Anna Ward
Anna Ward is City editor at Legal Week. She joined the title in January 2015 after spending three years with energy information provider Platts. She writes news and features about a number of leading UK and US law firms, as well as covering the Middle East and private equity.
June 21, 2018 | Legaltech News
Nokia's Legal Team Explains AI Investment and the Current 'Legal AI Revolution'Maria Varsellona, who is now also president of Nokia Technologies, said the telecom giant is also considering the use of AI to analyze law firm bills.
By Anna Ward
1 minute read
June 21, 2018 | International Edition
Nokia adopts AI technology for contract review as legal chief takes new business-focused roleChief legal officer appointed president of Nokia Technologies as telecoms giant considers using AI to analyse law firm bills
By Anna Ward
4 minute read
June 13, 2018 | International Edition
Fieldfisher posts another year of double-digit growth as GDPR work proves rich pickingsFirm's growth streak continues with revenue breaking £200m mark following international expansion drive
By Anna Ward
2 minute read
June 01, 2018 | International Edition
Freshfields faces partner tension as more than 60 see profit share reducedMultiple partners see profit share drop by around £300,000 in latest lockstep restructuring
By Anna Ward
3 minute read
May 30, 2018 | International Edition
Slaughters to hand out £15,000 in free legal advice in Dragon's Den-style competitionFive start-ups face judging panel including a partner at Mike Lynch's Invoke Capital with pay-per-mile insurance company By Miles winning the prize to secure additional investment from Slaughters
By Anna Ward
3 minute read
May 29, 2018 | International Edition
'I spent six months living off dwindling savings' – one ex-HSF associate on wooing litigation heavyweights to back his new funding ventureRobert Rothkopf on making the leap from a steady law firm job to a start-up
By Anna Ward
4 minute read
May 24, 2018 | Global Leaders in Law
The 5 Secrets to Setting up a Legal Operations FunctionIf you don't already have a legal ops function, odds are that you're looking into it. You should be; there are many benefits of a well-constructed legal ops function.
By Zach Warren
5 minute read
May 23, 2018 | Global Leaders in Law
3 Reasons Why AI Requires an Essential Human Component in RegTechIn the best interest of accurate data, enlisting a team of industry or topic-focused experts will give the AI the direction it needs to better analyze and classify data.
By Kayvan Alikhani, Compliance.ai.
5 minute read
May 22, 2018 | Global Leaders in Law
How Mexichem's GC Brought His Team Together by Building a Global Compliance ProgramFrancisco Hernandez of Mexichem took a group of disparate lawyers spread throughout the world and shaped them into a global legal function using a rather surprising tool--ethics and compliance.
By Sue Reisinger
4 minute read
May 22, 2018 | Global Leaders in Law
AmEx's GC Laureen Seeger Opens Up About Diversity, Mentoring, and Pay EquityIn an interview with Corporate Counsel, the high-powered GC shared why diversity and inclusion are so important to her and what she and AmEx are doing to level the playing field.
By Stephanie Forshee
6 minute read
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