The Bundle | Feb 2022

The latest need-to-knows for scaleup lawyers 

With 2022 well underway, legal leaders need to think beyond short-term tactics to consider the future they're building. In issue #4 of The Bundle, we learn about legal operations projects, strategies for scaling legal teams, as well as how lawyers can fight the imminent threat posed by climate change.

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In this issue... 

You'll find need-to-know insights from legal leaders at successful businesses like Curve, Codat, Beamery, Heineken, and more.

Learn all about building a legal tech roadmap, tracking legal spend, using contracts to reach Net Zero, mapping out your legal team, and how you can make legal more accessible with an internship programme.  
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Introduction

Lawyers as leaders

The community team at Juro introduces this issue with a look at how scaleup lawyers have taken on leadership roles at their businesses.

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Tom Bangay

Director of Content and Community, Juro
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Chapter 1

How to create a legal tech roadmap

Joining a huge, decentralized organization as its first legal operations hire can be daunting. Where do you even start? Sean Houston started by building a legal tech roadmap.

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Sean Houston

Legal Operations Manager, Heineken
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Chapter 2

Interview: how to use existing tools to make legal more effective

What does a scaling legal team's tech stack look like? And how can legal use tech to solve a problem? Here are a few pointers from Curve's GC, Alistair Houghton.

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Alistair Houghton

General Counsel, Curve
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Chapter 3

How to track external legal spend

Tracking legal spend doesn't have to be complicated. Here are some simple organizational tips from Codat's sole counsel, Rebecca McKenzie.

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Rebecca McKenzie

Legal Counsel, Codat
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Chapter 4

Using contracts to get to Net Zero

Lawyers don't need to wait for the law to change to take climate action - instead, they can use contracts. How can The Chancery Lane project help lawyers and their businesses with their Net Zero goals?

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Becky Annison

Director of Engagement, The Chancery Lane Project
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Chapter 5

Energising and enabling in-house lawyers to deliver climate action

There is a huge gap between many organizations' ambitious climate policies, and action that will make a difference. How can in-house lawyers use the the power of law to help deliver a sustainable future?

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Adam Woodhall

CEO, Lawyers for Net Zero
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Chapter 6

Six reasons you should run a legal internship programme

Legal internships are quite rare at high-growth companies. Why should legal invest time in hiring and training interns alongside all the other responsibilities on their plate? Natalie Salunke, Head of Legal at RVU, explains.

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Natalie Salunke

Head of Legal, RVU
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Chapter 7

Interview: running an internship programme at Beamery

Beamery's Chief Legal and Impact Officer, Xavier Langlois, outlines the benefits of hiring and developing interns as a part of your legal team.

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Xavier Langlois

Chief Legal and Impact Officer, Beamery
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Chapter 8

Mapping out your legal team

Joining as the first lawyer, you’re likely aware of the mountain of work that greets you. Hiring is also a task you need to consider, but getting started isn’t always easy. How do you go from being sole counsel, to managing an established team?

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Dylan Marvin

Chief Legal Officer, Cision
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Chapter 9

Hiring specialist and generalist lawyers

Scaling a legal team involves finding the right balance between hiring specialist and generalist lawyers. Generalists often have the broad understanding of legal tasks necessary for working at a scaleup. But when and how do you identify the need to hire your first specialist?

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Caroline O'Connor

Group General Counsel, Tractable
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