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LawAhead Hub is an open and collaborative system designed to create a visionary international legal community formed by law firms, law schools, businesses and change agents that shape the legal world. The aim of our community is to explore the trends, causes and consequences of the profound global transformations that are redefining the delivery of legal services.
LawAhead Hub events engage both practitioners and leading legal scholars and fosters thoughtful analysis and rich debates which revolve around new trends on three main axes:
DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES
The activity and discussions will focus on the design, strategy and contribution in the delivery of legal advice, redefining the relationship with the client (new challenges and needs of in-house legal practice), the work dynamic from client to partner and the joint construction of solutions and new pricing models.
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Pricing Legal Services
Pricing Legal Services
In this seminar, members discuss the following topics:
- How clients buy services
- The impact of price on profit
- How to negotiate price
- The tactics of pricing
- How to deal with procurement
- How to justify higher prices
- Alternative fees
After 25 years of experience as a partner in an American firm, Kevin became managing partner at Møller Professional Service Firms Group based at Churchill College (Cambridge University), focusing his interest on consulting, mainly on pricing and business development. In addition, Kevin is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and has devised cases with other professors that are used regularly at Harvard Law School.
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Business areas
Business areas
In this seminar, members discuss the following topics:
- Areas of expertise, new departments that respond and adapt to the client quickly and flexibly.
- New markets
Moray works with partner and leadership groups as they review their options for growth then put that into practice. He also assists global firms as they enter new markets. Over recent years, he has worked extensively in fast-moving markets such as Africa, India and Latin America.
Moray was the inaugural Chair of the Strategy Group of the IBA´s Law Firm Management Committee. He recently became the President of the Advisory Board of Law Without Walls a global forum bringing together law firms, law faculties and business schools, investors and alternative legal providers to address change and innovation within legal services.
New Relationship with clients.
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New Relationship with the Client
New Relationship with the Client
In this seminar, members discuss the following topics:
- Cultural transformation to adapt to the needs of the client.
- Customer centricity strategies.
- How to improve client relationship
Richard is a world class authority on law firm strategy and market positioning. He was formerly Global Vice Chair of Dentons, serving for many years on its global board. He also served as Global Client Partner, responsible for handling the firm’s largest multi-national clients and designing the firm’s market-facing strategy. Described in the legal directories as “a corporate heavyweight”, his track record of cross-border M&A work spans over 30 years.
Stephen Revell practised at Freshfields as a corporate transactional lawyer for over 41 years on three different continents and was a partner for 33 years. As a lawyer, he specialised in debt and equity securities offerings and M&A. Virtually all of his work was cross-border, completing sophisticated transactions in more than 50 countries.
TALENT AND NEW SKILLS
The main topics will be Redefining Talent in the Legal Sector and new models of partners and Legal Counsel — the importance of teams, flexibility, new environments and ways of working to achieve maximum efficiency.
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Skills of the new lawyer
Skills of the new lawyer
In this seminar, members discuss the following topics:
- New type of Partner
- New type of Legal Advisor
- New ways of working, collaboration
Michele is the founder and executive director of Law Without Walls, an international benchmark think tank that brings together more than 1,000 professionals from the legal sector and the entrepreneurial environment to research and implement innovation at the crossroad of Law-Business-Technology. She is also co-founder and co-editor of Compliance Elliance Journal, an online magazine that publishes articles on compliance and ethics in cutting-edge legal matters. Michele is a professor of law at the University of Miami and an affiliate of Harvard Law School and IE Law School.
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Happiness and Well-being
Happiness and Well-being
In this seminar, members discuss the following topics:
- The implementation of health programs and how it influences the productivity of lawyers.
- Measurement of return on investment:
– Lawyer Satisfaction
– Level of participation
– Business Impact
Lee Newman’s work centers on positive leadership, and in particular, on translating and applying behavioral science to help professionals optimize their performance in the workplace. “Imagine an organization in which employees at all levels are able to out-think the competition… literally, over and over again. This is a company with a behavioral advantage,” he says, “My professional mission is to help individuals and companies achieve this type of advantage”.
Dr. Mario Alonso Puig is a specialist in General and digestive surgery with over 26 years of clinical practice. He also studies the impact of mental processes on the development of talent and ability, as well as on health and well-being. He has authored nine books about leadership, health, well-being, and happiness. Dr. Puig is a professor of Leadership, communication, coaching, creativity, and stress management at IE and other schools in Europe.
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New Models in Legal Services
In this section, we will analyze the new structures of both legal firms and internal legal counsel, their digital transformation and the new alternative carriers. We will also review the state of the art in Legal Tech.
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Digital Transformation
Borja González del Regueral. Vice Dean, Data Science & Technology, IE School of Human Sciences & Technology
Global Business Implementation & Business Rationale Lead, Head of Commercial Services & Reporting, BP.Professor Katz is a scientist, technologist and professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law – to help create lawyers for today’s biggest societal challenges. Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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New in-house Structure
New in-house Structure
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New Structure in Law Firms
New Structure in Law Firms
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Conversations with the future
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Daniel Martin Katz | The future of the legal Industry
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Daniel Martin Katz | What would you design for the legal industry?
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Daniel Martin Katz | Advice to law firms trying to innovate
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Daniel Martin Katz | How is legaltech being developed in different jurisdictions
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LawAhead & Consulegis: A discussion on Smart Contracts & Data Analytics
Publications
Why and how should companies pursue a culture based on ethics
Lawyer and Compliance Officer, Enrique Aznar, on why companies should actively incorporate compliance and ethics into their organizations to ...
15 / 02 / 2021
A turbulent year for data protection
On Data Protection Day, we take stock of a particularly hectic year, for many reasons other than data protection, but also for what has happened ...
27 / 01 / 2021
The new professional roles in digital legal services
In current times, no business can survive without some form of digitization. Even the most traditional sectors, like the legal profession, are ...
25 / 01 / 2021

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