Tuna Kutsal
NewLaw Guide 2024
Band 1 : Legal Transformation Consulting
Band 1
About
Provided by Tuna Kutsal
Practice Areas
Tuna is the Head of Legal Operations in Herbert Smith Freehills’ Digital Legal Delivery practice, leading a team that helps clients in across Australia and Asia optimise the efficiency and operational effectiveness of their legal functions.
As a former in-house lawyer, Tuna is passionate about helping legal teams create efficient, streamlined and compliant processes that drive lasting change and foster critical business relationships. Tuna has over eight years of experience in transformation that is enabled by technology and has supported the successful delivery of projects across all stages of a transformation journey and to functions of varying sizes, sectors and geographies.
Tuna advises clients on legal function strategy, process optimisation and digital-driven transformation, including transformation of the legal function, ongoing support to legal operations teams with the execution of their strategy, legal process design, and automation and technology-enabled initiatives for key workflows.
Tuna was a Finalist for Legal Operations Professional of the Year in the 2022 Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards and has been recognised as a global leader in document automation by Thomson Reuters.
Chambers Review
NewLaw
Tuna Kutsal has extensive experience supporting and advising clients on a diverse range of innovative legal transformation consulting matters. Her expertise covers strategy implementation, capability development and solution design, among other matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Tuna is outstanding: technically thorough, enjoyable to work with, and effective at driving outcomes.Her background and understanding help her to generate pragmatic, sensible and clever solutions."
"Tuna's one of the best operators in legal innovation I have ever had the pleasure to work with, and has set the bar for legal ops professionals. Her capability, diligence and eloquence are unrivalled."
"Tuna is outstanding: technically thorough, enjoyable to work with, and effective at driving outcomes.Her background and understanding help her to generate pragmatic, sensible and clever solutions."
"Tuna's one of the best operators in legal innovation I have ever had the pleasure to work with, and has set the bar for legal ops professionals. Her capability, diligence and eloquence are unrivalled."