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==Background narrative==
==Background narrative==
*We are being asked to do more with what we have.
Lawyers are being asked to do more with what they have.
:'''New products''': crypto, deFi, DAOs
:'''New products''': crypto, deFi, DAOs
:'''New risk environment''': more volatility (energy, crypto, equities, inflation), more risk of default (archegos, [[GameStop]], evergrande, supply-chain disruptions
:'''New risk environment''': more volatility (energy, crypto, equities, inflation), more risk of default (archegos, [[GameStop]], evergrande, supply-chain disruptions
:'''New/fracturing regulations''': Brexit aftermath, China clampdowns, regulatory investigations in aftermath of Greensill, Archegos, etc.
:'''New/fracturing regulations''': Brexit aftermath, China clampdowns, regulatory investigations in aftermath of Greensill, Archegos, etc.


Additionally there is new focus on agility, recognition that we have an excellent, senior team with deep institutional knowledge that may be bogged down in lower value work and that we can get better value out of.
Lawyers are expected to be agile, tech-literate, process focused, and avoid getting bogged down in lower value work where there are more effective/efficient alternative solutions.
==A thought experiment==
Realistically scope to grow our current capacity is limited: headcount are likely to be static; possibility of attritional headcount loss if departures not replaced.
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'''Fever dream'''
'''Fever dream'''
Another thought experiment is to go: ok so it is 2525, the age of Aquarius and the atmosphere is suffused with nanobots, pleasure-droids self-aware microbes and artificially intelligent homunicli floating on the aether, doing everything, and carrying out every factotal task ''except'' the formulation pure essence of brilliant, ineffable [[eaglery]].
It is 2525, the age of Aquarius. and the atmosphere is suffused with nanobots, pleasure-droids, self-aware microbes and [[Artificial intelligence|artificially intelligent]] homunculi floating on the ''aether'', doing everything, and carrying out every factotal task ''except'' the formulation pure essence of brilliant, ineffable [[eaglery]].


In that Utpoian world,<ref>Bear with me, okay?</ref> what would I ''qua'' [[res cogitans]], the disembodied lawyer, now uploaded to the matrix and at one with the worldwide [[Singularity]], still have to do? What would my role be, now we have solved all possible triage, outsourcing, and labour is perfectly and infinitely divided?  
In that Utpoian world,<ref>Bear with me, okay?</ref> what ''[[res legis]]'', the disembodied essence of lawyer, uploaded to the matrix and at one with the worldwide [[Singularity]], having solved all possible triage, exhausted all outsourcing oppounities, and infinitely divided labour, still have to do?


And how does that compare with the decidedly non-platonic reality of how it is today?}}
And how does that compare with the non-platonic reality of how it is today?}}


 
==Messy reality==
What operational processes and process regularities are you in
What operational processes and process regularities are lawyers currently involved in
*Approvals
*Approvals
*Escalations
*Escalations
*Annual certification
*Certifications
*Executions
*Executions
*Regular meetings
*Regular working-groups
*Diary events
*Recurring diary events
As how these could be reorganised to empower others and take legal out of the loop
As how these could be reorganised to empower others and take legal out of the loop?


Opportunity to reassess/redefine legal role against that background to be:
Opportunity to reassess/redefine legal role against that background to be:
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===Great canards of inhouse legal===
===Great canards of inhouse legal===
*“I am not qualified in that jurisdiction”. Shop-steward behaviour from the international federation of law societies
*“I am not qualified in that jurisdiction”: Shop-steward behaviour from the international federation of law societies.
*“That is a legal question and I am not qualified to answer it”: work-to-rule from those in other functions and business units.


===Theories===
===Theories===