a crisis and better able to assist employees and clients.
The fictional divide that separates our personal and professional lives is crumbling. We show ourselves as we truly are everywhere we go — at work, home, and play. What will it mean for the future of law when technology tears down the wall completely? Here’s how lawyers who embrace a leadership mindset will find opportunities for growth and positive change.
What makes legal technology effective today? How can you build a legal technology system that supports healthier, more mindful, and more collaborative workstyles while still enhancing your company’s competitiveness? Start by considering these five factors.
The coronavirus work from home mandates have shown us that no matter how far apart we are physically, we’re all still very much connected. Remote communication tools bring us together, but new legal leaders still need to ask the right questions, actively listen to others, and set aside any assumptions to accurately assess the lay of the land.
