Speaking of interesting conferences in New York, on Monday, February 1st, from 1:00–5:00 pm, LexisNexis is hosting a “Business of Law” Symposium at the New York Hilton, Sixth Avenue @ 53rd Street, home of the annual LegalTech confab, which this flies under the flag of.
Why do I mention it?
Because I’m giving the keynote, called Economic & Strategic Perspectives on the Current Environment, and I’ll also be moderating the three subsequent hour-long panels, on:
- Knowledge Management: How technology can drive competitive differentiation.
- New Structures for the New World?: Addressing what components of the conventional law firm business model might need to change, including:
- Associate career paths
- Alternative fee and billing models
- Revenue and profitability models
- Lateral recruitment, and improving the batting average, and
- Law student recruiting–taking on the NALP menace
- Future Strategies: If growth for growth’s sake is no longer the universal solvent we once perceived it to be, what new strategies are plausible, effective, and needed in the marketplace?
If I may say so, we’ve also recruited some top-drawer talent for the panels, including Harry Trueheart, Chairman of Nixon Peabody, Bill Bachman, Chief Operating Officer of Bingham McCutchen, Sally King, Regional Chief Operating Officer of Clifford Change, Aric Press of The American Lawyer, David Lat of Above the Law, Oz Benamram, Chief Knowledge Officer at White & Case,and Saul Rosenberg, Director, Knowledge Operations, McKinsey & Company–as well as many talented others.
Bonus for attendees: Audience members will be given wireless polling devices allowing you to vote anonymously and see the results displayed in charts at the front screen in real time. Accordingly, each session will feature several questions for the audience designed to enlighten, or perhaps uncover latent inconsistencies in attitudes.
There’s no special charge for the event: More info here.
Hope to see you there!
