Jason McQuillen
Partner, MinterEllison Consulting, Sydney
I am a lawyer and consultant with a track record of assisting legal functions across a range of industries to reset their strategy, uplift their operational maturity and adopt legal and enterprise technology (including AI based tools) to drive efficiencies and align with the needs of their business.

I am a specialist in modern legal service delivery having co-founded one of the world's first "NewLaw" firms in London before working with some of the largest and most diverse legal functions across APAC, EMEA and North America as a partner at the Big Four. Most recently, I was the Head of Legal Operations Transformation Services for APAC at KPMG where I built and led a high-performing, Band One Chambers-ranked capability.

I began my career MinterEllison and held several inhouse legal roles at major companies in Australia and the UK as commercial, technology and outsourcing lawyer before moving into the NewLaw space, bringing a unique perspective on the opportunities and challenges facing inhouse legal functions.

I am qualified in Victoria, England and Wales, and New South Wales and am a Lean Six Sigma green belt.

Career highlights

  • Designed an award winning analytics tool to measure the maturity of legal function operating models and extract activity data to demonstrate the return on investment for adoption of process improvements and legal technology.
  • Worked with a leading Australian headquartered global financial services organisation to understand and measure the current state of their legal and governance function and create a prioritised roadmap of initiatives for improvement.
  • Worked with a global pharmaceutical and medical technology company with circa 1,000 legal professionals to help measure and prioritise their innovation opportunities, with a particular focus on legal technology, and build the case for implementation of new tools to drive efficiencies and better governance.
  • Assisted a leading Australian food company to "spec and select" a new contract lifecycle management solution for legal and procurement, including function and non-functional requirements prioritisation and vendor demonstrations and scoring.
  • Partnered with a global pharmaceutical and medical technology company on the roll out of a matter management platform across APAC, including configuration requirements, project management and change management.
  • Designed and delivered manage legal services to numerous clients, including one of the world's largest technology companies and world's largest FMCG companies to deal with their high volume, low risk commercial contracts in a right-sourced, technology enabled and cost effective manner.
  • Oversaw delivery and continuous improvement of a multi-year managed legal service dealing with hundreds of sale side SaaS agreements, including contract automation and structured negotiation to close, achieve transformational improvement on time to execution.
  • Worked with numerous Australian corporates on identification and prioritisation of Generative AI use cases and strategies for demonstrating the potential return on investment.
  • Redesiged and redrafted modular, high volume contract suite, including paybook of fallback positions, for a major UK headquartered supermarket.
  • Negotiated multiple cross-jurisdictional facilities management outsourcing agreements for a Scandinavian based facilities management services company.

Our consulting services are provided (directly and indirectly) by MinterEllison Consulting (ABN 50 017 469 292) and MinterEllison Consulting Pty Ltd (ABN 50 077 613 828), both of which are part of the MinterEllison Group. Our consulting services do not constitute legal services nor legal advice and are not provided by Australian legal practitioners acting in that capacity. The laws and regulations which govern the provision of legal services in the relevant jurisdiction do not apply to the provision of non-legal services.