Herbert Smith Freehills

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.

Contracting solutions

Helping clients with their BAU contract work, such as reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts based on agreed playbooks. This can reduce costs, increase efficiency, consistency, and quality, whilst freeing up in-house legal resources for more strategic work.

Transactions support

Helping clients with their transactional work, such as due diligence, verification and disclosure, deal execution and post-completion tasks. This can leverage legal technology, such as AI and automation tools, to streamline processes, improve outcomes and create value.

Litigation, investigations and disclosure

Partnering with clients with their litigation, arbitration, regulatory and investigation needs, such as conducting document review for legal analysis and production. Litigation support services include Chronologies, Witness Statement and Expert Report Preparation or reporting on findings. We deploy technology to get the right results faster and can scale rapidly (across global locations) to manage deadlines and large document volumes.

Claims management

Providing a cohesive and scalable solution to support clients in dealing with their business-as-usual volume claims and complaints; and provide support on remediation and redress. We can provide an augmented or fully outsourced solution, and apply technologies to make delivery cost-effective. This enables in-house teams to focus on their strategic priorities whilst maintaining real time oversight.

Regulatory support

Supporting clients manage the implementation of legal updates across a suite of documents triggered by regulatory change, as well as providing post-implementation support including regulatory queries, investigations and/or notices. We can also provide follow-on support such as managing volume complaints or managing regulator mandated remediation or redress schemes. We can remove the burden of these time consuming activities on in-house teams whilst ensuring consistency in delivery.

Legal project management

Helping clients with their complex or large-scale legal projects, such as managing scope, budget, timeline, resources, quality and risks. This can apply best practices, tools and techniques to deliver client-centric and optimised results.

Legal operations advisory

Supporting clients with their legal function strategy, design and transformation, such as assessing current state, identifying gaps and opportunities, developing roadmaps and implementing changes. This can ensure best practice and cutting-edge legal delivery, and advise on the latest developments in emerging technologies and their impact on the legal market.

Emerging technology advisory

Specialist practice helping businesses in all sectors navigate legal and regulatory challenges when developing, using and investing in advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, the metaverse, blockchain, and digital assets such as crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).