Legal Innovator Nitish Upadhyaya Joins R&G Insights Lab as Director of Behavioral Insights

Ropes & Gray today announces the appointment of Nitish Upadhyaya as Director of Behavioral Insights within the firm’s fast-growing R&G Insights Lab, the legal industry’s first—and only— analytics and behavioural science consulting practice. 

Nitish, who will be based in the firm’s London office, is a trained behavioral scientist, with an MSc in Behavioral Science from the London School of Economics. He joins R&G Insights Lab from another global law firm, where he led on innovation, helping develop new ways of thinking to solve client challenges. He started his career as a litigation lawyer advising clients on complex financial services cases in the English Commercial Court and multi-jurisdictional regulatory investigations spanning a range of regulators and supervisory bodies. Nitish brings to this role academic rigour, knowledge of applied behavioral science frameworks and appreciation of the complexities of applying behavioral insights across a range of legal contexts.

Amanda Raad, a Ropes & Gray partner, co-founder of R&G Insights Lab, and co-leader of Ropes & Gray’s global anti-corruption and international risk practice, said: “We are thrilled that Nitish has joined our fast-growing team. He will play a critical role in continuing to grow the Lab’s behavioral science practice in areas like compliance, ethics and risk; diversity, equity and inclusion; and organizational culture. He’ll also be a leader in ‘productizing’ our offerings and driving innovation within the Lab – as well as across the firm.” 

Upon joining, Nitish said: “I am so excited to be working with a team of forward-thinking experts who are changing the face of the legal industry. Human behavior undoubtedly shapes the outcomes and effects in the legal world and has long been one of the missing pieces in how we approach a range of legal issues from compliance to equality. By integrating techniques and methodologies from intersecting disciplines, including behavioral science, user-centred design and data science, we have a real opportunity to do things differently, working with stakeholders and clients to design sustainable solutions to issues that have long been thought to be intractable.” 

R&G Insights Lab is a full-service legal consulting group and remains the legal industry’s first – and only – analytics and behavioral science offering, uniting Ropes & Gray’s world-class legal talent with a multi-disciplinary team of creative business-minded consultants and data and behavioral scientists.