Former Orrick Chairman and CEO honored for a career spent modernizing how legal services are organized, priced, and delivered
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA), the governed AI platform for professional firms in highly regulated industries, today announced that Ralph Baxter, a member of its board of directors, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer. Baxter accepted the award on November 12 at The American Lawyer Industry Awards in New York.
The American Lawyer Industry Awards recognize individuals, law firms, and legal departments for outstanding contributions to the legal profession. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors leaders whose careers have left a lasting mark on the industry.
Baxter served as Chairman and CEO of Orrick from 1990 to 2013. Over those 23 years, he led the firm’s growth from a San Francisco firm into a global one with more than 1,100 lawyers in 25 offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 2001, he opened the legal industry’s first onshore operations center in Wheeling, West Virginia, moving business and legal support out of high-cost markets, improving synergy and quality, and eventually staffing it with career lawyers, paralegals, and other professionals. Many large firms later followed the model. He also introduced new talent and pricing models, and challenged the billable hour long before that conversation went mainstream.
The American Lawyer previously named Baxter one of the Top 50 Big Law Innovators of the Last 50 Years. The National Law Journal recognized him among America’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers, and the ABA Journal included him in its inaugural class of Legal Rebels.
Since retiring from Orrick in 2014, Baxter has worked across the legal ecosystem to push the profession forward, advising law firms, legal technology companies, corporate legal departments, and public interest organizations. He serves on the advisory boards of both the Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School centers on the legal profession, and is a fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
As an Intapp board member, Baxter brings the perspective of a law firm leader who has built new operating models from the inside. Orrick was an early Intapp client under his leadership, and today he helps guide Intapp’s work with law firms as they put Firm AI to work across their practices and business operations.
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John Hall, Chairman and CEO, Intapp
“Ralph is a bold innovator who helped transform the business of law, and today he brings that expertise to the legal technology ecosystem as a strategic advisor. He helps the companies building new tools focus on what lawyers need now and what they’ll need next. His record of innovation makes him an invaluable voice on our board of directors as firms figure out how to put AI to work responsibly. On behalf of Intapp, congratulations, Ralph, on this well-earned honor.”
Ralph Baxter, Member of the Board of Directors, Intapp
“I’m grateful to The American Lawyer for this recognition. For my whole career, I’ve focused on one question: How should a firm organize its people, process, and technology to serve clients best? The answer keeps changing, and right now it’s changing faster than ever. That’s what makes the work at Intapp so energizing. Firms now have better tools than ever before to modernize how they deliver legal service.”
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Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA) is the governed AI platform for professional firms in highly regulated industries. Intapp’s vertically tailored agentic solutions are built for the specialized workflows, complex relationship networks, and professional compliance requirements of accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, private capital, and real assets firms. By applying Firm AI to core processes and data, Intapp helps partners, dealmakers, and advisors drive firm growth, manage compliance, and improve profitability. Learn why the world’s top firms trust Intapp’s industry-specific enterprise solutions at intapp.com.
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