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Lena Haffner on AI in Real Estate

Lena Haffner, Innovation Manager, will be hosting the next NRF Real Estate Club event in Frankfurt with Martin Pietzonka, Senior Head of Innovation at Drees & Sommer, on 8th May 2025.

Global | May 01, 2025

Lena Haffner on digitalisation initiatives in law firms

Lena Haffner, Innovation Manager, will be a key speaker on the panel, “Digitalisation initiatives in law firms and the impact on their business model” at the PMN Innovation Day on 8th May 2025.

Global | May 01, 2025

European Legal Innovation and Technology Awards: Shortlisted in two categories

We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the European Legal Innovation and Technology Awards in two categories: Excellence in Litigation Technology and Client Management Innovation.

Global | April 15, 2025

Charlotte Hillyard on preparing law firms for the future of legal innovation

Charlotte Hillyard, Senior Innovation Lawyer, will be a key speaker on the panel titled "Embracing GenAI Wave: Preparing Law Firms for the Future of Legal Innovation" at the Future Lawyers UK event on 1st April 2025.

Global | April 01, 2025

Supporting Save the Children UK on new technology solution

NRF Transform, the firm’s legal transformation programme, has implemented a technology solution for Save the Children UK’s (SCUK) Legal and Compliance team.

Global | February 04, 2025

Legal Innovators London 2024

On November 6 and 7, Artificial Lawyer and Cosmonauts held their annual Legal Innovators event in London. Jeremy Coleman, Director of Innovation, participated in a panel on November 6.

Global | November 13, 2024

Legal Operations Roundtable Series 2024: Practical use cases for AI

As you continue to explore the potential of AI within your legal operations, understanding its practical applications is crucial.

Global | November 05, 2024

Ben Stirling on how GenAI is revolutionizing in-house lawyers’ relationships with outside counsel

How are GenAI technologies changing the way in-house lawyers work with law firms?

Global | October 08, 2024

Celebrating five years of the firm’s business and legal operations grad scheme

Norton Rose Fulbright is celebrating the fifth year of its pioneering business and legal operations graduate scheme which saw its first intake in London in 2019.

Global | September 16, 2024

Legal Operations Roundtable Series 2024: Preparing for FY2025 – Building a compelling business case

As you begin planning for the upcoming financial year, it is likely that legal operations projects are on your radar. However, securing the necessary budget can be challenging. Our roundtable on October 1, ‘Preparing for FY2025 - Building a compelling business case’, will help you create compelling business cases for your legal initiatives.

Global | September 16, 2024

Stephanie Hamon on managing change and tech implementation at a panel event at LegalTechTalk 2024

Head of Legal Operations, Stephanie Hamon, will be joining the panel discussion on "Simplifying Legal Tech Adoption and Implementation" at the Legal Tech Talk conference on June 13th (3:30 - 4:15 PM).

Global | June 07, 2024

How to make a law firm AI ready: Insights from Lena Haffner at Legal Revolution 2024

On May 14, 2024, Lena Haffner, Innovation Lead Germany at Norton Rose Fulbright, shared her insights on “How do you make a law firm AI ready?" at Legal Revolution 2024, one of Europe’s leading conferences in legal innovation and technology. Her lecture focused on developing a comprehensive roadmap for integrating AI into law firms, emphasizing the importance of developing a robust AI strategy and fostering an innovation-ready culture. Key topics covered in the lecture included strategic planning, skills development, multidisciplinary teamwork, and strong AI governance.

Global | May 17, 2024

Driving Effective Change: Insights from NRF Legal Operations Consultant Tom Evans at the 4th World Legal Operations Summit

On April 11 - 12, Luxatia International held the 4th World Legal Operations Summit in Berlin. Tom Evans, senior consultant in our Legal Operations Consulting Team, shared his tips for driving effective change management and leading successful transformation projects.

United Kingdom | April 15, 2024

NRF Head of Legal Services included in the Lawyer Hot 100 2024

We are delighted to announce that Dan Newcombe, Head of Legal Services and based in the Newcastle Office, as been acknowledged in this year's The Lawyer Hot 100. The Hot 100 highlights those in the legal sector displaying both excellence and relevance within the industry with the work that they are doing.

Global | January 31, 2024

NRF Innovation Academy recognised at WirtschaftsWoche ‘Best of Legal’ Awards

Last week, Norton Rose Fulbright won the "Talent Management" category at the annual ‘Best of Legal’ Awards, hosted by renowned German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

Global | December 06, 2023

British Legal Technology Awards 2023: NRF Horizon Scanner shortlisted

We are delighted to announce that we are a finalist for ‘Technology Venture of the Year’ in this years British Legal Technology Awards. The awards, hosted by NetLaw Media, recognise excellence in legal technology. The shortlisted submission for NRF Horizon Scanner, a tailored service tracking regions and topics specific to your business, was led by NRF Transform’s Digital Solutions team but involved NRF lawyers, software developers and knowledge managers.

Global | October 12, 2023

NewLaw 2023 Careers Series Seminar

Stephanie Hamon, Head of Legal Operations Consulting at Norton Rose Fulbright will be participating as a speaker on the Legal Tech Engineer and Developers panel at Cognia’s Virtual NewLaw Careers Series.

Global | August 23, 2023

Legal Design and the strive for innovation in the legal system

Adopting a user-centric approach to legal services is still a nascent concept, but as discussed during this recent panel the possible applications of this new discipline will be very broad, tackling some of the largest challenges facing the legal system.

Global | June 14, 2023

InView Conference 2023: Legal Dawn: In-house rising

Looking to generate efficiencies in your legal department? Anne Wong will be sharing tips and practical examples for driving efficiency on a panel at InView’s Legal Dawn: In-house rising conference.

United Kingdom | May 26, 2023

3rd Annual Legal Operations Summit

Want to understand how to prioritise and develop your legal department’s roadmap? Stephanie Hamon will be sharing her tips on how to better define roles, manage workload, use technology and establish processes at the 3rd Annual Legal Operations Summit in Berlin this year.

Global | March 30, 2023

Why retiring the billable hour is a win-win scenario

For many years, in-house teams have faced pressure to deliver increasing value to their businesses, despite relatively stagnant budgets and headcounts. This issue will only be amplified over what looks to be a difficult year ahead.

Global | February 01, 2023

Meet Alice Gilson: your new Legal Operations Consultant

Alice, a former lawyer at Getlink, has first-hand experience of the legal in-house role and will provide you with access to an even deeper bench of expertise and knowledge.

Global | January 04, 2023

Legal Ops is a State of Mind - Interview with Stephanie Hamon (Artificial Lawyer)

Celebrating their third year of operation, Stephanie Hamon spoke with Artificial Lawyer about the growth of Legal Operations Consulting at Norton Rose Fulbright, what legal operations means to her, and how law firms are challenging the Big Four. In this interview, Stephanie explains how legal operations is “more a mindset than a role”, and an enabler for the legal team to create value for the business by being strategic, not just a cost-centre.

Global | October 31, 2022

Celebrating 3 successful years of Legal Operations Consulting

We are excited to celebrate 3 years since the launch of our Legal Operations Consulting (LOC) team at Norton Rose Fulbright. Helping clients drive change and efficiency within their legal teams has been a pleasure and we have enjoyed working on the varied mandates across the globe.

United Kingdom | October 24, 2022

Digital Legal Services award win at FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2022

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has won the ‘Digital Legal Services’ award at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2022 for its CRR 194 Opinion Service (the Service), which provides a one-shop stop solution for financial institutions navigating complex regulatory requirements.

Global | October 18, 2022

NRF Matter Hub shortlisted in two awards

NRF Matter Hub, a data-driven intake and matter management tool, has been shortlisted for two upcoming awards.

Global | September 05, 2022

Crafty Fest: What 'the business' really wants from their legal team

Stephanie Hamon, Head of Legal Operations Consulting, was delighted to chair a panel at Crafty Fest, Crafty Counsel’s inaugural Legal Festival, on June 14.

Global | June 14, 2022

Canadian Law Awards 2022

Our Canadian Innovation team won the Best Use of Technology in a Law Firm award at the Canadian Law Awards for its development of three innovative technology-based products.

Global | May 24, 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright appoints partners from EY to enhance legal managed services offering

EY partners to co-lead firm's managed services offering

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed Alex Fortescue-Webb and Daniel Marks to co-lead and enhance the firm’s legal managed services offering.

United Kingdom | May 04, 2022

FT Innovative Lawyers Asia Pacific 2022: Legal Operations Consulting shortlisted

We are delighted to announce that a joint submission from our Legal Operations Consultancy and our client, Jera in the ‘Innovation in the business of law: New solutions’ category has been ...

Global | March 20, 2022

Legal Innovation Awards 2022: Shortlisted in four categories

We are delighted to be shortlisted across four categories for the Legal Innovation Awards 2022 recognising innovation in the legal sector. The shortlist includes International Law Firm Innovation for&...

Global | March 02, 2022

Victoria Baranow wins ILTA Young Professionals to Watch Award

We are pleased to announce that Victoria Baranow has won an International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Young Professionals to Watch Award for her key role as Product Manager of our multi-j...

Global | January 26, 2022

Legal Accelerators Talks 2021

NRF Transform's George Steven will be speaking on the upcoming Legal Accelerators Talks’ virtual panel on Document automation – tech for innovation in the legal industry on November 16. Th...

Global | November 15, 2021

IBOR transition work named ‘Technology Venture of the Year’ at British Legal Technology Awards

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has been awarded ‘Technology Venture of the Year’ at the British Legal Technology Awards 2021. The event, hosted at the Old Billingsgate venue in London, seeks to recognise successes in leadership, innovation and technology by presenting accolades to legal service providers who are transforming the future of the industry.

United Kingdom | November 12, 2021

Legal Innovators 2021

Norton Rose Fulbright's Head of Innovation, Jeremy Coleman, kicked off this years' Legal Innovators conference on October 21 with a thought-provoking keynote speech about the economic impact that stan...

Global | October 21, 2021

Legal Geek 2021

Our Head of Innovation, Jeremy Coleman, explored ‘3 Truths and 1 Lie’, a discussion around onboarding technology in law firms alongside Tara Waters (Ashurst) and Anthony Vigneron (Clifford Chance) at Legal Geek’s Conference this month.

Global | October 18, 2021

The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Summit 2021

“What does the growth of in-house legal operations functions mean to law firms?”: Join NRF Transform’s Tammy Heydenrych at The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Summit on the 28th S...

Global | September 28, 2021

Evolution of legal delivery

The real value in rethinking the delivery of legal services is when you break down the silos between all the different elements, from expert knowledge of the law, to pure technological expertise and t...

Global | September 20, 2021

NRF Transform welcomes new Business and Legal Operations Graduates

Warm welcome to our 5 new ‘BLOG’s who have joined this month. Over the next two years they will rotate between four of Transform’s multidisciplinary teams, including Legal Technology...

Global | September 15, 2021

Data, Language and Change. Artificial Lawyer talks to Stéphanie Hamon

Stéphanie Hamon shares insights with Richard Tromans on how NRF Transform’s Legal Operations Consultancy is using data, dashboards and KPIs to articulate an in-house legal department&rsqu...

Global | September 11, 2021

Norton Rose Fulbright adds new associate solicitor roles and launches route to qualification in Newcastle

Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding legal career opportunities in its Newcastle Hub, with the creation of new solicitor roles and a new graduate solicitor apprenticeship route to qualification for its ...

Global | August 25, 2021

Simon Schmeing joins firm in expansion of NRF Transform's offering in Asia

We welcome Simon Schmeing to our Singapore team. As part of NRF Transform Simon will work with our lawyers and clients to support the use of new technologies and drive change in legal service delivery...

Global | August 09, 2021

Legal Operations Consulting goes from strength to strength

The growth and development of our Legal Operations Consulting team was recognised when they were short listed for two prestigious industry awards on the same day

Global | August 02, 2021

OneNDA

NRF part of global steering committee and inaugural Drafting Group to support the development of a universal NDA. Sara Collins; Stephanie and Faye (KM Lawyer) The Drafting Group will be responsible fo...

Global | June 22, 2021

George Steven joins firm in expansion to NRF Transform’s EMEA Consulting offering

NRF Transform are expanding their EMEA consulting offering with the arrival of George Steven, former Chief Technology Officer at DocGovern. George will work closely with Stéphanie Hamon, our He...

Global | June 15, 2021

Global LPM Summit

At last week’s Global LPM Summit, David Hartnett, JD, ALPP, ALPM, Blandine Davies, Amanda Chaboryk and Emily Wesson, PMP shared their tips for building a successful LPM function, finding the rig...

Global | June 09, 2021

Launch of UK Legal Schema and development of UK SmartCo

A team led by Victoria Birch, a partner in our corporate practice, advised on the launch of a UK Legal Schema. The Scheme will provide a universal structured data format for the creation and interacti...

Global | June 03, 2021

‘Start small, start somewhere.’ Developing a simple methodology is the key to optimising intake and allocation of work

Last week's roundtable with Stéphanie Hamon revealed that demand management and work allocation are hot topics among in-house legal functions, with many exploring opportunities for efficiency in this area.

Global | May 18, 2021

SOLID Europe: Effectively allocating the right work to the right place

Our Head of Legal Operations Consulting, Stéphanie Hamon, recently appeared at SOLID Europe 2021 where she shared her 6-step methodology for effective resource allocation. Her TED-style talk ex...

Global | May 12, 2021

Join members from our LPM team at the Global LPM Summit

Join experts from our UK, Canadian and US offices as they share their tips for building a successful Legal Project Management function at the Global LPM Summit on 15-18 June. Watch replays

Global | May 08, 2021

Join Stéphanie Hamon at The Lawyer’s Smarter Working Week

Our Head of Legal Operations Consulting, Stéphanie Hamon, is hosting three roundtable discussions on 'Right work, performed in the right place?' at The Lawyer’s Smarter Working Week confe...

Global | May 05, 2021

Congratulations to our first NRF Transform Consultants

Congratulations to Emily Crees and Tom Evans on becoming our first Transform Consultants, having completed our two-year Business and Legal Operations Graduate scheme, working on innovative p...

Global | March 17, 2021

Verdict imminent: The LawtechUK Sandbox

Working with Tech Nation & others, Norton Rose Fulbright and NRF Transform have helped support a cohort of cutting edge start-ups, in a pioneering collaboration between disruptors and regulators -...

Global | March 10, 2021

NT Analyzer takes home The Lawyer's Most Innovative Use of Technology award

As a part of its 2020 awards program, The Lawyer has named Norton Rose Fulbright's data privacy compliance tool, NT Analyzer, the winner of its Most Innovative Use of Technology award. More

Global | November 19, 2020

Norton Rose Fulbright wins two gold awards at 2020 Canadian Law Awards

Norton Rose Fulbright was named the gold winner of both the 2020 M&A Deal of the Year and the 2020 Best Use of Technology in a Law Firm at the inaugural Canadian Law Awards, presented by Lexpert a...

Global | October 08, 2020

FT Top 30 Innovative law firms in Europe

The common critique that law firms are no match for the digital economy is not borne out in the FT Top 30, a selection of the most innovative law firms in Europe. This is particularly true for the top...

Global | October 07, 2020

Norton Rose Fulbright wins three IBOR transition mandates in three weeks

New mandates for Norton Rose Fulbright’s “tech agnostic” approach to offering an end-to-end IBOR transition service, supporting clients by streamlining the process of transitioning b...

Global | May 07, 2020

Norton Rose Fulbright becomes first Canadian law firm to use one-of-a-kind platform to solve common legal service delivery challenges

Developed by the firm’s award-winning innovation team, NCode represents a novel and cutting-edge way of delivering legal services. The platform can help perform a number of functions, including ...

Global | January 13, 2020

Riskbook wins Norton Rose Fulbright Insurathon 2019

Insurathon is a Norton Rose Fulbright event which supports innovation in the insurance sector. It aims to bring together the finest start-up and scale-up technology businesses looking to develop a bus...

Global | December 16, 2019

Norton Rose Fulbright launches legal operations consulting practice

Norton Rose Fulbright will launch a legal operations consulting practice led by Stéphanie Hamon, formerly of Barclays. The practice will provide management and operational advice to in-house le...

Global | July 03, 2019

Norton Rose Fulbright develops Law and Tech module with University of York

The elective module is open to 40 third year law and computer science honours students and requires students to propose and build prototype solutions that can help narrow the access to justice gap. Th...

Global | May 20, 2019

Norton Rose Fulbright ranked second in Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2019

This recognition underscores the firm’s successful track record in providing innovative legal advice, creating new business models, and developing and launching new products and services in coll...

Global | May 06, 2019

Norton Rose Fulbright launches NT Analyzer technology product

Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that it has launched Network Traffic (NT) Analyzer, a first-of-its-kind data protection tool suite that helps companies detect and track the collection and sharin...

Global | May 02, 2019

Norton Rose Fulbright joins the Accord Project

Accord has been created to connect key players in the world of smart contract technology, blockchain and legal tech companies in order to develop common standards for legal smart contracts. Martin Sco...

Global | July 17, 2018

Norton Rose Fulbright signs up to Eagle Lab project to define future of law-tech ecosystem

Eagle Lab, a new law-tech incubator launched by Barclays and the Law Society aims to help the UK be a leader in the field of law technology. It will help companies start up and scale up by assisting t...

Global | April 25, 2018

FT: Chatbots join the legal conversation

Parker is the first Australian law firm chatbot developed to give basic answers to questions about changes to the law on data protection and privacy and is aimed at businesses dealing with the new leg...

Global | February 16, 2018