LMS Annual Conference 2009

Wednesday, 29 April 2009, from 9am to 5.30pm
Waldorf Hilton
CPD Hours: 5.5

The Law Management Section Annual Conference 2009 will take      

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place on 29 April 2009 at the Waldorf Hilton, London.
 
The keynote speakers are Professor Stephen Mayson, director of the Legal Services Policy Institute, and Professor Richard Susskind, author and independent adviser to major professional firms. 

Themes for the day will include surviving the credit crunch - mergers and consolidation; new potential for different structures for law firms; external investment opportunities for law firms, and legal disciplinary practices.

Speakers

Nigel Haddon

Nigel Haddon is managing partner of  SAS  Daniels LLP, a five-office firm in the North West  with 130 staff . He has steered the firm through two mergers  since 2005 to its position as Cheshire's  leading full service law firm. Nigel  attended the Leading Professional Service Firms course at Harvard Business School in June 2007, and in December 2008 was elected Chair of the Law Management Section. Nigel's aim as Chair is to build on the success of LMS over the past 10 years and place leadership, planning and strategy at the centre of the Section's activities. Nigel contributed two chapters to the LMS Meger Toolkit, is a construction lawyer and a practicing arbitrator.

Professor Richard Susskind

Professor Richard Susskind OBE specialises in the future of legal services. He is an independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments. Since 1998, he has been IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He has been invited to speak in over 40 countries. He has written numerous books, including The Future of Law (OUP, 1996) , Transforming the Law (OUP, 2000), and The End of Lawyers? (OUP, 2008), and over 100 columns for The Times. He obtained his doctorate in computers and law from Balliol College, Oxford.

Professor Stephen Mayson

Professor Stephen Mayson is director of the Legal Services Policy Institute at the College of Law. He was previously director of the Centre for Law Firm Management at Nottingham Law School. A senior fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, he holds a doctorate in law firm valuation and has authored a number of books on law firm strategy.

Alison Downie

Alison Downie is a partner and head of employment at Goodman Derrick LLP in London, advising  both employers and employees in employment, discrimination and related contract and regulatory law. Her clients include law firms and other professional partnerships. She is a former managing partner of another large London law firm, and is the immediate past chair of the LMS. She is recommended as a leader in the field of employment in the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession and the Legal 500.

Kevin Rogers

Kevin Rogers, is a senior lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Hertfordshire. He lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, specifically on E-Commerce Law and Data Protection. He has published and presented widely in these areas. He has been a member of the Law Society’s Electronic Law Reference Group since 2006 and is on the executive committee for BILETA (British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association) and was the chair of the organising committee for the 22nd Annual Conference held at the University of Hertfordshire in April 2007.

Alan Hodgart

Alan is recognised as one of the leading advisers to professional services firms on strategic development and on aligning their organisation to their strategic goals. His client base includes a very wide range of firms from the quite small to some of the largest global firms. He works throughout Europe and has worked with professional firms in the UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Nordic countries, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Estonia. He has an extensive client base throughout the US and also in Asia Pacific.

Andrew Otterburn

Andrew Otterburn is a management consultant and chartered accountant at Otterburn Legal Consulting. Author of Profitability and Law Firm Management (Law Society Publishing, 2002), he provides consultancy and training to law firms on their profitability, management and future strategy and has helped several firms obtain Lexcel.

Hilary Meredith

Hilary Meredith is the senior partner and founder of two partner firm, Hilary Meredith Solicitors in Wilmslow. Employing 39 staff, the firm practices predominantly in claimant Personal Injury work. Hilary specialises in claims on behalf of the armed forces world wide. Previously she was managing partner of a 300 strong City Centre firm before setting up her own practise in 2003. In 2008 Hilary won the Medical Legal, Personal Injury Lawyer of the year, Crain’s Business Woman of the year, Inspirational Woman of the year finalist and was award Senior Fellowship status with APIL. In 2006 her firm won the Insurance Times Law Firm of the Year.

William Arthur

William Arthur is a partner with Kerma Partners, an international Management Consultancy dedicated to professional service firms: he advises on a wide range of subjects including financial strategy, through values and behaviours programmes, to leadership development. He worked for thirty years with Barclays in many senior roles, the last eight as director of professional practices, responsible for the bank’s involvement with professional businesses worldwide. On leaving Barclays three years ago he set up his own successful consulting business, and joined KermaPartners during 2008. He has, for many years, been a tutor at The Leadership Trust and he served for seven years on the committee of the Association of Partnership Practitioners, where he remains a member. Alongside his consulting activities, he is also a non-executive director of three large professional firms.

Chris Kenny

Chris Kenny is the inaugural chief executive of the Legal Services Board. His early career was in the Department of Health and the Treasury, where he held a variety of policy and management posts including Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. As Oftel's director of regulatory policy and then director of compliance between 2000 and 2003, he worked on access and competition issues and worked with industry and consumer bodies to establish the Telecoms Ombudsman. Most recently, as director of life and pensions for the Association of British Insurers, he led the industry's input into the work of the Pensions Commission and the Government's response to it and worked with Lord Hunt of Wirral on the independent review of the Financial Ombudsman Service. Chris has also held non-executive posts in the NHS and third sector.

George Bull

George Bull is head of tax at Baker Tilly. He also heads Baker Tilly’s Professional Practices Group and is primarily involved in providing leading-edge business and taxation advice to the legal profession.  Before joining Baker Tilly, George was head of the commercial services department in a law firm where he was involved in strategic decision-making as well as day-to-day management. He therefore has an understanding of business issues both from the perspective of an in-house management team and as an external client adviser.

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