Work includes: MARKET RESEARCH AND BENCHMARKING

Wedlake Bell

Wedlake Bell is a contemporary London law firm, rooted in tradition with a lasting legacy of client service since 1780.

Its lead practices in high-end private client, business services, dispute resolution and real estate support a range of high-growth sectors and thriving service lines.

The firm has always been progressive its thinking and its management, and is well-regarded by clients and universally respected by peers. Martin Arnold, Managing Partner, trained at the firm in 1987. His view was that the firm’s identity and reputation needed to better reflect its poise and pace.

A move to a contemporary, open-plan headquarters seems like the perfect opportunity to reinvigorate the strategy and reimagine the identity of the firm in one bold step.

We worked with Martin and his leadership team to help build and communicate a firm-wide strategy, examining each objective in turn to consider service, operations, culture and reputation. The result is a firm with a renewed confidence, a world-class brand and a clear plan for the future.

Travers Smith

One of the City’s leading corporate law firms, Travers Smith, asked us to distill an innovative strategy into a brand new identity.

Our view was that the firm’s distinctiveness stemmed from a combination of sector insight, enduring relationships and their ability to translate the complexities of law into practical, actionable advice and provide clients with genuine commercial opportunities.

We suggested that they view the world as an entrepreneur would, assessing risk from a commercial perspective, resisting groupthink and conventional wisdom. The brand identity we developed encompassed precisely this and knitted in perfectly with their vision for the future.

We also worked on a programme for trainees to attract distinctive thinkers who wanted to be challenged, stretched by top-quality work and inspired by leading lawyers in their fields.

Olswang

One of the City’s leading corporate law firms, Travers Smith, asked us to distill an innovative strategy into a brand new identity.

Our view was that the firm’s distinctiveness stemmed from a combination of sector insight, enduring relationships and their ability to translate the complexities of law into practical, actionable advice and provide clients with genuine commercial opportunities.

While our entree to the firm was to deliver a new identity, the strong bonds we built with the executive team meant that post-launch, we worked with the firm’s CEO and COO to develop a new offering which consolidated advice on commercial strategy, PR, BD and marketing.

This was delivered by a revolutionary, fully-insourced PR and communications function, consisting of a team of four full time consultants, supported by extra resources if and when necessary. The firm – and Nabarro – merged with CMS Cameron McKenna in 2017.