PEOPLE SERVICES INSIGHTS CAREERS MORE... Our Firm Innovation Collaborate COLLABORATE Do you have an exciting new product which could disrupt or redefine legal services? Apply now Slaughter and May Collaborate, our legal tech programme, is now open for applications. The programme is open to innovators and entrepreneurs with products relevant to the legal sector. We want to collaborate with the brightest minds in this space – helping to develop, test and expand legal tech products. Collaborate offers successful cohort members the opportunity to take part in a live pilot, guidance and advice, mentoring and networking opportunities, access to our lawyers and clients, as well as the opportunity to pitch for financial investment via Slaughter and May Ventures, our recently formed venture investment platform. With a new refreshed programme offering for 2022, we will be inviting responses to specific problem statements from our business. PREVIOUS COHORT MEMBERS Find out more about our previous cohort members below. Cohort Two Cohort One ELIGIBILITY While Collaborate is primarily aimed at early and mid-stage ventures rather than established businesses, applications are open to legal tech businesses at varying stages of maturity. We are particularly interested in those who are able to address one or more of the following problems set by our practice: We are seeking to harness the power of new technologies to enhance our Knowledge Management documents and processes, in particular the ability to easily surface precedent clauses (from our internal KM system) whilst drafting. Manually reviewing legal agreements to check whether they have been properly executed is a time-consuming and repetitive task. We are seeking a tool which can check whether a document has been validly signed by the correct parties to reduce the time our lawyers need to spend on this. Law firms have historically relied on physical proximity to encourage learning. Our L&D and Innovation teams are working on a project to help support on the job learning experience for our people in a remote/hybrid environment, and would welcome tech solutions which might address this. It is often difficult to collect and track large volumes of data, documents and communications from clients submitted in response to Requests For Information from regulators, in various areas of our practice. We would welcome a tech solution to assist with this. Open Category: if you think you have a legal tech solution that could assist our business in another way, we’d love to hear from you. To apply to be in our third Collaborate cohort, please complete our online application form by Friday 17 December 2021. PROGRAMME BENEFITS We want to help you develop, test and expand your new legal tech product. If you are accepted onto Slaughter and May Collaborate you will receive access to the right people, data and resources to help your product grow. Benefits include: New! Live Pilot New! Pitching for Funding Access to our Clients Access to our Lawyers Dedicated Mentors Training and Resources Networking Opportunities OUR COLLABORATE NETWORKS We believe that legal tech provides the most benefit when providers, private practice and in-house teams all work together to find solutions that can integrate into existing processes and relationships. Cohort members are given access to our clients and their in-house legal teams, as well as industry experts, to ensure that their legal tech tools meet the needs of the legal industry as a whole. Client Innovation Network Advisory Network Alumni Network APPLICATION PROCESS To apply to be in our third Collaborate cohort, please complete our online application form by Friday 17 December 2021. You will be required to specify which of our problem statements you intend to respond to, as well as upload a short video (no more than 3 minutes) explaining what your product is, how it addresses our problem and why you would like to form part of our third cohort. If we think you would be a good fit for the programme, we will invite you to join us for an informal interview to enable us to learn more about you, your product and team, and to give you the opportunity to understand more about us, the programme and what we might be able to offer you. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE OUR COLLABORATE FAQS JANE EDWARDE Partner Contact Jane EMILY LEW Senior Knowledge & Innovation Manager Contact Emily CHRIS MCGAFFIN Partner Contact Chris BILLIE MOORE Knowledge & Innovation Manager Contact Billie JANE STEWART Head of Knowledge & Innovation Contact Jane Home People Services Insights Careers London One Bunhill Row London EC1Y 8YY United Kingdom Brussels Square de Meeûs 40 1000 Brussels Belgium Beijing 2906-2909 China World Office 2 No.1 Jianguomenwai Avenue Beijing 100004 China Hong Kong 47th Floor, Jardine House One Connaught Place, Central Hong Kong China Contact us Privacy notice Accessibility Cookies Legal and Regulatory Fraud and scams Modern Slavery – Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement © Copyright 2021 Our Cookies and Your Privacy Our website uses cookies that are always on to enable the site to function correctly. 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