| Day 1 | 13-Nov-10 | |
| TIMINGS |
SCHEDULED EVENTS |
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| 0800-0900 |
Breakfast Meetings and Registration Compliances |
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| 0900-0930 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
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| 0930-1100 |
Panel Discussion – Assessing the Future of the LPO Industry Beyond 2010 - Paving the Road Ahead (Chaired by Pankaj Parnami, Founder Director, KPO Consultants) |
Speakers |
- Assessing LPO's role in an organization’s current business needs
- Are some types of services and projects more suited to outsourcing than others?
- Other than reduced labor costs when offshoring, can vendors really offer any other advantages over in-house?
- Given a choice, is it safer to run a captive than offshore legal work to third party service providers?
- What is the future of legal offshoring industry
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Sanjay Kamlani , Co-CEO, Pangea3 |
Arihant Patni, Chief Executive Officer, Bodhi Global |
| Ganesh Natarajan, President and CEO, Mindcrest |
Mark Ross, Vice President – Legal Services, Integreon Managed Solutions |
| 1100-1130 |
Networking High Tea |
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1130-1300
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Presentation – Leveraging the “Extended Enterprise” to Power your Business (Chaired by Prashant Dubey, Executive Vice President, MergerTech) |
Speakers |
| Expanding the legal professional activities beyond territories - Dawn of the LPO |
Hemant Batra, Lead Partner-Kaden Boriss Legal LLP & Vice President, SAARCLAW |
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A perspective from UK private practice - an overview of the attitudes of English law firms and the environment they face; increasing interest in legal offshoring; Is it just for the biggest firms? Experience to date and a forecast for the future of LPO in the UK
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Nigel Kissack, Head, Pinsent Masons' Dispute Resolution and Litigation team |
| Process of selecting the right vendor – analyzing past record of quality delivery, SLAs, state-of-art facilities, IT support, and trained staff, matching your needs and overall capacity of vendor to fulfill, and use of third-party support like consultants or advisors. |
Abhi Shah, CEO, Clutch Group |
| 1300-1400 |
Networking Lunch |
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1400-1530
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Panel Discussion – Need Analysis of Buyer Firms (Chaired by Deepak Malhotra, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Constellation) |
Speakers |
| Rules, Governance and Compliances while dealing with LPO Vendors - International Law Perspective |
Alison Hook, Head of International Dept, Law Society, United Kingdom
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| Breaking the ice - What does it take to convince US law firms/corporations to be agreeable to take offshore assistance - A marketing perspective; methods of approaching the law firms with an offshoring solution |
Michael D Bell, Managing Principal, Fronterion LLC |
| Measuring the return on investment in LPO partnership – buyers’ perspective |
Deepak Malhotra, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Constellation |
| Maintaining client relationship and sustaining quality; a balancing game …. An Operations Perspective |
Sakthivel Venkataraman, Managing Director of Operations, Cobra Legal Solutions Pvt Ltd |
| 1530-1600 |
Networking High Tea |
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1600-1700
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Presentation – Case Studies on LPO Experiences (Chaired by Mark Ross, Vice President - Legal Services, Integreon Managed Solutions) |
Speakers |
| Scope of LPO operations in India – LPO doesn’t have to be reserved for several big players |
Antony Alex, Managing Director, Pangea3 |
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Identifying and managing risks associated with LPO – An in-house counsel perspective
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Richard Reade, UK General Counsel, ISS World |
| 1700-1710 |
Chairperson’s closing remarks and end of conference day one |
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| Day 2 | 14-Nov-10 | |
| TIMINGS |
SCHEDULED EVENTS |
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| 0900-0910 |
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks |
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Panel Discussion – Developments in LPO Business Intelligence (Chaired by Mahen Govinda, Board of Investment Mauritius) |
Speakers |
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0900-1030
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Liberalization of Indian legal services market and impact on LPO industry; Legal reforms required in India to be the LPO destination of choice |
Lalit Bhasin, President, Society of Indian Law Firms & Partner, Bhasin & Company |
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Considering Legal Outsourcing as Part of Wider Legal Cost Management
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Dr Sanjeev Gemawat, Vice President - Legal & Secretarial, DLF Rentco Group and DLF Holdings |
| Ethics of legal outsourcing |
Mark Ross, Vice President – Legal Services, Integreon Managed Solutions |
| 1030-1100 |
Networking High Tea |
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1100-1300
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Presentation – Unlocking Business Potential (Chaired by Richard Reade, UK General Counsel, ISS World) |
Speakers |
| Law firm of the future - How to be transformational partners with law firms |
Rahul Shah, AVP & Head – LPO Practice, Infosys |
| Success Stories and Lessons To Be Learned |
Mark Wyatt, CEO, Futurelex Group |
| LPO- A brand new game for lawyers! |
Percis Anklesaria, Head of Quality, Bodhi Global and Senior Associate, AZB & Partners |
| Are we ready for Legal Outsourcing within India - Inhouse Counsel Perspective |
Akhil Prasad, Vice President and Head of Legal, Fidelity International |
| 1300-1400 |
Networking Lunch |
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1400-1530
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Presentation – Is the Performance or Quality of the Outsourced Service on a Par with the Expected Standards of Management and Consumers – Buyer’s Perspective (Chaired by Rohan Dalal, Managing Director, Mindcrest) |
Speakers |
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Whether the Legal Services Act raises the spectrum of possible external investment by LPO companies into UK law firms. Could this ever happen in the US?
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Nigel Kissack, Head, Pinsent Masons' Dispute Resolution and Litigation team |
GC’s apprehensions when taking an offshoring decision; what prevents GC from taking into consideration medium-sized LPOs
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Deepak Malhotra, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Constellation |
| The new "Normal" for law firms and corporations - What this means for legal services providers. Rethinking how legal work is undertaken and unbundling of legal processes; Rebalancing legal department skills; Redistribution of the legal services provider portfolio |
Ganesh Natarajan, President and CEO, Mindcrest |
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What Offshore Document Review Operations should know about US e-Discovery and European Union Data Protection
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Patrick Burke, Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel, Guidance Software, Inc |
| 1530-1600 |
Networking High Tea |
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1600-1700
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Presentation – Boundary Less Offshoring – Key Points to Secure Yourself (Chaired by Sakthivel Venkatraman, Managing Director of Operations, Cobra Legal Solutions Pvt Ltd) |
Speakers |
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Insurance as a facilitator - a primer on effective Technology Errors & Omissions/Professional Indemnity insurance as a protection tool in outsourcing relationships
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Fredrik Motzfeldt, EMEA Leader, Marsh Global Communications |
| Role of Northern Ireland in LPO industry - as emerging LPO business destination |
Barry Clarke, Senior Vice President, Invest Northern Ireland |
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Legal and risk management techniques to drive risk out of the Outsourcing arrangement
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Peter Brudenall, Partner, Global Technology, Outsourcing & Privacy, Hunton & Williams LLP, UK |
| 1700-1730 |
Chair’s Closing Remarks and End of Conference |
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