Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018: all the winners revealed
A full rundown of all the winners at this year's Legal Week Innovation Awards
May 25, 2018 at 11:18 AM
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Addleshaw Goddard, Bird & Bird and Ogier were among the winners at the fourth annual Legal Week Innovation Awards, held in London this afternoon (25 May).
The awards, hosted by Mock the Week regular guest Zoe Lyons at The Brewery, celebrate the most pioneering individuals, firms and legal services providers in the industry.
Addleshaws took home the award for Future of Legal Services Innovation (large private practice) for the way it does business through technology, which one client said is "light-years ahead of the competition".
Jersey-headquartered firm Ogier, which also has offices in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, won the International Law Firm Innovation award.
Bird & Bird scooped the award for Diversity Innovation, for developing a gender diversity programme that is increasing its pipeline of potential future female partners, in a win that ended Pinsent Masons' two-year winning streak.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) picked up the AI Innovation award for being the first firm to win a High Court trial using predictive coding technology as part of the document disclosure process.
The award for Client Management Innovation was picked up by Northern law firm Ward Hadaway. The firm's knowledge system for an NHS Trust client, which provides immediate information on a range of potential legal issues, impressed the judges.
The Rising Star Innovation Award went to Addleshaws' Kerry Westland. The firm's London head of innovation and legal technology was credited with driving forward Addleshaws' adoption of technology.
Former Linklaters associate Julia Salasky landed the prize for Outstanding Innovator for founding CrowdJustice, a crowdfunding platform that has helped raise more than £7m to fund legal cases in the UK and US.
The winner of the Business Development Innovation award was Foot Anstey, who impressed the judges with a trainee programme that gives in-house teams free access to a dedicated trainee.
Mayer Brown won the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Innovation Award for a project to help refugees improve their chances of gaining employment through skills sessions, work placements and mentoring.
The Coventry Building Society meanwhile overcame competition from Hitachi Consulting UK, Macquarie/D2 Legal Technology and Network Rail Infrastructure to take home the In-house Legal Department Innovation Award.
Legal Innovation Awards winners in full
- Supplier Innovation Award (Technology): Intapp, Highly commended: iManage
- Supplier Innovation Award (Services): Fulcrum Global Technologies, Highly commended: Infosec
- Supplier Innovation Award (Resource Management): Mason & Cook, Highly commended: Decipher
- Supplier Innovation (Data Management): Advanced Discovery, Highly commended: SaltDNA
- Training Innovation Award: Shire Pharmaceuticals, Highly commended: Womble Bond Dickinson
- Diversity Innovation Award: Bird & Bird, Highly commended: Pinsent Masons
- Human Resource Innovation Award: Shearman & Sterling, Highly commended: Hogan Lovells
- CSR Innovation Award: Mayer Brown International, Highly commended: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Knowledge Management Innovation Award: Macfarlanes, Highly commended: HFW
- Client Management Innovation Award: Ward Hadaway, Highly commended: Addleshaw Goddard
- PR & Communications Innovation Award: Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) and Stand Agency, Highly commended: CMS
- Business Development Innovation Award: Foot Anstey, Highly commended: Reed Smith
- Legal Services Procurement Innovation Award: Ofqual, Highly commended: Coventry Building Society
- Marketing Innovation Award: Mills & Reeve, Highly commended: Morrison & Foerster
- In-house Legal Department Innovation Award: The Coventry Building Society, Highly commended: Macquarie
- ABS Innovation Award: Richmond Chambers, Highly commended: My Home Move
- International Law Firm Innovation Award: Ogier, Highly commended: Hogan Lovells
- AI Innovation Award: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Highly Commended: Pinsent Masons
- Chambers Innovation: Serjeants' Inn Chambers
- Future of Legal Services Innovation Award (mid-size private practice): Griffin Law, Highly commended: Moore Blatch & Bermans
- Future of Legal Services Innovation (large private practice): Addleshaw Goddard, Highly Commended: Kennedys
- Rising Star Innovation Award: Kerry Westland, Addleshaw Goddard: Highly commended: Alex Chan, DataNovo
- Outstanding Innovator Award: Julia Salasky, CrowdJustice
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