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DLA PiperFT Law 50 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| 2009 Rank | 14 |
| 2008 Rank | 3 |
| 2009 total score for ALL entries submitted | 86 |
| 2009 score band for ALL entries submitted (/10) | 3 |
| Number of standout entries in FT REPORT | 1 |
| Number of highly commended entries in FT REPORT | 0 |
| Number of commended entries in FT REPORT | 2 |
| 2009: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 6 |
| 2009 Score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/10) | 2 |
| 2008: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 28 |
| 2008 score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/5) | 4 |
| 2009 Profits per Equity Partner (PEP) (£k) | 645 |
| 2009 Score band for PEP (/5) | 2 |
| Assessment of management commitment and innovation value to firm (/20) | 13 |
| Total Innovation Score in the FTLAW50 (/50) | 24 |
Client Service 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Standout |
| Innovation | United Arab Emirates law library |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 8 |
| Total | 22 |
| Description | The firm translated thousands of UAE laws into English to develop a library where none existed before. The library is shared with clients and licensed to other law firms |
Law firm management 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Global financial information system |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | Implementation of a web-based financial management system built in-house that is compatible with Thomson Elite. It provides the firm with a single snapshot of its billing across non-US regions |
Law firm management 2009 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | YouTube for DLA Piper staff |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 5 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | Using local servers, the firm shares videos and presentations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia over an intranet to enhance global internal communications |
FT Law 50 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| 2008 Rank | 3 |
| 2007 Rank | 6 (+3) |
| 2008: Total score for ALL entries submitted | 442 |
| 2008: score band for ALL entries submitted (/10) | 9 |
| Number of standout entries in FT REPORT | 3 |
| Number of highly commended entries in FT REPORT | 4 |
| Number of commended entries in FT REPORT | 8 |
| 2008: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 28 |
| 2008: score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/10) | 7 |
| 2007: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 20 |
| 2007: score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/5) | 3 |
| 2007: Profits per Equity Partner (PEP) | 640 |
| 2007: score band for PEP (/5) | 2 |
| Assessment of management commitment and innovation value to firm (/20) | 18 |
| Total Innovation Score in the FTLAW50 (/50) | 39 |
Fraud 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | proTECT - Global Risk Online Gap Analysis: compliance programme for global companies. |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | Recognising that cost is a main barrier to global regulatory compliance, the product uses web-based applications and questionnaires to profile risk, benchmark and identify gaps across a global business. |
Management 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | Strategic Planning. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | Adoption of a complex matrix management structure to integrate the objectives of the Executive, the international business, practice area and sector objectives with what is achievable at the local level. The firm can now make strategic plans globally and measure its performance. |
Marketing & PR 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly Commended |
| Innovation | DLA Piper Re-brand: the process from inception to roll-out (including a global advertising campaign). |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | A successful rebranding exercise that involved consultation with employees to come with the strapline 'Everything Matters' - an unusually deep, systematic and efficient exercise for a law firm with some new elements. |
Responsible Business 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Standout |
| Innovation | Legal Sector Alliance: an initiative to get law firms to act together on climate change. |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 8 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 20 |
| Description | Without DLA Piper, the LSA would not exist. The thinking is that although law firms are not prime polluters, they are huge employers of people and do have environmental impact. This seeks to mobilise law firms to work together to create a footprinting tool for the sector. |
Responsible Business 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | MOBI 3 Paris: Unique CSR collaboration between DLA Piper, major French companies and the French Ministry of Education to help underprivileged schoolchildren. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 19 |
| Description | Driven by DLA, the breakthrough was getting top companies to work with the Ministry of Education. It sought to engage children, imaginatively, in the world of work. Intelligent choice of corporate partners saw Dassault contributing interactive 3D technology to liven up the sessions. |
Technology & Know-How 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly Commended |
| Innovation | Outsourcing contract dashboard: an interactive way to help clients meet the challenges of outsourcing. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 19 |
| Description | Using a mixing desk-like graphic, the system rates the outcome of outsourcing contracts against a client's key requirements. It simplifies the process and reduces the time spent by both firm and client. |
Technology & Know-How 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | uKnow: a free, cross-border employment advice resource for multi-national clients. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | The product covers 22 jurisdictions and information can be accessed through a secure, fully searchable website. Designed in response to research the firm conducted into the key challenges faced by global HR directors. |
Billing and Fees 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | Budgeteer. |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | A software system that institutionalises the firm's approach to scoping and case budgeting for litigation. |
Client Service 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | The Social Elections Toolkit for Belgian employers. |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | Employers in Belgium need to run elections for worker's representatives if they have more than 50 staff. DLA produced a database so they could manage the process legally and effectively. |
Client Service 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | Global client hub: provides an immediate online overview of all legal work being done for clients by DLA Piper. |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | Presents information on live matters and is innovative in the way it "drills down into the detail" and is so comprehensive. |
Commercial 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Standout |
| Submission | FA Premier League: sale of audio-visual rights. |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 21 |
| Description | The firm maximised the FA Premier League's revenues through creating new bidding structures. Broke all records for the sale of UK sports rights and was the largest rights sale outside of North America. |
Dispute Resolution 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Standout |
| Innovation | Defending the Government of the Republic of Zambia against the Donegal vulture fund. |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 19 |
| Description | One of the first cases in which a developing nation successfully fought against a 'vulture fund'. The firm's work on the ground to obtain evidence combined with its negotiation skills achieved substantial success in disabling some of the vultures. |
Dispute Resolution 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | An influential rights to light case. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 5 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | The firm were particularly proactive in driving the outcome of this case despite indicators that the case could not be won. It established that it's client, Patten Properties, could develop land without infringing a neighbour's right to light. |
Public-Private Partnership 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Project | Ostregion A5 motorway, Austria: the first PPP road project in German-speaking countries. |
| Award Level | Commended |
| Originality | 4 |
| Creativity | 7 |
| Impact | 3 |
| Total | 14 |
| The lawyers' innovation | The firm was commended for its leadership and ability to forsee problems in what was a turbulent deal. They managed to bring divergent interests of the consortium together and were instrumental in helping their clients win and defend the bid. They were also effective in convincing the public sector to pursue the project. |
Public-Private Partnership 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Project | Diabolo rail project and via Zaventem: the first Belgian PPP road project. |
| Award Level | Commended |
| Originality | 4 |
| Creativity | 6 |
| Impact | 2 |
| Total | 12 |
| The lawyers' innovation | The firm was particularly creative with these two linked projects. Although there was only one contractor, the firm had to devise the financing of the two projects through two separate single purpose vehicles. |
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