E1: Free the lawyers? - Andrew Mellett, CEO of Plexus
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This week we're interviewing Andrew Mellett, the CEO of Plexus, a legal technology and secondments business at the bleeding edge of innovation across the US, the UK and Australia. Andy is one of the leading minds when it comes to transforming the legal industry and on this episode we discuss:
- What it means to 'free the lawyers'
- Why the legal industry is ripe for change;
- How COVID-19 and the subsequent economic recession will reshape the legal market;
- Where the drive and passion to create a transformative comes from.
Timestamps:
00:02:05: Interview begins: why start a legal company?
00:04:48: Free the lawyers?
00:07:04: What a successful lawyer looks like in 2020
00:10:12: Black letter lawyers frustrate businesses
00:16:44: Re-defining risk within a legal function
00:19:52: How the Big 4 Accounting Firms will change the law
00:26:02: How the next recession will impact the legal industry
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