Ashurst is a leading global law firm advising corporates, financial institutions and governments on their most complex transactions, disputes and projects. With 28 offices in 16 countries, Ashurst offers the reach and insight of a global network, combined with the knowledge and understanding of local markets.

Through our NewLaw division Ashurst Advance, we provide our clients with intelligent and efficient solutions to their business challenges by combining the firm's legal expertise with lower cost resourcing options, process and project management specialists and cutting-edge technology.

The team is also committed to designing, developing and delivering technology-based solutions via a suite of curated digital products and services, to meet the ever-evolving needs of our clients.

Contact us to help you explore the possibilities of NewLaw: https://www.ashurst.com/en/innovation/ashurst-advance/

Orrick provides legal solutions for visionary companies in the Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure and Finance sectors. Based in 25+ markets globally, we help our clients grow and disrupt, we protect them, and we help them win. We’re also transforming the delivery of legal services. That’s why Financial Times has named Orrick the Most Innovative Law Firm in North America three years in a row.

Through Orrick Labs, we’re developing new legal technologies. Through our corporate venture investment fund, we’re partnering with exciting legal tech company founders. Through Orrick Analytics, we’re applying AI and other tools to solve clients’ problems. And through creative staffing at our Global Operations Center, we’re streamlining legal processes. We do all of this by engaging the very top talent, earning us a place on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list four years in a row.

Pinsent Masons is a market-leading international law firm built around the needs of our clients across five global sectors: energy, infrastructure, financial services, real estate and advanced manufacturing and technology. We respond to the pressures and opportunities facing businesses globally with legal excellence and innovation.

We were named the most innovative law firm in Europe by the Financial Times in 2020, and previously in 2015. The firm has consistently featured in the law firms rankings whilst achieving recognition in the Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The firm employs over 3000 people worldwide, including over 1500 lawyers and over 400 partners. The firm's international footprint encompasses seven offices across Asia-Pacific, two offices in the Middle East, six offices in continental Europe and one in Africa. The firm also has comprehensive coverage across each of the UK's three legal jurisdictions.

We recognise that giving a first class service goes beyond just legal excellence. Pinsent Masons is a modern professional services business with law at its core. This means that we deploy a wider range of professional disciplines, enabled by process and technology, to collaborate with our clients and deliver new and innovative ways of addressing their challenges.

CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) introduced the legal operations role as an industry recognized profession and continues to power Industry innovation to drive positive change through its global membership. 

CLOC provides superior education, networking, and collaboration opportunities for the in-house legal operations professional. Our members drive a community culture of agile, prolific knowledge sharing and collaborate together to create content that can be used across the legal ecosystem to promote standardization, speed and superior service to our in-house clients. Together we incubate ideas that lead to the creation of actionable content that can be used every day in the corporate legal department. 

CLOC partners with industry thought leaders, experts and educationalists to innovate, take risks and tilt the status quo in order to streamline operations, reduce costs and leverage BI and metrics to improve departmental ROI. As departments, and the role of the legal operation professional evolve, CLOC’s global community of members and law firm participants will continue to lead the charge in running legal department’s like a dynamic, scalable business. 

Join CLOC, attend a CLOC Institute, and be a part of this exciting journey to operational excellence. Learn more at cloc.org.

Content Partner

RSG Consulting was set up in 2001 by Reena SenGupta, the ex-Publishing Director of Chambers and Partners and the creator of the Chambers rankings and research methodology in the mid-nineties.

Initially, the company focused on client relationship management projects, working for the magic circle law firms and top US firms. In the course of that work, RSG realised that the profession was on the brink of tumultuous change and founded a ranking of lawyers on innovation which became the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers programme.

Today, RSG is a leading innovation agency for lawyers and works with law firms, in-house legal teams and law companies to help them innovate and build a culture of innovation. It has a unique position in the legal market globally as a connector and its networks of lawyers, built up over 25 years, are unrivalled. It works in emerging markets such as India to help drive up standards of professionalism and client care. All its work is underpinned by robust research and it has been the author of many thought-leadership studies over the past 18 years.

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