Rich Manley

Rich Manley

Rich Manley has joined Pinsent Masons Vario as its new managed legal services solutions director.

Manley joins Vario from EY Riverview Law, one of the first managed legal services law firms, where he worked for 12 years - latterly as its leader.

He is highly experienced in setting up and managing legal teams, providing outsourced managed legal service solutions to clients and advising corporate legal functions on how to do more with less through innovation, operating model re-design, technology and process improvement.

Matthew Kay, partner and jead of Vario, said: 'Our Managed Legal Services offering is going from strength to strength and Rich brings with him a huge amount of expertise and knowledge around how best to support in-house legal teams and ensure they’re better equipped to tackle their ever-growing to-do lists and jostling priorities in an efficient and effective way. Rich is a fantastic addition to our growing team of over 160 MLS specialists.'

Manley commented: 'Vario has been a well-established player in the Managed Legal Services market for some time and I am looking forward to working with the wider team at Vario and across Pinsent Masons to support our existing clients and help grow the MLS offering.'

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