Serjeants’ Inn took home the chambers innovation award in recognition of its efforts to mitigate a more challenging commercial environment by seeking to break into new and potentially more lucrative markets.
The plan – part of a broader revamp spearheaded by its client services team to modernise the way the chambers work – is an attempt to reduce its reliance on publicly-funded clients such as hospitals (where pressure on budgets have crushed fee income) and expand into private work for high-net-worth individuals (in this case, drawing on its expertise in medical ethical litigation).
