INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Tuna Kutsal

Tuna Kutsal

NewLaw 2026

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About

Provided by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Practice Areas

- Digital Legal Delivery

- Legal Operations

- Legal Automation And Technology

- Legal Process Design

Career

Tuna is Head of Legal Operations Advisory based in our Sydney office. Tuna is the Head of Legal Operations in the firm’s Digital Legal Delivery practice, leading a team that helps clients 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.

For additional information on Tuna’s professional background, please visit: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/our-people/t/tuna-kutsal

Chambers Review

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NewLaw

Legal Transformation Consulting - Global-wide

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Individual Editorial

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.

Alternative Legal Service Providers - Asia-Pacific Region

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Individual Editorial

Tuna Kutsal is head of operations in Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's digital legal delivery advisory practice. She assists clients with process design, operational transformation and technology strategy and implementation projects.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Tuna is a clear communicator, very client-centric and has got technical expertise in legal operations and legal technology.

    Legal Transformation ConsultingNewLaw
  • Tuna is excellent. She is incredibly personable, deeply understands her clients and ensures clients get what they want. She is a thought partner that is trusted and creates a supportive environment.

    Legal Transformation ConsultingNewLaw
  • Tuna is one of those people who is an extremely good operator. She gets things done, cuts through the noise and knows what needs to be achieved. She is also super-capable and comfortable working across areas.

    Legal Transformation ConsultingNewLaw
  • Tuna Kutsal is excellent. She is incredibly personable and deeply understands her clients. She is a trusted thought partner and creates a supportive environment.

    Alternative Legal Service ProvidersNewLaw

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