Digital adaption is presenting businesses with efficiencies and opportunities at pace – Herbert Smith Freehills is no different.
Continuing to support our clients with this rapid change, we created a team of the best analytical legal minds backed by investments in cutting-edge tools and technologists in our multi-strand Digital Legal Delivery group.
Delivering a holistic response to clients, our problem solvers support businesses needing invention and fresh thinking from their legal advisers alongside the technical excellence you expect from a leading global law firm.
Leveraging experience to map the intersections where people and tech deliver results, our group supports businesses undergoing their own digitisation projects and those who seek freedom from the manual and inefficient processes of traditional legal services delivery.
Experienced at delivering large and complex legal services, we are experts in the delivery of data-intensive mandates.
Imagining possibilities, our Digital Legal Delivery group is implementing the best solutions today, while experimenting with emerging tools to understand their practical applications for tomorrow.
Evolving through design thinking, legal project management, advisory and new law frameworks, generative AI came as no surprise to HSF’s digital team, neither will the next big digital transformation.
Experience
Multinational telecommunications company
Providing a managed legal service for a multinational telecommunications company in relation to consumer claims, including defending claims up to trial. The claims included litigated cases allocated to the multi-track. As a result of our involvement, our client’s inhouse legal and complaints team had more time to focus on the strategic matters which required their attention.
Large financial institution
Our Legal Operations Advisory team advised a large financial institution to re-imagine their legal function and supported their transformation. This project involved a large data gathering exercise to capture and analyse current state activity, technology usage and key opportunities for change so that the client could move closer to their future-state aspirations.
Financial services client
Implementing and managing a redress project, mandated by the regulator, on behalf of a financial services client. Digital's lawyers assessed complex claims comprising up to 52 categories of loss, including consequential losses, with claim values up to £39 million.
Awards and Accolades
Band 1, Litigation Services (Global-wide)
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
"HSF has an excellent team across the board. They are always ready to assist across whatever challenging deadlines we set."
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
Band 2, Contract Lifecycle Management (Global-wide)
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
"HSF was punctual, communicative and a real pleasure to work with. They provided incisive analysis"
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
Band 2, Law Firm LPO (Global-wide)
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
"Herbert Smith Freehills tailor their advice to the client and give a very personable service. I think they are unbelievable value for money."
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
Band 3, Flexible Legal Staffing (Global-wide)
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
"Herbert Smith Freehills are experts, very commercial and have great market knowledge"
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
"They are very fluid and adaptable. They tailor the resources to the demand, they are very commercial and pragmatic, and the service is bespoke to the client's needs. They tailor their advice to the client; it's a very personal service."
Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Legal Guide 2023
Key contacts
Lyn Harris
Partner, Legal (Disputes) - UK, US and EMEA and Digital (Legal Technology) - Global, Belfast