Monday 16 April |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 - 09:15 |
Opening Day 1 The legal profession is experiencing an unprecedented convergence, with an array of disciplines impacting its evolution and trajectory. Harnessing the power of this watershed moment requires a dynamic dialogue. In an effort to help attendees turn innovation into action, Lexpo emcee, Ari Kaplan, will engage, empower, and encourage an extraordinary assembly of thought leaders to offer practical perspectives in a two-day event designed to exceed your Lexpectations! |
Ari Kaplan |
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09:15 - 10:15 |
Keynote: AI and Blockchain - Why the next technology revolution will begin in the legal industry The fact that legal data underpins commerce, governance, and justice places the legal industry in the best position to transmit the benefits of advanced technology, if and only if the unique nature of legal data can be reliably encoded in software. Until recently, software was incapable of parsing the complexity of legal data. Unlike other data, legal data must be verified as factual. Unlike other data, legal data encompasses not just information, but the interpretive wisdom of individual practitioners. The confluence of two technologies, blockchain and artificial intelligence, will reliably encode legal data. Blockchain will verify and indelibly record legally relevant facts. Artificial intelligence will reason about verified facts with the preserved wisdom of the lawyers who train it, producing exponentially more accurate A.I. The resulting benefits have the potential to improve outcomes in every activity that the law touches. |
Brian Kuhn David Fisher |
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10:15 - 10:45 | Break | |||||||||
10.45 - 12.15 |
Theme Session: Dynamic Knowledge Management
How modern knowledge management adds real value to the client relationship Knowledge management was once considered merely a fringe, “nice-to-have” addition to law firm service offerings. Today, modern knowledge management is an indispensable part of delivering real value to clients and helping firms achieve their business goals. This presentation will show how KM has evolved by highlighting key approaches and discussing examples of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, harnessing data, and providing client-facing applications.
Patrick's presentation will be followed by a moderated panel discussion with panellists from leading legal organisations who will share their thoughts on the implications of Patrick's presentation. |
Patrick DiDomenico
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12.15 - 14.15 |
Midday break - Lunch will be served for the complete duration of this break Parallel sponsor sessions Each sponsor will provide two sessions:
Sponsors providing sessions:
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14.15 - 14.45 |
Applied legaltech: "I'm in the delay business" - Flightright's legaltech journey In this session, Philipp will explain how his delayed flight from Amsterdam to Berlin made him a legal tech pioneer and founder of Flightright, next to being a partner of a German law firm. Today, Flightright is Europe's leading platform for passenger rights enforcement. |
Philipp Kadelbach |
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14.45 - 15.30 |
The innovation gap: why law practice has failed to keep pace with technology and what to do about it Innovation in legal technology is occurring at an unprecedented pace. Yet law practice remains mired in antiquated and inefficient methods. This is harmful to our clients, harmful to society at large, and ultimately harmful to our businesses. Why does this gap persist between innovation and practice? This session will offer both answers and solutions. |
Bob Ambrogi |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Break |
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16.00 - 17.30 |
Theme Session: The Legal Blockchain
How will blockchains change the practice of law? (David Yermack) This presentation - by a leading FinTech academic - will describe the operation and applications of blockchain technology, a significant innovation in record-keeping that is expected to change the nature of financial transactions, government databases, and commercial contracts in diverse areas including insurance, transport, health care, and many others. Blockchains may make lawyers and litigation unnecessary in certain settings, but blockchains may spawn new types of legal disputes in areas such as smart contracts, initial coin offerings, decentralized autonomous organizations, and hacking and data security. Many major law firms are creating FinTech practice groups to address these issues. Why Law firms want to create smart contracts and other Blockchain applications for future client use (Oliver N Oram) Regarding Blockchain, law firms are mostly interested in the implementation of smart contracts. Firms are looking to utilize identity-, asset-, and encryption modules backed by Blockhain to create intelligent contracts. Creation of internal privately permissioned Blockchains is a commitment that very few law currently firms dare to make. |
David Yermack
Oliver N Oram |
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17.30 - 17.40 |
Closing Remarks Day 1 |
Ari Kaplan |
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17.40 - 19.00 |
Drinks Reception |
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18.00 - 21.00 |
Law4ce Round Table: Legal Project Management Law4ce partners, a Lexpo'18 speaker and invited guests will discuss the increasing importance of Legal Project Management for law firms. This session is by invitation only |
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Tuesday 17 April |
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08:00 - 08:45 |
Registration |
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08:45 - 09:00 |
Opening Day 2 Welcome and recap of day one, preview of day two with Master of Ceremonies Ari Kaplan. |
Ari Kaplan |
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09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote: BI or die The life of most businesses is, to quote Hobbes, “nasty, brutish and short.” In this keynote, Business Intelligence innovator John Alber will talk about the very mortal legal business ecosystem and how truly effective BI can help firms and companies engage in the sort of constant redesign - call it business evolution - that produces survivors rather than victims. |
John Alber |
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09:45 - 10:30 |
Theme Session: Legal Project Management
Latest fad or table stakes? What LPM is and why it matters
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Susan Lambreth |
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10:30 - 11:00 | Break | |||||||
11.00 - 12.30 |
Theme Session: Legal Project Management
Becoming a believer - Using LPM to remain competitive in the changing legal market
The presentations will be followed by a moderated panel discussion with panellists from leading legal organisations who will share their thoughts on the implications of the presentations. |
Kim Craig David Rueff |
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12.30 - 14.30 |
Midday Break - Lunch will be served for the complete duration of this break Parallel sponsor sessions Each sponsor will provide two sessions:
Sponsors providing sessions:
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14.30 - 15.30 |
Chief Incubators Q&A For this session, moderated by Ari Kaplan, we have invited the leaders of three law firm legaltech-incubators. Each of the speakers will talk about their initiatives, what they hope to achieve and share some of the early results. They will each deliver a 10-minute presentation and will then be happy to take questions from the audience. The presenters:
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Shruti Ajitsaria Ben Kingsley Nick Kirby |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Break |
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16.00 - 17.30 |
Theme Session: Business Intelligence / Data Science
The law’s quants: strategies for propelling data science into legal practice (Karl Haraldsson) Using data science in legal practice is hard. Stakeholders are skeptical and well-structured practice data is rare. This session discusses how legal organizations can address the cultural and technical obstacles to quantifying the law. Analytics: a data-driven approach to the transformation of law firms and the way they practice law (Eric Falkenberry) Data science and analytics allow us to gain insight from information in a way unfathomable just a few years ago, and is not only changing how we practice law, but is also transforming the way in which law firms operate. This discussion will explore how these analytics are created, how they can be used to increase efficiencies and lead to better decision making, and how they will fundamentally transform law firms and the manner in which law is practiced. |
Karl Haraldsson Eric Falkenberry |
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17.30 - 17.35 |
Closing Remarks Day 2 |
Ari Kaplan |
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17.35 - 19.00 |
Drinks Reception |