Governance: Mastering Corporate Governance 2022
Maintaining business continuity in a complex operating environment 2020
- Free to attend
- Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON
Law firms and legal departments have had to adjust significantly to ensure business continuity in the face of the Covid-19 crisis. They have had to maintain operations in a completely virtual working environment. Advise clients who are facing highly complex operational challenges in a rapidly shifting business landscape. And manage and disseminate large amounts of sensitive data while maintaining client confidentiality and security.
This 60 minute webinar – with expert speakers from law firms and legal departments – will examine the business continuity strategies law firms and law departments have undertaken in 2020. And, they will look towards the future and how they expect these strategies to evolve in a complex operating environment.
Speakers:
- Robert Soccio, General Counsel, Navistar
- Tara Elliott, VP Legal, Interac
- Gennady Ferenbok, General Counsel, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Ltd.
- Clint Crosier, General Counsel, iManage
ALLIED PROFESSIONALS: How are legal professionals embracing change and driving transformation in law firms? 2022
- Free to attend
- Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON
Increasingly, legal professionals (both paraprofessionals and other allied professionals) are playing a key role in driving transformation in their law firms. They are super users of legal technology, have deep experience in process and project management and are the backbone of their law firms’ cultures. As more law firms are engaging in transformation in an evolving legal market, having the right legal professionals in place to drive change is critical.
On this 60 minute webinar, our speakers – leading legal professionals from Canadian law firms – will focus on how they are driving transformation in their law firms.
Topics will include:
How are legal professionals defining what change management/transformation means in their law firms? And what role are they playing in influencing their firms’ strategies?
The role that legal professionals are playing in implementing transformation strategies and how are they addressing resistance to change in their firms?
What cloud based technologies married with advanced processes are helping to drive transformation and why are they impactful?
Speakers:
- Karen Anderson, Manager, Corporate Services, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
- Karen Tuschak, Founder and CEO, Spider Silk Innovative Solutions Inc.
- Tiffany Pereira, Director, Customer Success, MinuteBox
- Victoria Snook, Director, Law Clerks and Paralegals, McMillan LLP
RISK: Mastering risk for legal departments 2022
- Free to attend
- Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON
The top priorities for today’s legal departments continue to be focused on regulatory compliance (including labor + employment and ESG challenges), data privacy and security, and anticipating and responding to other, unanticipated risks faced by their business units.
To respond to these challenges, legal departments must better map their compliance processes, infrastructure and department business strategies. And leverage this to focus on ways to to be a more engaged strategic advisor and partner to their organization.
During this 60-minute session, our panel will discuss the following:
⇹ A review of drivers and trends of the evolving risk landscape faced by legal departments
⇹ Developing and implementing tech-forward solutions married with advanced processes to better automate legal department functions that anticipate current and future risks
⇹ A look at how legal departments can evolve their strategy by leveraging people, process and technology. And how they can collaborate with 3rd party partners to deliver results.
Speakers:
- David Meadows, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
- Jennifer Jobanputra, Senior Director, Compliance & Ethics, Loblaw Companies Limited
- Rustam (Rusty) Juma, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Privacy Officer, Eckler Ltd.
- Al Park, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Transformation: Mastering transformation in your Law Firm/Legal Department 2022
- Free to attend
- Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON
In response to changing market conditions, law firms and legal departments are transforming how they provide services to clients or business units, how they are organized, and how they can operate more cost-effectively. Law firms are doing this though expansion and alignment of innovation groups in their firms as well as building out internal, captive ALSPs. And legal departments through an increased focus on and investment in legal operations.
During this 60-minute session, our panel of law firm and legal department leaders will discuss:
⇹ How to identify pain points in your law firm/legal department and develop a transformation strategy
⇹ Implementing an effective transformation strategy with the right people, processes and technology
⇹ Transformation in action: case studies
Speakers:
- Jean-Francois Denis, Director, Legal Operations, SNC-Lavalin
- Michael Bowmile, Senior Legal Counsel, Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited
- Rob Morris, Chief Operating & Information Officer, BLG
- Sumi Trombley, Senior Advisor, UpLevel Ops
Chair:
Heather Suttie, Legal Market Strategy and Management Consulting, Suttie
SG: Mastering Corporate Governance 2022
CANLIF Law Firm Innovation Report Launch 2022
- Free to attend
- Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON
The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum is publishing its second annual report focused on measuring innovation in Canadian law firms.
This survey was prompted by the CANLIF Law Firm Roundtable: How are law firms defining and delivering innovation strategies? held in February 2022 where 10+ law firm leaders shared their experiences and best practices when it comes to law firm innovation strategy and execution.
The report is underpinned by a survey of approximately 20 decision makers from Canada’s leading law firms that shows that COVID propelled the use of technology-driven solutions to the virtual work world (video conferencing, e-signature, document management systems, etc.) and management-driven improvements (virtual data rooms, collaboration tools, etc.) to focus on/improve the client experience as these clients continue to expect more from their law firm relationships.
It focuses on their key innovation challenges, where law firms generate innovation projects, what technology they have invested in and the corresponding ROI, and the practice areas that have benefited most from innovation.
To mark the official launch of the report, we are putting on a webinar which will cover the following:
⇎ An overview of the key findings of the report
⇎ A panel discussion amongst law firm innovation leaders and legal tech providers:
⇎ How can law firms accelerate innovation in a post-pandemic world?
⇎ How are they generating and collecting ideas for innovative projects/products from their clients?
⇎ What key problems are they trying to solve through innovation and why?
⇎ What is the role that technology is playing in supporting these approaches?
Speakers:
- Andrew Terrett, BLG
- James Quinn, Clarilis
- Kate Simpson, Bennett Jones
- Robin Porter, Blakes
BC Estates Forum 2022
Disputes and innovation: Delivering better litigation results with legal expertise, enhanced process management and technology 2022
- Free to attend
- Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON
Delivering better litigation results with technology, legal expertise and enhanced processes is complex. To do so, requires coordinated and synchronized interaction and iteration between all three.
On this 60 minute webinar, our speakers will outline their evolving approaches when it comes to disputes.
What kinds of technologies (i.e. intelligent review, predictive analytics, AI driven research) are moving the dial when it comes to disputes?
How are these technologies enhancing outcomes through legal expertise and what processes need to be in place to support them?
How are law firms, their in-house colleagues and their third party partners collaborating in new ways (AFAs, strategy and talent) to deliver results?
Speakers:
- Brent Arnold, Partner, Gowling WLG
- Kelly Friedman, Senior Counsel and National Leader, Beyond eDiscovery, Borden Ladner Gervais
- Jennifer Thompson, Head of Osler Works – Disputes, Osler
- Mark Doble, CEO, Alexsei
Collaboration is the new innovation: how are law firms and legal departments delivering results through enhanced collaboration strategies 2022