Podcast: On small business growth & leadership
In this episode, I interview Mellissa Larkin, the Founder, and CEO of Peripheral Blue, a company that has been disrupting the way companies receive legal and consulting services by giving clients access to top tier, responsive legal and advisory services in a flexible and affordable way.
Peripheral Blue Founder, Mellissa Larkin, shortlisted for the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2020
Peripheral Blue’s Mellissa Larkin has been shortlisted in one of the legal profession’s most prestigious accolades.
PB named Business Legal Advisers of the Year 2020
After nearly twenty years in the legal industry, Mellissa Larkin knew that the traditional legal model was broken and there had to a better way.
Podcast: PB Founder & Managing Director, Mellissa Larkin, in conversation
This episode will inspire you to take a step back, reflect on your work or business, and think of innovative ways to disrupt the traditional, perhaps broken, business model you are working in.
All ears: how being a good listener can improve your business
Inside Small Business
Good listening is so much more than simply hearing what someone is saying, adding the occasional ‘mmm, hmmm’ for effect, and being able to echo what you’ve heard to the speaker when they finish (“So, what you’re saying is…”).
Small businesses cutting corners with contracts do so at their own peril
The Big Smoke
Privacy regulation has increasingly become a key risk area for business owners, especially for companies that handle large amounts of customer data.
SME Privacy Compliance: How to Safeguard Your Customer Data
Savvy SME
Privacy regulation has increasingly become a key risk area for business owners, especially for companies that handle large amounts of customer data.
Can Europe's Single Data Market Solve the US Data Privacy Challenge?
From an American perspective, the European Union can appear to be a coercive force in the technology sector, ensuring that big technology companies don’t step out of line on issues like data privacy.
Forced into flexible working in 2020 - how organisations can make it stick
Not so long ago, flexible working was something offered by startups, tech companies and a smattering of progressive organisations looking to attract and retain the best talent in highly competitive industries.
A powerful vision for law
2020 Winner of the Small Business Award, Mellissa Larkin epitomises the ethos of The Telstra Business Women’s Awards of “undoing traditional business for the better”.
Outstanding achievements by women in small business celebrated
The winners of this year’s Telstra Business Women’s Awards have been revealed. In their 25th year, the awards recognise and celebrate outstanding women shaping the future of Australia business..
Law-talk with Peripheral Blue Founder and Managing Director, Mellissa Larkin, and Director of Policy and Compliance, Kara Birch
Mellisa Larkin and Kara Birch sat down with Flinders University to discuss the legal industry of today, and what needs to change to make a better tomorrow.
Mellissa Larkin - A Bold Break From Tradition
Mellissa Larkin, is the Founder & Managing Director of boutique legal and consulting firm Peripheral Blue. She took a giant leap of faith when she stepped away from a successful 20-year career as a top tier lawyer to establish her own firm in Adelaide in 2016.
Flexibility at the core of a better working life
The Advertiser
Maintaining a “work-life blend” and promoting flexibility in the workplace has been the key to success for local lawyer and Telstra Business Women’s Awards finalist Mellissa Larkin.
Truly flexible workplaces require systemic change, not band-aids
Flexible Working Day 2020 falls on June 10 and this year, the timing couldn’t be more poignant as the global impact of COVID-19 grows to Herculean proportions across communities and businesses around the world.
Successful female entrepreneurs have these 10 characteristics
Startup Daily
A 2017 report commissioned by the Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship (WIE), which mapped the representation of women in the Australian entrepreneurial landscape, found that “while the start-up ecosystem in Australia continues to grow, businesses founded by women are still underrepresented, with fewer female-led businesses starting, scaling and securing finance.”
Mellissa Larkin named as Finalist in Telstra Business Women’s Awards 2020
Founder and Managing Director of innovative young South Australian legal and consulting firm, Peripheral Blue, has been announced as a state finalist in the 2020 Telstra Business Women’s Awards in the category of Small Business.
Industry association meetings – 7 good reasons to go & what to avoid
At a basic level, industry associations are not for profit organisations comprised of members that share a common interest.
The slow demise of billable hours
Momentum towards value-based billing is growing as clients demand greater transparency from law firms and lawyers seek a more fulfilling way to work.
A Letter To My Graduate Self
Congratulations. That sense of accomplishment and excitement you’re feeling right now? Hang onto it. You’ve earned it; and now your dream of becoming a lawyer is a reality.

Mellissa Larkin shortlisted as Employer of Choice and Wellness Advocate of the Year
Mellissa Larkin, Founder and Managing Director of Peripheral Blue, has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Australian Law Awards 2019, in the categories of Employer of Choice and Wellness Advocate of the Year.

Truly flexible workplaces – Fact or fiction?
The Big Smoke
Mellissa Larkin of Peripheral Blue believes in a flexible workplace and leads by example. Could separating some flexibility myths from facts, help improve your business?

Understanding legal risk: what every business needs to know
Kochie’s Business Builders
Risk is an integral part of business, and while most businesses have a good understanding of, and systems in place for their key operational risks, many remain unprepared for (or worse, unaware of) the financial pressures and loss of reputation that a serious legal risk can produce.

Mellissa Larkin shortlisted for the prestigious ‘Partner of the Year Awards 2019’
The Big Smoke
The innovative work of Mellissa Larkin has not gone unnoticed, as the Founder and Managing Director of legal firm Peripheral Blue has been nominated for a top award.

The culture of ‘overwork’ in law – What I know now
Lawyers Weekly
There has always been a culture of overwork and exhaustion in law. It’s been accepted as the norm – part of a rite of passage. Partners endured and survived it, writes Mellissa Larkin.

Disrupting the way companies receive legal and consulting services
Enterprise Podcast Network
Mellissa Larkin, the CEO and Founder of Peripheral Blue, a company that is disrupting the way companies receive legal and consulting services joins Enterprise Radio.

#BalanceforBetter: Advice From Leading Australian Women In Business
The Carousel
The International Women’s Day campaign for 2019 #BalanceforBetter could not be timelier, with the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap Report 2018 ranking Australia 39th in the world for Gender Parity.

Peripheral Blue Founder Mellissa Larkin On A Disruptive New Style Of Legal Practice
Women Love Tech
In recent years, a raft of articles circulated in the Australian media contained disheartening news for women reading who were either already working in the field of law or who hoped one day to be.

New focus on emotional intelligence (EQ) in the law industry
Business Woman Media
As we barrel headlong into 2019, an exciting new style of law practice is taking shape. Flexible, dynamic, and emotionally intelligent, these next-gen lawyers are putting their clients’ needs first and are the driving force behind the NewLaw movement.

Raising the bar in 2019, according to the experts
Enterprise Podcast Network
January is as always, an excellent time to turn over a new leaf. That’s what new year’s resolutions are about – making the changes you need to make in order that you could be a better, hopefully happier, perhaps healthier person.

Pop Quiz, Monday with Mellissa Larkin
The Startup Growth
The Pop Quiz, Monday is a fun little exam that we love to give to savvy business owners.

Meet a CEO: Mellissa Larkin – Peripheral Blue
The Big Smoke
The Big Smoke sat down with Mellissa Larkin, founder and CEO of Peripheral Blue, an Australian legal and consulting firm with a fresh approach.
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service@peripheralblue.com.au
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© 2019 Peripheral Blue | All Rights Reserved
ABN 61855198272