Integreon is proud to sponsor the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers (FTIL) awards for 2011-2013. The awards support and recognize law firms and individual lawyers who are proactively responding to the issues and challenges of the evolving global legal profession. These firms and lawyers are looking beyond the “zero-sum game” for ways to implement innovative solutions for their clients and recognize that long-term success is about developing real partnerships that have:
- Impact – Ensuring consistent, measurable contributions to clients’ profitability and leveraging all legal and non-legal assets and resources for their benefit.
- Intimacy – Building trust through developing a deep understanding of clients’ business issues and problems.
- Imagination – Working with clients to create and expand the depth and breadth of their partnership, enabling continual innovation to shine through.
Integreon is honored to have some of the world’s most innovative law firms as partners and to work with the FTIL program to encourage continued innovation in the legal sector.
In the past few years, both law firms and corporate legal departments have openly embraced innovative ideas to “break the mold” and change the way they deliver and consume legal services. Legal process outsourcing (LPO), alternative business structures (ABS), and alternative fee arrangements (AFA) are just three examples of how legal services delivery is evolving. Innovation enables improved focus on evolving client needs, more comprehensive and cost effective legal coverage, the development of core competencies, and improved efficiency in a truly global competitive legal landscape.
LPO alone has changed the dynamics of the legal industry and is no more seen as a risk among leading law firms. A Legal Week survey revealed that more than 15 percent of UK-based law firms used LPO in 2011. In the US, a 2011 survey of major US law firms indicated that, from 2010 to 2011, the number of firms who think LPO will become a “permanent trend” jumped from 28 percent to 41 percent.
Determined to be acknowledged as a leader in new and rapidly growing markets, Integreon has invested heavily in its people, processes, technology, and global delivery platforms to provide innovative solutions to its clients. In over a decade’s history, Integreon has helped global clients such as Clifford Chance, CMS Cameron McKenna, DLA Piper, Microsoft, Linklaters, Osborne Clarke, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and many more to improve the efficiency of their legal services delivery and consumption by enabling them to focus on their core competencies.
Integreon supports a forward-thinking and innovative approach in shaping the legal services sector. This is why we have made a strategic decision to invest in the most important event in the legal calendar, the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards.
Over the past decade, bold moves in the legal sector have transformed the way lawyers share knowledge, structure fees, consolidate operations, and service clients. Integreon developed a timeline that showcases these innovations.
Learn More about the FTIL Program
- FTIL 2011: Law firm rankings, links to the reports, award category summaries, submission guidelines, event photos, and program videos
- Legal Innovations: Links to articles and organizations that highlight innovative achievements in the legal sector
- Legal Innovation Thought Leadership: Thought leaders, newsmakers, and other resources to help you stay at the forefront of innovation in the legal sector
- Innovation White Papers and Reports: Links to white papers and reports that discuss innovation in the legal sector
By Guest Blogger: Integreon
