Legal Innovation with Terri Mottershead - Episode 2

The Legal Genie Podcast

This week on the Legal Genie Podcast, our host, Lara Quie interviews Terri Mottershead, innovator, podcaster, author, and the Executive Director for the Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law in Australia.

Terri is based in Brisbane, Australia, and has been a thought leader in people centered legal practice innovation for more than 25 years. She works internationally with leaders and managers of law firms, legal departments, community legal centres, alternative legal service/product providers, legal associations, legal incubators and accelerators, legal tech entrepreneurs, law schools, business schools, business professionals and lawyers, supporting their contribution to the transformation of legal practice.

Prior to joining the Centre in 2016, Terri was a practising lawyer specialising in corporate/commercial and environmental law. She subsequently transitioned into leading the in-house talent management departments for firms and associations including Lex Mundi, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and DLA Piper LLP (US). She also led or taught on practical legal education initiatives in law schools in Asia, Australia and the US.

In 2010, Terri founded Mottershead Consulting in the US, and later expanded it to Australasia, to focus on supporting lawyers, legal business specialists and law firms in identifying, developing and transforming their capabilities and practices to a new way of delivering legal services/products to the market.

Terri has served on more than 50 boards and committees for not-for profit, for profit, legal associations and organisations. Terri’s work in legal practice management globally was recognised with her appointment as a Fellow of the US College of Law Practice Management. Her work in legal innovation has likewise been recognised through invitations to judge legal industry awards including the Professional Development Consortium Innovation Award (US), The Legal Forecast/QUT Starters Queensland Disrupting Law Hackathon, and the ALPMA/LexisNexis Innovation Thought Leadership Award.

Terri was recently appointed as the representative for Australia on the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association Advisory Board and profiled as a legal industry thought leader by McCullough Robertson for its Year 101: Women in Law initiative.

Terri is a frequent keynote speaker at legal industry events and contributes regularly to legal industry publications on the future of legal profession, practical legal education and law firm talent management.

In this episode Terri talks about:

· Her background and journey into law

· Her move from private practice into professional development

· Her subsequent move into pracademic consulting

· Her passion for thinking about how to do things differently

· How technology has impacted law firms

· How the legal ecosystem includes talented specialists in other fields

· The billable hour vs. fixed fees

· Use of the term “non-lawyer”

· How coaching has helped her develop a growth mindset

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