Speakers

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Biographies

Peter Citron, Head of Practice Development & Know-How, Competition and EU Law Practice Area, Lovells LLP

Peter Citron is currently Head of Practice Development and Knowhow for the Competition and EU Law practice area of Lovells. Peter has responsibilities in knowhow, training, and marketing for the Lovells' antitrust practice in all its European offices.

 

Prior to joining Lovells in September 2005, Peter was an in-house lawyer at Euroclear, and a managing associate at Linklaters in both their London and Brussels offices. Peter is currently undertaking an MBA in legal practice at Nottingham Law School.

 

Peter is based in Brussels.

 

Lovells LLP

 

Lovells is a top-quality international legal practice, focused on the commercial and legal needs of its clients around the world.

 

Lovells is regularly praised by independent commentators on the strength of its practice areas, being ranked number one in the world across a number of them and regularly performing well on rankings by deal volume and value for its transactional advice.

 

Lovells' Knowledge Management Department has received a number of awards:

 

•  Lovells won the “Best Use of Technology” category at the inaugural British Legal Awards 2007. The Best Use of Technology Award goes to the law firm or company legal department that can demonstrate how a technology-related project has played a critical role in the improvement of the performance of a firm or department.

•  At the Legal Technology Awards 2008, Justin Harness, Head of Know-how at Lovells, received the International Knowledge Officer of the Year award for his contribution to the Knowledge Management field through his work at Lovells and with clients.

•  The Lovells Know-how team was highly commended in the International – “KM/Information team of the year” category at the Legal Technology Awards 2008.

 

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Sinead Kelly, Professional Support Lawyer, A&L Goodbody Solicitors

 

Sinead is a solicitor and member of the Knowledge team at A&L Goodbody and has acted as a dedicated Professional Support Lawyer for the Corporate Department for three years. She is increasingly involved in providing targeted knowledge services to the firm's clients, and participating in the development of client related products and services.


The knowledge team at A&L Goodbody provides support to the firm's lawyers and clients to ensure the delivery of solution-focused legal advice of the highest quality. The team recently won the European award for 'Best Management of Knowledge' and was the runner-up in the overall category at the Managing Partners Forum (2007) European Practice Management Awards . This is the first time an Irish law firm has received recognition in the overall ( UK and Europe ) category for its work in knowledge development.

 

A&L Goodbody Solicitors

 

With 65 Partners and a total legal staff of over 250, A&L Goodbody is one of the largest and most experienced law firms in Ireland . It is continually ranked as the No. 1 Irish law firm by many international publications, including most recently, Irish Law Firm of the Year (2007) by each of Chambers Global.

 

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Annette Magnusson, Professional Development Lawyer, Mannheimer Swartling

 

Annette is a Professional Development Lawyer at Mannheimer Swartling in Stockholm , Sweden . She is responsible for practice development and knowledge management of litigation and arbitration for all of Mannheimer Swartling's offices.

 

Prior to joining Mannheimer Swartling in 2007, Ms. Magnusson was head of knowledge management at the Stockholm office of Baker & McKenzie. In addition, she worked with global KM-development at Baker & McKenzie.

 

Ms. Magnusson has practised international commercial arbitration for seven years at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, most recently as its Deputy Secretary General, and is the author and co-editor of several articles and books on international commercial arbitration. She can be reached at mna@msa.se

 

Mannheimer Swartling

 

Mannheimer Swartling is the leading business law firm in the Nordic region. We are a full-service firm with an extensive international practice.

 

Mannheimer Swartling has offices in Stockholm , Gothenburg, Malmö, Helsingborg , New York , Frankfurt , Berlin , St. Petersburg , Moscow , Brussels , Shanghai and Hong Kong . For several consecutive years, the firm has been chosen as the preferred law firm of both clients and students, most recently receiving the award "Sweden's best business law firm 2007" in the survey “Sweden's best consultants", based on a survey in which leading executives stated which consulting firm they prefer to work with.

 

Mannheimer Swartling is one of the world's leading law firms in international arbitration. In 2007, Mannheimer Swartling was ranked in seventh place when Global Arbitration Review (GAR) published the worldwide "Guide to Specialist Arbitration Firms”.

 

The firm has a turnover in the region of SEK 988 million and approximately 640 employees.

 

For more information, see www.mannheimerswartling.se

 

 

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John Worrall, Senior Professional Support Lawyer, White & Case LLP

 

John is the Senior Professional Support Lawyer in the London office of US headquartered, global law firm White & Case, where there are now 12 London-based PSLs. He is involved in both training and know-how initiatives, working closely with HR, Marketing, IT and the Library on a range of projects.

 

John joined White & Case in October 2000 to set up the professional support function, having previously been a professional support lawyer in Denton Wilde Sapte's banking and asset finance practice. He was an associate in the finance practice at Clifford Chance until 1997.

 

White & Case LLP


Founded in New York in 1901, White & Case has lawyers in the United States , Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia .  There are more than 2300 lawyers in 24 countries.  Clients are public and privately held commercial businesses and financial institutions, as well as governments and state-owned entities, involved in corporate and financial transactions and  dispute resolution proceedings.  

 

The London office of White & Case now has nearly 450 legal staff.

 

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Mark Collins, Head of Knowledge, Nabarro

 

Mark is Head of Knowledge at Nabarro, where he is responsible for the firm's Knowledge Lawyers (PSLs), Knowledge Services (Library & Information) and Legal Training.

 

After practising for some years as a commercial litigator with Linklaters, Mark became a professional support lawyer at DLA. There he recruited and built a team of specialist PSLs. He has also worked in house at BT, where he gained greater understanding of IT and also the valuable perspective of the client, as Head of Knowledge Management for BT Group Legal. His IT skills were further enhanced at Herbert Smith, where Mark was Business Solutions Manager in the IT department, ensuring the firm's systems met user and business requirements. Until recently, Mark was Knowledge Management Partner at DAC.

 

With over 10 years practical experience, Mark is a highly skilled knowledge manager. His experience has taught him how knowledge management can achieve real business benefits for a law firm, where technology can help (and where it can't) and how to manage and inspire the cultural change required for these benefits to materialise.

 

Mark lives in North London and is married with two daughters, aged 10 and 7.

 

Nabarro

 

Nabarro is a leading UK law firm. Our no-nonsense approach and wide-ranging expertise help clients achieve their objectives across many sectors, both public and private.

 

Our commitment to clarity is revealed in our understanding of clients' objectives, our capacity to shed light on complex legal issues, and the straightforward, unequivocal nature of our advice. Our culture is open. Our people practical and engaging.

 

We work from offices in London , Sheffield and Brussels , drawing on longstanding relationships with a network of selected firms worldwide for our cross-border work. This includes strategic alliances with partner firms in France and Germany .

 

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Tim Castorina, Managing Professional Support Lawyer, Linklaters LLP

 

Tim is a Managing Professional Support Lawyer in Linklaters' Competition/Antitrust Team in London . Before becoming a PSL, he was a senior associate at Allen & Overy, advising on a wide range of transactional and behavioural work. Since becoming a PSL, Tim has worked on creating precedents, supporting the practice and mentoring junior associates, writing and delivering training and responding to consultations on proposed legislative changes. He is increasingly undertaking strategic work relating to identifying the global needs of his practice and devising solutions to perceived knowhow and training needs, specifically in relation to knowledge capture and retention.

 

Linklaters LLP

 

Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm which specialises in advising the world's leading companies, financial institutions and governments on their most challenging transactions and assignments. With offices in 30 major business and financial centres in 23 countries, Linklaters meets client needs anywhere in the world.

 

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Cora Newell, Professional Support Lawyer in Central Knowledge Management, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

 

Cora joined City law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in October 2004 as the Professional Support Lawyer in Central Knowledge Management. Prior to that, she worked for a number of City firms as a corporate professional support lawyer and a practising corporate solicitor.

 

At Berwin Leighton Paisner, Cora assists in developing and implementing the firm's KM strategy and managing its KM processes. This includes the consideration of client-facing initiatives. She is responsible for the firm's intranet and is heavily involved in KM IT issues. Cora is chair of the firm's ten partner cross-departmental Template Review Committee and has, in this capacity, spearheaded, project managed and implemented a new firm-wide house style launched in January 2007. The Committee are now undertaking, under her leadership, a major review of boilerplate in order to achieve harmonisation of these standard clauses across the firm.

 

Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

 

Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP is a premier, full service City law firm, with particular strengths in real estate, corporate, finance and a strong litigation and dispute resolution capability. With over 600 lawyers and 180 partners, our clients are diverse and include large institutions, blue-chip corporates, banks and financial institutions, major property companies and developers, public sector bodies and individuals. The firm is recognised for expertise in a number of industry sectors, including real estate, hotels, leisure and gaming, defence, energy, utilities and retail. In addition to a London office, we have an office in Brussels ,  Paris and Singapore .  

 

 

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