Opening remarks of the general partner and organizers

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

Speaker:

Ari Kaplan (USA), attorney and legal industry analyst, Fastcase 50 honoree, College of Law Practice Management fellow, finalist for ILTA’s Thought Leader of the Year award, and a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher.

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).

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.

Save the date: join Deloitte Legal’s master class on 29 November 2019 at Skolkovo’s LegalTech. Black Edition conference. Our team will demonstrate the potential of high-capacity legal tech solutions.

Deloitte’s experts will show how routine operations can be automated, how robots can be used to monitor contractual deadlines and notify the stakeholders, how AI can support automation of vendor risk monitoring and generate batch reports for the authorities, and, last but not least, how to set up chat bots for quick legal queries.

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.

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

Speaker:

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

16:50 – 18:20
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)

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