Targeting 50 clients by year end: DLA Piper develops e-learning tool in quality drive and to sell
Not wanting to be outdone by their US colleagues, who recently launched DLA Piper’s first non-legal entity selling cybersecurity software…
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‘A more comprehensive solution’: Bird & Bird creates IT consultancy
Partners at Bird & Bird have joined the rush to expand into consultancy work, launching an IT project consultancy Baseline…
Bringing lawyers and consultants ‘under the same roof’: Eversheds launches financial services consulting arm
Eversheds has expanded its consulting services business, Eversheds Consulting, with the launch of a financial services regulatory compliance offering, and…
‘Willingness to do things differently’: RPC to try hand at management consultancy
RPC is set to launch a new management consultancy business to target its core insurance sector clients, and has hired…
Lawyers on tap: Addleshaw Goddard to establish flexible resourcing capability
Addleshaw Goddard (AG) is looking to establish a flexible resourcing capability by creating a pool of qualified lawyers and paralegals…
Addleshaw Goddard to establish flexible resourcing capability after strategy revamp
Addleshaw Goddard (AG) is looking to establish a flexible resourcing capability by creating a pool of qualified lawyers and paralegals…
Online service take two: Allen & Overy re-launches e-business
Allen & Overy (A&O), which recently has set the pace for providing alternative service delivery models such as its PeerPoint…
‘An investment in Europe’: Latham & Watkins to open nearshoring office in Manchester
US firm Latham & Watkins has announced internally that it will open a business services office in Manchester during the…
Innovation: a driving force in reshaping the legal sector
Baker Tilly’s George Bull sets the scene for change. Visiting clients in Chicago a few years ago, I saw in…
Guest post: Watson, I presume? (or how I learned to stop worrying and love disruption in law)
I’m often asked – on a panel last month in Europe and on a panel later this month right here…
‘At the forefront of changes in our market’: A&O targets 100 more recruits in Belfast
Three years on from the launch of its Belfast legal and support services centre, Allen & Overy (A&O) has exceeded…
Leadership and innovation – Profession, disrupt thyself?
The Innovator’s Dilemma has become arguably the most influential business book of the last 20 years and is often cited…
‘More flexible models’: Simmons launches contract lawyer service with Adaptive
Simmons & Simmons has become the latest firm to jump on the innovation bandwagon with the launch of a high-end…
‘This is the future’ – A&O sees further growth of contract lawyer arm as it hires new head from Deloitte
Following the launch of its innovative contract lawyer business ‘Peerpoint’ last November, Allen & Overy has made a move to…
Efficiency as a driver of legal innovation
Thomson Reuters looks at the exciting future of legal services in the wake of a rapidly changing legal market. If…
Baker & McKenzie to open legal services outpost in Belfast
Baker & McKenzie has become the latest law firm to open a legal services office in Belfast as greater differentiation…
‘The overall benefits are potentially enormous’: Bucks County Council granted ABS licence with emergency services group
In a move that has been welcomed by the Legal Services Board, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has granted an…
Guest post: Change is neither good nor bad: It is
‘Call it the Great Recession, the Great Reset, or whatever, the world palpably shook in September 2008 and the repercussions…
Lawyers On Demand looks beyond City with regional launch
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s spin-off lawyer contracting service Lawyers on Demand (LoD) is set to launch its first hub outside…
Comment: A self-deceiving return to business as usual
In 2010, Georgetown University, under the direction of Professor Milton Regan, held a conference of academics, practitioners and leading thinkers…