WEDNESDAY 24 MARCH 2021 – 10.00AM-12.00PM
KICKSTART THE DAY WITH THE TEI LIGHTNING LEGAL METH LAB, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALTRUISTIC VENTURES (ALT-V)
No need for protective gear, but an inquisitive mind is essential in the Legal Meth Lab! Join us for this exciting opportunity to reflect on key changes in legal, and design real solutions to the big challenges of tomorrow. Working with peers from across the industry, small teams of delegates will be guided by expert facilitators, through a fully remote ideation process, across four stages of activity and introduced to the exploratory techniques and methodologies, with the help of the Legal Meth Lab Essentials from the Legal Methodologist card series.
The Lightning edition of the Legal Meth Lab is a unique two-hour short form journey to gain invaluable insight into the challenges of the future, while developing and sharing skills and capabilities around business change, innovation and technology.
Facilitated by Natalie Kuebler, founding director, Altruistic Ventures, Allister Spencer, founding director, Altruistic Ventures and Jay Dunning, creativity and design lead, DWF Ventures and non-executive director, Altruistic Ventures.
THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2021 – 10.00AM-11.00AM
IDEAS EXCHANGE – BUILDING STRONGER COLLABORATION AND RESILIENCE IN A HYBRID WORK ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KYOCERA
Remote working continues, and firms have decisions to make about its role in their longer-term business strategies. Many are now looking to right-size their office spaces and successfully implement more sophisticated agile working practices. But with teams spending less physical time together, how do you create a work environment that maintains effective project and delivery management, collaboration and overall cohesion across the firm?
Join us for this unique opportunity to exchange ideas with your peers and gain invaluable insights into leveraging the potential of further digital transformation for a hybrid work environment, including:
- How can firms create deeper shared experiences in a digital world – and how could new communication tools help to strengthen team collaboration and engagement?
- What do smarter workspaces fit for a hybrid workforce need to help teams become more efficient and productive?
- What are the governance challenges when making these changes to how people work and interact, and what are the potential solutions?
This ideas exchange will be facilitated by Richard Brent, Briefing’s editor-in-chief who will be joined by Gary Day, managed print and IT solutions, Kyocera and Spencer Lea, digital transformation and content services, Kyocera.
THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2021 – 2.00PM-3.00PM
IDEAS EXCHANGE – MANAGING GROWTH AND ACQUISITIONS WITH PEOPLE AND PROFITABILITY IN MIND, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ONESTREAM SOFTWARE
Despite heightened uncertainty and business-as-usual pressure, the HSBC and Briefing law firm strategy and investment report 2020 found that four in ten law firm leaders expect their firms to keep growing internationally in 2021, and over eight in ten expect significant or some consolidation in the UK market. What are the biggest challenges facing firms looking to expand this year, and what do they need from technology to help make a success of that growth?
Join us for this exclusive ideas exchange, held under the Chatham House Rule, covering the path to profitable growth. This intimate roundtable will be a unique opportunity for a candid, practicality-focused conversation with your peers to share lessons learned from implementing growth strategies in the past, and identify solutions that could help in future. Including:
- What are the people and cultural pressure points that law firms need to consider when expanding in a digital world?
- In which areas of operations would expanding law firms benefit most from better visibility of process and information across borders?
This ideas exchange will be facilitated by Kayli Olson, Briefing’s deputy editor and will feature our special guests Lynn Calhoun, BDO’s chief financial officer and Paul Suffield, OneStream Software’s named account director.
TUESDAY 30 MARCH 2021 – 2.00PM-3.00PM
WEBCAST – HOW TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN A SUCCESSFUL DIGITAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CLIENTS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NETDOCUMENTS
Technology adoption and digital innovation have been accelerated wildly by the pandemic, and clients are increasingly demanding (and need) a more digitalised relationship. This not only affects service offerings and delivery but it’s also disrupting the entire client experience. The ability to fully embrace technology to meet client’s needs and build strong relationships has become critical to the success of the firm.
Bringing to the table complementary perspectives, our special guests will explore and share top tips on:
- Successful ways of collaborating digitally to meet clients’ needs – and how tech solutions can help solve this
- Delivering better digital services and products through leveraging productivity tools
- Understanding the digital relationship better to get closer to clients
This webcast will be chaired by Kayli Olson, Briefing’s deputy editor and will feature our special guest speakers Tom Rayson, London Stock Exchange Group’s senior legal director, Caroline White-Robinson, Shoosmiths’ head of knowledge management and learning and development, Dan Hauck, NetDocuments’ chief product officer and Alvin Tedjamulia, NetDocuments’ CTO.