Fines - Labour - Oats - Change - Spurt - Abrupt - Malachite

Flocsam Thinking Digest - Posts 4 Jul 2025 to 10 Jul 2025

Nine interesting LinkedIn Posts related to in-house legal (operations or law), that I've seen or released this week.

Feedback and comments valued please, both on the digest and on the topics in it. Remember to check out the action in the comments for each post.

Fines

Daniel Barber highlight the US states waking up over privacy. It's not just a GDPR thing.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-barber_if-youre-a-gc-at-a-mid-sized-company-activity-7348338826127294464-gMW3

Amy Parkinson posted on Monzo's fine for repeated compliance infringements. This links to one thing I bang on about over risk: velocity and reaction are underdiscussed.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-parkinson_fca-fines-monzo-21m-for-failings-in-financial-activity-7348373134208634885-iknR

Labour

On the Flocsam Linkedin page I'm working through how to do fast (but good enough) full lifecycle cost estimates for a new solution. Yesterday, planning (i.e. pre-work). Here's one on estimating hourly rates (if you don't yet want help from Finance).

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flocsam_flocsam-costs-internal-rates-activity-7348408820664049664-Dhdl

Oats

Loved Asha Adutwim 's story about teaching primary school kids around the law. If SpotDraft want to commission me, I'm up for writing legal fairy tales for their next merch books.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/asha-adutwim-2a1b5952_i-have-had-a-wonderful-morning-at-percy-shurmer-activity-7348319044933967872-dM6i

Change

Hanna Sundermeier 's graphic shouldn't be taken as a literal headcount, but it is a great starting point to think about the tasks involved in any change, and who will do them.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hanna-sundermeier-523b44106_changemanagement-transformation-changeleadership-activity-7348274844318261248-H5S7

Spurt

Eda Tugcu Yalkin shared Raymond James Ltd. H1 2025 "European Legal Tech & Services Insight – Key Trends for Legal Leaders" (thanks for the tag Burak Özdemir LL.M.). Shows how investors think about legal tech and the future of the profession - particularly the second half.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eda-tugcu-yalkin-b5699220_raymond-james-1h2025-european-legal-tech-activity-7348983210212474882-_RJD

Abrupt

Baird Textile Holdings v M&S is one of my favourite examples of the beautiful purity of English law compared with the French Commercial Code on "abrupt termination" of commercial relationships. Natalya Miltenburg posted about a recent Dutch case.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/miltenburg_termination-clauses-and-the-unacceptability-activity-7348992891500875778-mdOx

Malachite

A crisp and simple carousel from Jessi Baker MBE about how to use (or more accurately not use) "100% recyclable" on marketing materials.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jessibaker_risky-green-claims-ugcPost-7345802530343297026-BJUT

Self-indulgence

Every week, my favourite musing is my post with the least impressions. This week it was a couple of thoughts on how it feels to be in-house defending a class action.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tfleuriot_when-does-goliath-think-hes-david-i-always-activity-7347228152399638528-Ap6A

Self-care

I started Flocsam because I want to help in-house legal stop feeling overwhelmed.

Work with me, and we find and implement the simplest impactful change. We bring space to the legal team, impact to the business, and credibility and business case to evolution.

We do it in two days. How about a no obligation chat. I'll help you if I can bring value. I'll tell you if I can't.

Flocsam is a consultancy set up by Tom Fleuriot, helping in-house legal operations evolve quickly. The model focuses on two-day fixes that bring time, money and energy to the business. It starts with a discovery call. Let's move fast and fix things.

Posts selected in this digest were chosen by Tom and individuals shouldn't be seen to have endorsed Flocsam. Even though Flocsam does bring amazing value to companies' legal operational solutions, obviously, and these people are very clever and would probably agree if they had worked with me (which they haven't).

Jenever.