The Legal Project Management Conference 2020 was an online event held on October 22 and 23, 2020, designed for professionals interested in legal project management, including lawyers, tax advisors, compliance officers, legal project managers, and procurement officers. The conference aimed to foster the dynamic creation and exchange of know-how and practical guidelines through TED-style presentations, expert panels, and keynote speeches.
The conference focused on the practical application of legal project management tools in contract lifecycle management, contract analysis, and corporate mergers and acquisitions or restructuring. Attendees gained insights into legal project management methodologies, including agile practices, automation, AI usage, and strategies for optimizing efficiency in legal operations. Additionally, the event addressed legal operations and project profitability, emphasizing innovation, change management, and transformation within legal operations.
The event featured a lineup of distinguished speakers, all practitioners with extensive experience in legal operations, technology, and project management. Notable keynote speakers included PhD Maciej Kawecki, Prof. Ryszard Sowiński, Jarek Owczarek, Lucy Endel Bassli, and Mark A. Cohen. The conference comprised 12 presentations, 10 panels, and 15 speakers over two days, providing attendees with ample opportunities to engage with experts and peers.
Participants received certificates formalizing their attendance, and the conference supported social responsibility activities by contributing to NGOs assisting the homeless and promoting culture and technology. This initiative underscored the event's commitment to both professional development and societal impact.
Speakers(26)
Anna Michalska
Restructuring Advisor at Filipiak Babicz Legal
Specializes in law related to the insolvency of entrepreneurs and in the supervision of restructuring processes. Extensive experience in managing and supervising bankruptcy and restructuring processes of entrepreneurs operating in all sectors. Experience in proceedings before the restructuring and bankruptcy court, taking an active part in several hundred bankruptcy proceedings.
Arkadiusz Szwak
Founder at Szwak & Spółka
Certified Accountant with 20 years of experience and the owner of an accounting company Szwak & Spółka for over 10 years. Accounting, tax, and optimization specialist.
David Ellis
Chairman at OMC Partners
Management consultancy for the legal sector to improve operational efficiency for bottom-line benefits. He focuses on working with legal leaders to help them and their organisations envision, assess, and implement change agendas. Extensive experience gained through a wide range of projects. With a law degree, he is a qualified accountant (FCMA), and holds an MBA from ESCP.
David Kovel
Managing Partner at Kirby McInerney LLP
Doctor of Law, MBA graduate. Recognized as an expert on antitrust and commodities litigation, David Kovel is a frequent commentator on these matters. He has achieved and is pursuing landmark results in the commodities and whistleblower fields, and has an active appellate practice.
Dr. Adam Zadrożny
Assistant Professor at National Centre for Nuclear Research
Assistant professor, astrophysics, at National Centre for Nuclear Research and lecturer of Natural Language Processing at Cognitive Studies Master Program at Faculty of Psychology at University of Warsaw. He took part in the first detection of gravitational waves by the international LIGO-Virgo project, for which he was awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Dr. Alexandra Andhov
Assistant Professor in Corporate Law at University of Copenhagen
Legal scholar with vast expertise in corporate law, capital market law, corporate social responsibility, and technology both in academia as well as in practice. Over the last years, Alexandra has provided independent insight to key projects launching several start-ups and legal tech innovations in various jurisdictions. She leads the Legal Tech Group at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen where she implements innovative initiatives. Her book on Start-up Law is coming out in December 2020.
Dr. Orsolya Szabó
CEO and Founder at InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy
Lawyer-entrepreneur who launched InvestCEE in 2017 to help legal teams on their digital transformation journey. Following a legal career with global law firms' M&A teams in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), Orsolya now advises corporate legal departments and law firms across CEE to optimize their work processes with legal technology tools. She regularly holds workshops and webinars on digital legal services, manages technology implementation, and legal service design projects for clients.
Isabel Venegas Follert
Lawyer & Legal Project Manager
Lawyer passionate about legal innovation and turned into Legal Project Manager. More than 10 years of experience as a legal advisor for international companies helping them to reach their maximum level of efficiency.
Jarek Owczarek
Founder and Chief Product Officer at Contractbook
Founder and Chief Product Officer in Contractbook - a contract management platform. Experienced and pragmatic creator of ideas (concept developer), who devoted himself to transforming ideas into operating companies. Person from outside the legal profession, who introduces the world of lawyers to the digital world.
Karol Kłaczyński
Co-founder at inteliLex
Certified Scrum Master with over 7 years of experience in the IT industry. Tackled a number of different tasks during his career including business analysis, testing, sales, conducting training sessions, serving as a Scrum Master and a Product Owner. Dedicated to business agility, a fan of Lean approach, product and project development. One of the co-founders of Global Legal Hackathon 2019 winner - inteliLex.
Krzysztof Herdzik
herdzik.pro
Coach and advisor on leadership and innovation. Runs development programmes for companies from all over Europe. Graduate of Harvard Business School in the field of innovation. For the last 17 years, he has held management positions in companies with an international reach, where he has introduced innovative solutions to increase their value. Co-founder of the American technology start-up Fourpointzero specializing in digital transformation.
Lucy Endel Bassli
Legal services modernization advisor | Legal Ops pro | Legal strategy advisor
Attorney, author of The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation. Lucy has extensive experience as a legal services modernization advisor, legal Ops pro, general counsel, and legal strategy advisor. She works with corporate legal departments and law firms on legal service delivery, automation, smart risk-taking, and alternative resourcing models. Lucy educates and consults with lawyers to take best practices in the legal industry to a new level. She is also a strategy advisor for LawGeex, an AI legal start-up that automates contract review services. Lucy is a frequent writer and speaker on legal services innovation, legal technology, and legal process outsourcing. In 2015, she was named to the National Law Journal list of Outstanding Women Lawyers.
Marcin Kleina
Member of the board at Wolters Kluwer Polska
Project Management and Software Product Development Director, member of the board of Wolters Kluwer Polska. Responsible for project management, software product development, and strategic partnerships. He coordinates global initiatives in digital transformation and LegalTech areas. Passionate about innovations and their practical implementation in business. Graduated from the faculty of law and administration and Executive MBA.
Marcin Nowakowski
agile-lawyer.com
Project manager, change manager, MBA Helsinki SoE, lawyer, tax advisor. Project director/manager for a large number of international projects and programs. Expert in legal & tax project management, legal operations efficiency, and change management. Specialized in advice on contract analysis with AI usage. Founder of agile-lawyer.com and CITO - change & transformation initiative.
Marek Szydłowski
General Counsel at Komputronik Group
Legal advisor and General Counsel with extended experience both in legal departments of leading Polish companies and Polish and international law firms. He specializes in the regulation of companies from the media sector, in particular in copyright, advertising, and internet law. MBA Graduate. General Council of the Lewiatan Confederation Member, as well as vice-president of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Poland. Expert of the PIIiT on the electronic media market.
Mark A. Cohen
CEO at Legal Mosaic
Global thought leader and innovator in the legal industry. CEO of Legal Mosaic - a legal business consultancy; regular contributor to Forbes; and sought-after international speaker. Mark is the Executive Chairman of the Digital LegalXchange, a global nonprofit learning community designed to accelerate digital transformation in the legal function. Appointed by the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) to serve as its inaugural LIFTED Catalyst-in-Residence, concurrently serves as the General Editor of the forthcoming LIFTED Global Partner white paper on future legal skills. Distinguished Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and at Northwestern University Pritzker College of Law and presently teaches at Bucerius (Germany), IE (Spain), and the College of Law (Australia). Also serves as an Intelligence Fellow for ALM.
Matthew Peacock
Managing Partner at OMC Partners
Designing legal strategies and implementing delivery models for forward-thinking in-house legal teams, law firms, and new law entrants. Particular expertise in helping leading lawyers develop and embed global LPM capabilities to manage legal matters on time, to budget using a blended mix of people, knowledge, process, and technology. A former practising lawyer with an MBA degree.
Peter van Dam
Chief Digital Officer at Simonsen Vogt Wiig
Extensive experience in strategy, information, and knowledge consultancy. In the legal industry since 2003, when he was hired by some of the top law firms in the Netherlands. In 2009 he moved to Norway and started a Nordic department for the implementation of iManage/WorkSite. Since 2014 he is Chief Digital Officer and responsible for the digital strategy and IT organization for Simonsen Vogt Wiig, a top law firm in Norway.
PhD Maciej Kawecki
Dean at WSB Warsaw | Chairman of Lem Institute | Of Counsel
Leading expert on GDPR and technology in law. Futurist and chairman of Lem Institute. Former coordinator of Polish GDPR reform and implementation. Former Director of Data Management Department in Polish Ministry of Digitization. Advocate and of counsel.
Prof. Michał Jackowski
Partner at DSK Kancelaria
Professor of law, advocate, tax advisor, MBA graduate of ESCP Europe. Partner at DSK law firm. Involved in works of Ministry of Digitization. General and legal counsel in various IT and IoT companies. Expert in agile legal project management, new technologies law, intellectual property law, personal data, e-privacy.
Prof. Ryszard Sowiński
Nowoczesnakancelaria.pl | University of Poznań | WSB School in Poznań
Top level expert on law firms strategy and business development. Member of numerous committees responsible for law firm strategy and development. Author of first Polish blog on law firm management. Jury and mentor in various legal tech events. University professor.
Radosław Orszewski
orszewski.com
Agile methodologies practitioner with 14 years of experience. Specialized in kanban - management of workflow of intellectual work and organizational improvement. Certified coach and trainer of Kanban methodologies, SCRUM practitioner. Involved in transformation of fintech and telco companies. Lecturer at Code University Berlin and University of Wroclaw.
Rob Hughes
RPA Expert
15 years in the industry analyst market, spearheading growth for NelsonHall and Everest Group. Direct contributor in the research conducted across multiple disciplines and markets. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) peaked his interest and he joined Automation Anywhere in late 2016. He played an instrumental role in leveraging RPA into new business models and rethinking service delivery. His prime interest is in the potential for advanced technologies to address some of businesses and societies larger problems, and the wider development of human skills as a result of 'taking the robot out of the human'.
Roman Koch
Corporate counsel | Advocate
Corporate in-house counsel. Experienced in LegalTech projects. Special focus on AI-powered contract analysis software.
Ruvimbo Samanga
Policy Analyst at Space in Africa
Policy Analyst at Space in Africa, and a Research Fellow at the Open Lunar Foundation. Master in International Trade & Investment Law, specializing in the African space industry and development. Currently represents Zimbabwe in the Space Generation Advisory Council and the Women in Aerospace Africa Chapter. She is also the founder of AgriSpace, an early-stage Agri-tech startup. A keen space enthusiast, she is involved in various capacity building and policy developing initiatives in the global space sector.
Łukasz Lewandowski
Head of Litigation Practice at DSK Kancelaria
Advocate, restructuring advisor. Insolvency practitioner, administrator, and court supervisor in many bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings. Anti-corruption auditor. Specialization in economic law, criminal law, constitutional law, and international law.
Event Details
- Date
- October 22-23, 2020
- 2 days
- Location
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- Pricing
- €125 - €185
- Audience
- Lawyers, tax advisors, compliance officers, legal project managers, procurement officers, and other professionals interested in legal project management.