Day Two – Thursday, 24 April 2008

09.00 Registration and refreshments

 

09.30 Chair's opening remarks

Wendy Small, Head of Knowledge Management, Eversheds LLP

 

09.35 An Australian perspective on knowledge management

Hear a different viewpoint on how an Australian law firm tackles KM.

Rachel O'Connor, Director, Knowledge & Risk, Allens Arthur Robinson

 

PANEL DISCUSSION:

10.15 The future of legal know-how provision

•  What proportion of law firms currently use external providers of legal know-how, and to what extent, and where do we see this heading?

•  The implications of an increasing reliance on commercial publishers

•  How can firms seek to reduce increasing costs and obtain better value for money?

•  Addressing the issue of third party licenses to allow law firms to pass material on to clients

Chris Bull, Chief Operating Officer, Osborne Clarke

Carol Aldridge, Head of KM/IS, Burges Salmon LLP

Judith Pain, Head of PLC Property

Simon Drane, Head of Knowledge Solutions, LexisNexis

 

10.55 Morning coffee break

 

11.25 BREAKOUT SESSION 3

All breakout sessions will last 45 minutes and run twice

 

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Managing knowledge share and transfer internationally

This session will address the challenges with sharing and transferring knowledge across different jurisdictions.

 

David Halliwell, Chief Knowledge Officer, DLA Piper UK LLP

 

 

Electronic filing of emails - automatic vs manual?
Practical ways of utilising knowledge transferred via email - where records management, risk management, attention management and knowledge management all meet.


Oz Benamram, Director of Knowledge Management, Morrison & Foerster LLP

 

S trengthening your firm's knowledge sharing and capture culture

Practical tactics and techniques.

 

Claire Andrews, Director of Knowledge Management - Europe and Asia , Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

 

13.00 Networking lunch break

 

14.00 BREAKOUT SESSION 4

All breakout sessions will last 45 minutes and run twice

 

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Innovation, collaboration and knowledge management

The scientific use of narrative in KM. Focusing on the provision of rich context, and issues such as "ethical auditing", narrative represents a major leap forward in knowledge management practice.

 

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd

 

Examining SharePoint implications and development for KM

The common challenges and consequences facing KM departments of SharePoint implementation and evolution.

 

Neil Richards, Former Head of Knowledge Management Systems, Linklaters LLP

 

Developing an expertise location system

Incorporating a live demonstration, this session will show you how to identify, develop and implement a successful expertise finder for your firm.

 

Sam Dimond, Director of Knowledge Systems , Clifford Chance LLP

 

15.35 Afternoon coffee break

 

16.05 The changing KM landscape: aggregating point solutions with enterprise search

•  After a decade of legal KM, have any magic bullets appeared?

•  Aggregation: making better use of what you've got for KM purposes

•  The impact of e-learning techniques and web 2.0 on personal / team KM

•  Drawing it together and keeping up to date: a core role for enterprise search

Derek Sturdy, e-learning and KM consultant, Tikit & Idar

 

16.40 A futurologist's perspective on law firm KM

•  Assessing the pressures KM departments will face

•  Emerging trends in law firm KM and in the wider KM community

•  Identifying the skills KM professionals will need in the 21 st Century

Professor Paul Maharg, Glasgow Graduate School of Law, University of Strathclyde

Richard King, Head of Legal Knowledge, Herbert Smith LLP

 

17.20 Chair's closing remarks

 

17.30 Close of conference

 

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