| Standout | Mishcon de Reya | 9 | 9 | 8 | 26 | A series of initiatives to integrate technology into everyday working includes an eDiscovery business, a cyber-security consultancy and MDR Lab, a technology incubator. The incubator has supported six start-ups to develop tools in partnership with its lawyers. The firm is now using these tools within its practices and with clients. |
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| Standout | Linklaters | 8 | 8 | 9 | 25 | A new LegalTech team of 15 product specialists work alongside the firm’s lawyers to develop and sell combined legal and technology solutions for clients. |
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| Standout | Simmons & Simmons | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 | A software tool allowed clients to review their EU trademark portfolios, identify trademarks that were eligible for amendments, and to then generate the paperwork for filing in a six-month window last year under a new EU regulation. Commended: Darren Meale |
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| Standout | DLA Piper | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 | Ascendant 2.0 helps clients compare vendor bids in large procurement projects. A central database captures market standards for technology and sourcing contracts. Commended: Kit Burden |
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| Highly Commended | Rousaud Costas Duran | 8 | 7 | 8 | 23 | The firm has formed a partnership with Spanish start-up Signaturit to adapt e-signature technology to collect evidence and create proof that companies have fulfilled compliance requirements under Spanish corporate crime laws. |
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| Highly Commended | Pinsent Masons | 7 | 8 | 8 | 23 | A suite of document analytics applications on the firm’s TermFrame platform has changed the way lawyers review, analyse and report on large volumes of documents for ring-fencing compliance, contract review and data protection projects. Commended: Lucy Shurwood |
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| Highly Commended | Linklaters | 8 | 8 | 7 | 23 | Through its technology offering, Nakhoda, the firm is developing its own artificial intelligence and other applications to help clients with specific challenges. Commended: Edward Chan |
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| Highly Commended | Garrigues | 7 | 8 | 8 | 23 | Developed by the firm's G-Advisory consulting team, Core is a new application to manage company compliance for corporate crime, data privacy, environment, quality assurance and security risks. |
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| Highly Commended | Eversheds Sutherland | 7 | 8 | 8 | 23 | The firm has developed a new completion process for M&A transactions, using an online electronic signature platform to make the process faster and easier by allowing parties to sign from any location. |
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| Commended | Multilaw | 7 | 7 | 8 | 22 | The network’s roll-out of a cloud-based system to track referrals and centralise management of client relationships has helped it to generate new work and clearly demonstrate its value to member firms. |
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| Commended | Gowling WLG | 7 | 7 | 8 | 22 | The firm has deployed robotic process automation tools used in large corporations to automate its own internal finance and human resources work, freeing staff to concentrate on more challenging tasks. |
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| Commended | Berwin Leighton Paisner | 7 | 7 | 8 | 22 | The Title Recall system accesses and downloads title information from the UK’s Land Registry databases, reducing duplicate requests and producing cost savings for the firm and its clients. |
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| Commended | PLMJ | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | The firm created a new process, system and mobile app to help its lawyers manage around 200 new procedural deadlines for Portuguese courts each day. |
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| Commended | Maples and Calder | 6 | 7 | 8 | 21 | The Maples eServices platform is used to manage clients’ global portfolios of corporate entities, providing clients with quick access to documents and the ability to map ownership relationships between entities. |
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| Commended | CMS | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | The CMS Evidence team is using Brainspace, a concept analysis technology used by government and investigative agencies, to change the way its litigators approach case analysis and investigations. |
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