Hogan Lovells hires former DLA innovation director
Allen left DLA Piper in March this year and will join Hogan Lovells as head of legal services delivery next month
August 31, 2016 at 06:25 AM
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Hogan Lovells has hired former DLA Piper innovation director Stephen Allen.
Allen led the service delivery and quality (SDQ) group at DLA Piper, which deals with areas such as knowledge management, legal project management, legal delivery centres, flexible lawyering and machine learning and artificial intelligence.
He left the post in March after a year in the role.
Allen will join Hogan Lovells on 19 September as head of legal services delivery.
Deputy chief operating officer at Hogan Lovells Darren Mitchell said: "Hogan Lovells has taken legal project management (LPM) seriously for a while but hiring Stephen will now weave together many of our alternative legal delivery models with our global approach to LPM."
He added: "Clients are increasingly reliant on some of our alternative models of resourcing – from using our legal services centre in Birmingham, to use of our alumni, paralegals, locum lawyers, etc. Cost is an important driver of course but this is about much more than that – it's about providing certainty and transparency for clients while reflecting value in everything we do. There are no shortcuts when it comes to quality."
Allen added: "With so much new technology being introduced all the time, such as artificial intelligence, the legal sector has a fantastic opportunity to lead the way in finding innovative and bespoke solutions for clients. I will be looking to expand the team over time and to significantly develop what Hogan Lovells is already doing around legal project management and resource allocation."
On Allen's watch, DLA's SDQ signed a deal with Lawyers On Demand to provide the firm with flexible lawyering capability in the UK and later extended the deal to cover Australia.
Allen joined DLA in 2014 as head of market strategies, before taking up the role of head of the SDQ in 2015.
He was previously head of global legal services transformation at PwC and prior to that worked at BLP, where he advised on the firm's 2010 deal with Thames Water to provide the majority of its legal services in a contract worth around £5m a year.
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