CHICAGO
Thursday, June 22nd
12.00 -6.00pm
71 South Wacker
22nd Floor
Chicago, IL, 60606
** This course is approved for 4.00 Illinois MCLE general credit hours **
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OVERVIEW
The Legal Innovation Forum is hosting its first in-person, US conference in Chicago on June 22nd, 2023.
This year’s forum is centered on its unifying theme: Leading to drive change and deliver value in an evolving legal ecosystem.
The sector faces numerous headwinds: an uncertain economic climate, emerging risks (digital and analog), pressure to do more with less and ongoing generational shifts.
To address these challenges - and create opportunities from them - the sector is embracing innovative approaches unpinned by leadership and collaboration amongst sectoral practitioners (law firms, legal departments and third party partners).
The purpose of this year’s forum is to shine a light on the dynamics at play in the Midwest’s legal ecosystem when it comes to the intersection of business and law. And provide examples of how leadership and collaboration within the ecosystem is helping to deliver value and sustain and drive change.
STRUCTURE
Half-day event (afternoon) held in Chicago: June 22nd, 2023
80 high level decision makers from legal departments and law firms from the Midwest
4 panel discussions focused on key topics for law firms and legal departments related to the intersection of business + law
This course is approved for 4.00 Illinois MCLE general credit hours
PURPOSE OF FORUM
Review key sectoral drivers and trends at play for organizations in the region and what it means for the legal ecosystem that supports them.
Provide a platform for practitioners in the Midwest to take stock of the emerging innovation story and what it looks like on the ground.
Look at best practices in law firms, legal departments and their third-party partners when it comes to leveraging people, process and technology to deliver results.
Create a network of leading legal innovators to share knowledge and experiences to help drive change in their legal ecosystem and the organizations they support.
WHO’S ATTENDING?
Legal Departments: General Counsel, Associate/Assistant General Counsel, Legal Operations
Law Firms: Heads of Innovation/Knowledge Management, Senior Partners, COO, CIO, Chief Client Officers
SPEAKERS
THEMES
TALENT: The people puzzle - attracting, retaining and developing talent in a new paradigm
LEADERSHIP: Leading at the intersection of business and law - how are leading lawyers in key sectors driving growth in their organizations?
RISK: Mastering digital risk - how to define, develop and implement a strategy to navigate emerging digital risks
LEGAL OPERATIONS: How to make the business case for and deliver change in your law firm/legal department
AGENDA
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm Registration + Lunch
12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Opening Remarks
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: TALENT: The people puzzle - how are law firms, legal departments and sector service providers attracting, developing and retaining talent in an era of change
The legal market is witnessing an unprecedented shift when it comes to talent. Lawyers are changing firms, moving in-house, to alternative legal service providers and in some cases moving out of the profession entirely. This is having a significant impact on the shape of the sector and promises to continue to do so for years to come.
On this panel, we’ll review the following:
What are the key drivers and trends shaping the battle for talent in the legal sector?
What are law firms, legal departments and sector service providers doing to attract, develop and retain talent in a dynamic marketplace?
Portfolio careers. What types of new career paths are available to lawyers versus traditional ones?
Passion, purpose and generational change. A new generation of lawyers is taking the reins in the legal sector. Purpose driven, portfolio careers must be matched with authentic organizational values (flexibility, diversity and inclusion, collaboration). What does this mean for the legal profession moving forward?
Speakers:
Shauna Fulbright-Paxton, Division Counsel - Labour + Employment, Abbott Laboratories
Brooke Loucks, Director, Brand and Communications, McDermott Will & Emery
Beth Solomon, SVP & Deputy General Counsel, Pathward, N.A.
Amol Bargaje, Global Chief Innovation Officer, Mayer Brown
Neil Araujo, Co-Founder + CEO, iManage
Chair: Kevin Clem, Chief Growth Officer, HBR Consulting
2:05 pm - 3:05 pm: LEADERSHIP: Leading at the intersection of business and law - how are leading lawyers driving value in their organizations?
In a complex operating environment, legal leadership plays a critical role in helping guide organizations’ approaches to risk management as well as growth.
Areas such as corporate governance and ESG, privacy, compliance and flexible organizational strategy are all at the top of the corporate agenda. And for organizations and law firms, having an effective and empowered legal team coupled with an optimized and innovative approaches to address these and other areas is key.
On this panel, our speakers - legal leaders from the Midwest - will look at how their roles are evolving in terms of the challenges they are facing, how they are aligning their teams with their broader organizations and how they are acting as agents of change.
Topics covered will include:
Drivers and trends for legal leaders in a complex operating environment.
Examples of how lawyers’ roles and legal departments are evolving to meet mission critical needs of their organizations and what these challenges are.
How are legal departments evolving their strategies and engaging with the wider legal ecosystem to better align with the business to both manage risk and drive growth?
Speakers:
Douglas Barnard, General Counsel and Secretary, CF Industries
Kruti Trivedi, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Dennis Garcia, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft
Vania Montero Wit, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, United Airlines
Trisha Cole, General Counsel + COO, Medtelligent
3:05 pm - 3:25 pm Networking Break
3:25 pm - 4:25 pm: RISK: Mastering Digital Risk - how to define, develop and implement a strategy to navigate emerging digital risks
Managing digital risk is at the top of many corporate agendas. The explosion of use of collaborative technologies and the attendant data trails left by them, managing complex entity structures, evolving privacy rules and breaches are all examples of the critical importance of having a robust digital risk mitigation strategy in place.
For legal departments and their advisors - increased digital risk equals increased legal risk - especially as they relate to accelerating regulatory scrutiny and compliance.
On this panel, our speakers will look at how they are assessing and addressing present and emerging digital risks.
Topics covered will include:
Key drivers + trends when it comes to digital risk - data breaches, know your customer (KYC), ultimate beneficial owner (UBO), privacy rules and complex entity management
How to develop and define an organization wide strategy to address digital risk and the role that legal departments play in supporting them
Delivering a digital risk mitigation strategy across the organization. Best practices in leveraging people, process and technology to manage risks? How to work cross departmentally and with 3rd parties to support these strategies.
Speakers:
Daniel Farris, Partner-in-Charge, Chicago, Norton Rose Fulbright
David R. Cohen, Partner (Chair Records + E-Discovery Group), Reed Smith
Ashley S.A. Jackson, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Olive AI, Inc
Adrian Camara, Chief Executive Officer, Athennian
Chair: Stephanie Curcio, CEO + Co-Founder, NLPatent
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: LEGAL OPERATIONS: Mastering change management - how to deliver change in your legal department
In order to effect change in organizations, effective execution is key. On this panel our speakers - legal operations leaders - will review how to define, develop and implement a change management strategy in legal departments..
Topics covered will include:
Foundations of change management in legal departments. What fundamentals need to be in place for successful change management initiatives to succeed in legal departments and their wider organizations?
Frameworks to approach change management initiatives in your legal department to drive change in your wider organization. Including how to build consensus, put the right teams in place, enhance processes, apply metrics to change management and choose the right technology.
How is legal operations acting as a catalyst for change in the legal ecosystem?
Speakers:
Curtis Batterton, Director of Global Legal Technology + Innovation, McDonald’s
Adina Newman, Associate Counsel, Legal Innovation & Operations, Con Edison (Former)
Adam Rouse, Sr. Counsel and Director of eDiscovery Operations, Walgreens
Jonathan Johnson-Swagel, Senior Legal and Business Operations Manager, Uber
Tiffany Epps Brown, Senior Consultant, Legal Operations, Aecom
Chair: Kim Craig, Co-founder, Bold Duck Studio
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Closing Remarks + Networking Reception
