On 25 September 2019, The Lawyer and more than 120 managing partners, CEOs and top-level business services leaders will gather at the Business Leadership Summit to spend a day focusing on defining your law firm strategy in a tech-driven future.
The Lawyer’s In-house Counsel as Business Partner conference is an event where in-house lawyers can enhance their ability to meet the wider demands of their organisation, support their professional development needs and benchmark with their peers.
BE PART OF THE CHANGE
Recent years have seen a tremendous shift in almost all aspects of the UK legal services sector, but few have been more tangible than the transformation of senior marketing roles. What was once seen, somewhat disparagingly, as a ‘back office’ position is now taking its place shoulder to shoulder with the leading firms’ most senior rainmakers.
Law firms are finally waking up to the fact that marketing makes money. Not all, however, have quite yet cottoned on to precisely how. Most firms now recognise that as they and their clients grapple with the realities of digital transformation, the specialists leading this thinking are unlikely to be lawyers.
The Lawyer Awards are the leading awards initiative within the legal calendar and are unquestionably the largest celebration of legal excellence in Europe. Bringing together over 1,200 private practice lawyers and senior corporate counsel, the Awards reward best practice and celebrate excellence across the whole industry.
From keeping abreast of potential risks, to discussing prevention and compliance tactics as well as tackling the latest dispute resolution challenges, the event delivers an unrivalled platform for education and networking.
The Lawyer European Awards was the first initiative of its kind to reward and celebrate excellence across the European legal market. The awards scheme attracts entries form over 120 independent law firms headquartered in Europe and global firm across the Continent.
Shaping up to be the Financial Sector’s must-attend event, this 1-day conference is the perfect opportunity for in-house lawyers and compliance professionals to share their challenges in implementing the latest regulatory change, to understand how companies and industries are affected in practice by the new regulation and to benchmark with 90 of their peers.
Mills & Reeve’s managing partner Claire Clarke speaks to The Lawyer ahead of her panel discussion at the Business Leadership Summit, addressing the distinctions between the ‘then’ and ‘now’ lawyers. What do you think the solution is to the ‘talent crisis’ the industry is currently experiencing? First, it’s important to try to understand some of the causes of […]
Matheson’s innovation manager Tom Connor explains his big prediction of where the future of legal technology will lead us and how the design function will be the next seat at the table, ahead of his panel debate around AI at the Business Leadership Summit. Do clients have unrealistic expectations of AI capabilities? The legal industry […]
Zopa senior counsel Victoria Matthews talks to The Lawyer ahead of her panel discussion at the In-house Counsel as Business Partner in Association with EY conference, explaining what sets in-house apart from the rest of the legal market. What is your one prediction for the progression of in-house lawyers? In-house lawyers deliver the best advice […]
Ashurst Digital Ventures partner and co-CEO Tara Waters talks to The Lawyer about whether digitalisation is a good thing for the future of the legal profession.
Ahead of the Business Leadership Summit, professor Claire McGourlay from The University of Manchester talks about preparing graduates for the world of law.
Laura Bygrave, Deloitte Legal’s new innovation lead talks to The Lawyer about the impact of AI on the legal industry and having more realistic conversations of AI capabilities, ahead of her session at the Business Leadership Summit on 25th September. Do you think the introduction of AI solutions will eventually decrease the number of employees […]
Clifford Chance has been crowned Law Firm of the Year 2019 after triumphing at The Lawyer Awards last night. The firm scooped the coveted award after a stellar 12 months defined by a swathe of activity relating to technology and people management. Combining those two areas, it launched the profession’s first ‘lawtech training contract’ leading […]
The full shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers, has been released, celebrating the best of private practice, in-house and the Bar. This year, over 60 judges from across the industry debated entries from law firms, companies and barristers chambers. Our judging panel includes BT general counsel Sabine Chalmers, Rosenblatt CEO Nicola […]
Are law firms missing a trick when it comes to the use of technology? The first panel session at this year’s Business Leadership Summit will suggest that the answer to that question is ‘yes’.
The inaugural The Lawyer Marketing Leadership Summit, held on a sparkling June day at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel and Spa, gathered together more than 70 of the leading minds in marketing and business development (BD) across the legal services industry to future gaze and network. The event brought together some of the most perceptive, […]
At the end of May, 20 leading managing partners gathered at 1 Lombard Street in the City of London, with the future of law playing a key part of the conversation. LexisNexis, which ran the debate with The Lawyer, coincidentally has as its tagline, “The Future of Law. Since 1818”, with the landscape drastically changing […]
London is rich in talent at the bar, and the sets shortlisted for this year’s Chambers of the Year category have shown considerable acumen in growing their businesses. Commercial and employment set 11KBW has seen significant financial growth over the past five years, with a particularly strong performance in 2018 when it predicted an increase […]
Tonight, in-house teams, City firms and regional practices will battle it out at The Lawyer Awards 2019. There’s a new category – City firm of the year – in which the London offices of eight firms will compete to win the prize. Here’s a rundown of why they’re shortlisted. Dentons is the world’s largest law […]
Restructuring and banking-related deals account for the majority of this year’s shortlisted finance entries at The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers. Insolvencies, liquidations or – in some cases, rescues – have been the talk of the town over the last 12 months, particularly in the retail sector. One of the first significant company […]
The Business Services Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, is among the most hotly contested.
The offshore market continues to go from strength-to-strength and this year’s shortlist showcases a truly outstanding array of talent. Another strong year for Appleby saw its corporate work lead the way, with its Hong Kong office advising on 51 IPOs in 2018 for a combined total of HK$9.5bn. Arguably its headline deal saw the firm […]
The finalists for the category of in-house TMT team of the year at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, have deployed cutting-edge legal thinking and operational canniness in response to a fast-moving regulatory and technological environment.
The Pro Bono Initative of the Year is always one of the most hotly-contested accolades at The Lawyer Awards, sponsored by Travelers, and once again judges had to grapple with an extremely high-quality shortlist. Dentons’ work alongside client NatWest with the National Centre for Domestic Violence won plaudits from the judges, who commended “a great […]
The retail and consumer goods sector plays a prominent role in this year’s corporate shortlist at The Lawyer Awards, sponsored by Travelers. One of the major talking points of this year has been Sports Direct’s acquisitive streak, particularly taking aim at in-trouble department stores. House of Fraser was one such staple of the high street, […]
Ahead of The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers, we’re looking back on some of the most complex or legally significant cases of the last 12 months, as eight teams vie for the top prize in this year’s litigation category. In a case that has been rumbling on since 2012, a joint team of […]
