Nigel Clark 

CEO,  nexa law

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Nigel Clark is the CEO of nexa law, an innovative and fast-growing UK-based law business.

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In this episode, I pick his brains on New Law structures and learn more about what nexa law offers.

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Bio

Show notes

Links

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Bio:

Nigel Clark is the CEO of nexa law, an innovative and fast-growing law business.

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Nigel has extensive experience in managing legal services businesses in the UK and internationally. He’s a passionate business developer and people person. Nigel most recently co-founded and managed Peregrine Law in London which was acquired by nexa law in January 2020. Before that, he managed offices for a leading international firm, Minter Ellison, in London and Beijing.

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Nigel has also worked as a lawyer in Sydney and Hong Kong. As a lawyer, Nigel qualified in the UK in 1999 and in Australia in 2007. He used to advise on all aspects of finance, cross border M&A and restructuring and combined this with managing professionals, teams and offices.

 

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Show notes:

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• [2:27] Nigel describes how he came to develop the nexa law model with his initial business partner as a back-office platform and connector for lawyers.

• [6:33] Nigel talks about the difference between rainmakers and technicians, and how the nexa law model tries to meet the needs of both while growing its business platform.

• [9:14] Nigel explains the New Law market and some of the different models and drivers.

• [14:03] Connex,the nexa law combined practice offering, balances the rainmakers with technicians.

• [17:13] A huge advantage of nexa is choice - choice for lawyers and choice for consumers of legal services from City to High Street.

• [21:01] nexa lawyers work in teams and as individuals - Nigel explains how. COVID and innovations in precedent development has accelerated alternative law models.

• [26:54] We talk culture, collaboration and collegiality - alll strengths of nexa.

• [29:47] Alternative models like nexa also promote diversity - from gender to age to career paths. 

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Links:

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nexa law: www.nexa.law

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nexa's Diversity in Law event on 28 April 2022

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Other New Law models mentioned in this podcast:

Axiom Law

Keystone Law

lawyers on demand

Vario from Pinsent Masons

Flex from Minter Ellison

Re:link from Linklaters

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