Katherine Thomas

Katherine Thomas spent almost 20 years in business development roles in English law firms before setting up Free Range Lawyers, which connects lawyers working remotely with law firms and law companies flexing their resource. Katherine is also consultant with Law Consultancy Network, managing director of Katherine Thomas Consulting and teaching fellow on the College of Law Australia’s first Master of Legal Business course

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    Best of both

    2020-07-07T00:00:00

    Clients want their legal service providers to display characteristics of both established and NewLaw firms. Katherine Thomas looks at what established firms can learn from NewLaw, on everything from resourcing to technology

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    How to motivate your people during lockdown and beyond

    2020-06-17T11:49:00

    Research has shown what motivates people to behave in certain ways. What can law firm leaders learn from the results to keep their people motivated under lockdown and beyond? Katherine Thomas investigates

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    Pick and choose

    2019-10-01T00:00:00

    In the second of a two-part series on innovation, Katherine Thomas looks at which areas of your business might be ripe for innovation

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    What’s new?

    2019-07-02T00:00:00

    So you want to be innovative? But where should you start? In the first of a two-part series, Katherine Thomas looks at what innovation is, why it matters, and how to do it effectively