Recently launched managed legal services firm NuCAS has hired Nicholas Cheffings, a former global chair of Hogan Lovells, as a strategic adviser.
Cheffings will advise NuCAS on operations and governance, growth, market positioning, client services and innovation.
The longstanding exponent of diversity and social mobility will also help the company develop its diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Newcastle-based NuCAS was launched in October by Richard Tapp, former general counsel of construction company Carillion and its managed services arm Carillion Advice Services, and Lucy Nixon, who led the unit and continued to run it when it was acquired by Clifford Chance in 2018 following Carillion’s collapse.
Nixon, who is chief executive of NuCAS, said Cheffings’ “experience leading and advising major organisations at board level brings extraordinary strategic insight to our mission” as the company looks to “scale with confidence”.
Cheffings added: “NuCAS is ahead of the curve with a mindset shaped by experienced professionals who have been working for more than 15 years at the forefront of unbundling legal work and redesigning how it can, and should be, delivered using the right blend of legal professionals, process design and AI-driven tools.”
Cheffings spent 24 years at Hogan Lovells and currently serves as a board counsellor at The Crown Estate, having been interim general counsel from June 2021 to March 2022.
Other roles include being the chair and trustee of Making the Leap, a London-based charity to help those from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in their career choices.
NuCAS launched in October last year, following Nixon’s departure from Clifford Chance in 2024.
It offers a range of legal services to in-house legal teams and law firms, including contract review, compliance and secretariat support, due diligence and litigation support and promises to leverage the latest advances in AI technology.
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