Tom Evans
Senior Legal Operations Consultant
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Biography
Tom Evans is a legal operations consultant based in London.
Tom is part of a team providing a range of strategic and advisory services to clients, including advising in-house legal teams on how they can support the wider objectives of their business, and helping to set priorities and a practical vision for programs and initiatives that would support this; advising on the management of legal operations functions, including best practice legal project management; and assisting in the delivery of specific projects or mandates made up of work likely to be delivered with the involvement of, or at the request of, a legal operations team.
Tom is an alumni of our award-winning business and legal operations graduate scheme, graduating from the inaugural cohort after working across a range of areas including resource management, innovation, legal products and legal operations consulting. Prior to joining the firm, Tom worked in a high-volume claims management role at a national law firm.
Tom has supported and led on several projects across the breadth of the legal operations spectrum, including legal team strategy design, legal team restructuring, technology implementation, process improvement, external resource/spend management, and large-scale legal team transformation programmes. Tom is passionate about the role of proactive change management and communications in delivering successful legal operations projects.
Professional experience
Collapse all- Leading on the creation of an alternative legal services panel for a global banking group.
- Helped a large energy producer to implement an intake system and devise a resourcing strategy to take them through a high-growth period.
- Advised the regional office of a global insurance company on designing a strategic roadmap for their legal team.
- Supported a leading engineering group to develop their RFP strategy, templates and processes ahead of a planned increase in M&A activities to support strategic growth.
- Helped the regional team of a large insurance company to automate a time-consuming master services agreement.
The Rise of Specialist Career Paths in Law Firms
Publication | June 29, 2022
- 'New Opportunities in a Changing Legal World,' From paralegal to partnership? Professions in times of change, University of Bath, London, July 2019
Insights
Legal Operations Roundtable Series 2024: Practical use cases for AI
Publication | November 05, 2024
Legal Operations Roundtable Series 2024: Preparing for FY2025 – Building a compelling business case
Publication | September 16, 2024
Legal Operations Roundtable Series 2024: "My C-suite has told me to use GenAI, what do I need to know?"
Publication | June 25, 2024