Vancouver
November 5, 2019
8.30 AM - 4.00 PM
Vancouver Law Courts Inn - 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver
ACCREDITED FOR 8 HOURS OF CPD INCLUDING 3 ETHICS CREDITS BY LSBC
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Overview
The BC Legal Innovation Forum returns to Vancouver in November, 2019 - the launch of the second annual, national series: The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum. The purpose of the forum is to build a leadership network focused on how to stay competitive in key areas relevant to Canadian business and the legal sector’s role in supporting it. It also focuses on the latest thinking in terms of innovation when it comes to practice management. Proposed panel, presentation and interview topics outlined below.
Forum Objectives
To provide legal practitioners with context, information and guidance on how to define and evolve their innovation strategies both in terms of legal expertise and practice management.
To encourage collaboration in the legal sector to tackle the toughest challenges and leverage opportunities.
To build a national network of innovators focused on invoking change.
Themes
Proposed panel topics (full agenda below).
Business and law in BC
The business impact of changes to privacy laws
Regulation and the resource industry
The BC real estate sector
Innovative Legal practice management
Developing an innovative law firm strategy
In-House strategy: aligning with the business
Defining, developing and executing an impactful legal technology strategy
Panelists
Agenda - November 5th 2019
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8.00 - 8.30 am - Registration and Breakfast
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8.30 - 8.40am - Welcome to the Forum
Andrew Bowyer, Founder, The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum I ADB Insights
Carol Liao, Assistant Professor + Director, Centre for Business Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Lynne Charbonneau, Forum MC
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8.40 - 9.30am - Regulation and the resource sector.
New federal and provincial rules (Bill C-69 and Bill-51) for large scale energy and infrastructure projects are leading to increasing complexity for resource focused businesses. The new regulation impacts proposals, process and ongoing compliance requirements for major resource projects in British Columbia. This panel - with leading lawyers from private-practice and in-house counsel focused on the sector - will examine changes on the horizon from these rules and what legal strategies businesses need to employ to adjust to them.
Lisa Jamieson, Senior Counsel, Regulatory and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, LNG Canada
Robin Sidworth, Corporate Counsel, Teck Resources
Dionysios (Dino) Rossi, Partner, BLG
Sam Adkins, Partner, Blakes
Chair: Carol Liao, Assistant Professor + Director, Centre for Business Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law
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9.35 - 10.25am - Defining, developing and executing an impactful legal technology strategy.
Technology is a critical component to any successful legal innovation strategy. Yet much of legal technology’s impact is over-hyped and visible results can be hard to measure. How can law firms and law departments develop a coherent, durable and cost effective technology strategy to drive their broader innovation agendas? And how can third parties work to align better with their clients to support them? Here, we will look at examples of how law and technology are converging to deliver impactful results.
Zena Applebaum, Director of Customer Insights & Engagement, Thomson Reuters
Jason Baumer, Co-Founder + COO, CORVUM
Amir Reshef, Co-Founder + CEO, dealcloser
Jeremy Hessing-Lewis, Founder, Small Law
Chair: Tom Martin, Founder + CEO, LawDroid
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10.25 - 10.50am - Morning Break
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10.55 - 11.15am - Presentation - The Role of the Legal Operations Department.
Jose Szucs, Director, Information Management and Legal Operations, Newmont Goldcorp
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11.20 - 12.05pm - The business impact of changes to privacy laws.
Evolving changes to privacy laws are having a significant impact for local companies doing business in domestic and international markets. To date, BC companies - particularly those in the tech sector - have had to adjust to the EU’s GDPR rules and emerging privacy laws in states such as California. Further, far-reaching changes to privacy laws in both the US and Canada on a federal level are also anticipated. Businesses - and lawyers working in and for them - have had to adjust accordingly; sometimes with significant impact on their operating models. This panel will focus changes to national and international privacy laws and how businesses (and the lawyers supporting them) can best respond.
Alice Davidson, VP + General Counsel, Mogo
Keri Bennett, Partner, Roper Greyell
Ryan Berger, Partner, Lawson Lundell
Chair: Andrew Bowyer, Founder, Canadian Legal Innovation Forum I ADB Insights
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12.05 - 1.05pm - Lunch - Supported by Lawson Lundell
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1.05 - 1.55pm - In-House strategy: aligning with the business.
An agreed upon thread in the in-house innovation discourse is the need to align with the business. But too often these conversations tend to remain in-house - that is - between lawyers. What does the business really need from in-house and external counsel? How can lawyers engage with business partners to understand, determine and develop flexible solutions to support business growth - moving from a cost centre to a value creator? And - conversely - what do lawyers need from their business leaders to support this? This panel will discuss how in-house lawyers and their business partners can better collaborate to deliver results.
Catherine Scott, Chief Legal Officer, PayByPhone
Karim Amlani, Senior Director, Legal, Hootsuite
Jose Szucs, Director, Information Management and Legal Operations, Newmont Goldcorp
Andrew Buddle, Corporate Counsel, Teck Resources
Chair: Lynne Charbonneau, Lawyer|Corporate Director
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2.00pm - 2.50pm The BC real estate sector.
The BC real estate sector is in flux. Vancouver’s perennially hot property market is choppier - with varying viewpoints on where it will end up. Regulatory scrutiny is also increasing, with the BC Government’s beneficial ownership registry (the first of its kind in Canada) expected to launch in 2020. As a key sector in the BC economy, there’s much at stake for businesses involved directly and indirectly. What do BC businesses need to pay attention to when it comes to managing risks associated with the real estate sector? What should they anticipate in terms of near term regulation on both provincial and federal levels? This panel will focus on the current dynamics at play in the real estate sector and the key role lawyers will play in its evolution.
Richard Bell, Lawyer, Bell Alliance
Colin McIver, Partner, Dentons
Jaimie Cooke-Dallin, VP of Operations, Real Estate Law, Dye & Durham
Ryan LaLonde, President, Partner, MLA Canada
Chair: Natalie Obiko Pearson, Vancouver Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News
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2.50 - 3.10pm - Afternoon Break
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3.15 - 4.05pm - Developing an innovative law firm strategy.
With increasing competition and client expectations, law firms need to innovate. As a core pillar of their strategy, they need to foster an innovation mindset and match it with enhanced practice and service delivery models. There are many examples of how law firms are doing this. They are employing allied, non-legal professionals in prominent roles. They are re-organising areas such as compensation and technology systems. They are partnering with third parties - even competitors - to provide solutions for their clients. And they are working to provide more flexible and fulfilling careers for their staff. This panel will look at the core components of an effective law firm innovation strategy and how to develop and deliver one.
Linda Lucas, CEO Roper Greyell|CEO Contract Services
Peter Stovall, Director, Innovation, Fasken
Thomas Spraggs, Spraggs Law
Stephanie Hacksel, Partner, Hunter West Legal Recruitment
Chair: Cristie Ford, Associate Dean, Research and the Legal Profession at Allard School of Law, UBC
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4.05 - 4.10pm - Closing Remarks from Andrew Bowyer, Founder, The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum I ADB Insights
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About our Partners
Hunter West specializes exclusively in legal search and recruitment. As trusted experts, we work closely with law firms and companies of all sizes, guiding the recruitment and selection process to ensure that our clients attract the talented individuals they need to achieve new levels of productivity and profitability. We also partner with lawyers and legal administrative professionals at all levels, providing targeted and customized career management advice and market intelligence.
Co-founders and longtime friends Jason Baumer and Graham Nelson-Zutter have deployed and operated VoIP infrastructure together for a combined total of over 26 years.. and they still like each other. Cool, right? From the very beginning, they were precocious yet amiable tech disruptors who stood out amongst the field of generic VoIP service providers.
When it became clear that their products and services appealed specifically to the legal sector, the duo launched Corvum: a niche cloud-based platform designed to serve the evolving legal tech landscape. The end goal: happy lawyers. Building upon the strength of its well-established core services, Corvum endeavours to continuously hone transformative tools to empower lawyers, boutique, and full-service firms to better serve their clients - and themselves.
Our solutions are sensible, easy to adopt, and quick to learn. This means that lawyers can focus on advocating for their clients, rather than beating their heads against walls over lost billable hours and other time-consuming minutiae. Our service runs across four privately-owned Canadian data centers - which ensures confidentiality, security and data privacy. Is it possible to provide the flexibility of cloud-based services alongside reliability, safety, and responsive hands-on support with a legitimate smile? Doggone right it is!
With over 160 lawyers located in offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Yellowknife and Kelowna, Lawson Lundell is a leading business law firm in Western and Northern Canadian known for a practical, strategic approach to legal and business matters. The Firm was ranked the #1 regional law firm in BC, Alberta and the North by Canadian Lawyer magazine for three consecutive voting periods. Our lawyers have received national and international recognition in numerous legal directories and publications including Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Best Lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Litigation, and Who’s Who Legal.