NewLaw Guide 2026 : Global-wide
Ranked Individual
Provided by King & Wood Mallesons
Our offering encompasses:
AI Advisory
AI advice, action plans and solutions help legal teams to get up to speed with the opportunities, challenges and risks of an AI-enabled future.
Strategic Planning and Insights
Insights on the latest legal industry trends, emerging technologies and best practice operating models to optimise and help future-proof legal functions for the future.
Legal Process Optimisation and Automation
Assess clients’ current work processes, identify improvement opportunities and develop automation ideas and solutions to enhance legal operations.
AI and Technology Enablement
Leverage our deep digital and in-house legal expertise to provide strategic guidance to help legal departments maximise value and opportunities from their organisation’s existing technologies and licenses, like the Microsoft ecosystem and the Power Platform.
Digital Literacy Uplift
Digital-focused education solutions designed to equip legal teams with knowledge and scalable skills to navigate a rapidly changing digital landscape.
LegalTech product collaboration
We recently partnered with LegalTech vendor, Jigsaw, to develop, test and roll-out a user-friendly timeline visualisation tool. Jigsaw Timelines has now been rolled out to law firms globally and the product was shortlisted for ILTA's 2024 "Trailblazer of the Year" Award.
Provided by Chambers
Mallesons' innovation team advises clients on legal process design and automation, legal technology procurement and implementation, AI technology enablement and related matters. The team also offers clients insight on developing trends in law, technology and operations.
Provided by Chambers
The firm have great knowledge in the area.
The firm is able to distil complex matters and provide simple and practical solutions within tight deadlines.
Innovation is the standout characteristic at Mallesons. They are creative and inquisitive, and they can generate significant global results.
Provided by Chambers
Michelle Mahoney is Mallesons' chief innovation officer and leads on transformation consulting projects for many of the firm's top clients. Mahoney has expertise in legal innovation and product design, AI strategy and adoption and digital transformation.
Michelle has the unusual ability to understand the future and implement new ways of working to move to that future in a large law firm while bringing along all the stakeholders. Michelle and her team have made Mallesons a leading user of technology to create new value.
Michelle is a powerful leader of a challenging transformation and has achieved world-class results.
Michelle is considered a sophisticated user and visionary in how she integrates technology into the work of the firm. She's responsive and creative and we learn something new every time we talk to her.
Michelle distinguishes herself through a rare combination of strategic vision, operational discipline and hands-on execution. What sets her apart from many leaders we work with is her ability to move seamlessly between high-level institutional strategy and detailed implementation. She is not only aligned at the executive level on long-term innovation priorities, but also deeply engaged in governance design, workflow refinement, and measurable adoption outcomes.
Legal Transformation Consulting
Provided by King & Wood Mallesons
Michelle Mahoney
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