Hogan Lovells’ Marion Palmer named most Innovative practitioner at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards 2024

In a statement José María Balañá, Managing Partner for EMEA, commented: “This award demonstrates our commitment to delivering innovative technology solutions to our clients and is a reflection of our ground-breaking and forward thinking ESG practice. We are delighted to have our people and teams recognized as innovative leaders in the profession.”.

Additionally, the firm ranked 10th overall in the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe list featuring heavily in the report, released today. Other categories the firm was also recognised in included: 

• ‘Standout’ - Innovation in dispute resolution – for our work successfully defending London Metal Exchange against traders who sued it over a decision to cancel billions of dollars’ worth of nickel traders

• ‘Highly commended' - innovation in talent management-  for our partnership with Flair Impact, a racial equity technology company on a mission to create a world where all ethnicities can thrive. The team worked closely with FLAIR to create a bespoke survey and data analysis that would produce useable, understandable, and actionable results.

• ‘Highly commended' - innovation in regulatory solutions-  for our ‘Regulatory Pilot tool,’ initially designed for BMW, to monitor regulatory changes affecting the auto sector. Now used more widely, it’s results have exceeded expectations, providing reliable, timely information from every relevant jurisdiction, showing an instant return on the AI capabilities of the bot and rapidly refining the information it gathers to create high value reports for clients.

• ‘Commended’- innovation in pro bono - for our “Defending Democracy” initiative strengthening the Right to Free and Fair Elections (Article 3 Protocol 1 of the ECHR). This programme recognises promotion of the rule of law by providing pro bono advice to enable participation of under-represented groups.

• ‘Commended’- innovation in Generative AI tools-  for ELTEMATE CRAIG. Launched last year, it is a legally refined and customized suite of generative AI solutions which can be used to draft legal documents, summarize large data sets, extract and structure information into legal documents, automate contract negotiations, create fact chronologies, generate interview outlines and much more. ELTEMATE CRAIG is one of the most sophisticated AI product in the market, refining and customizing multiple legal processes and enabling lawyers and clients to increase productivity and operational efficiencies.

• “Intrapreneur” - Partner Sebastian Lach recognized for his AI legal tech development over the last decade as well as his leadership skills. He was the key innovator and mover behind the creation of ELTEMATE CRAIG which he is also co-CEO for.