CANLIF Law Firm Roundtable: How are law firms defining and delivering innovation strategies?

12-1.30pm - Feb 24th, 2022

 

The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum, in association with iManage, will be hosting an exclusive virtual roundtable on February 24th, 2022. The roundtable will focus on how innovation leaders at law firms are defining and executing on innovation strategies in their law firms.

The purpose of the roundtable is to gather a small group of law firm leaders to share their experiences and best practices when it comes to law firm innovation strategy and execution. While firms exist in a competitive landscape with one another, they face similar challenges (both internal and external) and will benefit from a collaborative discussion. The goal is to help create a platform to support sharing information, key learnings and enhance participants' networks.

The roundtable will have approximately 10-12 innovation leaders from across Canada and the discussion will be under Chatham House Rule.

Structure:

Accreditation:

Law Society of Ontario: This program contains 1.5 hours of Professionalism Content.
Law Society of BC: This program is accredited for 1.5 hours of CPD.

Themes for discussion:

Why do law firms need an innovation strategy?

  • Assessing and responding to market drivers

  • How to develop deeper client relationships

  • Developing new revenue and service lines

  • Making law firms better environments to work and collaborate in

Ideating innovation in law firms

  • Processes available (i.e. design thinking) to help unleash innovation in law firms

  • Defining clear principles for outcomes for innovation initiatives

  • Democratizing the innovation process (internal/external)

Delivering innovation initiatives in law firms

  • Addressing challenges in selling innovation (internal/external)

  • Delineating strategy from execution

  • Course adjustment and iteration

  • The role of technology

Roundtable Chairs

 
 

Lynne Charbonneau, Lawyer | Corporate Director | Tribunal Judge

Lynne Charbonneau is a judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. She also serves on the Board of Directors, and as chair of the Human Resources and Compensation Committee, of BlueShore Financial Credit Union. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of Actsafe Safety Association, a worker health and safety organization for the production in British Columbia of motion picture, television, live events and performing arts. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Inuvialuit Development Corporation, a diversified investment, venture capital and management holding company owned on behalf of the Inuit of Canada’s western Arctic. Lynne holds the Institute of Corporate Directors Director designation (ICD.D).

In recent years, Lynne served on the Futures Task Force of the Law Society of British Columbia and on the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Centre for Business Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. From 2005 until 2018, Lynne served as Deputy General Counsel at HSBC Bank Canada. Prior to her time with HSBC, Lynne was a partner of the Canadian national law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, where she practiced in the fields of labour and employment law and subsequently corporate and securities law.

Andrew Bowyer, Founder, The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum (ADB Insights)

Andrew Bowyer is the founder of ADB Insights - a Vancouver based media and consulting company. ADB Insights convenes forums, workshops and digitally based platforms focused on innovation in the professional services sector - the Canadian Legal Innovation Forum and The Canadian Estates Forum.

Andrew also provides consulting services for organizations' business development, content and innovation strategies. He has also worked as an editorial consultant/writer for Bloomberg Law for projects focused on the US legal market.

Andrew spent the first 13 years of his career in London and New York in various, globally focused roles at the Financial Times, Bloomberg and a strategy consulting firm focused on the global legal sector. He returned to Vancouver to set up ADB Insights in 2018.