<aside> đđź Hello! I'm Greg, an innovation leader, AI lead, and âsuper connectorâ. I am a highly effective translator between the C-suite, legal practitioners and technologists, positioned to drive change and adoption of innovative ways of delivering legal services. Iâm passionate about open innovation, value-driven use of artificial intelligence and automation, and context-aware digital adoption.
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An economics graduate and experienced lawyer, I combine commercial and legal expertise with a deep-rooted passion for emerging and transformational technologies.
I thrive in driving change using modern technologies including AI - whether engaging with law firm leaders, clients and their C-suite, or running hands-on workshops with junior lawyers to identify challenges and develop solutions.
When I'm not running ideas campaigns, exploring AI in a lawyerâs day-to-day, or providing senior sponsorship for a buy/borrow/build legaltech solution, you can find me out and about with my young family, improving my photography or reading voraciously about new technologies within the legal industry, and outside it.
Global Head of Innovation - Linklaters LLP
January 2022 - Present
Built and lead a team of practice-embedded innovation lawyers and other professionals, leveraging a partner steering group and a ÂŁ7m+ budget to implement incremental, strategic and disruptive innovations.
A superconnector and translator, bringing together lawyers, technologists, knowledge specialists, LegalOps capabilities, academia, vendors and clients to discover, prioritise, design and implement innovative solutions that combine AI, automation, data analytics, and other capabilities.
Driven design and usage of a global ideas platform to crowdsource, evaluate, triage and implement the most impactful ideas whilst driving global engagement in innovation
Managed >30 global and regional ideas campaigns, led the evaluation and prioritisation of ideas, and delivered solutions
Practice engagement lead on Generative AI ideation, strategy and development of MVPs, including for search, drafting and diligence
Sponsored the development of GenAI chatbot & prompt library
Steered next-gen DD reporting platform ReportiQ from seed ideas to a deployed solution used by >1000 lawyers and supporting >EUR22bn of deals
Sponsored the deployment of a legal design toolkit
Product owner for firmâs tech storefront, Navigator
Designed and deployed concept of tech workbenches and matter blueprints to drive digital adoption
Innovation Lawyer (M&A) - Linklaters LLP
July 2018 - December 2021
The firmâs first innovation lawyer, identifying and driving the adoption of technologies and processes to transform delivery of M&A advisory and transactional services, working alongside knowledge professionals.
Successes: Expertise support on deployments of AI solutions and the Litera Desktop suite, plus established a successful âwhat is marketâ data analytics capability.
Senior Associate - White & Case LLP
May 2008 - June 2018
A senior associate in the Banking & Capital Markets team, advising on a broad range of transactions coupled with excellent seconded in-house experience. Advised on a broad range of debt products across EMEA and in particular in emerging markets.