a team that you can hand it over to, and more often than not it will be solved, he said.CASE STUDY: SPARKE HELMORE LAWYERSThis national firm has recruited a strategic adviser to launch its very own innovation hub, Bright Sparke.Sparkes has maintained a clear focus on technology and innovation this year, unveiling Bright Sparke in October.The Bright Sparke innovation hub has been set up to operate as an independent entity to the law firm.According to a statement released by Sparkes at the time, the hub will co-develop more efficient legal solutions and non-legal solutions to clients business issues, through enhanced data analytics, process outsourcing, emerging technology and partnering arrangements.To create Bright Sparke, the national firm recruited big-time strategic adviser Nicholas Adamo. Mr Adamos new role sees him head up the innovation hub. He has also taken the title of the firms chief innovation officer and the chairmanship of its innovation committee.As an entrepreneur, clients have always been at the centre of innovation for me. I look forward to working with Sparke Helmores clients, and others, to help them to better understand and solve critical issues that encompass the full professional services spectrum, analytics and technology, Mr Adamo said.Sparkes chairman of partners Mark Hickey said under Mr Adamos guidance, Bright Sparke will develop the very best technology-based legal solutions for clients.Were excited to have someone of Nicholas calibre on board to lead this initiative, Mr Hickey said.CASE STUDY: CLYDE & COClyde & Co recently launched an app designed to better service its business clients.The international law firm created the workplace health and safety app ClydeCovered to help individuals and businesses work out what steps they should take following a workplace incident.The app was created with developer Chocolate Coded and was designed to take the guesswork out of determining whether a workplace incident is notifiable in a specific jurisdiction, and what steps an individual or business should take following an incident.The app can also provide the relevant regulators details to streamline incident notification and convert the information provided into an incident report, which can be saved or emailed.Laws requiring you to do something shouldnt be difficult to interpret. When you have a safety incident, you want to know what to do as quickly as possible, said Clyde & Co partner Alena Titterton.Our ClydeCovered app helps businesses and their workers understand the critical legal requirements. It then supports them with the practical information they need as they work through the processes.ClydeCovered is the first app of its type in offering cross-border content. It currently supports Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, with plans to launch in other countries.Legal, safety and human resources teams are increasingly operating on a global and regional basis, requiring them to work across multiple jurisdictions. Busy teams struggle to keep up-to-date with all the jurisdiction-specific legal requirements that apply when things go wrong, Ms Titterton said.As a global law firm with health and safety expertise around the world, we saw the opportunity to meet that need with ClydeCovered and provide real-time information to them.Q&A: JOHN AHERN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, INFOTRACKMr Ahern speaks to