Agenda 2024
- The Main Stage
- The Tech Hub
- The Operations Stage
- The Lockwood Room
Led by Professor Stephen Mayson, will explore the future of legal services and with an emphasis on ethics and strategic decision-making during times of market uncertainty. Leading industry speakers will highlight sector growth opportunities, whilst sustaining market innovation and collaboration.
This stage will explore digital regulation including the safe and ethical boundaries necessary to protect legal services and access to justice, whilst considering the complex challenge of regulating a digital world.
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| 09:10 |
Conference Chairperson's Opening Remarks Professor Stephen Mayson – Honorary Professor of Law, UCL (Event Chairperson) |
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| 09:15 |
Will 2025 be a Better Year for the UK Economy? James Sproule – Chief Economist – UK, Handelsbanken |
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| 09:45 |
How Human Lawyers and AI Associates Will Transform The Legal Landscape Ruben Miessen – CEO & Co-Founder, Legalfly |
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| 10:00 |
PANEL: ESG - Building an Alliance Between Inhouse And Private Practice Harry Borovick – General Counsel, Luminance |
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| 10:30 |
Stage Break |
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| 11:30 |
PANEL: Aligning Culture and Staff Wellbeing Within Law Firms and In-house Legal Departments Lucinda Soon – Academic Consultant, lucindasoon.com |
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| 12:30 |
Stage Break |
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| 14:00 |
PANEL: How Much Has The Exponential Growth of US Firms Changed The London Legal Market and What Next? Zulon Begum – Partner, CM Murray |
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| 14:35 |
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Legal Practice Lizzy Lim – Council Member (Junior Lawyers 0 – 6 Years PQE) , The Law Society |
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| 15:00 |
Stage Break |
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| 16:00 |
Keynote Presentation: Lord Sebastian Coe |
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| 16:10 |
Keynote Fireside and Q&A Lord Sebastian Coe |
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| 16:45 |
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks Prof Stephen Mayson – Honorary Professor of Law, UCL (Event Chairperson)
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| 16:50 |
Stage Close |
The Tech Hub – Led by Shawn Curran, CEO, Jylo, will share informed perspectives and feature forward-thinking presentations to prepare tech leaders for the future. Key speakers will share insights into digital innovations that offer a wide range of intuitive client solutions.
Industry Speakers will share insights into the modern technologies that underpin innovation within the evolving sector.
Thought leaders will deep dive into Big Data, and the fundamental groundwork required to shape the future for AI capabilities and decision making in law.
Through demonstrations and discussions, the agenda will delve into the emerging technologies that are shaping legal services today. Examining the opportunities, risk and challenges of implementing advanced AI for strategic change.
| Time | Schedule | Speakers | |
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| 10:40 |
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks Shawn Curran – CEO, Jylo |
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| 10:45 |
The Role of Regulation in Supporting Technological Innovation That Improves Access to Legal Services Richard Orpin – Director, Regulation & Policy, The Legal Services Board |
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| 11:10 |
The Magic of AI Matthew Leopold – Head of Brand, PR & Content Marketing, LexisNexis UK |
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| 11:25 |
A Top-level Practical Update on The EU AI Act For Legal Leaders Dr Andrea Isoni – Director and Chief Ai Officer at AI Technologies |
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| 11:50 |
Why Law Firms Can't Have AI Without Intuitive Automation Oliver Tromp – Regional Vice President, UK, Actionstep |
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| 12:05 |
Assist/ Augment/ Automate: A Framework For Which Use Cases to Prioritise Dawid Robert Kotur – Founder and CEO of Workflow GPT |
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| 12:30 |
Stage Break |
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| 14:00 |
PANEL: Buy, Build, Both or Integrate Shawn Curran – CEO, Jylo |
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| 14:25 |
Observations of a Changing Legal Market Claire Worrall – Business Development Manager, Practice Evolve |
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| 14:40 |
The 3’Ts (Technology, Team and Transform) Amir Mehdi – Former Global Legal CIO – Barclays |
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| 15:05 |
How AI is Redefining the Solicitor-Barrister Dynamic For The 21st Century Emily Foges – CEO, The Barrister Group |
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| 15:20 |
People, Processes and Project Management: A Catalyst for Effective Technology Adoption in Legal Services Stefania Callisto – Head of Legal Operations and Project Management, CMS |
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| 15:40 |
The Tech Hub Wrap-up: All the Highlights and Takeaways From the Day Shawn Curran – Director of Legal Technology, Travers Smith |
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| 15:45 |
Stage Close |
Led by Christina Blacklaws, will address the strategic growth priorities and operational challenges for legal leaders.
Expert speakers from the private practice and in house communities, will explore evolution in the delivery of legal services, through user case studies and insight sharing.
Panel discussions will address the continuous and ever-changing evolution of internal operations and business growth strategies for enhanced performance and efficiency within legal departments.
Industry professionals will discuss shifts in internal functions that support wellbeing and positive change for teams and individual growth.
The sessions will explore the changing nature of risk, culture and community collaboration and how operational leaders can navigate the increasing pressures of client demands, in a highly competitive technological landscape.
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| 10:45 |
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks Christina Blacklaws – Managing Director, Blacklaws Consulting (Stage Chairperson) |
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| 10:50 |
Building the Adaptive Organisation Ade McCormack – Founder, Intelligent Leadership Hub |
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| 11:40 |
How Far and How Fast Will The Law Firm Operations Model be Transformed in The Age of AI Chris Bull – Principal, Edge International |
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| 12:10 |
Transform Your Business by Breaking Down Data Silos CJ Anderson – Director, Iron Carrot |
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| 12:25 |
Stage Break |
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| 14:00 |
PANEL: The Future Shape of The Billable Hour Bernard Chow – Head of Pricing, Stephenson Harwood |
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| 14:30 |
Compliance Doesn’t Stop at the Door: What Happens Post-onboarding? Kayleigh Smale – AML & Compliance Solutions Specialist, Legl |
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| 14:45 |
The Post Office Scandal and Ethics Lee Castleton – Former Postmaster |
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| 15:10 |
FIRESIDE CHAT: How Will Gen Z and Tomorrow's Lawyers Shape The Legal Profession? Harry Clark – Associate, Mishcon de Reya |
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| 15:40 |
The Operations Stage Wrap-up: All the Highlights and Takeaways From the Day Christina Blacklaws – Managing Director, Blacklaws Consulting (Stage Chairperson) |
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| 15:45 |
Stage Close |
The Lockwood Room will host a private CPD Masterclass knowledge sessions focused on ‘Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Discovering How to Work Generatively With Others in Order to Thrive in a Complex World’.
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| 11:00 |
Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Discovering How to Work Generatively With Others in Order to Thrive in a Complex World How do we set up teams which can create new ways of working? Collaboration is essential in a complex world. We need diverse teams in order to get past assumptions and sameness, and break new ground. A willingness to value and work with those who have differing expertise, experience and behavioural approaches is essential. Not everyone will be good at everything; With everyone playing their part positive change is possible. We need colleagues to understand what behavioural strengths they bring to the table, so that they can contribute effectively and connect with others where necessary, for example, to empathise with client experience, be creative and open-minded in order to generate innovative ideas, and be able to take a systematic approach to the testing and execution of new approaches. In this workshop we will be using behavioural and design-thinking models to identify the strengths and abilities which many professionals working in law firms already possess and which, given the right opportunities, can support innovation. What tools and resources are needed, especially as we work in a hybrid world? Whether your firm is just starting to engage with innovation, or has a proven track record of effective change, we will help you work out how to encourage colleagues to engage and contribute. We will work on some practical activities which will put you on track to creating change in ways that make sense to you and your clients. What we will deliver?
Led by Nicola Jones – Founder, Athena Professional |
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