Simmons & Simmons Adaptive introduces us to their Alternative Legal Service Offering in Hong Kong Simmons & Simmons is one of the latest law firms to establish an alternative legal service offering in Hong Kong – Simmons & Simmons Adaptive. Their flexible resourcing model aims to connect the best lawyers and business professionals with best-fit client assignments. We sat down with Sarah Thompson (Partner and Global Head of Adaptive), Victoria Moore (Hong Kong Resourcing Manager) and Jonathan Hammond (Partner and Head of Asia) to discuss. What prompted the move to HK? Sarah: Adaptive launched in the UK in 2014 and our reason for the initial launch is no different to our reason for setting up in Hong Kong (and why we’re looking at other jurisdictions as well) – our clients struggle with resourcing and increasingly look to their partner law firms to offer a solution. Simmons & Simmons, as a law firm, no longer just does law. We are expected to be a business partner and to solve many more things for our clients. Adaptive was the brainchild of Jonathan. We had been seeing our clients become leaner, needing to do more with less, and having more project work. You need only to look at the regulatory space and the sheer number of projects over the last five years to really understand that cry for help: “We need quality resources!” We have that same issue in our own firm – how do we access the right people, where and when we need them?  At the same time, we were recognizing that talent was changing. How people want to work,...