How Counter Tax is fostering friendly NewLaw world domination

How Counter Tax is fostering friendly NewLaw world domination is a post with a difference. It’s based on the catchy story-telling style of Counter Tax Lawyers of Canada.

When Peter Aprile and Natalie Worsfold of Counter Tax Lawyers interviewed me back in February last year, I asked myself “Will this neat idea do any more than capture some attention?” Well, as the series and this episode–in which Peter and Natalie interview fellow Canadian, Peter Carayiannis, founder Conduit Law–show the tales are topical and well-told.

In 2012, Peter founded Conduit Law, a B2B firm offering on-demand in-house counsel to business across Canada. In March 2016, Conduit merged with accounting giant, Deloitte LLP, to form a new legal business in Canada called Deloitte Conduit Law LLP.  The discussion canvasses Conduit’s ‘legal innovation’, client-centrism, the Deloitte affiliation process, and how NewLaw law firms need to show clients how much they care.

The newly formed Deloitte Conduit Law LLP offers outsourced lawyers to support in-house legal teams, meet business needs on-demand at law firms, and deliver short-term projects or special engagements.

Peter C describes the essence of Conduit this way: “We…work as hubs of activity stationed in various areas to serve different economies and different industries.We’ll have little points on the map at different spots servicing those industries. Right now, the one point is Toronto, but you could easily see a situation where….we want to get into the high tech area in Kitchener Waterloo and we or similarly the technology space in Ottawa….As opposed to trying to grow in one place, one large monolithic pyramid. That’s not what we’re going to do. Ours will be discreet, agile, and nimble points on a map….specifically designed to service clients.”

You can listen to the whole interview with Peter Carayiannis here.

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George Beaton