Last week, after the departure of Reed Smith’s first innovation engagement manager Alex Smith to iManage’s RAVN, the law firm announced it hired Adam Curphey to manage the firm’s Innovation Hub.

Reed Smith’s Innovation Hub was launched in 2016 with meeting spaces in its London and New York office in an effort to support the implementation of innovative internal and client-facing legal services. By 2018, the firm created GravityStack, a separate subsidiary that licences Reed Smith’s tech products and provides legal tech consulting to law firms and in-house clients.