Law Society of Scotland Annual Conference 2019 Handbook
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Supported by Law Society of Scotland Annual Conference 2019 Annual Conference 2019 Welcome It is my great pleasure to welcome you to We have a packed agenda for you, and I hope this year’s Annual Conference. you will get a lot out of the conversations you hear and take part in today. We have a fantastic As we celebrate the 70th year of the Law line-up of speakers who will challenge you Society of Scotland it is the perfect time to and inspire you in equal measure. reflect on both the successes of the past, and the future challenges ahead. Do get involved. Take part in the conversations in the room. Make new connections, and This year’s conference theme ‘Leading Legal renew old ones. This is your conference, and Excellence’ gives us the scope to look at a you’ll get out of it what you put in. wide range of issues, offering speakers and breakout sessions which will appeal to our I look forward to meeting and speaking with whole audience. as many of you as possible during today. It is fair to say that this has been an interesting Enjoy and welcome to the 2019 Annual year to work in the legal profession. Never Conference. before has the public eye been focused on the courts in quite the same way as we’ve witnessed over the past few months. This year’s annual conference gives us space to reflect on what has been happening, and what that means for the future of the profession, and the future of the country as Brexit presents challenges for us as lawyers John Mulholland and for the businesses we work for. President, Law Society of Scotland 3 Annual Conference 2019 Programme 08:30 Registration, refreshments and exhibition Join us for breakfast and your first chance to chat to our sponsors and exhibitors 09:40 Welcome and introduction from the conference chair Lennox 3 Austin Lafferty, Austin Lafferty Ltd 09:45 President’s Welcome Lennox 3 John Mulholland, Law Society of Scotland 09:50 Opening Keynote: Law and politics in an age of disruption Lennox 3 Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 10:20 Questions for Baroness Kennedy QC 10:30 Transition to breakouts Delegates will make their way to their chosen breakout session 10:35 Breakout A Breakout B Breakout C Breakout D Building a rights-based “It’s tough out there”: Legal operations - The new Lockton: Open space on society: Scotland as an The next 100 years buzzword for in-house legal risk: Why risk management exemplar for Human Rights departments? is important in an unfair age Lennox 3 Get your 1 hour of risk Lammermuir management CPD Menteith Chair: Alison Atack, Chair: Lowther Chair: Law Society of Scotland Vlad Valiente, Pennie Taylor, Scottish Fire & Rescue Speakers: Journalist and Broadcaster Speakers: Gail Cook, Kim Pattullo, Speakers: Lockton Companies LLP Speakers: Addleshaw Goddard LLP Rachael McLean, Anne Kentish, Professor Alan Miller, Sarah Hutchinson, The Scottish Government Brodies LLP Special Envoy of the Global Barbri International Stuart Clarke, Rona Paterson, Alliance of National Human Morven Hadden, Scottish Enterprise RSA Insurance plc Rights Competition and Markets Helen Arnot, Mark Gray, Ruth Dearnley OBE, Authority STV Lockton Companies LLP Stop the Traffik • Individuals (often women) • The 3 key features of In- The aim of the session is to We will discuss the new who have taken career House legal operations: leave the attendees with an National Taskforce for breaks can often face People, processes and understanding of: Human Rights Leadership daunting barriers in systems • What risk management and the work to develop a returning and reconnecting • Interacting with business looks like on the ground new statutory framework to the profession units and effective function • How easy issues arise but to improve human rights • We will discuss a diverse within how easy problems can be protection for everyone workforce with a broad skill avoided in Scotland. We will also set, intellectual curiosity • Why risk management is explore the work to identify and life experience important modern slavery within • We will particularly focus on • How risk management corporate spaces in the UK agesim, as well as gender may help in the current and the interaction between equality, and how firms and insurance market legislation, compliance with organisations can establish • What might be the claims the Modern Slavery Act, best and embed themselves issues of the future practice and stock value as leaders by exploring consequence. Returners Programmes in firms and organisations 4 Annual Conference 2019 11:15 Refreshments, exhibition and networking 11:40 Keynote session: The 21st Century General Counsel Lennox 3 Bjarne P. Tellmann, Pearson In an era of rapid change, disruption and finite resources, the role of the in-house counsel has become one of the corporate world’s most complex and challenging. Increasingly, general counsel and other senior leaders in legal departments must act like chief executives if they are to succeed. They need to know how to lead, communicate, inspire, motivate, build cultures, manage talent, formulate and execute strategies, anticipate and manage risk, and oversee quality control.And they must manage diverse groups of people with subtlety and diplomacy. All these skills are needed in addition to being top-notch lawyers, and the consequences of getting the balance wrong can be significant. In this fireside chat, Bjarne Tellmann, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Pearson, will draw upon over 20 years’ experience of leading global organisations across Europe, Asia and the United States to provide a structured plan for successfully navigating though these issues. 12:05 Questions to Bjarne P. Tellmann 12:15 Transition to breakouts Delegates will make their way to their chosen breakout session 12:20 Breakout A Breakout B Breakout C Breakout D Lived experience – sharing Vulnerable witnesses and Time for a Written New business structures: leaders the vulnerable accused: The Constitution? Employee ownership as a next 100 years succession solution Lammermuir Menteith Lennox 3 Lowther Chair: Chair: Pennie Taylor, Chair: Michael P. Clancy OBE, Chair: Journalist and Broadcaster Austin Lafferty, Law Society of Scotland David Lee Austin Lafferty Ltd Speakers: Speakers: Speakers: Rob Stephenson, Speakers: Professor Conor Gearty, Scottish Enterprise InsideOut John Scott QC, London School of Economics Ewan Hall, Catriona Headley, Solicitor Advocate Rt. Hon Henry McLeish, Baxendale Advisory Digby Brown Sheriff A J M Duff, former First Minister of Scotland John Clark, Samantha Brown, Judicial Institute for Scotland Aileen McHarg, Novograf Herbert Smith Freehills Deborah Anne Wilson, University of Durham Karen Pickering, Bruce Beveridge, Wilson Defence Jemma Neville, Page \ Park Architects Law Society of Scotland Frances McMenamin QC, Author of ‘Constitution Street’ Black Chambers What’s your succession Creating a ripple effect of Constitutionally, we are living solution? A Solicitor, an senior leaders who are willing On the 70th Anniversary of through extraordinary times. Architect and a Chairman to speak out about their own the Law Society of Scotland, The degrees of uncertainty discuss employee ownership lived experience and sharing we consider the vulnerable and ambiguity about the and the dilemma of their powerful stories of how in our criminal justice system UK’s withdrawal from the EU succession being open has positively and explore the past, the have been in sharp focus this impacted their workplace present and drive towards the year. Is it time for a ‘written future. constitution’? 13.00 Lunch, exhibition and networking 5 Annual Conference 2019 Programme 14:00 Keynote presentation: Innovating client service, inspiring lawyers: The next 100 years Lennox 3 Jacquelyn MacLennan, White & Case LLP 14:20 Questions and discussion 14:30 Transition to breakouts Delegates will make their way to their chosen breakout session 14:35 Breakout A Breakout B Breakout C Breakout D The next 100 years: Agile Social mobility in the legal Brexit- business impact Scotland and LegalTech working profession: The next 100 panel years Lowther Lennox 3 Menteith Lammermuir Chair: Chair: Chair: David Lee Amanda Millar, Chair: Pennie Taylor, Law Society of Scotland Austin Lafferty, Journalist and Broadcaster Speakers: Austin Laffery Ltd Sarah Blair, Speakers: Speakers: Thorntons LLP Alan D Stuart, Speakers: Jo Armstrong, Sam Moore, Stuart & Co Deborah McCormack, Glasgow University Burness Paull Jennifer Dalziel, Pinsent Masons LLP Professor Graeme Roy, OfGem Gordon Hunt, Fraser of Allander Institute Our panellists will share how Maggie Moodie, The Robertson Trust Siobhan Kahmann, LegalTech has benefitted their Morton Fraser LLP Covington organisation in practical terms • Explore the several stages and through technological • Rationale of the ‘social mobility Join our panellists to dive into advances, improve efficiencies • Evidence pipeline’ in the legal the latest Brexit economic and create competitive • Discovered along the way: profession impact debate and current advantages for solicitors, IT, GDPR, Tech • Identifying common fair indicators from the business clients and communities • Supervision and access and retainment sector. productivity pitfalls in the legal profession – what do employers keep getting wrong and what is good recruitment practice? • How do social mobility issues extend beyond recruitment and into the workplace? • How to create a more inclusive workplace and common pitfalls to watch out for in the legal profession 15:15 Refreshments, exhibition and networking 6 Annual Conference