The international law firm is expanding its innovation offering with the creation of a new team – the first of many steps within its broader innovation strategy.

Charles Russell Speechlys has created a new advanced client solutions team made up of 10 UK-based newly-created full-time job roles.

The firm said it started hiring for the new department this week and there will be 18 full-time roles by the end of 2024.

The advanced client solutions department will contain various capabilities to help streamline the delivery of legal work within the firm, incorporating solution development, legal tech and artificial intelligence (AI), legal project management, alternative delivery and process improvement.

The creation of the new department and team is part of a broader three-year innovation strategy, led by Joe Cohen who joined in December 2023, the firm continued. Its creation is an important step in ensuring that the firm keeps pace with market innovation and technology across all offices.

“The legal industry is evolving rapidly and, as a firm, we must be forwarding thinking in order to deliver the best results to our clients,” Joe Cohen, director of advanced client solutions, said.

“This is a crucial step in our innovation journey, and I am confident that it will deliver value in some of the places where it is most needed. This is the first of many steps to come, and we have other plans within our broader innovation strategy that we look forward to sharing details of with the market in due course,” Cohen added.

Charles Russell Speechlys is an international law firm with a focus on private capital at the intersection of personal, family, business, and corporates, with 12 locations across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.