Shruti Ajitsaria, head of Fuse at A&OIndustry heavyweights lined up to judge Legal Week's Innovation Awards
The eight industry heavyweights evaluating fresh approaches include A&O's Ajitsaria, Freshfields' Parker and Taylor Wessing's Ling
February 20, 2019 at 04:48 AM
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An impressive panel of senior experts has been lined up for Legal Week's Innovation Awards to judge the best innovative approaches taken by technology suppliers across more than 20 categories.
The judges will include Shruti Ajitsaria, head of Allen & Overy's tech incubation programme Fuse; Freshfields chief legal innovation officer Isabel Parker; and Taylor Wessing head of innovation and change, Ruth Ling.
Also on the panel are Bird & Bird's corporate development manager, Christie Guimond; Baker McKenzie's senior legal project manage, Jeremy Hopkins; legal technology consultant at the National Committee of Corporate Governance, Neil Cameron; Osborne Clarke's director of IT, Nathan Hayes; and CEO of commercial contract firm Radiant Law, Alex Hamilton.
A separate group of judges will assess categories entered by law firms. They include Robin Allen QC of Cloisters; Alastair Fairbrother, head of media at asset manager Allianz Global Investors; and Silvia Hodges Silverstein, executive director of legal procurement trade association Buying Legal Council; as well as other industry experts and Legal Week and ALM editorial staff.
The Innovation Awards recognise teams and individuals that have made significant steps to improve innovation within the legal services sector, in 23 categories that cover business development, finance, IT, project management, PR and recruitment, and legal operations.
Awards will also be handed out for diversity, artificial intelligence innovation and Outstanding Innovator, won last year by Julia Salasky, founder of crowdfunding platform CrowdJustice,
In 2018, Addleshaw Goddard took home two awards out of the 22 categories: one for the Future of Legal Services Innovation and another for Rising Star. Offshore law firm Ogier picked up the coveted International Law Firm Innovation prize.
The awards, now in their fifth year, will be hosted on Thursday 24 May at The Landmark Hotel in London.
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