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Tauranga’s LawVu joins Ardern’s US tour, expands with Seattle office after $37m raise
Tauranga-based legal software startup LawVu will join Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for a Seattle meeting with Microsoft president Brad Smith and other executives at the tech giant. A total of five tech companies will be at the event. The others are Ubco, Straker...
How to maximize impact and showcase the value legal brings to the business
As an in-house lawyer or legal professional, you know that your work has an impact on the business. But does the business know the value of that impact? It’s only natural that business leaders need to see a ROI from the legal team, just as they do from every other...
New report finds in-house legal teams want to spend more time on the business — they just can’t find the time
Switching between multiple software solutions, time-consuming manual day-to-day tasks, and inefficient systems for managing workloads are all challenges facing in-house legal teams, reducing the time they have available to spend on the wider business. The 2022...
How to build a more proactive in-house legal team, and why it’s a good idea to involve the wider business
As an in-house lawyer, your role involves navigating the present, while also keeping an eye on what’s on the horizon for your team and the wider business. Managing the business-as-usual requests, mitigating actual and potential risks, and dealing with unexpected...
How to build engagement and connect your in-house legal team to the business
When you think about your in-house legal team’s relationship with other business departments, how would you describe it? Do words such as ‘collaborative’ and ‘healthy’ feature, or are you more inclined to mention ‘challenging’ and ‘separate’? How about ‘engaged’? At...
How to optimize your legal team’s productivity and bring more value to the business
What does being productive mean to you? Often when we imagine what ‘productive’ looks like for the in-house legal team there are two scenarios. The first is a team working hard, ticking the boxes, and diligently working on a high volume of tasks as fast as they arrive...
New York’s Insight, AirTree double down on LawVu
LawVu, a collaboration software company for in-house legal teams, has raised $NZ20 million ($USD13.5 million) on the back of another year of 100 per cent-plus revenue growth. The business, which was founded by Sam Kidd and Tim Boyne in 2015, has had a growth surge on...
Introducing Microsoft Teams integration to the LawVu legal workspace
It’s now the norm for business communication and collaboration to take place on chat-based communication platforms, with a recent report finding that Microsoft Teams topped more than 270 million monthly active users in the December quarter. This rapid change in user...
Capital raising and IPOs: the integral role of the GC and the legal team
Deciding to grow a business through capital raising or an IPO means there’s a flurry of activity across the whole organization. As the general counsel (GC), you’re involved in conversations, planning, new legal team hires, choosing partners, and even selecting the...
Introducing Slack integration to the LawVu legal workspace
Chat-based communication platforms are becoming the norm for business communication and collaboration, with tens of millions of daily active users and hundreds of thousands of companies adopting the technology to increase efficiency and collaboration. If you’re a busy...
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