‘A broad-based City professional services firm’: RPC breaks into insurance and financial consulting with software business buy

In a move to widen it offering to its insurance clients, RPC’s consulting arm has branched out from a legal and management focus and into insurance and financial consultancy work with the purchase of UK-based software business Marriott Sinclair.

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Guest post: The innovation perspective – get the right end of the telescope

Innovation is a word much bandied around in the law without always a clear idea of what it means. Many lawyers or PR people have called me up over the years to proclaim their latest exciting innovation, only for me to point out that plenty of people have been doing the same thing for ages.

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CC innovation chief creates taskforces to drive change

Firm eyes IBM Watson partnership and new software products

Six months into the role, Clifford Chance (CC)’s head of innovation and business change, Bas Boris Visser, has moved to re-establish the firm’s reputation as a pioneering business, partnering with IBM Watson, and forming innovation committees.

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Simmons breaks into growing legal product market with start-up tool targeting hedge funds

Seeking to turn the City’s next big hedge funds into clients, Simmons & Simmons has entered the growing legal product market with a package to guide hedge fund managers through the increasing regulatory burden attached to creating and launching a financial firm.

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Freshfields targets US and Asia for two more business service hubs amid plans for 24/7 legal support

After taking the decision to move back-office staff out of its London headquarters to Manchester in a nearshoring exercise, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is taking the low-cost support model to new heights as it looks at potentially opening two further support outposts in Asia and the US to provide 24/7 legal support. 

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Coming Soon – assessing the big forces shaping the future of law

As part of our 25-year anniversary, Legal Business talks to industry veterans to assess the big forces impacting the profession and asks what it will look like come 2040.

The profession faces an unprecedented period of upheaval and uncertainty in the next ten years in which the pace of change will continue to accelerate. Discuss.

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