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Anand and Anand shortlisted in FT Innovative Lawyers 2017

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May 9, 2017

Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Asia 2017 reveals Anand and Anand in its shortlist for “Business of Law” and Most Innovative Law Firm in India.

KnowBOT, our AI and natural language processing driven tool, and the Predictive Analytics initiatives of the firm have been shortlisted in Business of Law for in this year’s Innovative Lawyers Awards.

Anand and Anand featured in FT 25 Most Innovative Lawyers in Asia-Pacific in 2015 and 2016.

FT was “unanimous in picking Pravin Anand” as the winner of Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers in 2015 for the “key role he has played in helping to develop intellectual property law in India”.

In 2016 Anand and Anand was the only Asia headquartered firm to feature in Business of Law – Technology; and the only Asia headquartered firm for Analytics.

FT’s Innovative Lawyer programme assesses lawyers and law firms on their innovation for clients and their own business. The process involves extensive and in-depth independent research.

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