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“Making the Case for AI in Legal”

Delivered live on 13th February 2024

Tara Waters – Partner, Ashurst (Chair)
Joe Cohen – Director of Innovation, Charles Russell Speechlys
Jill Schornack, VP of Product, NetDocuments
Sarah Harris – Partner/Head of Innovation – Kingsley Napley
Alex Bazin – Chief Technology Officer – Lewis Silkin

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“The Law Firm of the Future: Harnessing Client Relationships to Drive Growth with HSO and Microsoft”

Delivered live on 16th March 2023

Christina Blacklaws – CEO, Blacklaws Consulting (Chair)
Razvan Cretu – Director of IT, CMS
Miriam Lloyd – UK Legal Industry Sector Lead, Microsoft
Whit McIsaac – Global Legal Industry Director – HSO
Victoria Gregory – Industry Solution Architect and Practice Lead – HSO

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“Levelling up Your Law Firm Against Advanced Phishing Threats”

Delivered live on 7th December 2022

Jon Grainger – Chief Technology and Information Officer, CTIO101.com (Chair)
Jack Chapman – VP Threat Intelligence, Egress

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“Data Privacy and the Evolution of Client Phishing Attacks”

Delivered live on 22nd March 2022

Heather Anson – Managing Director, Anson Evaluate (Chair)
FC aka Freakyclown – Ethical Hacker and Social Engineer
Professor Lilian Edwards – Prof of Law, Innovation & Society, Newcastle University
Jack Chapman – VP Threat Intelligence, Egress

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“The Human Factor of Cyber Security”

Delivered live on 20th October 2021

Sue Daley – Director, Technology and Innovation, TechUK (Chair)
Dr Jessica Barker – Expert in the human side of cyber security
Ash Banerjee – Global CIO (interim), Dentons
Jack Chapman – VP Threat Intelligence, Egress

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“The Legal Services Regulation Report – One year on”

Delivered live on 10th June 2021

Clive Coleman, British legal commentator and journalist (Host)
Professor Stephen Mayson – Honorary Professor of Law, University College London

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“The Law Firm Compliance Conundrum”

Delivered live on 27th May 2021.

Ian Jeffery – Independent Consultant (Chair)
Annmarie Farthing – Director of Billing & Collections, Holland & Knight
Paul Fisher – Head of Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, Pinsent Masons
Chad Schuessler – Head of Data Management, Pinsent Masons
Christine Smith – Principle Consultant, Aderant
Angela Huffman – Senior Business Consultant, Aderant.

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“Navigating the Threat Landscape – The Modern Approach”

Delivered live on 22nd April 2021.

Janet Day – Independent Consultant, Janet Day Ltd (Chair)
Ned Stevanovski – Head of IT Operations & CISO, Mishcon de Reya
Grant Asplund – Growth Technologies Evangelist, Check Point Software Technologies.

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“Leading Digital Disruption in the Agile World”

Delivered live on 31st March 2021.

Professor Richard Susskind OBE (Chairman), President, Society for Computers & Law
Anna Lozynski, General Counsel, Author & Advisor
Stuart Fuller, Global Head of Legal Services, KPMG
Michelle Mahoney, Executive Director of Innovation, King & Wood Mallesons
Gilbert Leong, Senior Partner, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
James Odell, VP and Managing Director, Australia and Asia Pacific, Elevate

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“Under pressure! Satisfying Regulatory and Client Security Demands”

Delivered live on 25th March 2021.

Heather Anson, Managing Director, Anson Evaluate Ltd (Chair)
Nathan Hayes, IT Director, Osborne Clarke
Karen Jacks, CTO, Bird & Bird
David Edwards, Head of InfoSec, Coventry Building Society
Dr Kerry Beynon, Partner, RPD Law (and Member of the Law Society’s Technology and Law Committee)
Tony Pepper, Co-Founder and CEO, Egress Software Technologies

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“Digital Transformation – Extending Strategic Service Advantage”

Delivered live on 10th March 2021.

Derek Southall – CEO, Hyperscale Group (Chair),
Nigel Tranter – CTO, Pinsent Masons
Dr Stacy Sinclair – Head of Technology and Innovation, Fenwick Elliott
Adrian Cambridge – Head of IT Operations, HFW

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“LegalTech Talks – Diversity in LegalTech”

Delivered live on 4th March 2021.

David Fazakerley – In-House Legal CIO, CTS
Yosr Hamza, LLB, ICC – Director, Legal Counsel | Middle East, Gartner
Shilpa Bhandarkar – CEO, Nakhoda
Alicia Alinia – Chief People Officer, Slater & Gordon
Mabel Harvey – IT Director, Fieldfisher

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“LegalTech Talks – Exploiting Technology to Secure Client-Centric Legal Services”

Delivered live on 23rd February 2021.

Lisa Forte, Partner & GCHQ Certified Training Provider (Chair), Red Goat Cyber Security
Razvan Cretu, Director of IT, CMS
John Fernandez, Global Chief Innovation Officer, Dentons
Steve Blow, Systems Engineering Manager for EMEA, Zerto

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“LegalTech Talks – The Agile Movement”

Delivered live on 17th February 2021.

Chris White, Strategic Technology Advisor and CIO, WhiteBoard Consulting
Kate Bassett, Global Head of Legal Project Management & Process Improvement, Ashurst
Tara Walsh, Client Solutions Lead, Foot Anstey
Jas B., Head of Solution Delivery, Gateley
James Northin, Head of Client Service Delivery, Irwin Mitchell

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“LegalTech Talks – Building Robust IT”

Delivered live on 11th February 2021.

Chris Bull, Principal, Edge International (Chair)
Jo Owen, CIO, Cripps
David Aird, IT Director, DAC Beachcroft
Nina Gratrick, Head of IT Services, Watson Farley & Williams
Paul Morrison, Director Product and Solutions – Real Time Communications, Professional Services, Advanced Services, Lumen

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“LegalTech Talks – Transitioning from Law to Tech”

Delivered live on 27th January 2021.

Shilpa Bhandarkar, CEO, Nakhoda

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“LegalTech Talks – Connected and Protected: Delivering Cohesive Legal Services”

Delivered live on 20th January 2021.

Janet Day, Consultant, Janet Day Ltd
Karl Knowles, Head of Cyber, HFW
Christian Toon, Chief Information Security Officer, Pinsent Masons
Joe Robertson, EMEA CISO, Senior Evangelist, Fortinet

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“LegalTech Talks – Collaboration – Unleashing a New Wave of Data-Driven Innovation”

Delivered live on 15th January 2021.

David Fazakerley (Chair), In-House Legal CIO, CTS
Sally Sfeir Tait, Chief Executive Officer, RegulAItion Ltd
Tara Waters, Partner, Ashurst
Myfanwy Wood, Partner, Ashurst
Maria Scott, Senior Associate, DLA Piper

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“LegalTech Talks – Curbing Fraud”

Delivered live on 15th December 2020.

Janet Day, Independent Consultant
Sakina Chenot, Head of Legal Risk and Global Privacy Officer, HFW
Toks Oladuti, Senior Manager, IT Security (UK, US & EMEA), Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Nathan Hayes, IT Director, Osborne Clarke

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“LegalTech Talks – Defending Against the Insider Threat”

Delivered live on 8 December 2020.

Peter Wright, Managing Director, DigitalLawUK (Chair)
Dee Pang, Chief Information Security Officer, Slaughter and May
Jon Segger, Information Security Manager, Linklaters
Martyn Styles, Head of Information Security, Bird & Bird LLP
Tony Pepper, Co-Founder and CEO, Egress Software

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“LegalTech Talks – Transformational Leadership”

Delivered live on 18 November 2020.

Sarah Chipping, Head of IT, RPC Tyche (Chair)
Abby Ewen, Technology and Operations Director, Browne Jacobson
Tim Nash, CEO, Edwin Coe LLP
David Robinson, Head of IT Security, Herbert Smith
David Fazakerley, In-House Legal CIO, CTS

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“LegalTech Talks – Recalibration of Legal Services”

Delivered live on 4 November 2020.

Derek Southall, CEO, Hyperscale Group Limited (Chair)
Sarah Chipping, Head of IT, RPC Tyche
Adrian Cambridge, Head of IT Operations, HFW
Adam Ryan, Chief Legal Innovation Officer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Vladimir Teodosiev, Senior Business Development Manager, Nuance

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“LegalTech Talks – Secure Innovation; Protecting the Digital Shift”

Delivered live on 15 October 2020.

Janet Day, Independent Consultant (Chair)
Perminder Jagdev, Information Security Manager, Stephenson Harwood LLP
David Aird, IT Director, DAC Beachcroft
Fahim Afghan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Egress Software Technologies

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“LegalTech Talks – Joshua Rozenberg and Professor Richard Susskind OBE”

Delivered live on 30 September 2020.

In his third and exclusive appearance with LegalTech Talks, Susskind is interviewed by Britain’s best-known legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg.

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“Innovation Roundtable – Legal Innovation, R&D and Tech“

Delivered live on 12th August 2020 at 15:00 (BST).

Rachel Barnes (Chair), Head of Collaborations, Ashurst Advance
Curt Meltzer, Litera, Evangelist and Former Law Firm CIO & Legal Technology Expert
April Brousseau, Global Lead and Innovation, Clifford Chance Create
Chris Bentley, Managing Director, Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ)
Tom Martin, CEO, LawDroid

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“LegalTech Talks –Blue Sky or Reality Check”

Delivered live on 24 September 2020. Coffee Side Chat with Eric Hunter, CTO, Bradford & Barthel, LLP

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“LegalTech Talks – Deepening the Conversation; Security Investment and ROSI”

Delivered live on 16 September 2020, Featuring;

Janet Day, Independent Consultant (Chair)
Joe Robertson, EMEA CISO, Senior Evangelist, Fortinet
Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft
Mabel Harvey IT Director, Fieldfisher
Mark Parr, Global Director of Information Technology, HFW
Jonathan Freedman, Head of Technology & Security, Howard Kennedy

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“The Future Normal”

Delivered live on 20 August 2020, Featuring;

Tara Waters, Partner, Head of Ashurst Advance Digital, Ashurst

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“The Future Reinvented: Reimagining Cybersecurity and the Legal Sector”

Delivered live on 29 July 2020, Featuring;

Jane Frankland, Owner & CEO (Chair), Cyber Security Capital
Lisa Forte, Partner, Social Engineering & Cyber Security Expert, Red Goat Cyber Security
Mo Cashman, Principle Engineer, McAfee
Karl Knowles, Global Head of Cyber, HFW
Ayala Ples, Customer Success Executive, Tessian.

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“Coopetition an Accelerator for Digital Transformation”

Delivered live on 23 July 2020, Featuring;

Abhijat Saraswat (Chair), VP, Legal Technology Expert, Litera
Charlie Morgan, Senior Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Herbert Smith Freehills
Myfanwy Wood, Senior Associate, Ashurst
Kushal Gandhi, Partner, Finance Disputes, CMS London
Maria Scott, Senior Associate, DLA Piper.

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“Lawyers and Law Firms The Next Generation”

Delivered live on 21 July 2020, Featuring;

David Fazakerley (Chair)
Baroness Nicky Morgan
Camilla Uppal, Editor-in-Chief and Content Manager for The Student Lawyer

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“Protecting data in the cloud – lessons learned on securing a remote and collaborative workforce”

Delivered live on 15 July 2020, Featuring;

Toks Oladuti, Senior Manager, IT Security , Herbert Smith Freehills
Neil Thacker, CISO EMEA, Netskope
Ross Asquith, Security Transformation Principal, Netskope
Chaired by Janet Day, Independent Consultant.

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“COVID-19 – A fraudsters Playground”

Delivered live on 7 July 2020, featuring Raj Samani, Chief Scientist & McAfee Fellow, McAfee.

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“A CTO Roundtable”

Delivered live on 3 July 2020, featuring:

Chris White, Strategic Technology Advisor and CIO, WhiteBoard Consulting (Chair)
Charlotte Baldwin, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Bruna Pellicci, CTO, Linklaters
Karen Jacks, CTO, Bird & Bird
Sudeep Venkatesh, Chief Product Officer, Egress Software.

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“LegalTech Talks with John O’Donovan”

Delivered live 30th June 2020, featuring:

John O’Donovan, CTO, Allen & Overy

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“Evolution of Security Leadership”

Delivered live 18th June 2020, featuring:

Christian Toon, Chief Information Security Officer, Pinsent Masons.

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“A GC Roundtable”

Delivered live 9th June 2020, featuring:

Andrew Haslam, Squire Patton Boggs (Chair)
Chantelle Zemba, GC, Deliveroo
Jeremey Barton, GC, KPMG,
Catie Sheret, GC, Cambridge University Press.

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“A CISO Roundtable”

Delivered live 29th May 2020, featuring:

Peter Wright, Managing Director & Solicitor, Digital Law UK (Chair)
Dee Pang, Chief Information Security Officer, Slaughter and May
Jenny Chuck, Information Security and Compliance Manager, Fieldfisher
Ian Dalby, Head of Information Governance & Cyber Security, Dentons

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“Legal Technology Beyond Law Firms”

Delivered live 19th May 2020, featuring:

Professor Richard Susskind OBE
Bruce Braude, CTO, Deloitte Legal

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“The Future of Legal Tech – The Risks, Challenges and Opportunities ahead”

In the Post Covid world – What technology changes are simply an acceleration of what was already underway versus things which are truly “new thinking”?

Delivered live 6th May 2020, featuring;

David Fazakerley, Chief Information Officer / Company Director, MW Solicitors
Jacqueline de Rojas CBE, President, TechUk
Amy McConnell, Head of Legal Operations, Vodafone
Mark Parr, Global Director of Information Technology, HFW
Christian Toon, Chief Information Security Officer, Pinsent Masons

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“Law and justice in a Covid-22 world”

The impact on law firms and barristers chambers financially and from a working practices point of view, and what they might do to adjust to a new normal
The impact on in-house teams, and how they might adapt to be better at supporting their organisations

Delivered live 23rd April 2020, featuring;

Mark Beer OBE

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