When one of England’s largest firms, Eversheds, merged with Atlanta-based powerhouse Sutherland Asbill & Brennan at the end of 2016, people knew that the combined Eversheds Sutherland would be a new kind of global firm. One of the firm’s first acts was to hire Anusia Gillespie to lead the firm’s innovation efforts in the United States. Anusia is no stranger to driving law firm culture: she literally wrote the book on research-based efficiency, as Co-Author of Smart Collaboration for Lateral Hiring: Successful Strategies to Recruit and Integrate Laterals in Law Firms. A lawyer by training, Anusia had previously specialized in Program Design and Development at Harvard Law School’s School of Executive Education. At Eversheds, Anusia is showing lawyers how to use new tools (such as Fastcase’s AI Sandbox) to mine the firm’s expertise and create legal services for more differentiated client service.