Welcome to the LEx Open Source membership hub
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We have created a unique suite of resources including tools, practical guides, discussion forums and design thinking content of Legal Operational Excellence. The purpose of LEx Open Source is to share market best practice and to co-create blueprint solutions for the common issues affecting our community. We are group of lawyers, legal engineers and process individuals working for the sole purposes of sharing what we have learnt over the years. Please have a look around and join us in our journey to source great content for the legal community. Access to additional quality content is available to members. Memberships comes at no costs, our only expectation from members is to sign up to a code of conduct (aimed at making the site solicitation free and creating a culture of collaboration). What are you waiting for please jump in!
Upcoming events
T-Cubed Learning: Theory x Tools x Techniques = TRANSFORM
Delivered through our unique 3T approach (theory, tools and tactics) with insight and case studies drawn from RSG Consulting’s research for the global FT Innovative Lawyers and Intelligent Business Reports in addition to practical experience, Lean and management theory from LEx360 and theory from experts in organisational and behavioural change.
Date: 10-11 September 2019
Venue: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
HighQ - The future of client portals
The future of client portals workshop will give participants the opportunity to examine collaboration challenges, learn from one another and design better ways for in-house legal teams and law firms to work together.
Date: 25th September 2019 10am to 5pm
Venue: Leonardo Royal St. Paul's Hotel
(Formerly The Grange, St Paul’s)
10 Godliman St
London, EC4V 5AJ
OpEx20:20
The Legal 500 and LExOpenSource are delighted to announce a new JV initiative to identify thought leaders who are transforming the legal profession across the eco-system.
OpEx 20:20 will focus on those individuals and organistaions who have championed projects and processes that have materially and practically changes the business of law in the following categories;
Transformation / Change Management / Technology / People / I&D
We are calling on UK change makers from in-house, law firms and newlaw to make submissions!
OpEx 20:20 will share best practice in detail so that attendees and readers in the programme can get real tangible learning with the outcome being Operational Excellence for all in the legal profession.
News feeds
Asylum case rejected by controversial judge Sandy Street will be reheard
22 Aug 2019
Full bench of federal court finds Street failed to give procedural fairness to Iranian man A full bench of the federal court has ordered an asylum...
Former top judge lambasts Grayling and Truss in memoir
21 Aug 2019
Lord Dyson, a former master of the rolls, highlights the difficult relationship between judiciary and senior politicians The former lord chancellor...
Council ban on protests outside abortion clinic upheld by appeal court
21 Aug 2019
Anti-abortion activists argued Ealing’s buffer zone for Marie Stopes clinic was unjustified Anti-abortion activists have lost a court of appeal...
Solicitor who repeatedly lied to clients struck off
24 Aug 2019
Rhodd Llwyd Humphreys said she had obtained a grant of probate when she had not.
Call for code of practice to oversee machine learning in policing
24 Aug 2019
Problem is not the absence of regulation but its diversity and lack of specificity, academics say.
Overcharging solicitor struck off after more than 50 years in practice
23 Aug 2019
Harold Anthony Newell, who was born in 1938, overcharged clients in probate cases, tribunal finds.
Magic Circle Firm Joins Mayer Brown Advising on $4B Hasbro Deal
23 Aug 2019
Entertainment One has agreed an acquisition by U.S. toy giant Hasbro.
In Pictures: Commonwealth Bank of Australia Appoints New GC as Offshore Firms Make Key Hires
23 Aug 2019
This week also saw moves for Reed Smith and Brodies.
Clydes Loses Five-Strong Private Client Team to Edinburgh Firm
23 Aug 2019
The partner-led team joined the firm just four years ago as part of a merger.
Current focus and statistics
Helping us grow into the principal driving force behind legal operational excellence