General

Order of play

2:30pm to 2:45pm Arrive in good time

2:45pm to 2:55pm Take your seat in the auditorium

3pm to 5pm 'Obtaining value from industry insight and connections' including presentations with insight from PwC, Briefing, Microsoft, BT Tikit, PCA Law

PwC's Law Firms' Survey 2018
PwC's Law Firms' Survey takes an in-depth view of larger UK based law firms, focusing on areas such as financial performance, business service functions, people, working capital and risk. This presentation will focus on business services, looking at how this function is run, changes in technology and how business services can support fee earners moving forward.
Leon Hutchinson, Senior manager, PwC

Review of Legal IT Landscapes 2018 report
Briefing's flagship Legal IT Landscapes report asks IT and operational leaders at top-100 law firms how a mass of potential technology priorities are changing. Firms can easily compare and contrast their strategic choices for 2018 with the hopes and fears of the wider market. The report also includes our annual analysis of how technologies themselves compare when it comes to the likely boosts in internal efficiency and market competitiveness firms can expect. Rupert will give you a whistle-stop tour of the report and the key highlights.
Rupert Collins-White, Editor, Briefing magazine, Burlington Media Group

Growing together: Working with partners to bring innovative and specialist solutions to our clients
Katherine talks through how partners are central to the Tikit strategy and they are identified, selected and bought onboard. They’ve been a key part of the Tikit portfolio since Tikit was formed, complementing the own IP software and services. She’ll talk about what has worked well with partners and what has been learnt along the way.
Katherine Ainley, MD Better World and Tikit

Microsoft’s new commercial model focussing on legal customers and partners
Microsoft has been through its own digital transformation and now has industry focused teams aligned to both customers and partners

• Commercial model and legal industry focus
• Partner model - how to build, market and sell with Microsoft
• Legal Industry observations

Matt O'Callaghan, sales manager, Microsoft

5pm to 7pm Relocate to The Happenstance in Paternoster Square for building your network, meeting new faces and greeting old ones.

We've no restrictions on who should or shouldn't come. Whether you're the CEO, managing director, sales director, marketing manager, project manager or a consultant - if your role or company is engaging with people in law firms - then we'd like to think there's a good reason for you to show up - after all, how often does anyone do an event just for you?!

In the last few years, we've had over 150 different suppliers in the legal market represented, including;

If you are available on the day and would like to come along, please register now in the top right of this page and let us know.