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    THE AWARDS


    This virtual awards ceremony will be a celebration of the best in innovation from law firms and in-house legal teams in the Europe region. Featuring live interviews with law firm managing partners and legal practitioners, as well as live panel discussions and documentary features on the shortlisted work across the categories in the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe report.

    OUR WINNERS

    Most innovative law firm in Europe: Pinsent Masons

    Runner up: Hogan Lovells

    Most innovative law firm in Continental Europe: Garrigues

    Runner up: Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

    Law firms: Innovation in the practice of law: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    Runner up: Allen & Overy

    Law firms: Innovation in social responsibility: Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Charles Russell Speechlys, Dentons, Orrick, White & Case

    Runner up: Uría Menéndez

    Law firms: Innovation in strategy and digital transformation: Kennedys

    Runner up: Hogan Lovells

    Law firms: Innovative team: Hogan Lovells

    Runner up: Pinsent Masons

    Most innovative in-house legal team in Europe: GlaxoSmithKline

    Runner up: Vodafone 

    In-house legal teams: Innovation as business enablers: DXC Technology
    Runner up: Novartis

    In-house legal teams: Innovation as strategic advisers: Veon

    Runner up: Nokia

    In-house legal teams: Innovation as thought leaders: Vodafone

    Runner up: Just Eat

    SHORTLIST CATEGORIES

    MOST INNOVATIVE LAW FIRM IN EUROPE


    Most innovative law firm: continental Europe

    Law firm: Innovation in the practice of law

    Law firm: Innovation in social responsibility

    Law firm: Innovation in strategy and digital transformation

    Law firm: Innovative team

    MOST INNOVATIVE IN-HOUSE TEAM - EUROPE


    In-house legal teams: Innovation as business enablers

    In-house legal teams: Innovation as strategic advisers

    In-house legal teams: Innovation as thought leaders 

    The Shortlist

    MOST INNOVATIVE LAW FIRM:
     EUROPE

    Addleshaw Goddard

    Allen & Overy

    Ashurst

    Baker McKenzie

    CMS

    DLA Piper

    DWF

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    Hogan Lovells

    Kennedys

    Linklaters

    Norton Rose Fulbright

    Pinsent Masons

    Slaughter and May

    White & Case


    MOST INNOVATIVE LAW FIRM: 
    CONTINENTAL EUROPE

    AEQUO

    BonelliErede

    Cuatrecasas

    Garrigues

    Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

    Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

    NautaDutilh

    VdA


    MOST INNOVATIVE IN-HOUSE LEGAL TEAM:
    EUROPE

    DXC Technology 

    GlaxoSmithKline

    Just Eat

    L’Oreal

    Nasdaq

    Nokia

    Novartis

    Smiths Group

    Veon

    Vodafone

    LAW FIRMS: INNOVATION IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW

    Allen & Overy

    CMS

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    Mills & Reeve

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

    Paul Hastings

    White & Case


    LAW FIRMS: INNOVATION IN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

    Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Charles Russell Speechlys, Dentons, Orrick, White & Case

    DLA Piper

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

    Uría Menéndez

    White & Case

    LAW FIRMS: INNOVATION IN STRATEGY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

    ECIJA

    Eversheds Sutherland

    Hogan Lovells

    Kennedys

    PwC Tax and Legal Services

    LAW FIRMS: INNOVATIVE TEAM

    Ashurst

    Avonhurst

    Eversheds Sutherland

    Hogan Lovells

    Pinsent Masons

    Latham & Watkins

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    IN-HOUSE LEGAL TEAM: INNOVATION AS BUSINESS ENABLERS

    DXC Technology

    L'Oreal

    Novartis

    Springer Nature

    Unilever

    Veon

    Vodafone

    IN-HOUSE LEGAL TEAM: INNOVATION AS STRATEGIC ADVISERS

    Just Eat

    Kambi

    Nokia

    Veon

    Volkswagen

    IN-HOUSE LEGAL TEAM: INNOVATION AS THOUGHT LEADERS

    GlaxoSmithKline

    Just Eat

    Nasdaq

    Network Rail

    Novartis

    Vodafone

    RESEARCH 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 is the author of many thought-leadership studies.


    The team at RSG are an active part of the leadership at the Digital Legal Exchange, a non-profit global learning and membership organisation dedicated to driving digital transformation in corporate legal departments.


    www.rsgconsulting.com/

    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

    Innovative Lawyers Europe 2020 is a rankings report and awards for lawyers based in the Europe region. Shortlists for the awards comprise the top ranked submissions in each section of the report. 

    The FT and its research partner RSG Consulting have devised a unique methodology to rank lawyers on innovation. Law firms and company in-house legal teams are invited to submit their innovations. These are then thoroughly researched through telephone interviews, questionnaires and reviews. Market experts are also called in to assess the submissions and the research.

    This unusual year also drove the FT and its long-term research partner, RSG Consulting, to take a new approach to the research, rankings and editorial in the report: we focused less on category rankings and individual awards to dissect ever more closely the big trends that are changing the industry.

    Entries were scored out of 10 on originality, leadership and impact for a maximum score of 30. This year, scores for each individual entry have not been shown in the report and include an additional indicator for inclusion alongside results from the individual surveys.