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By Chris Simmonds If you’ve read the first two articles in this series, you’ll now know what an innovation lawyer does and how different firms are structuring the function. The obvious next question is: who gets hired to be an innovation lawyer?  The honest answer is that the strongest candidates for an innovation role are rarely the ones with the loudest “AI interest”; they’re the ones who can combine […]

By Chris Simmonds Once you’ve learnt the foundations of what an innovation lawyer is, it’s crucial to then further understand the subtle (or perhaps not-so-subtle) differences in what law firms are up to in this space.   This is where the market gets interesting. Two firms can advertise an “Innovation Lawyer” and mean completely different things.  This is because there isn’t just one innovation model; there are several. Your day-to-day will look very different depending on

By Chris Simmonds “Innovation lawyer” is one of the most discussed and most misunderstood roles at law firms right now.  And that’s partly because the title is doing a lot of heavy lifting. In some firms, it means “practice-facing change-maker with a proper mandate”. In others, it means “please fix the tool rollout, update the slides, and explain