Let us introduce ourselves; we are NEKN. We help law firms and corporate legal departments to digitally transform and monetize their investment in innovation and technology.

Our company is the brainchild of Founder and Managing Director, Tom Connor, a prominent figure in the legal technology industry. Although we officially launched in February 2023, we have been working in stealth mode since January 2022. We already operate and act for clients in Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland, with expansion planned for San Francisco later this year.

What Sets Us Apart

NEKN is a design-centred company that offers two distinct but complementary services for law firms and corporate legal teams: Innovate 360 and Legal Engineering 365.

We provide integrated consulting and legal engineering services, which enables us to offer an end-to-end digital transformation service. This holistic approach means we can help our clients bridge the gap between vision and execution while providing support throughout their digital journey, which is often a marathon, not a sprint.

Monetizing Innovation

Investing in innovation and technology is essential for law firms and corporate legal departments to remain competitive, given the rapid pace of digital change in today’s world.

It is no secret that some law firms and corporate legal departments can be slow to invest in innovation and new technologies due to many factors. There may be a disconnect between those selecting technology tools and professionals who need to use them, or perhaps implementation roadblocks and misaligned stakeholders due to inadequate change management.

The recent pandemic accelerated digital transformation in the legal industry. It changed how most of us work, but law is still a conservative industry that can struggle to navigate change. Many law firms and corporate legal teams still see a poor investment return from innovation and technology projects.

NEKN’s multi-disciplinary team helps our clients ideate, implement, and execute transformative digital strategies.

Innovate 360

We help clients respond to the changing legal landscape and deliver innovation led business growth by offering consulting services focusing on the following;

• Strategy – Helping to create new digital revenue streams, optimizing internal processes, enhancing legal service delivery, and creating new digital products and services.
• Innovation – Developing innovation strategies, running design thinking workshops, supporting concept ideation, rapid prototyping, running hackathons, and design sprints.
• Design – Helping conceptualize and build new captive digital businesses, products, services, and systems.
• Growth – Contributing to key client engagements, supporting business development initiatives, and collaborating on marketing and communication campaigns.

Legal Engineering 365

We also deliver enterprise-grade legal engineering services focusing on the following;

• Procurement – Helping source the right technology solutions via robust selection criteria and detailed marketplace knowledge.
• Legal Operations Solutions – Developing bespoke technology solutions that facilitate the efficient management and delivery of legal services.
• A.I. and Data Services – Delivering rapid software application development, working with cognitive computing tools, data manipulation, and visualization technologies.
• Automation – Streamlining legal documents, precedents, workflows and implementing process improvements.

Our Innovate 360 and Legal Engineering 365 services are fully integrated. We like to think of them as ideation and implementation, respectively.

NEKN’s core beliefs are the lens through which we view our clients needs, knowing that innovation helps drive sustainable business growth, understanding that the power of ideas can inspire and create transformational change, while recognizing that creativity and the principles of design are fundamental in helping shape the future of legal services.

We transform today’s digital threats into tomorrow’s digital opportunities.

Let’s Talk

If you would like to hear more about how NEKN and your law firm or corporate legal department can work together, please feel free to get in touch.

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