National director, knowledge management, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Sukesh Kamra is the national director of knowledge management at Norton Rose Fulbright. He received the 2017 International Legal Technology Association’s knowledge management professional of the year award. Also in 2017, Kamra became a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and was given that group’s InnovAction award in 2016. He won the 2018 Knowledge Management Leadership Award presented by the International HRD Congress. Co-designer and implementer from the first Global Search for Experience & Knowledge Platform, Kamra has built advanced forms of technology-based applications (decision-tree applications and social collaborative environments) leading to an organizational cultural shift in law. He has fostered a pragmatic approach in support of the firm’s revenue generation that integrates the work of his team of knowledge management and library professionals into a national knowledge management action plan with benchmarks and milestones linked to the aggressive goals of the firm’s business plan.
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“Sukesh truly understands the change the legal professional has undertaken and he is making tremendous progress for big law to adapt. He is our Richard Susskind.”
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