Sam is responsible for driving the firm’s innovation strategy and for creating a culture which encourages ideas and facilitates their implementation. He leads the firm’s Innovation & Legal Technology Team and chairs both its UK AI steering group and its Transatlantic Technology Group. Under his leadership, the firm has been shortlisted in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards for its strategic approach to innovation and for its innovation in Generative AI Tools. Recently, Womble Bond Dickinson became the first UK firm to sign up to deploy Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel to all of its lawyers.