(Courtesy photo)BCLP Launches High-Volume Legal Services Arm, Adds Tech Exec
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner tapped the former head of architecture and innovation at Global 100 firm Gowling WLG to help build out the technology for its new enterprise, dubbed BCLP Cubed.
September 24, 2019 at 03:15 PM
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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner formally launched its service focused on high-volume legal work Tuesday and concurrently announced the hire of the former head of architecture and innovation at Global 100 firm Gowling WLG.
BCLP Cubed brings together 150 people on the firm's volume delivery teams in Manchester, England, and St. Louis, with the goal of handling clients' "business-as-usual needs," the firm said in an announcement. Jody Jansen, who spent the last two years at Gowling, will serve as the chief technology officer for the enterprise.
The firm unveiled the initiative in June. Partner Neville Eisenberg, who comes from the Leighton Paisner side of the firm, is CEO, while chief innovation officer Katie DeBord, from U.S.-founded Bryan Cave, is leading the service's product development team.
Bryan Cave and the U.K.'s Berwin Leighton Paisner merged last year, creating a 1,600-lawyer trans-Atlantic firm.
"BCLP Cubed gives clients the option of a one-stop-shop for their high-volume work in a way that integrates complex advice and legal operations support, all within the framework of a major law firm. In addition to speeding up transaction cycles and reducing costs, the service will enable better risk management for clients," Eisenberg said in a statement.
The service is initially focused on four discrete areas of work: supporting real estate asset management, delivering commercial contract services, streamlining loan agreement generation and management, and fielding European data access requests.
Jansen adds two decades of experience in legal technology and legal innovation, having worked for nearly 18 years as a technical program manager for Allen & Overy Netherlands.
"I am delighted to be joining BCLP Cubed. It is an exciting new concept that will deliver significant benefits for clients and establishing a state-of-the-art technology platform on which to operate will be critical to its success," he said in a statement.
Eisenberg was managing partner of legacy firm Berwin Leighton Paisner when the firm launched its alternative delivery service Lawyers on Demand (LOD) in 2007.
Last year, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner sold its remaining stake in LOD to private equity firm Bowmark Capital.
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