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Law Society Professional Training
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135 Skillnet Members
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This conference in presented jointly by the International Bar Association and Law Society Professional Training
Aim and Objectives
The aim of this international seminar is to examine key issues pertaining to the future of practising law in Ireland. This seminar will assess different models for the practise of law, alternative fee structures to improve sustainability and performance management of staff to ensure effective and efficient delivery of legal services. This seminar is aimed at all practitioners including sole practitioners, small, medium and large firms. The seminar will facilitate interactive panel and delegate discussion. A distinguished international panel will address all questions and issues raised during these interactive sessions.
Topics to be covered include:
Successful models for the practise of law – Reinventing your law firm to compete nationally and internationally – Current Trends in Practice
Robert Millard, Law Firm Strategy Consultant
Norman Clark, Walker Clark LLC, US
- International models
- Feasibility of models to the legal and regulatory framework in Ireland
Alternative Fee Structures – Are we looking at the death of the billable hour?
Stephen Denyer, Allen & Overy LLP, Frankfurt, Germany
Tarja Wist, Managing Partner of Waselius & Wist in Helsinki, Finland
- Success billing
- Out-sourcing
- Off-shoring
- Fee negotiation
Performance Management
Martin Carrizosa, prietocarrizosa, Colombia
Lisa Walker Johnson, Walker Clark LLC, US
- Managing under performance
- Strategies to increase and maintain performance
- Work life balance
List of Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Martín Carrizosa, Managing partner of prietocarrizosa, Colombia
Martín Carrizosa is a founding partner, and currently managing partner of prietocarrizosa, one of Colombia’s largest law firms and the first major law firm in Colombia to adopt a modern career management system for its lawyers.
Martín Carrizosa has served as economic adviser and foreign affairs adviser to the President of Colombia and as senior advisor and chief of staff to Secretary General of the the Organization of American States. He has been legal adviser, member and chairman of the board of the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce and since 2001 is a recognized arbitrator of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce.
He has served as professor of civil law and contracts at the Universidad de los Andes and the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Colombia. He has been a member of the Young Presidents´ Organization (YPO) since 2001 and sits in the board of directors of several institutions, including non-profit organizations.
Norman Clark, Walker Clark LLC, US
Norman Clark is one of the founders and currently managing principal of Walker Clark, LLC, an international legal management consultancy based in the United States. He advises law firms worldwide on business strategy, partnership structure and governance issues, practice management systems, career management, and compensation systems. He is also one of the leading authorities on management and marketing for law firms in emerging economies worldwide. He has been a full-time business advisor to the legal profession for 18 years. Norman Clark is a retired member of the Pennsylvania bar. He holds B.S., J.D., and LL.M. degrees. He is a past chair of the Law Firm Management Committee of the International Bar Association. In 2003, he was elected as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, North America’s most prestigious association of senior professionals in legal management.
Stephen Denyer, Partner, Allen & Overy
Stephen is Allen & Overy's Global Markets Partner, with overall responsibility for leading and co-ordinating our approach to markets in which we do not yet have an established presence. He is also responsible for co-ordinating our relationships with associated firms and with firms in new markets with whom we may wish to establish formal ties (referral firms). In addition, he is Allen & Overy's global representative with regulatory and professional bodies such as the IBA.
From 2007 until 2009, Stephen was International Development Partner with a wide-ranging role relating to our global development. From 1997 until 2007, he was Regional Managing Partner for Europe, with overall responsibility for our continental European offices. From 2003 to 2006, he was co-managing partner of Allen & Overy's Italian offices. From 1990 until 1997, he was in charge of co-ordinating the activities of our Central and Eastern European practice group and had overall responsibility for its offices in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Moscow. He headed the Warsaw office from 1995 to 1997 and the Frankfurt office from 1998 to 2000.
His professional work has included M&A, privatisations, flotations and takeover bids in many parts of Europe. Stephen frequently chairs and speaks at conferences on a range of topics relating to law firm development and management.
Robert Millard, Law Firm Strategy Consultant
Rob is a specialist in law firm strategy based in Cambridge, England. Up until the end of 2011, he was senior strategy manager Linklaters’ strategy and business transformation team. There, his responsibilities involved a wide range of activities focused upon supporting the firm’s senior leadership in their decisions about strategic direction for Linklaters and ensuring that strategy is executed. These included assessing the relative attractiveness of different markets across the globe; assessing the firm’s competitiveness across different practice areas; helping to support decisions on where and how the firm should evolve in terms of its size and its composition; and input into developing new ways to improve the firm’s business efficiency. Prior to joining Linklaters Rob was, for seven years, a partner in a well-known international law firm consultancy. In this role, his work also frequently involved strategy work in medium sized law firms in regional markets. He serves on the IBA’s Law Firm Management Committee panel and served previously on the committee of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section. He holds an MBA degree from Henley in England and is a frequent speaker and writer on topics related to law firm strategy and management.
Lisa Walker Johnson, Walker Clark LLC, US
Lisa Walker Johnson is a founding principal of Walker Clark, LLC, an international legal management consultancy based in the United States. Her professional background is as a counselling psychologist, with more than ten years experience in senior levels of business management and human resource development, especially in banking, and more than 15 years experience consulting to law firms and corporate and government legal departments worldwide. Lisa Walker Johnson deals with some of the difficult, complicated problems of legal practice management, performance, and leadership. She is also an expert on business planning and implementation enterprise-wide, by business unit or practice specialty, and at the individual level. Lisa has published extensively in these areas and appears frequently at major international conferences of legal professionals.
Tarja Wist, Managing Partner of Waselius & Wist in Helsinki, Finland
Tarja Wist joined the firm in 1997 and her practice areas are Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions. She is a member of the Finnish Bar Association, the Securities and Finance Law Expert Group, the International Bar Association and is co-chair of the Banking Law Committee. She has been recommended as a leading lawyer in the fields of Banking and Finance and Capital Markets by Chambers Europe and also by IFLR1000 and the Euromoney Legal experts in the field of capital markets and M & A and project finance.
She was previously a member of the Legislative Working Group for the Securities Law Reform 2009; a Member of the Legislative Working Group for the Implementation of the Takeover Directive 2004-2005 and was Secretary to the Legislative Commission for Securities Market Legislation from 1990 to 1993.