Conference opening.

Opening remarks of the general partner and organizers

Legal&Business: how legal practices and technologies make a change in a business

Legal support is an integral part of any business on all operational stages from registration to liquidation. Today it is a well-known fact that improving efficiency of legal services helps business development and makes it more productive. There is a demand for high-quality legal practices and technological solutions in this area, while growing supply is already available on the market.

Business community and industry sector representatives, investors and state officials will gather at the Forbes panel discussion “Legal & Business: How Legal Practices and Technologies Develop Business” to discuss specific cases and general trends in Russia and the world.

Moderator: Nikolay Uskov, editorial Director of Forbes Russia

Speakers:
Alexander Konovalov, minister of Justice of the Russian Federation

Mikhail Galperin, representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation

Igor Drozdov, chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation

Elena Borisenko, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, GPB Bank (JSC)

Elena Avakian, executive director at Non-Commercial Partnership "Assistance to corporate legislation development"

Victor Biryukov, executive Vice President for Legal & Corporate Affairs, Beeline

Ruslan Ibragimov, member of the Management Board, Vice President for Government and Public Relations at MTS

Pavel Klimov, Chair Technology and Law Committee, The Law Society of England and Wales

“The Law Department as a Competitive Advantage and What In-House Counsel Want From their Law Firm Partners”

Speaker:

Ari Kaplan (USA), attorney and lawyer, analyst, and honoree of the Fastcase 50 award for Legal Innovators. A research associate of The College of Law Practice Management and a finalist of The International Legal Technology Association’s Thought Leader of the Year award.

Ari is the author of books on business management:

• Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011);
• The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016).

Deloitte Expert session “How and why launch LegalTech?”

Speakers:

Thomas Northoff – Deloitte Legal Global Digital Leader and Leader of the Gobal Innovation Workstream

Anna Kostyra – Managing partner at Deloitte Legal CIS

Sergei Emelchenkov – Member of the Management Board, Deputy General Director for Information Technologies and Development of Digital Services at JSC Post of Russia

Launching Legal Tech: European best practices in analysing corporate functions

Are corporate lawyers ready to collaborate with their peers from other business functions? Can we develop a universal cooperation matrix?

We invite you to discuss how analysing the corporate legal function may help assess its efficiency and prepare it for optimisation across multiple planes – the organisational, procedural, and digital. The Legal should be keeping abreast of the business as a whole as it is transforming.

Deloitte Legal will present an overview of the Russian and global practices to all those who contemplate modernising their corporate legal functions to tackle the existing and future challenges.

“FLIP: New Law business model approach”

Speaker:

Paul Neo (Singapore), Chief Operating Officer of Singapore Academy of Law (SAL)

Singapore has always been distinguished by its development speed and innovation approach. The unique SAL-powered acceleration program for the development of LegalTech companies was launched in 2019. This accelerate enables law firms and consulting companies to open the research centers, integrate technical solution into their businesses and transform their services through innovations.

Legal Stories Session

Attendees:
LegalTech Laboratory ELS Tech, resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. LegalTech Laboratory ELS Tech will present the solutions in machine learning, tailored for legal and tax consulting practice.
Legium is a platform for making blockchain-powered online transactions. Winner of the the Legal Sentence competition at the Skolkovo LegalTech 2017 conference
Online Patent, resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the largest IP Management system in Russia and a part of the IPCHAIN infrastructure.
PLATFORMA is the first litigation financing service in Russia. Winner of the Young Guard competition at the Skolkovo LegalTech 2017 conference

"Trend review in the European market"

Speaker:

Tobias Heining (Germany), president of The European Legal Tech Association (ELTA), director for business development of CMS Hasche Sigle

The Paragraph Magazine: "The skills of effective team leaders"
Moderators:
Anton Pronin, Director of Legal Technologies Development of the Skolkovo Foundation
Olga Demidova, Publisher of The Paragraph Magazine, Producer of legal events, Headhunter-Legalholic, Legal Career Advisor

16.50 – 17.05
"The skills of legal team leaders"
Presenting research results of The Paragraph and Skolkovo LegalTech to illustrate the skills required of today’s lawyers and legal team leaders
Speaker:
Olga Demidova, Publisher of The Paragraph Magazine, Legal Conference Producer, Headhunter Legalholic, Legal Career Advisor

17.05 – 17.30
"Organizational skills every legal department should have”

On the example of different organizational forms of legal function
Speakers:

Anastasia Shkarina, Director of Legal Services Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Member of the Management Board at Unilever

Yulia Popelyasheva, The Chief Legal Officer at Yandex

Valery Sidnev, Director of Legal Affairs and member of board of directors of MCC EuroChem (Russia), member of managing board of «AB Lifosa» (Lithuania)

17.30 – 17.55
“The habit of improving your work” On the example of LEAN/6 Sigma
Speakers:

Alexander Gorlov, Director of the Moscow branch of GAZ group managing company, former Director for Legal Affairs at the Russian Machines Corporation

Polina Lebedeva, Director of Legal Affairs, PJSC ROSBANK

Alexey Nikiforov, Director, Legal Support, Intellectual Property, SIBUR Holding tender committee

17:55 - 18:20 “The skill of Networking!” Networking workshop of Ari Kaplan (Ari Kaplan, USA)

Picture gallery, snacks and light_none alcoholic beverages.

Black Edition Party: the most iconic songs of all time.