Innovative Lawyers: Europe

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• Lawyers turn to AI to expand pro bono work

  New tech tools are enabling law firms to take on bigger projects and increase their impact

  
• Ukraine’s law firms pave the way to EU alignment

  Work to overhaul the country’s legal system is increasing transparency as part of a bid to join the bloc

  
• Technology takes class-action lawsuits out of the slow lane

  Automated systems are driving new business for lawyers

  
• Climate lawsuits harness human rights to press for more action

  Swiss women successfully argued their government must do more to protect their health

  
• How Gabon’s debt-for-nature swap survived a palace coup

  A $500mn blue loan is still in place despite upheaval, thanks to robust monitoring and a tight legal framework

  
• Practitioners: appliance of science adds winning edge to practice

  Lawyers who stretch their skills to address changes under way in the practice of law

  
• Intrapreneurs: forcing the pace of change

  FT Innovative Lawyers awards celebrate the individuals who lead in making change happen

  
• In-house legal teams start to see AI gains

  Company lawyers featured below say the tech makes their work faster, cheaper and less reliant on outside help

  
• Business of law: best examples in legal work

  Law firms are changing how they manage their people and are reinventing their services and delivery models

  
• Practice of law: best examples in legal work

  Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

  
• In-house lawyers: best examples in legal work

  Examples of best practice among company legal teams in Europe

  
• Europe Innovative Lawyers Awards 2024: the winners

  Awards highlights include: generative AI, social mobility in law firms, dealmaking, sustainability and the most innovative law firms and individuals

  
• Law firms face disruption from more directions

  Generative AI is just one among many pressures — from new client strategies to incursions by rivals

  
• AI moves along ‘hype cycle’ to make its mark on legal profession

  Early adopters are drawing valuable practical lessons from using the new tech

  
• Lawyers turn to AI to expand pro bono work

  New tech tools are enabling law firms to take on bigger projects and increase their impact

  
• Law firms forge new career paths in bid to tackle social mobility

  Modern apprenticeships offer students an alternative route to qualification

  
• Lawyers usher in City of London’s new dawn

  Law firms have been central to the biggest revamp of Britain’s capital markets in decades

  
• Ukraine’s law firms pave the way to EU alignment

  Work to overhaul the country’s legal system is increasing transparency as part of a bid to join the bloc

  
• Technology takes class-action lawsuits out of the slow lane

  Automated systems are driving new business for lawyers

  
• Climate lawsuits harness human rights to press for more action

  Swiss women successfully argued their government must do more to protect their health

  
• How Gabon’s debt-for-nature swap survived a palace coup

  A $500mn blue loan is still in place despite upheaval, thanks to robust monitoring and a tight legal framework

  
• Craig Wright said he invented bitcoin — lawyers proved him wrong

  Copyright law was key to disputing fraudster’s claim to be cryptocurrency’s founder Satoshi Nakamoto

  
• Practitioners: appliance of science adds winning edge to practice

  Lawyers who stretch their skills to address changes under way in the practice of law

  
• Intrapreneurs: forcing the pace of change

  FT Innovative Lawyers awards celebrate the individuals who lead in making change happen

  
• In-house legal teams start to see AI gains

  Company lawyers featured below say the tech makes their work faster, cheaper and less reliant on outside help

  
• Business of law: best examples in legal work

  Law firms are changing how they manage their people and are reinventing their services and delivery models

  
• Practice of law: best examples in legal work

  Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

  
• In-house lawyers: best examples in legal work

  Examples of best practice among company legal teams in Europe