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| Sector | Financial Institution |
| Number of lawyers worldwide | 768 |
| Innovation | Smart' Branding: A global risk management programme and suite of knowledge management initiatives. |
| Originality of innovation (s) | 6 |
| Alignment of legal team with the business | 6 |
| Creating economic value and/or competitive advantage for the business | 6 |
| Industry leadership or wider impact of legal team's activity | 5 |
| Total | 23 |
| Description | A suite of initiatives to derive best value from external legal advisers. For example, Smartdesk enables the bank to access all their panel law firms' research. The initiatives are not new but the scale on which they have been conducted puts the team ahead of other financial institutions. The risk programme is comprehensive and equips them to standardise cultural approaches through uniform documentation. |
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