MinterEllison

We help Australian in-house legal leaders build high-performing teams.

Our team, composed broad range of experts across legal technology, project management, and continuous improvement, is dedicated to crafting customised programs that enhance key metrics in 6 Best Practice Domains. 

Some of our recent optimisation projects include: 

1) AI-Driven Efficiency: Partnered with a major Australian insurance provider to utilise Luminance, an AI solution, to detect potential unfair contract terms in their range of Product Disclosure Statements. This resulted in a massive reduction of review time by over 850 hours, streamlining the process, and freeing up valuable resources.

2) Strategic Legal Team Reimagining: Collaborated with large corporate legal teams to define and implement their strategic vision, rethink their workflows, and forge client-centric teams. We harnessed methodologies like Human Centred Design, tailored to the unique requirements of each team, resulting in more effective, responsive, and adaptable legal services.

3) Automation for Contract Management: Engineered an automated solution for a client, enabling them to create, issue, and manage the execution of over 1,400 contracts to 300 third-party providers within two days. This innovation shaved off an impressive 1,800 hours of manual work, driving efficiency and accuracy.

If you are a General Counsel looking for ways to make your team more effective and adaptable, and respond to the ongoing pressure to do more legal work with fewer resources, we would love to connect with you.

Legal Optimisation Consulting

Youth Law Australia

YLA is Australia’s only national, technology-based community legal service. We are dedicated to addressing the human rights abuses of children and young people in Australia. I'm proud to play a (very) small part in advancing the honourable cause of YLA by leveraging my experience in the business of law and understanding of legal technology to assist with our marketing & communications, technology strategy and governance.

Board Member

Clayton Utz

Growing key client relationships and driving the National Pursuit Program at Australia's leading independent law firm. Acting as a key contact for major clients and an internal consultant for Partners and firm leaders. Providing strategic, client-centric advice to help identify and capitalise on new opportunities.

Manager

Centre for Legal Innovation

Who is using legal technology and what for? What drives lawyers to adopt technology? And what are the barriers that lawyers face when implementing tech?

I worked with the College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation to conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of how, why, when, where and what legaltech is being used in the legal ecosystem. 

“Our Distinguished Fellows are an integral part of the Centre’s research and industry collaboration agenda,” said CLI’s Executive Director, Terri Mottershead.

I published a series of blog posts and podcasts throughout his Fellowship, culminating in a user friendly guide about legaltech and its role in creating, transforming and delivering contemporary legal services and products.

 "We believe the experience Sam brings to this Fellowship will not only support the Centre’s core mission to prepare, connect and educate in this area, but will also provide a guide that explores the important questions to ask and key choices to make about legaltech."

Distinguished Fellow

Plexus

I helped in-house legal teams tackle operational, workload and growth challenges by leveraging exceptional talent and tailored solutions. 

It has never been a more difficult time to be General Counsel or a legal team leader, with workloads higher than ever and budget pressure increasingly squeezing resources. I was responsible for growing and running the NSW arm of our lawyer secondment business, Plexus Engage, to help solve this challenge.

I worked with General Counsel and legal teams in ASX 200 companies to build talent and resourcing strategies to effectively tackle different work streams, reduce external spend and minimize lawyer burnout. I also managed a large secondee bench of almost 100 lawyers.

Plexus is a NewLaw firm and Legal Technology company founded in 2011 with offices in Sydney, London and Washington DC. The business has been profiled as a case study in the disruption of the professional services industry by HBR, INSEAD, ACU, and RMIT, and in in 2019, began a strategic partnership with investors KPMG Law.

Associate Director

LegalVision Australia

I managed a key growth project in APACs fastest-growing law firm. The project involved building one of the most structured, automated and innovative partnership programs in the legal services industry. 

Key responsibilities:
+ Build and support a strategic partner ecosystem across multiple industry verticals.
+ Support the growth and performance of partnerships team by providing market insights, conducting and reviewing research, developing and executing penetration strategies, and reporting.
+ Accountability for onboarding and revenue targets across indirect sales channels. 
+ Develop value-add initiatives to enhance client / partner experience and engagement.

Partnerships Manager

Assisted clients across a range of legal practice areas including Disputes and Litigation, Regulatory and Compliance, Intellectual Property and Commercial Contracts.

Key responsibilities included:
+ Responding to client requests, discussing legal + business needs and providing a collaborative solutions-focused pitch
+ Planning and defining the scope of legal projects, identifying resources, costs and deliverables
+ Clear and constant communication with clients to ensure complete transparency throughout an engagement.
+ Cross-team and inter-team communication
+ Regular monitoring of progress against milestones and budget.
+ Meeting sales targets

Legal Project Manager (Graduate Lawyer)

Look Happy

- Founded and launched a group personal training gym
- Responsible for marketing and sales, growing the gym from nothing to profit in just over 1 year with no initial local connections
- Built, tested and ran social media campaigns
- Developed relationship management procedures for clients and maintained high retention rates

Co-Founder and Director

Hi - I'm Sam Burrett :) 

I'm a legal optimisation strategist and an advocate for an innovative and accessible legal industry. My work is dedicated to bridging the gap between law, business and technology, providing practical solutions for in-house legal teams.

On LinkedIn, I share lessons I've learned in my career so far, principles for productivity at work, practical insights into AI, and ideas about how we might do law better.

In my work with MinterEllison's Legal Optimisation Practice, I collaborate with an incredible team to drive performance enhancements for corporate legal teams across 6 key domains: Resource Management, Delivery, Technology, Strategy, Data, and Team Empowerment.

My experience includes:

- Board Member at Youth Law Australia, Australia's largest tech-enabled legal service for young people
- Distinguished Fellow with the Centre for Legal Innovation and member of the Emerging Leaders Advisory Board
- Host of The Leading Lawyer Project, a top 10 Australian Careers Podcast (now retired)
- Lead a national pursuit and client program at Australia's largest independent law firm
- Lead member of the NSW commercial team for Australia's leading NewLaw company
- Speaker, writer and contributor for various legal industry publications, including Lawyers Weekly
- Certified/trained across multiple disciplines, including Lean Six Sigma, Scrum Master, Legal Project Management, Nutrition and Fitness Coaching

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Disclaimer: All views expressed here are my own and not reflective of my employer's views.

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