In Episode 21 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Titus Rahiri, CEO and Founder of Alternative Legal Services Provider (ALSP), KorumLegal.  Titus is based in Hong Kong.  A senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Asia Pacific, he has led legal teams in New Zealand listed FTSE and NASDAQ listed companies, as well as high growth and unicorn businesses.  Titus has experience in technology, digital, and e-commerce across various industries and has a keen interest in the legal transformation space and the business of law In this episode, Titus discusses his motivations for becoming a lawyer, and how he ended up where he is today – the CEO of a “NewLaw” entity called KorumLegal.  Titus shares his upbringing in New Zealand as part of a large working-class Maori family. He was the first in his family to go to university and struggled with being a minority and feeling like a “fish out of water”. Having a “challenger” mindset, he chose a modern law school, which was less popular with the more established law firms but managed to do his training with Russel McVeagh, a large New Zealand law firm.  At work, Titus crossed paths with both good and terrible mentors, eventually making the move in-house, to get the chance to see the full life cycle of deals and the commercial drivers behind them.  Like many antipodeans, Titus moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked at Sky, a media company, and later Expedia, where he was exposed to numerous opportunities, including a sponsored MBA, leadership of Hotels.com, and a posting in Asia. Titus created KorumLegal to cater for the gaps he observed in the middle of the legal industry pyramid. While law firms still occupy the top section of very specialized expert legal advisory, he believes that the middle section is ripe for disruption by in-house legal, technology, and new law models.  KorumLegal has several products providing flexible talent, which help to solve their clients’ pain points and support in-house legal teams from MNCs to start-ups, especially in the areas of technology, media, telecoms, corporate and broader financial services. Titus shares his advice for lawyers in private practice and describes the paradigm shift of power from the firms to the in-house teams as a consequence of the GFC.  I hope you enjoy the episode!   To learn more about Titus, you can find him on LinkedIn and connect with him here, check out KorumLegal’s website here, or get in touch with him at [email protected]. Also: ·         If you liked this episode, please rate the show, and leave a review wherever you listen to your podcasts to help the Legal Genie reach a wider audience. ·         Look out for the next episode coming soon. You can connect with Lara Quie as follows: ·         On LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquie ·         Website: https://www.laraqassociates.com ·          If you have a question or guest idea, please do drop Lara a line at [email protected]   Lara Q Associates A boutique business and executive coaching consultancy