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STREAM A: Strategic law firm management |
STREAM B: Information technology management
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08:15 |
Registration and refreshments
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09:00 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Keeping pace with a rapidly changing legal services market and profession
Robin Bloom, Senior Partner, Dickinson Dees LLP
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09:40 |
Managing a flexible workforce • The need for change - demographics, diversity and generation Y and beyond • Approaching the implementation of flexible and mobile working practices as a holistic project • Conducting a cost-benefit analysis for flexible working initiatives; does it actually save you money? • Predicting future ways of working; the “hotelling” concept
Charlie Keeling, HR Director, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP |
Green IT: Developing a sustainable business • Anticipating future government regulations on the use of carbon by businesses • Demonstrating green credentials in response to client tender requirements • Auditing your IT infrastructure • Generating cost and carbon efficiencies through power saving; greener printing and more efficient data centres • Carbon savings are cost savings: how being green will save you money
Greg Taylor, Head of Technology, Ward Hadaway
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10:40 |
One-to-one business meeting/networking
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11:10 |
One-to-one business meeting/networking
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11:40 |
Taking on the right clients to avoid future exposure: systems, judgement, or whim? • Using systems to limit credit exposure risks • Taking due diligence one step further: understanding conflicts of interest, commercial and reputational risks • Explaining the role of IT in effective pricing • Implementing supervision systems: using warning flags and knowing when to raise the alarm • At what point do you or should you say no? • How do you know you have delivered on what you promised?
George Wilkinson, Partner, Corporate Group, Ashfords
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Virtualising your IT infrastructure to generate cost and carbon efficiencies • Will law firms be forced into virtualisation by IT vendors? • Consolidating and virtualising your servers to run fewer data centres and run them cooler • Implementing virtual desktop infrastructure to drive administrative efficiencies and security benefits • Looking to the future: assessing the benefits of virtualised applications
Ian Lauwerys, IT Director, Kennedys
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12:40 |
One-to-one business meeting/networking
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13:10 |
Lunch
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14:10 |
Reducing your cost base: identifying areas where you can save money • Ensuring that you have accurately captured information on the costs associated with each matter • When is it acceptable to charge costs back to your client? • Creating cost efficiencies in your support functions; procurement, travel, energy, office space
Keith Wood, Chief Executive, S J Berwin LLP
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Guaranteeing security of confidential client information • Implementing technical security solutions such as secure networks and encryption • Devising policies on the use of removable storage media in your firm • Comparing the benefits of “locking down” your systems versus encouraging secure behaviour • Ensuring data security in mobile working • Reassuring your clients: explaining your security policies in response to increased client pressure
Alan Herd, Head of IT, Anderson Strathern LLP
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15:10 |
One-to-one business meeting/networking
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15:40 |
One-to-one business meeting/networking
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16:10 |
PLENARY SESSION: Ensuring benefits realisation: leading and managing change
Christina Archbold, IT Relationship Manager, Allen & Overy LLP
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17:00 |
End of day one Cheese and wine tasting
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