How is the role of in-house counsel evolving in a crisis? 2021

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

As the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold, in-house counsel across Canada face many challenges. Managing and mitigating emerging risks ( both internally and externally) has formed the basis of their focus. On the internal side, these include challenges surrounding labour and employment, privacy and data and restructuring. Externally, areas of focus include: cybersecurity, crisis management and supporting new market strategies in a constrained operating environment. This 60-minute webinar will explore the ways in-house lawyers – from a cross section of sectors – are supporting their companies in an era of disruption.

Speakers:

  • Jonathan Cullen, General Counsel, Pfizer Canada
  • Sue-Lynn Noel, General Counsel, Purolator
  • Nick Henn, General Counsel, Loblaws
  • Christine Holmes, Founder + CEO, LawyersInHouse

Chair: Lynne Charbonneau, Lawyer | Corporate Director | Tribunal Judge

Evolutions in legal project management 2021

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

As the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold, in-house counsel across Canada face many challenges. Managing and mitigating emerging risks ( both internally and externally) has formed the basis of their focus. On the internal side, these include challenges surrounding labour and employment, privacy and data and restructuring. Externally, areas of focus include: cybersecurity, crisis management and supporting new market strategies in a constrained operating environment. This 60-minute webinar will explore the ways in-house lawyers – from a cross section of sectors – are supporting their companies in an era of disruption.

Speakers:

  • Jonathan Cullen, General Counsel, Pfizer Canada
  • Sue-Lynn Noel, General Counsel, Purolator
  • Nick Henn, General Counsel, Loblaws
  • Christine Holmes, Founder + CEO, LawyersInHouse

Chair: Lynne Charbonneau, Lawyer | Corporate Director | Tribunal Judge

E-Discovery: Drivers, Trends and Technology 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

Organizations face increasing complexity when it comes to managing legal and business processes. One process is E-Discovery. The scope for e-discovery has expanded beyond its traditional focus on litigation. Examples of its expanded include responding to regulatory requests, government investigations and audits and supporting due diligence on transactions.

For practitioners responding to this complexity, enhancing e-discovery processes has been critical. Defining, mapping and applying advanced e-discovery processes requires better collaboration, creativity and flexibility. Marrying technology with advanced processes also plays a key role. One example is the increasing number of applications for technology assisted review (TAR).

On this 60 minute webinar, our speakers will explore the current contexts when it comes to e-discovery.

What are the key drivers broadening the scope of e-discovery processes?

How are e-discovery practitioners collaborating and innovating in new ways to achieve results?

And how is the application of technology underpinning these advances?

Speakers:

  • Carolyn Anger, Founder, Anger &
    Associates
  • Maura Grossman, Research Professor,
    David R. Cheriton School of Computer
    Science, University of Waterloo
  • Jessica Lockett, Director, Legal Operations
    and Review Solutions, Ricoh Canada

Managing data and organizational risk 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

Managing organizations’ data in a complex business and regulatory context presents many risks. Meeting compliance and regulatory requirements, increased cyber security risk and reputational risk are all key drivers. Lawyers play a central role in creating frameworks managing emerging risks attached to data. They are responsible for translating high level concepts addressing risk into organizational strategy and implementation. This 60 minute webinar will focus on how organizations (and the lawyers working alongside them) are defining, determining and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies when it comes to data.

In the webinar, our speakers will discuss:

  • What are the key drivers when it comes to managing organizational risks attached to data? What role do legal departments play in organizations responding to them? How are legal departments and their external advisors devising strategies to do this?
  • What are the key pillars when it comes to developing and implementing a risk mitigation strategy for an organization’s data? What are the common challenges and risks?
  • When it comes to process and technology to deliver a data risk mitigation strategy, what are the best practices? What kinds of technologies are available for organizations to leverage? What are the opportunities and challenges related to partnerships with third-parties?

Evolutions in Legal Research 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

The legal research function is a critical one for law firms and legal departments.

And – increasingly – it’s an area being augmented by automation. Automatizing legal research provides many benefits. It enables lawyers to sift through large amounts of information; underpins predictive, data driven insights and enables better, faster and cost efficient responsiveness to client needs. It also eliminates repetitive tasks and allows lawyers to focus on what they do best: provide impactful legal advice. Yet increasing reliance on automation legal research can be problematic. Areas of concern include increased liability risks, algorithmic bias and sectoral mistrust of outputs.

On this 60 minute webinar, our presenters will examine the evolution of legal research, the increasing impact of automation and the emerging benefits and risks stemming from it.

Speakers:

  • Jennifer McNenly, Senior Director, Knowledge Services, Fasken
  • Colin Lachance, Founder + Executive Director at Legal Innovation Data Institute
  • Mark Doble, CEO, Alexsei
  • Joan Rataic-Lang, Executive Director/Library Director, Toronto Lawyers Association
  • Chair: Wolfgang Alschner, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law

Ontario Estates Forum 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

The Ontario Estates Forum returns in with a free, virtual webinar series on November 25th + December 2nd | 12-2pm ET.

The purpose of the Ontario Estates Forum is to shine a light on the key contexts, drivers, challenges and opportunities for professional advisors in the province’s estate planning ecosystem.

We’ll review the latest when it comes to trends around digitization of estate planning and best practices for navigating the estate transfer process.

The forum will also highlight the increasing importance of innovation in the estates sector. Specifically, how professionals focused on estates in their practices are gaining an edge through new ways of collaborating, leveraging technology and offering enhanced value propositions to their clients.

Delivering better litigation results with technology, legal expertise and enhanced process management 2020

  • 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. It requires coordinated and synchronized interaction and iteration between all three. On this 60 minute webinar, our speakers will outline their approaches to delivering litigation results. What kinds of technologies (i.e. intelligent review, predictive analytics) are emerging? How are these technologies enhancing, interacting with and leveraging legal expertise? And what processes and workflows need to be in place to support them?

Speakers:

  • Andrea Laing, Partner, Blakes
  • Reena Lalji, Senior Counsel, Litigation | Canadian Personal & Commercial Banking | Legal & Regulatory Compliance, BMO Financial Group
  • Sean Lynch, Director, Legal and Compliance
    Solutions, Ricoh Canada

Chair: Peter Aprile, Founder, Counter Tax
Lawyers

Enabling legal innovation in a disruptive era 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

Management of internal and external investigations is becoming more complex for in-house lawyers as well as for the external advisors supporting them. In recent years, a number of new trends have emerged in terms of the type, scale and complexity of investigations institutions are involved with. In parallel, the role and importance of technology supporting investigations and litigation management has increased exponentially. In this 60 minute webinar our presenters will outline the current context of investigations, best practices in effective investigations management and the evolving role of technology in supporting them.

Speakers:

  • Anthony Ruffolo, General Counsel, Honda Canada
  • Jamie Pytel, Founder & Senior Lawyer, Kingsgate Legal
  • Jennifer Thompson, Head of Osler Works – Disputes, Osler
  • Sean Lynch, Director, Legal and Compliance Solutions, Ricoh Canada

Chair: Geoff Moysa, Investment Manager & Legal Counsel at Omni Bridgeway

Educational Objectives
Attendees will learn about the latest contexts and approaches when it comes to managing investigations in the Canadian legal context. They will also learn about the role of technology in investigations and how it can be applied to deliver optimal results.

Who would benefit most from attending this program?
Law firm practitioners and in-house counsel who are focused on investigations in their practice and are evaluating which strategies and technology to deploy.

Delivering outcomes with artificial intelligence 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

The application of artificial intelligence to transform the legal sector has been a key area of discussion when it comes to innovation in the sector. To date, AI has had an impact in areas such as research, due diligence, document review, translation and predictive analytics. However, alongside these nascent examples of AI’s successful application, the longer term impact remains to be seen. Many argue that AI is not necessarily a panacea for large scale legal process disruption, nor will it put droves of lawyers out of work. More likely – along with other applications – AI will be an important part of the tool kit lawyers use to improve their workflow and service delivery capabilities. On this 60 minute webinar, our presenters will review areas where AI is having a tangible impact in terms of improving their delivery of legal services and adding value to their clients. They will also look at the next areas where they see AI being successfully applied.

Educational Objectives
Participants will learn in depth about the practical application of artificial intelligence in the context of the Canadian legal sector. They will learn about specific examples where using AI has helped improve workflow and delivered value for clients as well as anticipating its future impact.

Speakers:

  • Conni Gibson, Vice-President & Chief Legal Officer, Technology & Operations, Legal & Regulatory Compliance, BMO Financial Group
  • Stephanie Vaughn, Global Legal Practice Director (UK), iManage RAVN
  • Gary Kalaci, CEO, Alexa Translations & Alexa Translations AI

Who would benefit most from attending this program?
Law firm practitioners, in-house counsel, technologists and consultants who are focused on evaluating the benefits and shortcomings of using AI in their legal practices.

Using data to make better decisions 2020

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

Leveraging data through analytics tools is increasingly important for law firms and legal departments in terms of helping to make internal processes more efficient, make better informed decisions and deliver internal and external value. Data and analytics can be used for contract analysis, help better manage internal and external risks, enhance compliance processes, improve resource allocation and gain strategic advantage in a competitive legal marketplace. This 60 minute webinar will look at the data and analytics landscape as it relates to the legal sector. Presenters will look at ways law firms and legal departments are using data and analytics, the tools and technology available to support them and real life use cases where it has delivered results.

Speakers:

  • Charles Dobson, Knowledge Management Lawyer, Litigation, Osler
  • Abdi Aidid, VP, Legal Research, Blue J Legal
  • Jessica Lockett, Director, Legal Operations and Review Solutions, Ricoh Canada
  • Jason Moyse, Principal, Law Made Inc.

Educational Objectives
Participants will learn about what tools are available on the market when it comes to data and analytics. They will also be exposed to various use cases that currently exist for both, as well as their value proposition and impact.

Who would benefit most from attending this program?
Law firm practitioners and in-house counsel who are focused on the benefits of using data and analytics in their practices and are evaluating which technological solutions will support this best.