The LEGAL IT FORUM 2010
  

How To Achieve Clients' Favoured Firm Status:
Overcoming The Problems Of Deciding In What & Where You Should Invest
In Order To Address A Changing Business Model -While Still Controlling Costs:
 


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The Innovative Thought-Leaders For 2010 include:



Partnerships Guru David Furst
Partner
HORWATH CLARK WHITEHILL



New Research:
Tony Hodgson
Consulting Partner PwC



Partner On IT:
Melanie Farquharson,
Consultant
3Kites



Tech Entrepreneur: Inma Martinez, Founder, ESCAPE VELOCITY, Advisor, EU TECH.COMMISSION



Outsourcing Expert:
Martin Telfer
Global Director of Information Systems
BAKER & McKENZIE



Legal Leader
Keith Wood,
CEO,
SJ BERWIN  



Legal Leader
Alan Jenkins,
Chairman,
EVERSHEDS



Cyber Risk Expert Hagai M. Segal,
Analyst & Consultant on Online Terrorism,
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY in LONDON

The Leading IT Strategy Event For The UK's Top 100 Law Firms, Now Including Two Nights Networking.
Come Learn & Meet From These Industry and Non-Industry Leaders:

 Over 30 CEOs & CIOs Speaking including:
Mary Hensher, Partner & CIO, IT Services UK & Switzerland, DELOITTE LLP; Alan Jenkins, Chairman, EVERSHEDS; Keith Wood, CEO, SJ BERWIN; Abigail Ewen, IT Director, SIMMONS & SIMMONS; Suzanne Fine, Global Head of Knowledge & Learning, LINKLATERS; Robert Cohen, Head of Information Technology, SPEECHLY BIRCHAM; Mabel Evans, Head of IT Services, FIELD FISHER WATERHOUSE; Jon Howells, IT Director, HUGH JAMES; Stuart Walters, IT Director, EVERSHEDS; Andrew Woolfson, Director of Knowledge Management and Capability, REYNOLDS PORTER CHAMBERLAIN; Nick Taylor-Delahoy, Director of Information Technology, MISHCON DE REYA; Martin Telfer, Global Director, GIS , BAKER & MACKENZIE; Derek Southall, Partner and Head of Strategic Development and LITIG, WRAGGE & CO; Andrew Powell, Director of IT, NABARRO; Richard Hodkinson, Group IT & Operations Director, IRWIN MITCHELL;  Julie Berry, IT Director, REYNOLDS PORTER CHAMBERLAIN; Jan Durant, Director of IT, LEWIS SILKIN; David Furst, Partner, HORWATH CLARK WHITEHILL; Frans Post , CFO , OLSWANG; Fran Evans, Head of IT, BERRYMANS LACE MAWER

 Plus the Legal IT Forum Thought Leaders 2010: ( see speakers page for biographies)

Inma Martinez, Founder, ESCAPE VELOCITY; Tony E. Hodgson, Partner in Performance Improvement, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS; Hagai. M., Segal, Analyst and Consultant, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN LONDON; Rupert Collins-White, Head of Content, LEGALSUPPORTNETWORK.CO.UK; Melanie Farquharson, Consultant, 3KITES; Tony DeCerce, Sharepoint Consultant , CLIFFORD CHANCE; Lee Bryant, Founder, HEADSHIFT; Neil Cameron, Director , NEIL CAMERON CONSULTING; Peter Owen, Director, LIGHTS-ON CONSULTING; General Counsel, RICOH

In 2009 we delivered to great acclaim, a New Legal IT Forum with a new dynamic proposition - a highly strategic content focussed programme, innovative discussion formats, small group networking at the highest level, plus a cost and time effective venue with no flights or awkward locations. See our glowing Event Reviews from the the industry's leading practitioners. In 2010, a fresh set of client facing challenges face the Legal Sector.  Never has it be more important for CIOs from the top firms to help guide the business through the dramatic technological and regulatory changes afoot and find smart solutions to ensure the firm retains and creates favoured firm status. Download the latest draft Legal IT Forum Conference Agenda Here.

Seven LITF Benefits That Will Enable You To Give Your Firm The Edge In Achieving Its Wider Client Business Objectives

1. Understand The Profound Changes Underway In Your Clients' Infrastructures And The Strategic & Investment Implications For The Delivery Of Legal Services:  What Will The Next Wave Of Rapid Technological Innovation Look Like And How Will It Force Global Organisations To Reorganise Business Processes. Hear Serial Technology Entrepreneur & Special Guest Inma Martinez, Founder, ESCAPE VELOCITY & Advisor, EU TECHNOLOGY COMMISSION

2. See Top Industry Business Heads Challenged.   How Are major professional services business Leaders such as Keith Woods, SJ BERWIN or Alan Jenkins, EVERSHEDS OR , David Furst HOWELL CLARK WHITEHILL Going To Cope With The Groundswell Of Technological & Regulatory Change Underway? How Are They Preparing The Business, Its Infrastructure Business & Its Employees To A Permanent Client- Centric Business Model ?

3. Hear Over Three Other Brand New. Previously Un-heard Pieces of Research On The Most Cost–Effective Strategies To Maintain Your Firm In The Most-Favoured Provider Status: From The New Research Briefing By PRICEWATERHOUSECOPERS on Measuring The International Risk of Outsourcing to the Global Online Security Review 2010, but the Cyber Crime Expert Hagai Segal, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, London to New insights by Melanie Farquaharson, 3KITES On CIO As Strategic Lynchpin, We Have A Broad Range Of New Research And Wide Ranging Informed Debate With External Opinion Formers That You Will Not Find Elsewhere

4. Ensure You Maximise Your Cross-Business and Cross Discipline Problem Solving: Gain Unique Insights From Parallel Industries such As Accounting, Digital Media, Telecoms as well as relevant legal and non legal insights into the latest research in themes such as Cyber Crime or Social Media.  

5. Selected CIOs Gain Advantage For Your Firm and Capitalise On Time Spent With Industry And Out-Of Industry Thought-Leaders:
New Learning Opportunities With Interactive Formats And Small Group Roundtable discussions for selected CIOs from the Top 150 law firms.

6. Maximise Bottom -Line Impact With Minimum Cost And Time Disruption: The New Legal IT Forum 2010 will give you a cost-effective one-stop shop for ensuring that you support your firm in delivering the client related strategies, service and cost controls that it needs to retain future profitability and market share.  Now For 2010, LITF Is Over Two Days And Two Nights For Maximum Content And Networking.

7. And Just 1hr 30 minutes by train from London Paddington!

We look forward to welcoming you in October back at the Marriott St Pierre.

Best regards, 

Jenny Adams,
Programme Director,
THE NEW LEGAL IT FORUM 2010
jadams@icbi.co.uk