Simpson Thacher & Bartlett CIO Tim Connors on modernizing legal tech infrastructure

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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a go-to law firm for giants of the technology industry. With a demanding clientele and 2,000 employees, CTO Tim Conners, who joined the New York headquartered business in late 2022, has been modernizing the global technology infrastructure to meet the current needs of the business and prepare it for the future.

Tracing its history back to 1884, the law firm has operations in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Palo Alto, San Francisco, São Paulo, Tokyo, and Washington. It has specialties in restructuring, AI, data centers, sports, capital structures, energy, and other business areas.

The business has consistently grown, but as Conners discovered when he joined, the partners and staff didn’t enjoy the best technology user experience, he says:

Everybody's pain point is the end user experience. Everybody says it could be faster, now that is perception, but perception is...

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