Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a new IT knowhow system across all of it offices. The web-based application, named Athena, is designed to standardise the firm’s knowledge management working practices for all of its 2,500 lawyers.

The firm’s chief knowledge officer, Michael Hertz, said: “We found none [of the existing systems] would satisfy… our requirements. We therefore decided to develop Athena in-house.”