Litera Announces The Changing Lawyer Summit Awards Winners for 2021

Global News

10
Nov
2021

Editor

Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, today announced the Award winners at The Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit. The Awards recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior across five different categories. 

Winners and runners up were:

Legal Innovator of the Year

1. Farrah Pepper drives innovation with a measurable impact on her organization.
2. Peter Geovanes
3. Kerry Westland

Law Firm of the Year

1. Honigman was able to adopt new technologies that involved a combination of people, processes, and technology.
2. Troutman Pepper
3. Goodwin

Disruptor of the Year

1. 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.
2. TurnSignl
3. MedBrief

WFH Creative Award

1. 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.
2. Taft Law
3. 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-recognized 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.