Richard Brent

2 months ago | briefing.co.uk | Richard Brent |Andreea Dulgheru

With the somewhat intimidating new name DeepSeek suddenly on everyone with a passing interest in the genAI world’s lips, how do law firms feel about their own approaches to this area of possible investment at the top of 2025? If nothing else, it certainly serves to highlight how fast this game can potentially change.

Oct 29, 2024 | briefing.co.uk | Richard Brent |Andreea Dulgheru

The annual Briefing/HSBC UK law firm strategy and investment research, which we published in early October 2024, found that almost one in 10 (8%) of C-suite law firm strategic leaders don’t expect their place to be using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) at all heading into 2025.

Oct 29, 2024 | briefing.co.uk | Richard Brent |Andreea Dulgheru

Over three-quarters of legal business leaders say clients of the firm are asking about plans to deploy generative artificial intelligence (genAI), according to Briefing’s annual strategy and investment benchmarking research Briefing Frontiers — but under one in 10 would say this is happening ‘a lot’ now.

Nov 23, 2023 | briefing.co.uk | Richard Brent

There’s no data strategy — or senior strategic leaders aren’t aware they’ve got one — at over two-fifths of leading large law firms that make up the Briefing audience.  That’s according to this year’s Briefing Frontiers research of the cohort back in February — and it isn’t just a problem for the generative artificial intelligence (genAI) upstarts now itching to get their algorithms on the goods. There’s marketing and business development leaders for example.

Nov 13, 2023 | briefing.co.uk | Richard Brent

At October’s main event — Briefing Knowledge Leaders 2023 — our established collaborative idea-exchanging and problem-solving sessions were peppered with several short, sharp presentations to help provoke the most productive discussion. I was particularly pleased to welcome back Mark Ford, who was appointed global law knowledge leader at EY back in early 2022.