13 October 2025Publication
Our Reflections from the Beacon Collective
Partners Lucy Shurwood and Sarah James recently attended the Beacon Collective, an invitation-only legal tech forum. Their key reflections can be found below.
Simmons & Simmons Adaptive: Interim Legal Resourcing Solutions for the Evolving Legal Market
Simmons & Simmons Adaptive is an interim legal resourcing solution for Simmons & Simmons clients, offering a strategic approach to workforce management in a fast-changing legal industry. From our locations in the UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong, we work with clients across the UK, EU, and APAC to place highly experienced senior and junior legal consultants into interim roles.
Our assignments are as varied as our clients' needs, covering everything from parental leave to dedicated project implementation roles. We also regularly place project managers, compliance professionals, and company secretaries.
As a law firm, Simmons & Simmons is known for its innovations, continuously adopting advanced technologies and forward-thinking practices to deliver exceptional legal services.
Adaptive reflects our DNA as a firm. Our flexible resourcing model has helped clients re-imagine how they can engage with legal talent and access a more diverse pool of lawyers and legal professionals.
Using Adaptive, our clients are able to respond quickly to changes in business demands, adapt to fluctuating workloads, fill gaps in expertise, and manage special projects without the long-term commitment of permanent hires.
Each consultant is supported by a Simmons partner resulting in a level of mentoring and technical support unrivalled in the current flexible resourcing market. For talented legal professionals, Adaptive has proved an opportunity to pursue a different career path and work flexibly.
Adaptive is about embracing change and meeting our clients' business needs. We not only provide our clients with a cost-effective people solution but we closely monitor the key people trends shaping the legal industry to help our clients plan for the future of work.
'The Adaptive consultant on our team is strong technically and can take on every project we throw at them. They’ve slotted easily into our team and are superb to work with. It’s been so easy, we’d recommend it for any project'
Next Gen Legal Solutions Index
We surveyed 500 General Counsel to delve into their experience of law firms. What did we discover? Find out more.
Following the launch of the Index, we recorded a podcast series exploring the results of the survey in more detail. In episode three, we are joined by Sarah James, Partner and Global Head of Adaptive to discuss "The Power of People." Listen to this engaging discussion and gain valuable insights on the subject.
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'Working with Adaptive was a pleasure from start to finish. They have a significant, very friendly, supportive and professional team in place who are always available to answer questions and act as an excellent conduit to the end-user client. Also, the nature and number of potential assignments places them, in my experience, above other peer providers' - Employment Lawyer, Adaptive Consultant
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