Legal Innovation

Ground-breaking advice

We pride ourselves on being at the cutting-edge of law and practice. Our clients come to Linklaters because we are able to undertake and deliver on the most challenging assignments across the globe. Our lawyers join us because they want the experience of working at the forefront of the law. Creating ground-breaking solutions is therefore part of what our lawyers do on a regular basis, whether through providing first-in-kind solutions on transaction structures, developing innovative financial market products or advising our clients on compliance with new or untested areas of law. 

LawTech

Providing innovative legal technology solutions to match our clients’ individual and evolving business needs

Linklaters has built a market-leading legal technology capability to support our clients’ individual and evolving business needs. We continue to invest in innovative legal technology, including AI, to better solve complex problems for our clients, whether to ensure efficient and cost-effective delivery of legal services or to help determine the best use of legal technology within their own organisations. We use a dual approach when applying legal AI technologies, using both market-leading solutions and proprietary technology at our disposal. Ultimately, this helps us to continue delivering best-in-class client service.

Solutions

From basic text extraction and ground-breaking AI that can both speed-up and make the end-product of a transaction more consistent, to machine learning capability within eDiscovery platforms that enables us to hone in on a particular item of interest in litigation cases, our dedicated team of client-focused specialists are here to build a tailor-made solution that best meets your needs. 

nakhoda

Our flagship technology solution

nakhoda is Linklaters’ flagship technology and AI platform. We recognise that the real potential of legal AI goes beyond data organisation and extraction. Through nakhoda, we deploy the smartest solutions and ideas in the market, from machine learning to automated legal logic, to deliver products that make a real difference for our clients. Guided by a sharp focus on fusing emerging technologies with deep legal expertise, we are building bespoke, transformative legal tech products for our clients and leading the creation of the next generation of legal risk management and decision-making frameworks.

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Ed Chan talks about how the banking team at Linklaters is using artificial intelligence to streamline repetitive administrative processes.

Advanced Matter Delivery

Flexible, cost-effective and integrated solutions to manage and deliver legal work

Advanced Matter Delivery is a commitment to deliver to our clients the most appropriately tailored and cost-effective solutions for the legal work we provide. We do this through the use of a tightly integrated set of efficiency-related services.

We look to combine the power of legal technology with our experienced alternative resourcing and project management professionals, to enable the most efficient and appropriate matter delivery for our clients. Importantly, not only do we have this focus at the inception of matters, we work more strategically on a continuous improvement basis with our clients to advance the way we deliver our matters. 

Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Engaging with clients to develop bespoke automated contract solutions

Smart contracts and distributed ledger technology hold great promise – modernisation, automation, efficiency and significant cost savings. Many clients are evaluating whether and how best to deploy these technologies, seeking to unleash these potential benefits.

We are engaging with and supporting clients to develop bespoke automated contract solutions, including exploring ways of working with technology partners.

Our joint white paper with ISDA sets out what smart contracts and DLT are, how they might be used in a derivatives context, and some of the legal issues that will need to be resolved. 

Accord Project

Linklaters is a member of the Accord Project, which seeks to bring together a consortium of legal and technology partners to help promote open standards around smart contracts.

FinTech

Delivering commercially innovative advice across the fintech spectrum

Financial institutions and disruptive technology companies alike trust Linklaters with their most complex fintech projects. We believe it is a testament to this experience that we have worked with such a diverse client base at all stages of growth, from early-stage start-ups to established financial institutions.

We have consistently held the position of market-leaders in advising on the application of new technologies to finance, from the implementation of SWIFT payments in 1973 to the advent of blockchain and digital currencies, and everything in-between. Long before the term “FinTech” was coined, we had been working on many of the most prominent and ground-breaking technological developments in financial markets for many years.