Knights, which this month announced its intention to become the fifth publicly listed UK law firm, has hired the European IT director at Procter & Gamble to oversee a “technology transformation” as part of the listing. Richard King will join Knights on 1 July as a non-executive director to lead the business’ tech overhaul. Knights’ […]
Six European startups have been chosen to join the first round of a SpaceTech startup accelerator backed by Dentons. The nine-week programme called ‘Space Camp’ is being hosted in Dentons’ London HQ and is sponsored by the global firm. The scheme was established by spacetech-focused venture capital fund Seraphim Capital, which claimed that it had […]
Following the success of its Fast Forward programme last year, Slaughter and May is launching a second legal tech incubator to engage with startups, The Lawyer can reveal. This new incubator follows hot on the heels of Fast Forward, which was entirely aimed at developing tech for clients. The firm is looking to repeat the […]
Hogan Lovells is in the early stages of developing a plan to use chatbots to answer clients’ FAQs, part of a wider drive towards automation and cutting human involvement in repetitive tasks. London-based fintech partner and innovation head Emily Reid said Hogan Lovells was considering running a trial aimed at introducing chatbots later this year. […]
Clifford Chance is expanding its focus on tech-enabled client service, launching a search to fill the new role of ‘legal technology delivery adviser’.
Allen & Overy (A&O) has introduced Apple-style “genius bars” across the firm in a bid to support staff who want to work from home. The “genius bars” will be run by the magic circle’s IT department after employees said they wanted to know how to work from home more effectively. The sessions will be held […]
Nothing comes for free – before going for the IPO firms need to understand six key points.
Who better to deliver DWF’s IPO narrative than a man once dubbed the Tigger of law firm management?
Reverse mentoring is taking hold at Linklaters and A&O, and it’s being championed by the firms’ most senior partners.
As universities look to jump on the innovation bandwagon, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has teamed up with the University of Manchester’s law school and AI company Neota Logic to offer a course on legal technology. The new course, which will commence in January 2019, is called “legal tech and access to justice” and will be offered as an […]
BLM is striving to become more efficient by investing in technology and pushing through some difficult internal restructures
Ashurst has introduced a new corporate practice into its Glasgow services centre, as it looks on course to reach its target for 300 staff in the next few months. The new corporate practice has been set up through the hire of corporate associate Shaz Ali, who was previously at Glasgow firm Morisons. It will be […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has announced it will be relocating nearly 500 staff from its current Finsbury Square and Exchange House sites to a new office in Canary Wharf in September 2018. The move will see the entirety of its staff in Finsbury Square and a handful from its head London office set up close […]
Reed Smith lawyers will be able to spend 50 hours working on innovation projects under a new scheme launched this year. The time spent on innovation counts towards each lawyer’s billable hour target and has been expanded across the firm following a pilot last year. The initial pilot saw 17 lawyers participating in the scheme, […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) is shaking up its technology group, three years after it launched, in a bid to put more of the firm’s ideas into effect. The group called i2 began life in 2015 as an experimental “ideas and investment” group, piloted in A&O’s London and Belfast offices, to promote grassroots tech engagement across the […]
Mishcon de Reya has selected five new startups for its tech incubator programme MDR LAB, launching its second round today. The firm has opted to provide legal advice, mentorship and education to two companies based in the UK, two in the US and one in Israel. The companies are real estate startup ThirdFort, collaboration tool […]
Linklaters has set up an external whistleblowing hotline for its staff in recognition that individuals can feel wary about reporting harassment concerns to people within the firm, The Lawyer has learned. The magic circle firm revealed its SpeakUp initiative to partners last week, and to the firm yesterday. It means that people will be able […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) is bringing in a second cohort of startups into its tech space Fuse, which launched in London last year. This will bring the number of tech startups in the Fuse space up to eight: five new companies are joining three of the companies from the first cohort in the space in […]
Travers Smith has not moved offices. It has not abandoned its treasured room-sharing system for open plan. But someone walking into 10 Snow Hill, where Travers has been based since 1990, would be forgiven for thinking they had lost their way. The firm has recently completed a total refurbishment of its offices, all while keeping […]
Changing the policies at a traditional firm brought quick dividends.
Kennedys brought a tool to AXA to help streamline the claims process – and the cost savings were immediate
How Shoosmiths completely changed the way its lawyers work
How do you drive efficiency and create engagement in a dispersed team? Get them to suggest small changes.
Hyundai’s legal team turned a problem with greydealers into a brand and financial win-win for its customers and the business. Here’s how In early 2016, members of the sales department at car manufacturer Hyundai began to notice something odd: the official registration data from various countries, in particular France, showed a significant increase in the […]
By Jennifer Michael Being Driven to Change during a crisis can often be haphazard, fast-paced and incredibly stressful. It usually comes about because an event you haven’t planned for happens suddenly. If this event is a cyber attack, as a priority you will need to put measures in place to stop your private and confidential […]
By Martin Bonney No matter the size or scope of the case, predictive coding has the power to change how lawyers tackle the difficult task of document review…
By Nicholas d’Adhemar General Counsel are under the same pressures as every other leader in a business: to promote operational excellence and demonstrate strategic value. They can seek to demonstrate new value by trimming costs; but that’s not an inexhaustible source of benefit, and in any case, if a business is in a growth phase, […]
By David E Brennan Data protectionism is on the rise across global technology networks and could be stunting tech growth and development, according to a report by international law firm Gowling WLG…
By Lloyd Ellison We know that corporate counsel has gone through some big changes in the 10 years since the financial crash. Here Lloyd Ellison looks at how some of these changes have played out and suggests how technology can help lawyers respond and achieve ‘more with less’…
