Practical and collaborative legal services and legal tech solutions
We specialise in government and commercial contracting, privacy, public law, technology law, and supporting and building legal tech solutions. We help agencies, organisations, and lawyers get things done quickly, competently, and cost-effectively. We do that by leveraging a mix of legal and technical skills, and drawing on automation and other tools.
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Hi, I'm Richard Best. Happy to help.
I enjoy helping my clients and customers achieve their goals and build solutions, all while making sure privacy, security, and other risks are managed effectively. With a background in commercial and public law litigation, and nearly 20 years' experience in procurement, ICT, contracting, privacy assessment, technology law, and building a wide range of web-based solutions, I bring a unique blend of legal and technical skills to the table. I'm here to help, so feel free to reach out!
Let me help you get things done
by providing you with specialist legal services, or helping you with a legal tech solution
Legal services
A lawyer-client relationship is formed for these services.
Legal tech solutions
A consultant-customer relationship is formed for these services.
What others say
Clients
"Richard has an incisive mind and is able to translate extremely complex commercial supply strategies into manageable contractual frameworks that both allow value to be provided and mitigate commercial risk."
Former Manager of AOG Supply Strategy
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
"I’ve worked with Richard a few times over the years, and have always valued his precision, insights, and all-round commitment to high-quality advice. He is outstanding in his understanding of personal information collection, use and sharing. This includes not only a superb grasp of privacy law, but also extends into the forest of overlapping laws and codes that modify or impact on the Privacy Act’s various elements."
Danny Mollan
FORMER ENGAGEMENT LEAD, DATA PROTECTION
AND USE POLICY, SOCIAL WELLBEING AGENCY
"Richard stands out for his sharp legal brain, eloquence, communication skills, integrity, humility and reliability. Richard impressed all including the Commissioners with his submissions, ability to put arguments persuasively and the ease with which they were presented. He always delivered on time. Richard’s deep IT knowledge and application make him remarkably versatile.”
Former Assistant General Counsel
COMMERCE COMMISSION
Customers
"Richard’s expertise in technology is remarkable. Without his skills my e-commerce website would never have got off the ground. Truly a versatile and very talented lawyer."
John Elwood
DIRECTOR, ELWOOD LAW
"Richard gives really practical, sound advice that is always timely and on point. His course material and templates also made what could have been a complicated process into something that was very simple and straight forward. Highly recommended!”
Lucy
CLIENT, COURSE CREATOR, AND PURCHASER OF THE
5-STEP LEGAL PLAN FOR ONLINE COURSE CREATORS
"Richard provided us with a fantastic online tool that supplies a directory of profiled women lawyers. He immediately understood what was needed and the solution was perfect for our requirements from the "get go", needing only a few tweaks. It was very easy to communicate with Richard and he had a very practical approach, so everything was straight-forward. Richard has also provided great support services, always responsive, helpful and practical. Can't recommend enough."
Genevieve Hancock
Convenor, Wellington Women Lawyers' Association
Round-up of recent blog posts
From The Contract Foundry
- Security measures for the Contract Foundry
- Beware of IP when using the Outcome Agreement templates
- How document and advice automation makes us better lawyers
- Draft standard contractual clauses for the procurement of AI by public organisations
- Webinar on ‘Drafting for privacy in government contracts and MOUs’ (and get an easy CPD hour)
From StopLookGo Privacy
- Privacy Act guidance for landlords and property managers – very helpful but a bit too prescriptive?
- Privacy Week 2021 – StopLookGo Privacy’s top 40 common privacy potholes
- Why ‘bad tenant’ websites can be problematic
- Does the Privacy Act 2020 narrow the scope of the ‘storage or processing’ holding provision?
- Is the Civil Defence National Emergencies (Information Sharing) Code 2013 clear enough?
From GravityMerge
- GM Templated DOCX: Can built docx files be automatically emailed to the site admin?
- Hybrid orthodox+AI document automation with WordPress, Part 2
- Hybrid orthodox+AI document automation with WordPress, Part 1
- Unlock hierarchical numbering in WordPress: Introducing GM Numbering
- Convert and automate: From WordPress content to professional DOCX files with GM HTML to DOCX
From WP and Legal Stuff
From Law of Course
- Why we course creators need to comply with applicable privacy laws
- Copyright myth busting
- Why you need to be careful when having a photoshoot done for your online course
- Do you know that Australian operators of Facebook pages can be liable for other people’s defamatory comments?
- “Doesn’t my course platform take care of privacy issues for me?”
AI news of interest from around the web
- Melbourne lawyer referred to complaints body after AI generated made-up case citations in family court | Law (Australia) | The Guardian
- AI ban ordered after child protection worker used ChatGPT in Victorian court case | Child protection | The Guardian
- Guidelines for use of generative artificial intelligence in Courts and Tribunals — Courts of New Zealand
- AI for school tutoring, medical analysis part of NZ's future - Collins
- Music generating AI companies taken to court by record labels | interest.co.nz
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