Legal innovation is not something you decree. Margarida Saragoça spent ten years building it into VdA, one habit at a time.
She is Business & Knowledge Director at VdA, the Portuguese firm the Financial Times has repeatedly named the most innovative in continental Europe. She practised law for fifteen years, moved in-house at Vodafone, and came back to run the business side of the firm, where legal innovation is one of six units she leads.
Recorded on location at Lexpo in Amsterdam, this is legal innovation without the slide deck. Why the profession trains lawyers to avoid risk, error and anyone more senior. Why partners are not prepared for the pricing conversation AI is forcing on them. What happens to your best people when efficiency makes them less billable.
Margarida is blunt about the billable hour. She is blunter about the one thing she thinks should never be handed to a machine.
You'll learn
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Lexpo Talks is a production of Lexpo and Recht in je Oor, recorded on location at Lexpo in Amsterdam.
Lexpo: https://lexpo.com
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