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Matt Johnson
Senior Director, Sydney
I advise in-house legal functions on their strategy and operating models, including enhanced technology and AI use, so they can operate more efficiently, demonstrate greater value to the business, and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving legal landscape.

I provide strategic advice to in-house legal functions on transformation initiatives, including through current state assessments, organisational design, service delivery model evaluation, process improvement, legal technology selection, and AI adoption.

As a lawyer with an MBA and 15 years of experience spanning private practice, in-house legal leadership, and management consulting, I bring a uniquely practical and commercial lens to legal transformation. I have advised clients across APAC, North America, and Europe in sectors including financial services, healthcare, real estate, and government. My cross-functional experience enables me to help in-house legal teams not only optimise how they operate but also elevate their strategic value within the business.

Career highlights

  • Led the redesign of a contracting function in an ASX-listed organisation, aligning it with the business’s growth trajectory to ensure scalable and sustainable service delivery, and improve stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Performed a diagnostic exercise for a legal and governance function in a global financial services group, providing a roadmap of prioritised initiatives to uplift productivity, optimise resource allocation, increase use of technology, and improve data-driven decision-making.
  • Conducted the review of legal teams within a multinational healthcare organisation, assessing each team’s current maturity level to validate the existing technology roadmap of transformational projects and tactical initiatives, identify additional focus areas to accelerate performance, and enhance ROI.
  • Developed and presented a legal strategy to the executives of a financial services organisation, including resource and capability assessments and a detailed historical legal cost analysis, unlocking data-driven decisions to improve operational efficiency, enhance risk management, and position the legal function as a strategic enabler of business growth.
  • Directed joint solution design sessions with outsourcing providers for an ASX-listed client, evaluating the feasibility of alternative service delivery models to drive stakeholder alignment and enable informed decisions on cost efficiency, scalability, and operational resilience.
  • Implemented legal spend and analytics software for the legal function of a financial services organisation, embedding data-driven vendor management to reduce external spend and foster more effective value-based legal partnerships.

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