No Whining!
It's really too much, you know. All of it - the late working hours, the never-ending meetings, the constant pressure to make decisions without knowing the big picture, always running around feeling you are behind, with the next big project already hovering over your head...
When we feel overwhelmed like this, we remember a sign we saw in a Silicon Valley start-up company almost a decade ago. It loomed large over the reception desk at the headquarter's entrance, and in huge letters it said: "NO WHINING!" This memory feels like a kick in the but to us. It reminds us not only of how unproductive it is merely to complain. It also reminds us that it is possible to change things, to regain control, to design your own future!
It is a motto that captures well our culture here at the LLI: Like a commercial start-up, we are small, innovative, and result-driven. The only difference: We are non-profit because the LLI is all about collaboration, setting standards, and creating win-win opportunities. So, the next time you feel down and ready to whine: Lift yourself up, remember that old vision of yours, the one you never managed to realize in your paid job - and START YOUR OWN LLI PROJECT! Working with LLI is fresh, it's free (for members), and, most importantly: it is a lot of fun!
Roger, Bernhard and Baltasar
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In this issue
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New Members
Martina Seidl (Giesecke Devrient), Jason Padman (Agile Coach), Eva Gardyan-Eisenlohr (Bayer), Sven von Alemann (rfrnz), Maximilian Breitling (Rechtanwälte Gleichenstein & Breitling), Cronos (Ingmar Helmers), Hans-Juergen Erbeldinger Consulting (Hans-Juergen Erbeldinger), reThink Legal (Stefan Beßling)
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“Designing Tomorrow’s Legal” is On Track for Q1 2020 Publication
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We are getting closer to the finish line with our Liquid Legal book project! We have received an edited almost all of the 30+ articles, and we estimate that both the e-version and the printed version of the book will be available at the end of Q1 2020.
Visit our project website and contact Roger for more information.
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The LLI Digitalization Guide Is Making Waves and Finds Its Way Over the Ocean!
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In collaboration with BusyLamp, Telefónica, KPMG Law and ECE, the LLI has published “The LLI Digitalization Guide for In-house Legal Departments” – and well over 100 readers have already downloaded the PDF.
In September, Bernhard (LLI) and Timo (BusyLamp) were interviewed by Ari Kaplan from reinventingprofessionals.com. Ari became interested in the Digitalization Guide and invited Bernhard and Timo to speak about the motivation, the background, and the outcome of the guide. This will definitely contribute the LLI popularity overseas. The podcast will be freely available.
We will inform you on our webpage or in one of the next newsletters.
To download the PDF, go to the LLI website.
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Under the leadership of our member Joachim Grouven from UiPath, a team of experts conducted a series of meetings to turn the LLI into a Digital Association through process-modeling and RPA implementation. Both, Cronos, an RPA consulting company, and our association admin experts from Clubsolution support the project on a pro bono basis. Cronos has recently become an LLI member, and Clubsolution is in the process of becoming a LLI member.
Visit our project website and contact Kai for more information.
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Digitalizing the Public Sector
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The team is working in a pre-project phase to set-up a test environment.
Visit our project website and contact Kai for more information.
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Since 4 weeks, a small team, supported by our member Jason Padman, is moving towards an agile working environment. Based on a powerful combination of Azure DevOps and Google Suite, we aim to boost our project performance and, at the same time, raise the awareness and insights for all LLI members. In late September, we conducted a two day onsite workshop and will be get you all on board soon.
Contact Kai and Dierk for more information.
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LegalTech-in-Education-Community
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LLI, in partnership with our member Allen & Overy, had invited a group of 7 Lecturers for Legal Tech and more than 30 representatives of Legal Tech-student associations for a virtual meeting to discuss the future of the education for legal professionals. The very open, lively & constructive debate centered around:
- the general appreciation of the various initiatives at universities to augment the traditional curriculum;
- the importance of new competencies, e.g. Legal Design Thinking, Agile, Legal Operations;
- the students pushing for easing access to the various (online) courses & material;
- the common understanding for the need to build bridges to the traditional curriculum at universities in order to avoid conflict and to foster collaboration.
The group is planning to reconvene in person in early December.
Visit our project website and contact Dierk for more information.
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Liquid Legal Podcast: Spreading Leading Edge Thoughts about the Changes in Law
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We plan to create the Liquid Legal Podcast. It will cover and promote ideas at the intersection of law, people and technology - ideas that will make a difference for our clients, for the people in need of law and also for our daily work. As a side effect, LLI will be visible and connected to the topics.
The approach is as simple as agile: we will start with calls which will have the form of an open discussion about why and how we could do the podcast. We will record the call. We will then all be able to take it as the first trial run. We can evaluate the quality and decide whether we want to publish it as a first agile step in the work.
For the program, we can draw from existing ideas and thoughts but are fully free to start in direction we deem suitable. Leveraging our networks and our thought leaders in the legal profession in a podcast presents a great opportunity!
To join the action, please drop Baltasar a line!
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Liquid Legal Institute On Stage at the UiPath Wiesn Conference
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A new member of the LLI has invited us to present our story on stage at the UiPath Wiesn Conference in Munich (aka “Oktoberfest”). The only lawyer in the room signed up for a LLI membership the same day. (Foto Kai / Max)
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Mr. Walter Obermeier, the Area Vice President of Sales, Central Europe, Managing Director UiPath GmbH in Germany hosted the event and was supported by his CEO, the “boss of the bots” (as Forbes famously called him), Mr. Daniel Dines. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) experts from all over Germany gathered and shared their companies RPA journey with the audience. In a very entertaining and insightful keynote, Walter gave us an idea, how robotics boosts the ground-handling processes at the airports of the world.
Contact Kai for more information.
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South African Delegation Meets the Liquid Legal Institute
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On October 24th, the LLI had been asked to speak to a group of experts from the “Governance Support Program” led the Director of Capacity Development, National Treasury South Africa. The team mostly consisted of Supply Management and Finance Experts, who were particularly interested in state of play of Contract and Commercial Management. In order to better understand the changing legal market and to get a new perspective, Kai was asked to present the Liquid Legal Institute and explain our mission & vision.
"I don’t remember having been in front of a more vivid and interested audience! It was a very intensive and insightful debate which hopefully is just the beginning of a regular exchange." (Kai)
Contact Kai for more information.
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Standardization of a Share Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) for small and mid-cap transactions (Update)
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A working group drafted an SPA outline (with a focus on the structure), which is currently reviewed by the entire project team.
Visit our project website and contact Kai for more information.
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