Innovation at Mills & Reeve

We link our strong culture of collaboration with technology and resources to make change happen.

Everyday innovation

Innovation for us is not just about big ideas and eureka moments. It’s about any new ideas – however small – which help solve our clients' problems more effectively. We regularly run formal and informal innovation initiatives and everyone is actively encouraged to spot opportunities for improvement on an ongoing basis.

Our culture of innovation and co-creation has been recognised in the Financial Times’ most innovative law firms in Europe report for the past two years, where we‘ve been ranked 33rd in both 2022 and 2023.

Our innovation ecosystem

We’re committed to providing our clients with the best legal services and solutions. We understand that in today’s complex and dynamic world, our clients need more than just legal advice. They need innovative, efficient, and effective ways to manage their legal matters and achieve their goals. That’s why we use our innovation ecosystem of people, process and technology to make change happen and support our clients in various aspects of their legal needs.

Although everyone at Mills & Reeve works hard to make the firm a leader in innovation, we also have award winning teams on hand to help.

Our data and technology systems

Make ideas a reality

Our legal technology, legal operations and data teams come together to provide client-centric, effective and bespoke solutions using the people, process, and technology trilogy.

Process

Our team of legal process experts provide innovation as a service by helping our clients and lawyers to optimise their workflows, reduce risks, and increase efficiency. They use tools such as process mapping, lean methodology, and project management to transform the way we deliver legal services. They engage and empathise with our clients to better understand their exact needs, so they can tailor bespoke solutions for the client.

Legal technology

Our dedicated team of legal technologists, data analysts, and project managers work with our clients and lawyers to deliver innovative solutions leveraging technology, such as low-code app development, automation, artificial intelligence, and data analytics.

People

Our technology consultancy team help to involve our people and clients in our innovation journey. They raise awareness of the effective and efficient ways of delivering legal solutions through the application of legal process design and legal technology.

Our innovative people

Mills & Reeve has dedicated innovation focus groups made up of over 40 innovation champions, who act as ambassadors for innovation in their service lines across the firm. They help to raise awareness, generate ideas, test solutions and share best practice within their teams. They also organise events such as hackathons, workshops, and webinars to foster a culture of innovation.

Innovation co-creation

Mills & Reeve has a strong history of co-creation in innovation. In 2018, our first ever internal legal hackathon resulted in several groups of our people uniting to enhance the client experience. The winning solution has since evolved into our multi award-winning client management platform, Volume Control.

How can we help?

We've developed, and continue to develop, solutions that span the full range of our clients' challenges and are constantly evolving our offering in line with the ever-changing landscape.

Our legal technology team can provide you with a combination of process design and technology to specifically tailor our legal services to your needs. Throughout our relationship with you, we’ll use various technology systems to make sure that our service delivery is as efficient and cost effective as possible.

Find out below about just some of the ways we're supporting our existing clients...