Litera announces The Changing Lawyer Summit Awards winners for 2021
Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, today announced the Award winners at The Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit. The Awards recognise individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behaviour across five different categories.
Winners and runners up were:
Legal Innovator of the Year
- Farrah Pepper drives innovation with a measurable impact on her organisation.
- Peter Geovanes
- Kerry Westland
Law Firm of the Year
- Honigman was able to adopt new technologies that involved a combination of people, processes, and technology.
- Troutman Pepper
- Goodwin
Disruptor of the Year
- Priori clients use the streamlined RFP process to engage lawyers at law firms of all sizes, whether for flexible, scalable legal support, local counsel, niche expertise, to reduce outside counsel spending, or to drive diversity in their outside counsel bench.
- TurnSignl
- MedBrief
WFH Creative Award
- Eversheds Sutherland – the development of the Open House app was a rapid and creative response to WFH. The app was highly successful in negating the impacts (isolation and disconnection) of WFH and, in fact, brought people together.
- Taft Law
- Anand and Anand
Lifetime Achievement Award
Jack Newton – As the CEO and Co-founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack Newton has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, and privacy issues surrounding cloud computing. He has become a nationally-recognised author and speaker on these topics. Jack has set a mission for himself to transform the practice of law for good, and for over a decade, his commitment has been unwavering. Jack’s tremendous vision has already made a profound impact on one of the world’s oldest professions.
