Authors / contacts: Richard West, Karim Derrick

“Deploying both technology innovation and addressing the human aspect, Kennedys have delivered real value to clients”.

 Earlier this week Kennedys won ‘Best New Solutions for Clients’ and the overall ‘Best in Theme’ awards at the Managing Partners’ Forum Awards.

Our core principle of helping clients to use lawyers less, which underpins all of the tools on the Kennedys IQ Platform, was recognised by the judging panel as being worthy of winning the award for Best New Solutions for Clients, in an extremely competitive category.

In their summary of why we deserved to win the award, the judges said: “Kennedys’ approach demonstrates a high level of innovation based on a clear strategic vision: “helping our clients use lawyers less”. Deploying both technology innovation and addressing the human aspect, Kennedys have delivered real value to clients, improving claims outcomes by c.50% and making it easier for clients to address simpler issues allowing them to focus on the more challenging cases.”

 The demonstrable success of these client-facing innovations, all of which are available on the IQ Platform, allow our clients to be more productive and led to Kennedys also receiving the ‘Best in Theme’ award.

 Combining human and machine intelligence, Kennedys IQ has been set up to focus on product development targeted at the needs of clients, rather than Kennedys’ internal operating efficiency, and recognises that the future of legal services is not just about legal advice. Kennedys IQ builds on Kennedys’ strategy of helping clients use lawyers less.

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