Check out our latest work for Association of Southern African Travel Agents. Our brief was to create easy-to-understand (and fun) documents about CPA compliance. Who said compliance had to be boring! Check out the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/dAxU4Dp6
Novcon
Legal Services
Cape Town, Western Cape 2,688 followers
Lawyers, but not suits. Legal designers, the OG of #funlaw, plain language ninjas (oh,and we know a bit of privacy law)…
About us
We turn the law on its head, shake the nonsense out of its pockets and present it in a fresh and exciting way. We're a different breed of lawyer. We attack compliance with a healthy dose of common sense. Here’s how: Plain language forms, contracts and policies: We’re all about user-friendly forms, page-turner contracts and snappy policies for real people. We create these online or offline, through video, text or graphics – whatever makes it bite-size and easy to understand. Compliance and risk management: No compliance for compliance’s sake. We protect businesses by being their compliance eyes and ears, helping them to cleverly manage their risk and be more efficient. Complaints management: The secret to keeping your customers happy is to have an efficient complaints management system in place. We help develop strategies and policies to ensure that if someone is truly unhappy, their complaint is resolved as quickly and painlessly as possible. New business basics: Do you have a killer idea for a new product or just launched your first business? No idea what you need before you can roll it out? We can help you with the basics without it costing you a fortune. Training and awareness: Tired of boring training? We focus on what your audience needs to know – nothing more, nothing less. We do e-learning, workshops, posters, newsletters, videos or whatever it takes to get your message across. POPI (Protection of Personal Information) compliance: Thinking of becoming POPI compliant, improving your data governance strategies or just finding out what on earth POPI is about? We have extensive experience in data protection and information governance.
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http://www.novcon.co.za
External link for Novcon
- Industry
- Legal Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Plain language and document design, Complaints management systems, Policies, Regulatory compliance audits, Training and awareness, Contract drafting, Consumer Law, and Data protection
Locations
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Primary
21 Dreyer Street, Claremont
4th Floor Sunclare Building
Cape Town, Western Cape 7708, ZA
Employees at Novcon
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Ann Jarvis Smith
Change Manager specialising in Governance, Risk and Compliance
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Ilze Luttig Hattingh
Data Protection & Privacy expert | Plain language drafter | Legal designer | Funprofessional | Tai Chi student
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Sarah Buerger
Tech, IT and data protection lawyer
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Deanna Manenti
Sales Manager at Novcon
Updates
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Our latest newsletter just dropped! https://lnkd.in/dsnUgAKq If you haven't subscribed yet, don't miss out again: https://lnkd.in/dsnUgAKq If you want to get to know us a bit better, check out our website: https://novcon.co.za/
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We take #funlaw very seriously. Mostly because it makes for a nice break from the normal serious, legalese-filled world of law. It makes #lawyers miserable and no fun to be around. There is one promise we make all of our clients: Unless you are utterly lame, you will have fun with us! Here is an article about the rise of #funlaw: https://lnkd.in/ddnQZzxu What do we tell our parents we do here Novcon. 🤬 If you have complicated contracts or terms & conditions and you want to transform them into plain language, we are your people. Check out our own SLA in the World Commerce & Contracting contract design library: https://lnkd.in/d4DTrnPJ? 💤 Are your company policies so boring that people don't read them, much less comply? We can fix them and Ann Jarvis Smith, our resident change manager, will help you implement them. 😫 Are you tired of stuffy legal opinions? Is your in-house team overwhelmed? We give common sense legal advice in a variety of sectors. Give us a shout. 🍌 #POPIA getting you down? On South African #privacy law we literally wrote the book. You can read a free chapter on direct marketing here: https://lnkd.in/dWC6iWKs Photo by Zakaria Ahada on Unsplash
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Does #POPIA make you swear? Us too! But swearing together is good for the blood pressure. If you want to take the nasty out of POPIA, we are here for you. We swear. Here is the article that goes with the forking carousel: https://lnkd.in/dX9Utf4U Ready to chat? Send Ilze Luttig Hattingh an email at ilze@novcon.co.za Here is how we can help: 🐙 Wondering what you should be doing to become POPIA compliant? Don't worry, no judgment here AND we can help. 🐙 Legal opinions on the nitty gritty. There aren't many questions we haven't seen yet. Although...this is POPIA, she never stops surprising us. 🐙 Has the Information Regulator come knocking? Who you gonna call? Us, that's who. 🐙 Are your policies a hot mess? We do them in plain language. 🐙 Trouble with POPIA's older (ugly) sister PAIA? We do PAIA manuals and processes in our sleep. 🐙 Can't pronounce POPIA? It is very confusing. We are doing a tutorial on that soon. 🐙 If you want to do it yourself, we get it! We made a portal with Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd for just that purpose: https://lnkd.in/dgBh3jGR 🐙 Just buy our book, it is thick (and funny): https://lnkd.in/dWC6iWKs #POPIA #dataprotection #privacy #PAIA #informationregulator
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What a find! If your contracts are too long, we plain language for a living. One of our clients once remarked that they pay us to delete things. Not sure if it was intended as a compliment or an insult, but we took it well. If you want to chat about your contracts, contact Ilze (ilze@novcon.co.za) or Elizabeth (elizabeth@novcon.co.za).
Creative #funlawyer, contract designer, plain language fanatic, killer of legalese, (un)professional speaker, coach of (un)rehabilitated lawyers, branded #lawfirm pen stealer, knows a little about contract law, etm.
Remember that time Kanye West tweeted about plain language contracts? 👇 I couldn't believe my luck! Now we discovered that Dr Suess (Theodore Geisel) wrote a poem about plain language once! Here it is... It has often been said There is so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. Okay, so it was not 'about' plain language. It turns out that Theodore Geisel was a huge fan of Reader's Digest. The poem is called A SHORT CONDENSED POEM IN PRAISE OF READER'S DIGEST CONDENSEND BOOKS, and the last stanza reads... And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.) So lawyers, learn to to draft your contract with shorth please! 🎈 If your contracts are lacking in shorth, send me a message. We plain language for a living and I am exceptionally good at deleting things! If you want to learn to do it yourself, our next plain language training for lawyers is in October! https://lnkd.in/dHQcfm35 #plainlanguage #contracts #lawyerlife #legaldesign #contractdesign Thank you for unearthing this Sarah Buerger. Liezl van Zyl and Annie Burger-Boshoff we need to put this in our slides e-learning, both the tweet and the poem. Miraka Davies and Colleen Trolove, this also made me think of you. Joe Kimble did you know about this one?
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We can be serious! It is not just #funlaw all the time, just when it is appropriate. Check out our more serious work, and the serious side of Elizabeth de Stadler 🎈here. She gets very worked up when talking about why #plainlanguage documents don't need to be shorter! Got a serious #legal document that needs some serious attention? Email ilze@novcon.co.za and elizabeth@novcon.co.za https://lnkd.in/dqqZW3aP
Plain language financial services products? Yes please! - Novation Consulting
https://novcon.co.za
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Why did we put an octopus on the front page of our textbook on the Protection of Personal Information Act? It is because you have to be an octopus to be a good at POPIA. We feel so convinced of this that we wrote a whole article about it. https://lnkd.in/dQeCms8u Need some help with POPIA? We wrote the book. Here is what we can do for you: 🐙 Wondering what you should be doing to become POPIA compliant? Don't worry, no judgment here AND we can help. 🐙 Legal opinions on the nitty gritty. There aren't many questions we haven't seen yet. Although...this is POPIA, she never stops surprising us. 🐙 Has the Information Regulator come knocking? Who you gonna call? Us, that's who. 🐙 Are your policies a hot mess? We do them in plain language. 🐙 Trouble with POPIA's older (ugly) sister PAIA? We do PAIA manuals and processes in our sleep. 🐙 Can't pronounce POPIA? It is very confusing. We are doing a tutorial on that soon. 🐙 If you want to do it yourself, we get it! We made a portal with Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd for just that purpose: https://lnkd.in/dgBh3jGR #POPIA #dataprotection #privacy #PAIA #informationregulator
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Research shows that #lawyers are a little blue. That is why we are all about #funlaw. What is #funlaw? 😊 That icon, image or language that makes you smile a little. 😁 The delight when you read a clear, short contract (serotonin is the best). 😂 Raucous laughter at a joke about a serious topic (like a letter of demand - true story). 🥰 A warm feeling when someone demonstrates empathy with you. 🥳 The excitement that comes from solving a stubborn problem for a client or a colleague. 🤗 Moments when people tell you that ‘you are not like other lawyers’. But mostly, #funlaw is about reconnecting with the #law and the #lawyer you wanted to be and exploring new, exciting, delightful and fun(ny) ways to do your job. If you want to work with us, we can help you cut through the legalese! We tame commercial contracts, terms & conditions, company policies, privacy notices and insurance policies. Bring us any legal document, it is fun for us! Email elizabeth@novcon.co.za Photo by davisuko on Unsplash
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Did you know you have only 72 hours to report a data breach? You must report to the Information Regulator SA if personal information was compromised, and the Cybercrimes Act requires reporting to SAPS. Can't find the 72-hour requirement in #POPIA? It is not set in stone, but this is what the Regulator had to say recently: "You can delay if you are reporting the matter to the police and restoring the integrity of IT systems, but beyond 72 hours, we are beginning to look at you not nicely." But how long is 72 hours exactly? For comparison, here are some other (better) things that you can do in 72 hours: #dataprotection #privacy #funlaw #datasecurity #personaldata #compliance
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There is one day to go until our #POPIA update. The working title is "10 things I hate about POPIA." We'll discuss the adventures of the Information Regulator and the misadventures of all organisations that have received enforcement notices, and there will be ample time for questions. Only R850 to join the conversation! Book here https://qkt.io/cC6sD3 Here's what to expect 👇 #funlaw #dataprotection #compliance #privacy