Emily Foges

Deloitte Legal

Until relatively recently, Emily Foges was best known as the CEO of artificial intelligence software provider Luminance. Her move in summer 2020 to join Deloitte Legal as global lead partner for legal managed services represents a step change in her career and profile. Foges’s immediate remit is to build Deloitte’s legal managed services division. The bigger ambition is to help Deloitte’s clients get out of their own particular legal weeds by handling a vast array of routine matters, freeing up their clients’ lawyers to handle more complex issues.

Foges’s first-year target was to secure four clients to adopt Deloitte Legal and run their legal work. Her team achieved six, including Reckitt Benkiser and BT. In 2022, the plan is to roll out the model internationally, utilising Deloitte’s lower-cost delivery centres in countries such as India, China and Poland. Foges is also focusing on practice area verticals such as intellectual property and employment, where the team is aiming to expand the range and types of work it handles in those areas of high-volume work. This gear shift is possible because of the notable fungibility of Foges’s rapidly growing team. The same could most definitely be said of Foges herself.