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Registration & Expo Hall Open
LawFest 22 Opening
Helen Mackay, Director, Juno Legal & LawFest MC
Premium Partner Welcome
Jennifer Cathcart, Regional Manager – Asia Pacific, Netdocuments
Developing an Innovative Mindset
Frances Valintine CNMZ, Founder, Tech Futures Lab
In this keynote address, Frances shares her expertise in creating a mindset that is adaptable and embraces change. Given our futures are tech based, she explores the importance of collaborating and continuing to learn as our customers are changing and so do their needs. Discover practical tips to help you with your innovation initiatives and prepare you for now and the future. Be inspired and empowered to take risks, step off the conveyor belt, think originally, and lead with possibility – creating greater value for your clients.
Accelerating your legal team’s digital transformation
Marlo-Osborne Smith and Eric Chin, Directors, NewLaw – PwC
The pace and degree of digital transformation was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology budget restrictions loosened as digital adoption took a quantum leap and lawyers and corporate counsel transitioned to remote working. This shift presents a generational opportunity for us to move the legal industry into the digital age. Marlo and Eric will provide powerful frameworks, strategies and solutions to help you shape and accelerate your legal team’s digital transformation journey and share their hard-won learnings from other corporate services transformation projects.
The Pitch
Rapid-fire 60 second elevator pitches showcasing our major partners
Morning Tea
Māori Transformational Leadership: a Journey as an Agent of Change
Juliet Tainui-Hernandez, Assistant Governor & General Manager of Transformation and People at Te Pūtea Matua, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
After two decades building her legal career internationally, Juliet Tainui Hernandez returned to Aotearoa to take up a pivotal role leading transformation, people and culture at Te Pūtea Matua (The Reserve Bank), while also serving as a non-executive director on the Board of Ngāi Tahu Holdings. In this inspiring session, she talks about her career journey, contributing to her iwi, and using Te Ao Māori to support financial and economic inclusion.
The Power of Wellbeing – Rewriting our Social Contract in a Post-pandemic WorldClive Elliott QC Barrister & Arbitrator, Shortland ChambersThe legal profession plays a critical role in maintaining the fabric of civil society, by upholding the rule of law and helping to resolve conflicts. However, unprecedented social change and technology is challenging almost everything we stand for. We need to understand what is driving this process so we can remain ahead of the curve and provide leadership and advocate for positive change. In this session, Clive provides a blueprint for how individuals, communities and humanity as a whole can flourish and thrive in the rapidly changing and unsettling post pandemic world and make a difference. |
Privacy, Trust & Technology: Innovation with Accountability
Moderator:
- Susan Bennett, Founder & Executive Director, InfoGovANZ
Panellists:
- Sarah Auva’a, Lead Digital Trust Partner, Spark New Zealand
- Emma Maconick, Head of Data and Technology, EY Law
With the rapid innovation in technology and growth in the internet of things (IOT), comes enormous opportunities to deliver value. On the flip side, relentless cyberattacks, rising data breaches and changing global privacy regulations require organisations to mitigate increasing risks and costs. Panellists will discuss how they apply robust governance to drive regulatory compliant processes, socially and ethically responsible actions to enable consumer and citizen trust both in businesses and government. This wide-ranging discussion will answer critical questions including what is privacy-by-design and security-by-design, why trust and ethics matter, how good governance can help mitigate risk and how to make the business case for investment in privacy and governance projects.
Lunch
Law Firm Focus Stream
Practical Design – Delivering Projects for Law FirmsPractical Design – Delivering Projects for Law Firms
- Sara Rayment, Principal, Inkling Design
In this interactive session, Sara will discuss the power of legal design to help you and your team explore the unknown and the importance of cognitive diversity for successful project implementation. Drawing on use cases and example projects, Sara will illustrate how legal design can be used to deliver practical and meaningful change within law firms.
In-house Focus Stream
In-house innovation stories from the coal face
Moderator:
- Sam Kidd, Panel Facilitator and CEO, LawVu
Panellists:
- Hayley Evans, Chief Legal Advisor, Ministry of Social Development
- Hayley Cassidy, Chief General Counsel, BNZ
- Katie Bhreatnach, Executive Leader and Director, Atua Matua
Leading in-house lawyers share their personal innovation war stories, outlining the key strategies, tactics and tools they have adopted to drive change in their departments and organisations. Discover what worked (and what didn’t) plus the challenges they overcame along the way. You are guaranteed to find something you can take away and implement in your own team! This is a highly interactive session enabling delegates to discuss further with these in-house experts.
Tech Talks Stream
AI and Investigative and Litigation Strategies
- George Socha, Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness, Reveal
George Socha and Professor Bill Hamilton of the University of Florida Levin College of Law teach a twice-yearly course at the law school on AI and investigative and litigation strategies. Join George Socha as he covers the highlights of the course in a session tailored to New Zealand and across the region.
AI in legal practice: Benefit or risk?
- Rebecca Grant, Founder & CEO, iCourts
When considering whether to use AI during your document review, it is vital you are cognisant of both the risks and the benefits inherent in such technology. In this session, we will teach you about the potential risks associated with AI including errors and biases. We will also demonstrate the range of benefits AI can offer including time and cost-saving and improved QA through a series of case studies focussed on RelativityOne’s AI capability – Active Learning.
Responding to data breaches
- Daniel Kavan, Director – Litigation/Cyber Incident Response, Integreon
When a cyber attack results in a breach of sensitive data, responding quickly, completely, and correctly is essential to protect an organisation’s brand and bottom line. This session reflects on New Zealand’s mandatory data breach reporting regime under Privacy Act 2020, as well as parallel requirements in other jurisdictions that New Zealand businesses are likely to be impacted by, and considers the best ways to use technology to respond to these regulatory requirements in the event of a breach.
Break – Expo Hall Break
Law Firm Focus Stream
Working Differently
Moderator:
- Ben Paul, Founder & Director, The BD Ladder
Panellists:
- Suzie Sneddon, Founder & Director, Base Law
- Sean Bishop, Chief Digital Officer, Chapman Tripp
- Elise O’Halloran, Senior Solicitor, Tavendale and Partners
- Laura Scampion, Managing Partner, DLA Piper
The way legal service are delivered has been in a constant state of evolution, as law firms looked to disrupt the traditional model in order to achieve competitive advantage and adapt to the rapidly changing environment. In this session, leading legal innovators talk about how they are working differently, sharing their bold, creative and exciting strategies that set them apart. In this highly-interactive session, you will gain practical insights on how and where they started, what their future looks like as they continue to embrace a ‘work-differently’ mindset and discuss how you can successfully leverage technology to transform your business processes and practices with our expert panellists.
In-house Focus Stream
Practical Design – Delivering Projects for In-House Legal
- Ben Paul, Founder & Director, The BD Ladder
Panellists:
- Sara Rayment, Principal, Inkling Design
In this interactive session, Sara will discuss the power of legal design to help you and your team explore the unknown and the importance of cognitive diversity for successful project implementation. Drawing on use cases and example projects, Sara will illustrate how legal design can be used to deliver practical and meaningful change within in-house teams.
Tech Talks Stream
Beyond Static Content: How to use online assessments to attract new clients and referrers
- Paul Evans, Managing Director, Toro Digital
A walkthrough of real-life examples of law firms using online assessment tools as an effective way to market their practice. In this session, you will discover how to effectively leverage online assessments to drive growth for your firm.
Digital transformation vs Ransomware: is going back to paper the data security answer?
- John van Rooyen, Global Sales Director, Fileman
Law firms are globally struggling to keep their clients’ data safe in cyberspace while managing the impact of decentralised workplaces. The headlines proclaim how cybercriminals are exploiting the work from home culture to ransom data and breach privacy. Fortunately, an old forgotten analogue friend is disrupting the lucrative ransomware industry with innovative countermeasures to protect your data. Join us for an inspirational talk on how to accelerate your digital transformation journey securely offline.
Afternoon Tea
New Law: What Is It And How To Prepare For It?
Mark A. Cohen, CEO Legal Mosaic & Executive Chairman of the Digital Legal Exchange
“New law” is a catchall industry term popularized in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. It is often linked to “legal tech,” “legal ops,” “ALSP’s,” and “legal innovation.” Each is usually considered discretely, not as part of a larger change process. That begs the question: Has new law produced changes that positively impact customers and society? Short answer: not much. So what is New Law?
This talk will examine its key elements and how legal professionals can prepare for it.
The Wrap
Helen Mackay, Director, Juno Legal & LawFest MC
Registration & Expo Hall Open
Helen Mackay, Director, Juno Legal & LawFest MC
Jennifer Cathcart, Regional Manager – Asia Pacific, Netdocuments
Nick Abrahams, Global Co-Leader, Digital Transformation Practice,
Norton Rose Fulbright
The legal industry is on the verge of a transformative change with the advent of AI technologies like ChatGPT. Lawyers must adopt a progressive mindset and embrace the benefits of AI to stay competitive. AI presents opportunities for lawyers to maximize their efficiency by streamlining certain tasks, including legal research, document review, and contract analysis. With AI, lawyers can finally do more with less.
Nick will guide you through the process of choosing the right AI technology for your legal tasks, integrating it into your workflow and balancing AI with human expertise. You’ll also gain valuable insights into ethical considerations and best practices for using AI, ensuring that data privacy and security are always protected.
He will also cover The AI timeline. It is coming to the legal industry sooner than expected, which AI solution is right for your needs; the skills lawyers will need to develop to be successful in the new AI-driven world, which organisations and types of lawyers will benefit quickest and what AI cannot do.
This session will equip you with the latest knowledge to help elevate your productivity and client service by unlocking the full potential of AI.
Callum McKirdy, Author and Facilitator, Callummckirdy.com
Lawyers are a special breed – hard working, analytical and studious. We also know the legal profession is one of the least healthy – high stakes, high expectations and high stress. One of the greatest pressures is the need to fit in, which is proven to stifle innovation. In this keynote we’ll look at how we can build a team culture that harnesses what comes naturally – making the best use of where team members differ, rather than simply trying to be the same.
Rapid-fire 60 second elevator pitches showcasing our major partners
Morning Tea
Carl White , Director of NewLaw, PwC
We all know what fantastic service looks, sounds and feels like – and we want more of it. Your clients do too. They’ll make decisions about whether to engage, retain and recommend your firm based on their legal experience and perception of value. Client Experience (“CX”) has become a much-used term in the legal sector. Realising the full potential of innovating CX to meet and exceed expectations and “wow” your clients is the focus of this engaging presentation from the recognised leader of CX in law, Carl White.
Jon Calder, CEO, Tompkins Wake
Jon will take us on his personal journey from baggage loader to Chief Executive of one of the largest law firms in New Zealand. He will share his approach to leadership, and explain how implementing people-first, values-driven culture has enabled Tompkins Wake’s success and positioned the firm to adapt and succeed in 2023 and beyond.
Verity White, Legal Director, Checklist Legal
Are you tired of the same old legal practices? You might be ready for law plus more.
Discover a whirlwind of possibilities as we explore the motley crew of rebel lawyers who are breaking away from the stale approaches of the past to create better solutions for clients and a more valuable legal career. Gain valuable tools and tips on how to incorporate social and environmental considerations (as well as fun and passion!) into your lawyering, while also delivering top-notch legal services to clients.
Be inspired to rebel and get results!
Lunch
Working differently
Moderator:
- Ben Paul, Founder & Director, The BD Ladder
Panellists:
- Jacque Lethbridge, Partner, Martelli McKegg
- Janey Haringa, Principal, JH LAW
- Nick Abrahams, Global Co-leader Digital Transformation Practice, Norton Rose Fulbright
- Ben McLaren, COO, Russell McVeagh
The way legal services are delivered has been in a constant state of evolution, as law firms look to disrupt the traditional model to achieve competitive advantage and adapt to the rapidly changing environment. In this session, leading legal innovators talk about how they are working differently, sharing their bold, creative and exciting strategies that set them apart.
In this highly-interactive session, you will gain practical insights on how to embrace a ‘work-differently’ mindset and learn how you can successfully leverage technology to transform your business processes and practices.
Artificial Intelligence: A buyer’s guide for law firms
- Matt Farrington, Legal Technologist, Juno Legal
What do lawyers need to know before the AI hype train leaves the station with their clients on board?
We have all heard how AI might change the practice of law and the delivery of legal services. But AI also has the potential to profoundly change how we contract for technology.
In this highly practical session, Matt provides a step-by-step guide for law firms on buying the right AI tools for use in your organisation.
Artificial Intelligence: A buyer’s guide for in-house legal
Matt Farrington, Legal Technologist, Juno Legal
What do lawyers need to know before the AI hype train leaves the station with their clients on board?
We have all heard how AI might change the practice of law and the delivery of legal services. But AI also has the potential to profoundly change how we contract for technology.
In this highly practical session, Matt provides a step-by-step guide for in-house lawyers on buying the right AI tools for use in your organisation.
In-house innovation stories from the coal face
Moderator:
- Helen Mackay, Director, Juno Legal
Panellists:
- Sarah Retter, General Counsel and Head of Legal NZ, Fujitsu New Zealand
- Fiona Shine, Head of Legal & Company Secretary, Airways New Zealand
- Sam McQuilkan, Executive Manager, Legal, IAG
Leading in-house lawyers share their personal innovation war stories, outlining the key strategies, tactics and tools they have adopted to drive change in their departments and organisations.
Discover what worked (and what didn’t) plus the challenges they overcame along the way. You are guaranteed to find something you can take away and implement in your own team! This is a highly interactive session enabling delegates to discuss further with these in-house experts.
From Slack attack to Zoom booms
- Cat Casey, Chief Growth Officer, Reveal
This session discusses the complexity of navigating the evolving data landscape facing legal professionals today and highlights the unique challenges of a typical data sources in short form of communication. Join us to discover best practices for incorporating emerging data types into your legal practice.
Technology deflation, automation, and AI…. Oh my!
- Ben Kennedy, Founder & Managing Director, adio
Technology continues its relentless advance and is unsettling all manner of professions. This session will delve into technology deflation, it’s impact on litigation service providers, expected changes in service integration, and how the discerning litigant can benefit.
Three smart ways to upgrade your paperless office
- John van Rooyen, Global Sales Director, Fileman
Upgrade your paperless office with DataJo, the 3-in-1 platform that combines the benefits of FileMan, LegalStore, and BundlePro into a single one-off disbursement.
Embrace the power of digital transformation, protect sensitive information, and enhance productivity while adhering to New Zealand’s legal requirements. It’s time to upgrade your law firm’s performance – partner with us to reap the benefits of smart information management.
What crisis of complexity?
- David Woodnorth, Managing Director, ComplyWith
The law’s complexity is nothing new. So how and why is there now a ‘crisis of complexity’, and how is the heat being turned up on this crisis?
Discover how championing simplicity as a competitive advantage in the legal sector is bringing big opportunities for success. And how having empathy, striving for clarity, distilling your message, and utilising technology can help give your customers and stakeholders the clarity they crave and value.
Cloud Cybersecurity: Identifying and Mitigating Prevalent Cyber Threats
- Michael Mountain, Director, Oneconsult
Oneconsult New Zealand will address common Microsoft cloud security challenges and explore the typical techniques cybercriminals use to infiltrate cloud infrastructure. This presentation will feature hacking demonstrations to illustrate these exploits.
Acquire vital knowledge on robust strategies to reinforce your organization’s defenses against cyber-attacks. This session will discuss up-to-date security practices, crucial tools, and suggest configurations to shield your organization from cloud-related threats.
Afternoon Tea
Melissa Lyon, Executive Director, Hive Legal
The mega design sprint is a not to be missed, hands-on opportunity to collaborate with all stakeholders involved in legal service delivery from law firms and in-house lawyers, and everyone in between- to address the things that hold us back.
Switch on your creativity, power up your brain and discover the joy of innovating together to design practical solutions to the most challenging of problems.