Lucy Dillon, chief knowledge officer, Reed Smith

Reed Smith’s innovation milestones in 2018 included the implementation of the anonymizer, an artificial-intelligence-enabled e-discovery tool that anonymizes personal data for privacy, protection, mitigation, and cost-saving efficiency; Breach ResponderRS, a first-of-its-kind app that helps companies hit with data loss incidents across multiple jurisdictions; consent tracker, the firm’s in-house contract-risk analysis and consent app which accelerates the M&A process via organization, prioritization and automation in a secure virtual deal room; and client-customized dashboards that are used to track budgets, analyze job completion and effort, to name a few.