Digital Transformation – Extending Strategic Service Advantage

Derek leads the firm in relation to innovation and digital and a range of related areas such as knowledge management and futures.

Derek has 20 years’ experience both within the business and with our clients of developing strategies and implementing a range of business improvement projects relating to technology, compliance, risk, and productivity. Derek has worked with many of the world’s leading in house teams from the very smallest to some of the largest. This work has covered a wide range of areas including document and e mail management, knowledge management, financial management, procurement, operational and resourcing strategies, demand management, KPIs, delivery models, AI and emerging technologies and more.

Derek was ranked as one of the top three most innovative lawyers in the UK in the FT’s first study into the UK market and the firm have won numerous awards for their use of technology including the Legal Business Technology Team of the Year 2015.

Gowling WLG are a large international sector focussed law firm with 18 offices in 10 countries.

In 2016 Gowling WLG were ranked by the FT as the second most innovative law firm in Europe.

Dr Stacy Sinclair is a Partner and Head of Technology & Innovation at Fenwick Elliott LLP, the UK’s largest, specialist construction and energy law firm.  Stacy leads Fenwick Elliott’s technology and innovation initiatives:  overseeing the development and implementation of new legal technologies, as well as collaborating and engaging with clients on new digital technologies in the construction and legal industries.  She is responsible for IT & infrastructure, internal tech operations, platforms, workflows and external client initiatives and products.

Prior to her current role, Stacy practised as construction lawyer, advising on both contentious and non-contentious issues.  Before law, Stacy practised as an Architect, principally designing large-scale projects such as stadiums, hospitals and education buildings in both the UK and the USA. This dual-qualification and experience in the construction industry provides a unique expertise and platform for advising on technical issues and the digital transformation of both the construction and legal industries

Adrian Cambridge is a highly experienced IT leader with over 26 years’ experience 11 of which in legal. Adrian is the Global Head of IT Operations for law firm HFW which has 19 offices worldwide. Before working in the legal sector, he was an IT consultant for an IBM business partner working across many industry verticals.

Adrian has worked for law firms Mischon de Reya (in the UK) and Simmons & Simmons and Latham and Watkins in the Middle East. For the last five years he was Head of IT for a local holding company based in Abu Dhabi and part of a team that built four diverse companies from the ground up, designing and implementing their technology offerings. As a member of the management team for each company Adrian gained a more commercial approach to IT service delivery, often being called on to assist with company day-to-day operations, marketing, and contributing to the long term strategy of each company. He was also tasked with delivering commercial, innovative IT solutions for clients based in the UAE and the Maldives.

In August 2019 Adrian joined HFW to head up the global operations team based in the London office. Working closely with the IT Director, he has been tasked with transforming the IT department, systems and support at HFW with a push towards cloud and infrastructure as a service. The firm has demanded a more agile approach that provides the best IT facilities and working environment for employees, allowing HFW to give their clients the highest quality service. Adrian is helping to design IT systems and solutions that are both fit for purpose and commercially viable and allows HFW to interact more closely with clients. A challenge he is relishing.

‘Nige is a technology executive with a distinguished track record of defining and delivering enterprise-wide technology strategy across international law firms and regulated financial institutions.
A trusted advisor to boards and senior partnerships, he specialises in aligning technology, data and AI capabilities with commercial growth, client service innovation and operational resilience — bringing particular depth to the legal sector’s fast-evolving regulatory and competitive landscape.

His career spans senior leadership roles at the intersection of finance and law, including a decade as Chief Architect for EMEA at Barclays, four years as Chief Information Officer at Gulf Bank in Kuwait, more recently as Chief Technology Officer at Pinsent Masons and currently as Chief Digital Officer at Orrick. Across these roles he has led large-scale transformation programmes, modernised complex legacy estates and embedded AI-driven productivity at enterprise scale, while strengthening governance, risk and security frameworks in highly regulated environments.

Beyond his executive career, Nige is an active contributor to the broader legal technology community. He sits on several legal technology advisory boards, serves as a judge for the Legal Technology Awards, and gives back through his roles as an accredited One Million Mentor and UK ambassador for Stemnet.’