Richard Kemp
Solicitor, Kemp IT Law
Richard is widely regarded as one of the world’s top IT lawyers”
With over thirty years’ experience at the leading edge of technology law practice, Richard is widely recognised as one of the world’s top IT lawyers. He has built an outstanding reputation for advice that combines commerciality and client service with innovative legal solutions to the business challenges of technology development, deployment and regulation.
As a law firm leader, Richard has a track record of achievement and innovation. He set up Kemp & Co in 1997 as a sole practitioner and led the practice:
- as Kemp Little LLP, to become the first UK law firm LLP in 2001
- as the only specialist firm to be ranked in the Financial Times’ prestigious ‘FT Law 50’ of innovative European law firms each year from 2006 to 2012
- into the top band of UK IT law firms in Chambers’ UK Directory in 2011.
This track record continues with Kemp IT Law’s nomination for ‘most innovative use of office environment’ in The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Awards 2015.
As an IT lawyer, Richard has won numerous industry awards for legal service over the past twenty years. He has been top ranked individually for IT law in the UK legal directories since 1997 and in the ‘Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers – Best of the Best’ series since 2001.