Key Themes & Highlights of The Legal IT Forum 2009 Included:

1. BIG PICTURE STRATEGIC FOCUS ON THE CLIENT: PRICING, SERVICE & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
    
   With new research from one of the industry’s leading strategists, Alan Hodgart, H4 CONSULTANCY, you have the opportunity to understand the changing Legal Business’s Client Pricing Model and its implications for your wider business. Commenting on such momentous industry developments we give you feedback from the most influential,  top legal business leaders such as Keith Wood, CEO, SJ Berwin and Alan Jenkins, Chairman, EVERSHEDS on the strategies they perceive need to be undertaken in order to meet changing client demands for price and service. In addition we will shortly be announcing a major in-house counsel from a top financial institution giving the client’s perspective. In conjunction a new series of sessions on SmartSolutions From The Business- Need Perspective, looks at the practicalities of Optimising Business-Wide Customer Intelligence from the CIO perspective with industry experts such as Derek Southall, WRAGGE & CO.  For you this means that we examine in depth, not just the big picture, but also precisely how and where strategic technology can help deliver these new business objectives and enhance business-wide customer intelligence and response.
   

2. COST–EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO MAINTAIN FIRM PROFITABILITY: NEW RESEARCH ON LPO STRATEGIES AND CLOUD COMPUTING COST BENEFITS
   
   The flip side of changing client demands is the re-examination of firm-wide costs and determining the best  long-term strategies to maintain profitability. We deliver the first comprehensive newest cross-industry analysis of the current and likely future extent and implications of Legal Process Outsourcing Strategies by Olivier Chaduteau, Managing Partner,  DAY ONE. Followed by a unique CIO Feedback Panel looking at Identifying Lowest –Cost Multi-sourcing Strategies and how technology can support LPO strategy to create lowest cost solutions across the business while meeting increasing complex client demands. Janet Day, IT Director BERWIN LEIGHTON PAISNER leads the session with other top practitioners such as John Le Huquet, IT Director, BIRCHAM DYSON BELL LLP and Andrew Powell, IT Director, NABARRO. We are also very lucky to be profiling a brand new objective analysis of the broader economics of cloud–computing and virtualisation across both client industries and the legal sector by Collaborative Technology expert, & Davos’ Technology Pioneer 2008, Robert E Levin, EMERGING STAR TECHNOLOGIES. Backed up by an expert CIO panel discussing the practicalities of applying cloud computing strategies and the quantifiable cost benefits to your business
   

3. RE-ENERGISE PROBLEM SOLVING: INSIGHTS FROM PARALLEL INDUSTRIES: VENTURE CAPITAL TECHNOLOGIES HORIZON 2025 TO ONLINE SECURITY AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
   
   We also bring you the most pertinent practitioners and thought-leaders from outside the industry whose experiences can be a catalyst fro your own problem solving. For example re-think your security issues – take Cyber Terrorism Strategy from Professor Hagai Segal, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY – a new look at the cutting edge management of national security issues from online threats, to Tech Venture Capitalist guru EMERGING STAR TECHNOLOGIES on the technologies that are going to be transforming clients’ industries and businesses in Horizon 2025 - plus hear at the Professional Services Interview, how the CIO of DELOITTES approaches the big strategic issues of a global accounting firm under transition, and cross-industry Case Studies from both pharmaceutical and professional service sectors on Social Networking as an in-house collaborative tool from social networking expert, Lee Bryant, MD and Founder HEADSHIFT.