Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Shortlisted Organisations Announced
After RSGI's rigorous judging process, we're pleased to announce this year's shortlisted law firms and in-house legal teams!
Celebrate Legal Innovation
Join the Financial Times and RSGI in celebrating the most innovative lawyers in the Asia-Pacific legal industry.
General counsel, law firm leaders and legal service providers will be attending the Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. We will be celebrating the best examples of lawyers using influence and creative problem solving to guide clients towards agile, sustainable outcomes and reinforce the rule of law and ethical business practices.
2025 marks 20 years of Innovative Lawyers and we’re delighted to kick off what will be an exceptional year with these prestigious awards. Attend to network with lawyers, general counsel and business people across the region and celebrate success with your peers - not just for the award winners, but for everyone who is passionate about driving innovation in the legal sector to bring good to business and society.

Understand
How companies in the industry are approaching legal innovation

Connect
And build relationships with some of the biggest names in the legal industry
Celebrate
Success across the industry through awards, a drinks reception and dinner
Charity Partner
Equal Justice 平義社
Equal Justice 平義社 is an award-winning community legal access charity providing free legal education, information and support to Hong Kong’s most disadvantaged people. In just 5 years, we have helped over 2,000 people in crisis, educated over 1,000 attendees and have launched two legal tech portals. We exist to reduce the poverty, illness and other hardships that can arise when people have a legal problem but cannot afford or otherwise access legal support. An exemption from The Hong Kong Bar Association enables us to instruct counsel directly for legal advice. We are a Referring Agency under the Duty Lawyer Service Free Legal Advice Scheme. More:
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Research Partner
RSGI
RSGI Limited is a global intelligence and advisory business for the legal industry that focuses on resilience, sustainability, growth and innovation for law firms, in-house legal teams and law companies around the globe. With unique insights and frameworks built up over thirty years, the business enables the industry to think more clearly about the future, charting and analysing evolutions in the business and practice of law.
The team runs training and development programmes, inspirational workshops and delivers strategic advice to leadership teams, extensive client listening and merger broking as well as stand-out content for partnership conferences and other events. Executive Director, Reena SenGupta, has deep experience in assessing and rating legal teams and businesses globally, setting up the research methodology and running the Chambers & Partners Guides in the 1990s, founding the FT Innovative Lawyers programme in 2006 and the RSG India programme in 2008.
The RSGI team have authored countless thought-leadership studies on both law firms and in-house legal teams. They continue as the research and content partner to the FT Innovative Lawyers programme globally and curators of the Innovative GC Club.
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