Briefing Knowledge Leaders 2025: How law firms are redefining knowledge in the age of AI
Briefing | Resource | 21 October 2025
On 9 October 2025, senior knowledge professionals from the UK’s leading law firms gathered in London for Briefing Knowledge Leaders 2025 — an exclusive conference exploring the evolving role of knowledge management in the modern firm. Held in partnership with leading technology and consultancy partners including DraftWise, Legora, 3Kites, Definely, Harvey, Litera and Sysero the […]
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Briefing Knowledge Leaders 2025 brings insight, collaboration and innovation to London
Briefing | Resource | 14 October 2025
Last week, leading law firm knowledge professionals gathered in London for Briefing Knowledge Leaders 2025, the only conference dedicated to exploring the strategic role of knowledge in law firm performance and innovation. Hosted on 9 October 2025, the event brought together senior knowledge leaders from the UK’s top law firms for a full day of insight-led […]
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Unlocking finance transformation: key takeaways from Briefing’s 2025 conference
Briefing | Resource | 29 September 2025
Briefing Finance Leaders 2025 Post-Event Report: catch all the highlights, insights and best bits from September Briefing is pleased to release the official Finance Leaders 2025 Post-Event Report, which captures the key conversations, emerging trends and strategic imperatives from this year’s gathering of senior finance executives across leading UK law firms. The event assembled it’s […]
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Briefing Tiger Team: Forth episode – Risk in remoteness
Briefing | Video | 17 September 2020
In a business, as in life, risk is a constant – but the balance of it changes, and rarely as dramatically as in the past year. Our latest Briefing Tiger Team are challenged to explain how the operation of law firm risk management itself has had to change through crisis, as well as the actions on specific […]
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Briefing Tiger Team: Third episode – Back to the future
Briefing | Video | 26 August 2020
Unable to meet and greet in person, how can law firm marketing and business development professionals find new ways to connect with existing and potential clients, identify and create opportunities, and turn this into all-important profitable revenue in the deepest recession since records began? Our latest Briefing Tiger Team, in partnership with the technology consultancy […]
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Briefing Tiger Team: Second episode – Thinking differently for a new normal
Briefing | Video | 18 August 2020
Briefing July 2020 Tiger Team: Thinking differently is a firm-wide focus, looking at the strategic approach to managing people brought out by a new working environment. Supported by our friends at Pinnacle, Briefing editor-in-chief Richard Brent is joined by Karen Jacks, chief technology officer, Bird&Bird; Sid Welham, chief operations officer, HFW; Brian Dunlop, global director of strategic pricing, White & […]
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Briefing Tiger Team: What is it?
Briefing | Resource | 19 June 2020
The Tiger Team is a problem-solving approach used by NASA to investigate, and hopefully solve, highly critical and complex issues. Most famously, it was adopted to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth when a module malfunctioned during the Apollo 13 mission. Experts in a range of areas, such as engineers and scientists, are brought […]
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Briefing Tiger Team: Launch episode – Cash is king, but process is queen
Briefing | Video | 19 June 2020
Video length: 53 minutes 54 seconds. In this, our first Briefing Tiger Team session, we have the chief operating officer at Hogan Lovells (Darren Mitchell), head of legal project management and process improvement at Ashurst (Kate Bassett), finance director at Fieldfisher (Mike Giles), and director of BI and finance and practice management systems at Herbert Smith Freehills (Allison Scanlan). […]
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The Briefing 5P proposal game champions have been announced!
Briefing | News | 28 June 2018
Nine proposal pros walked away with the award of best pitch team at the Briefing 5P conference on 26 June 2018: Nicole Beck, director, client value and strategy, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Kristel van den Elzen, marketing and business development manager, DLA Piper UK Chris Hanley, pricing and project accountant, Pinsent Masons Paul Hollingworth, […]
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