News & Insights
Articles and thought leadership from our alternative legal and compliance services team.
Konexo develops strategic support for in-house teams
Konexo is capitalising on the skills of a number of former senior general counsel and heads of legal operations who have held recent and significant roles at large listed and private corporates.

Helping to lighten the load in Asia
Joan Oh, Head of Konexo Asia explores the tightening of resource for lawyers in both private practice and in-house.

Reworking trade mark portfolio management
Kate Ellis, Head of the Branding Group explores how to manage your trade mark portfolios efficiently utilizing robust diary management solutions, outsourcing, and IT flexibility.

Buying technology right, first time
Bret Aubin, Head of Legal Projects, provides a detailed insight into buying technology right, how to get the most value from the process, and understanding what you want.

Are lawyers with AI better than lawyers without?
Babar Hayat and Matthew Scott, Technologists, consider the impact of technology, specifically ChatGPT, on the legal sector and whether this is a significant step towards transforming our industry.

Knowledge: the lifeblood of an organization
As organizations become increasingly globalized, more complex and embrace different ways of working, it’s important to be able to access core knowledge as efficiently as possible.

Prodigal Data
This article focuses on how corporates can use legal data, once it has been extracted, to deliver more value with fewer inputs.

British Steel Pension Scheme: financial detriment
How do you quantify financial detriment? David Robinson, Regulatory Director, discusses.

Konexo Malaysia Update
Konexo's growth across Asia continues.

An interview with new Partner, Francesa Turquet
Francesca talks about her experiences in private practice and as an in-house lawyer throughout globetrotting career which took her across Amsterdam, New York, and eventually back to London and into the ALSP market.

Interim Resource: Thoughts from our clients and consultants
Four in-house legal leaders tell us about their experiences, perceptions and predictions for the future of alternative legal services and interim resourcing.

Repapering: Beware the grey swan!
Repapering is a bona fide nightmare for in-house legal departments. Firms hit hardest are those with large customer and vendor bases and, if the sector is heavily regulated, the peril is greater still

Making your mark in the Metaverse... it's not just a game
For consumer facing brands the Metaverse presents opportunities, challenges and uncertainties in equal measure. In this article, we consider the implications for brand owners in this new augmented reality.

How smart contracts are changing the legal industry
By Babar Hayat, Head of Technology and Transformation, Konexo and Craig Rogers, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland

Unprecedented double-win at The Lawyer Awards 2022
Konexo wins Law Company of the Year and Eversheds Sutherland wins Law Firm of the Year

Chambers & Partners: Konexo is Band 1
Konexo builds on its Band 1 status in the 2022 ALSP Guide

Francesca Turquet joins as Partner
Konexo sets ambitions with international banking appointment

The importance of watching Dear CEO letters
Simon Collins talks to Shares Magazine about the FCA's Dear CEO letters

Perspectives: May Lim, Chief Healing Officer
Konexo alumnus May Lim discusses the transition from corporate law to therapeutic yoga

British Steel Pension Scheme: What’s all the fuss about?
David Robinson discusses the history behind the British Steel pension scheme and where the FCA now stand

Demystifying contract lifecycle management
An organization’s ability to manage contract activity effectively is crucial to its success.

Back to the future: The science and fiction of legal tech
We want our clients to enjoy increased productivity at reduced costs and lower levels of operational risk.

Recent trends in interim legal resourcing
We are seeing a growing number of GCs turn to interim lawyers as they consider what the structure and size of the team should be over the next 18-24 months.

How to make your mark in 2022
Kate Ellis, Head of the Branding Group, looks back at the key issues which have impacted brand protection over the past 12 months and looks forward to consider the likely themes coming in 2022.

Perspectives: Hannu Mikkola, Senior Legal Consultant
Eversheds Sutherland alumnus Hannu Mikkola shares insights on interim consulting

Enhancing our conduct capabilities in the FS Sector
Konexo welcomes David Robinson as Regulatory Director

Refining derivatives data for the world’s biggest banks
Konexo and LIKEZERO strike up partnership

Building a resilient in-house operating model
For transactional banking

Konexo expands Band 1 Global Rankings
With Chambers and Partners 2021 ALSP Guide

A mindset for innovation
Using Microsoft 365 software to increase efficiency and drive continuous improvement

Learning to work within the new normal
A new era for large scale project delivery?

Think bigger with integrated workflows
The technology to build end-toend workflows exists today say Konexo technologist Matthew Scott & Ed Wilson, CEO of Autologyx

Konexo US new Head of Legal Resourcing Lisa Carlin
Eversheds Sutherland Adds Lisa Carlin as Head of Legal Resourcing for Konexo US

Is there a hole in your bucket?
Poor contract management means you might be losing up to 9% of your annual revenue. Babar Hayat explains how to plug the leaks.

The O shaped lawyer
Our pilot with Network Rail

Resource: (budget/volume + skill set) = Interim Solution
James Lewindon explains why companies are turning to interim legal talent

Konexo's quest to dominate Digital Transformation
Konexo features in The Lawyer

Konexo launches first global legal resourcing app
Designed for consultants

Stop re-papering over the cracks
With three “tidal waves” about to hit global banking and financial services, now is a good time to care about how you tackle amendments to contracts

Six ways to protect your brand
Kate Ellis, Head of The Branding Group explains how to retain brand integrity in a COVID-19 world

Digital Transformation: ignore the tech to begin with
How to tackle digital transformation and help your teams produce more for less

Why organizations are leveraging CSS providers
Corporate Secretarial Service Providers are in high demand

Konexo highly commended in FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2020
We featured in the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe Report

Konexo and Diligent launch global partnership
Combining people and tech to improve corporate secretarial services

Konexo celebrates its one-year anniversary
Marking a year in business

Eversheds Sutherland's UK Branding Group joins Konexo
The Branding Group joins Konexo UK

Eversheds Sutherland launches Konexo in the US
Providing Alternative Legal and Compliance Services

COVID-19: Directors duties and liabilities
A look in to the Director's role and solutions to achieve clarity

Homeworking presents new internal fraud risks
Sally Felton, Director Fraud Risk Management and Steve Smith, Partner feature in The Times

Konexo boosts legal services team with new appointment
Trystan Richards joins as Legal Services Director

Konexo achieves Band 1 Global ranking, Chambers and Partners
We have ranked in Alternative Legal Service Providers 2020

COVID-19: Using fraud prevention controls
How to use fraud prevention controls to protect your business from scams

Resourcing+: Konexo launches new hourly resourcing model
New Resourcing+ service gives clients ultimate flexibility with interim support

COVID-19: the FCA clarifies obligations
Including compliance officers and MLROs

COVID-19: the impact of coronavirus on how lawyers operate
David Saunders and Richard Hill share insights on the changing legal function

How can Financial Services and inhouse teams adopt tech?
A look in to the next decade

The need to do more with less
Legal technology is part of the answer

Konexo, Grant Thornton UK LLP & DXC Technology collaboration
Collaboration focusing on IBOR transition challenges

Graham Richardson named in The Lawyer Hot 100 2020
Graham Richardson, Head of Konexo Int, named in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2020 list

Konexo launches its transformative Konexo Hub
New legal-tech based portal designed to support in-house counsel

SMCR rollout: are you ready? 5 key points to check
On 9 December 2019, the senior managers and certification regime (SMCR) will be extended across the financial services sector.

Coaching for success in a changing business environment
An article exploring the benefits of business coaching in a constantly evolving business landscape

Konexo bolsters its market-leading technology credentials
Babar Hayat joins as new Head of Product, Technology Innovation and Transformation

Konexo appointed by Network Rail to streamline legal matter
A major new business win for Konexo as it expands its alternative legal services business

Technological transformation is firmly on GCs' agenda
Our latest report finds technological transformation is a high priority for General Counsel

The rise of Legal Operations
The evolving brief of Legal Operations. The growing pressure on legal teams to do more with...

Konexo builds on its challenge to the Big 4
Strategic appointment of Brett Aubin as Managing Director for Regulatory Response

The legal function 2.0 – staffing for the future
A convergence of developments in the legal world is influencing the profile...

Ringing the changes in corporate legal services
The rise of the alternative providers. To paraphrase numerous people – if organizations...

Legal entity management: the case for global outsourcing
As in-house corporate secretarial, legal and compliance functions are called upon...