Herbert Smith Freehills’ Alternative Legal Services (ALT) is a fully-integrated and integral part of Herbert Smith Freehills’ international network. Using a unique blend of people, process, technology and data, ALT creates transformative solutions to our clients’ challenges on a global scale; delivering high-quality, cost-effective and technology-enabled legal services for data-intensive, defined-process legal matters.

Our teams, comprising 350+ lawyers, technologists and legal analysts, are located across ten hubs: Beijing, Belfast, Brisbane, Johannesburg, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Shanghai and Sydney.

ALT works closely with colleagues across the firm to deliver services to clients and engages clients directly to enhance the work of their in-house legal teams and address their most pressing challenges. These direct engagements have grown substantially over recent years.

HSF ALT stands unrivalled as the only law firm OR provider of Alternative Legal Services in the world to be recognised in all four categories of the 2022 Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers Guide.