Leadership

Finalists for the 2018 Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA)/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Awards have been announced, with disruptive technology a common theme.

Courageous conversations challenge your confidence and your communication skills, but once mastered, give you a powerful marketplace advantage. These are the conversations which lead to peak performance in your team and establish your firm at the top of your profession.

Audacious leaders imbue a mindset that allows a shift in existing patterns of behaviour of staff and clients while breathing life into more productive habits such as follow up and follow through. Audacious leaders are profoundly transparent, truthful, and unafraid to say that they are wrong or that they don't know the answer.

Mills Oakley’s ‘Shark Tank’-style Innovation Accelerator for legal start-ups has been selected as the winner of the 2017 ALPMA/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Awards, over finalists Proximity, Bannermans Lawyers and Legal Economy.

An innovation mindset is finally starting to take hold in the legal industry, delivering significant benefits for firms, their customers and for the broader legal sector, according to the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA).

Working flexibly is now the ‘new normal’ in law and firms who fail to implement this effectively will struggle to retain staff and attract new talent, according to the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA).

Law firms are successfully implementing an array of process, technology and people focussed innovations to transform their legal service delivery and drive client outcomes, evidenced by the finalists in this year’s ALPMA/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Awards.

Law firms are operating in unprecedented times and they need to step it up if they are to stay ahead according to the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA).

LegalVision, an online law firm targeting small to medium Australian businesses, was crowned the 2015 ALPMA/InfoTrack Thought Leadership Award winner, ahead of finalists RMB Lawyers, The Conveyancing Shop and LawLab, at the ALPMA Summit Gala dinner in the Gold Coast on Thursday 10 September.