Civil Litigation Conference 2019
| 19 March 2019 Change has been a constant for civil and commercial litigators in recent times, and 2019 and the years ahead promise no let-up. Indeed, technology is set to revolutionise both litigation practice and the court system itself. This is why we held the first Legal Futures Civil Litigation Conference, which brought together leading judges and practitioners to debate how the face of litigation is evolving, giving delegates the insight they need to decide where their practices should be going. For more Legal Events visit our main events page. Programme: 9.30 Welcome Neil Rose, Editor of Legal Futures 9.35 Keynote Interview: Mr Justice Birss 10.05 Court modernisation – what is happening and when? Richard Goodman, Change Director, HM Courts & Tribunals Services Andrew George QC, Blackstone Chambers and member of the executive committee of COMBAR Natalie Osafo, Associate at Slaughter and May and President of the Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association 11.00 A word from our sponsors 11.15 Refreshments Break 11.45 Can robots help you win your case? Gideon Cohen, Founder, Solomonic Andrew Dunkley, Head of Analytics, BLM Ludwig Bull, CTO, CourtQuant Charles Ciumei QC, Essex Court Chambers Nikolaos Aletras, Lecturer in Natural Language Processing, University of Sheffield Lucy Pert, Partner, Hausfeld 13.00 Lunch 14.00 The future of costs Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker Robert Marven QC, 4 New Square Nicholas Lee, Managing Director, Paragon Costs Solutions 14.45 Protecting the client Richard Spector, Partner, ELS Legal Luke Harrison, Partner, Debenhams Ottaway Solicitors and Chair of the Commercial Litigation Association Mark Holt, Managing Director, Frenkel Topping 15.30 Break 16.00 The future of civil litigation Professor Dominic Regan Kerry Underwood, Senior Partner, Underwoods Solicitors Luke Harrison, Partner, Debenhams Ottaway and Chair of the Commercial Litigation Association Gordon Exall, Barrister, Zenith Chambers Robert Wright, Head of Civil Litigation Funding and Costs, Ministry of Justice
| Very good range of subjects and interesting speakers. Good format with no long speeches! Delegate – March 2019 Excellent variety of speakers. I learnt a lot from each panel session. Delegate – March 2019 Very well organised and high-quality conference with interesting and balanced seminars. Do it again next year! Delegate – March 2019      |
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