Successful professional services firms in the year 2030 (just 12 years hence!) will emerge from the choices their leaders make in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In order to create competitive advantage and deliver superior financial returns, professional services firms need to understand and adapt to the changing environment in which they now live, as well as forecasting what that environment will look like in 2030; long term vision and strategy have therefore never been more important for professional services firms.
In association with Talbots Law, Mitch Kowalski will examine the challenges professional firms face now and the ones they will face in the future, primarily through the lens of legal services but with nods to other sectors. Mitch will then use this perspective to suggest a provocative model for the successful professional services firm of the future.
Who should attend?
Owners, managers and anybody working in professional services firms (even clients!), who want insight into how professional services firms will need to operate so as to compete and survive in the very near future!
Programme
8:15: Registration and bacon rolls
9:00: Presentation and Q&A session
10:15: Networking
11:00: Close
Confirmed Speaker:
Mitch Kowalski M.A. LL.M. ICD.D.
Barrister and Solicitor
http://kowalski.ca/
Toronto, Canada
Visiting Professor in Legal Innovation at the University of Calgary Law School, and Principal Consultant at Cross Pollen Advisory where he advises in-house legal departments and law firms on the redesign of legal service delivery. Mitch constantly challenges the accepted norms of the legal services industry and in 2012 he was selected as a Fastcase 50 Global Legal Innovator.
Mitch has developed a seasoned and unique perspective on the redesign of legal services that flows from his research and experiences as a former in-house counsel, partner at a major international law firm, and as a legal services entrepreneur. He speaks at conferences and law firm events globally, and international and national news media often ask him for comment on the Canadian and global legal services industry.
He has served on a number of Boards of Directors; most recently as a member of the Board of Directors of legal start-ups.
Author of the critically-acclaimed book, The Great Legal Reformation: Notes from the Field, and Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century.
Talbots Law
Talbots is now one of the largest independent law firms in the region, with a comprehensive private client and business & corporate services proposition. With seven offices located across the Black Country, Staffordshire and North Worcestershire, we now employ in excess of 200 people.
Our client base is a mix of private individual and business & corporate clients both in the Black Country and nationally.
Business & corporate work includes: company commercial; corporate finance; commercial property; commercial dispute and employment.
Private client work includes: residential property; employment settlements; estate planning; wills, trusts & estates; disputes and disputed wills/probate; divorce; arrangements for children domestic violence; personal injury and medical negligence.