The Squire Patton Boggs team with Alexandra Naumann of Mason & Cook LEGAL TECHNOLOGY TEAM OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Mason & Cook SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS CAROLINE NOBLET GLOBAL HR APP GIVES FIRM THE EDGE The firm developed Global Edge (GE), a subscription-based team to ensure optimum functionality in the delivery of content information portal providing up-to-date employment advice and to users. developments covering 32 jurisdictions. Accessible via a mobile Testimony from a number of clients has been effusive. app, GE offers 955 reports, 221 On the Horizon updates (mapping Says one senior EMEA employment counsel for defence sector forthcoming legislation), and 30 webinars. Among its 83 users are a manufacturer: ‘It provides access to top-level employment law host of prominent companies. advice, fully maintained and presented in plain English. Flexible The Global Edge platform is unique, designed and built and easily useable, this product is an essential part of every entirely by the firm. Lawyers worked hand-in-hand with the IT in-house lawyer’s toolkit.’ HIGHLY COMMENDED HighQ in the separation of National Grid’s whether clients get appropriate resources BAKER McKENZIE gas distribution business, a complex at a competitive price. Notably, the project SAMANTHA MOBLEY project that took two years compared to was delivered ahead of schedule and Baker’s Global Dawn Raid app was entirely eight for comparable previous projects, within budget. Since its introduction, over designed and developed in-house. Initially saving £1m in fees. 80% of Reed Smith’s significant matters covering antitrust dawn raids, it was then have been priced either with an alternative updated, with added Chinese and Japanese MACFARLANES fee arrangement or an estimated budget. language versions, to include anti-bribery, CHRIS TART-ROBERTS corruption and tax dawn raids. It provides The firm’s knowledge management TLT real-time guidance on corporate rights and team developed a customised solution JAMES TOUZEL obligations in 44 jurisdictions and contact to facilitate knowledge content capture, In partnership with US tech company with a local specialist directly with one tap. storage and access by working with LegalSifter, TLT launched Combined Concept Searching, an external provider Intelligence, a contract negotiations COMMENDED of semantic metadata generation solution for in-house legal, procurement ADDLESHAW GODDARD technology: the first time that a law firm and operations teams. The software KERRY WESTLAND has used technology in this way. completes a contract review within Addleshaw Goddard has created minutes with greater consistency Intelligent Delivery, a new model of REED SMITH and less risk of errors or missed legal service provision. The team uses GARETH HUGHES terms. Highly configurable by users, it AI systems like Kira and HighQ, which Reed Smith developed The Quick Pricing comes ready out-of-the-box with the includes dashboard reporting, document Tool, which incorporates different pricing embedded advice. automation and storage. The firm used models, allowing users to establish 60 LEGAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2018 LEGAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2018 61 LEGAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2018 61.