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.

CREATOR OF:

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

  • Procurement and ICT and other contract advice
  • Contract drafting and negotiation
  • Redesign of contract templates
  • Privacy advice and privacy impact assessment
  • Assistance with privacy compliance processes and maturity
  • Technology law advice, including in relation to AI
  • Administrative law advice

A lawyer-client relationship is formed for these services.

Legal tech solutions

  • Automation advisory services
  • Build of document and advice automations
  • Productised legal service builds
  • Knowledge base site builds
  • Lawyer website builds
  • Lawyer directory site builds
  • Document automation plugins for WordPress

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
From StopLookGo Privacy
From GravityMerge
From WP and Legal Stuff
From Law of Course
AI news of interest from around the web

On my mind ...

"Artificial intelligence is here to stay. We must get on top of it sooner rather than later. By 'we', I mean lawyers, privacy and security professionals, government agencies, private sector businesses, educators, and Parliament. The stakes are too high to ignore it. From propelling our productivity and businesses and enabling new discoveries (or wasting money on the hype without a sufficient business case), through to issues of privacy, security, hallucination, copyright infringement, and redundancy, we can either use it safely to our advantage, or make mistakes and suffer." 

Richard Best  

/ Lawyer and legal tech consultant

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