UPDATED: Ethien appoints former OC and Freshfields partner as head of business solutions and partners with RAVN Legal IT Insider

New managed legal services, technology and advisory firm Ethien has hired Osborne Clarke consultant and former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Paul Taylor as its head of business solutions as it also announces a new strategic partnership with RAVN Systems. Taylor, who joined OC as a partner in its digital business team in 2007, will work with Ethien's law firm and in-house legal clients to develop solutions that help improve quality and efficiency and reduce risk within legal services delivery. He will also act as Ethien's general counsel. For the past three years Taylor has worked on service delivery improvement within OC, designing many of the solutions developed for the firm's clients. This involved the development of integrated solutions allowing OC's lawyers to collaborate directly with in-house counsel on a common work platform.