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One of your key clients wants to buy a business that just went insolvent. He needs to act quickly or risks losing the deal. As his lawyer you need to get started without delay but there’s a hitch. You’re in the middle of three other heavy matters and barely coping with your current commitments. On top of that you haven’t handled a matter like this for a couple of years and you’ll need to spend time catching up on the law and latest practices.

Sure, you could refer your client elsewhere but will he ever return? This is the type of work that you want to be doing in the future and this matter will help get the momentum going. So you go to the trouble of reorganising your current workload and create a window of opportunity to start working on the matter. There’s no time to waste. What do you do next?

Start researching the law? Prepare a project plan? Search for precedents or maybe call a colleague to get some advice and tips? What if a service existed that provided all of these things in the one place and was also designed for exactly the type of matter that you were doing? That would be the place to start don’t you think? This is not a hypothetical question because these services do exist in Australia and overseas...[subscribe to read more]

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