A new multidisciplinary practice group bringing together our most inventive legal and tech minds from across the firm’s legacy ALT, Legal Operations and Transformation, and Emerging Technology teams.
May 2024
Launch of Digital Legal Delivery
Launched a new ‘academy’ designed to help clients make sense of the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), digital assets and other new and emerging technologies
June 2023
Emerging Tech Academy
A series of masterclasses exploring how lawyers help clients navigate novel legal and regulatory issues relating to artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies
September 2022
Digital Law Course
Digital Scholar Fellowships awarded to three solicitors and one paralegal / vacation clerk for creating a digital tool to better serve clients.
February 2022
Digital Scholar Fellowships
Launched in partnership with Forage, our virtual internship provides a chance for students to develop key legal skills and knowledge into emerging technologies and their impact on the law.
Digital Law Group Virtual Internship Programme
March 2021
2019
A comprehensive review of six AI/ML tools to support Due Diligence, resulting in increasing use of Kira to drive efficiencies in review and analysis of contracts.
Use of AI and ML in Due Diligence
A global, multi-disciplinary group called the Digital Law Group was created to bring digital and legal skills together to drive law into the digital age.
Capability development
November 2019
A global Legal Operations function was created to bring together the firm's legal project management, pricing, legal process improvement, innovation and automation teams into a single unit..
Legal operations to enable better more innovative client service delivery
October 2018
HSF has a track record of combining technology with legal expertise, beginning in 2011 with the launch of its ground-breaking Alternative Legal Services (ALT) team in Belfast, Ireland.
Launch of ALT in Belfast
April 2015
Our innovation and digitalisation origins
2018
Leveraging our Relativity platform, HSF’s adopts an “analytics by default” approach to document review.
Use of AI and ML in Discovery
2014-2016
We were the first law firm to use predictive coding (also known as “technology assisted review” or “TAR”) on a case in the commercial courts – ever since we have led the charge on the use of advanced AI for contentious work.
Paving the way for the adoption of TAR
November 2016
The new dedicated facility is the first of its kind to be opened and operated by a law firm in Australia.
Launch of ALT in Melbourne
September 2016
Launches in Shanghai with a 13-member team, bilingual in English and Mandarin, the first centre of its kind in China.
Launch of ALT in Shanghai
October 2015
Building upon the enormous success and growth of the firm’s global ALT business, HSF establishes a ‘pop up’ office in Australia, giving clients access to a unique 24-hour document review service – one of a number of innovations that sets us apart from competitors.
Launch of ALT ‘pop up’ office in Perth
June 2015
New ALT business unites global legal and technology expertise (the Belfast office, eDiscovery in London and Information Logistics in Australia).
ALT unites global legal and technology expertise
April 2015
HSF has a track record of combining technology with legal expertise, beginning in 2011 with the launch of its ground-breaking Alternative Legal Services (ALT) team in Belfast, Ireland.
Launch of ALT in Belfast
