LIFT: Legal Institute for Forward Thinking
FINAL MEETING AGENDA
Friday, December 8th – New York City
Jackson Lewis Offices – 29th Floor, 666 Third Avenue
8:00 – 8:30 am
INTRODUCTIONS
It is intended that this meeting be conducted under Chatham House rules—no statements directly attributed to participants—to promote candid exchanges.
8:30 am – 2:30 pm
PART ONE: TRENDS PRESENTATIONS
Each member will be accorded approximately 30 minutes to present to the group on some new area of development, trends research, and/or something learned while working with clients that the others may not be expected to know about and will raise the collective
knowledge / skills of the group.
8:30 – 9:00 am SPECIAL GUEST: Elliott Portnoy – The Changing Legal
Landscape and What Might Be To Come
9:00 – 9:10 Q&A
9:10 – 9:40 am Ron Friedmann: “Prosper in Flat Times” – examining how firms can deliver legal service at lower cost while maintaining profit margin.
9:40 – 9:50 Q&A
9:50 – 10:20 am Bill Henderson: “Legal Industry Analysis and Predictions based on
Diffusion Theory”
10:20 – 10:30 Q&A
10:30 – 11:00 am Patrick McKenna: “Strategies To Advance Growth” – exploring different tactics that firms could take based on a changing market.
11:00 – 11:10 Q&A
11:10 – 11:40 am David Parnell: “Lessons I’ve Learned in my 70+ law firm leadership interviews over the last ~3 years.”
11:40 – 11:50 Q&A
11:50 – 12:30 LUNCH BREAK
12:30 – 1:00 Ed Reeser: Different Metrics for Measuring Firm Performance” –
from the perspective of evaluating a firm’s sustainability.
1:00 – 1:10 Q&A
1:10 – 1:40 Michael Rynowecer: Which Law Firms are Really Gaining Share at Competitor Expense – Why and How This Will Change
1:40 – 1:50 Q&A
1:50 – 2:20 am Silvia Hodges Silverstein: Findings From The Latest Buying Legal Council’s Legal Procurement Survey – which confirms the accelerating shift away from relationships to data-driven decision making.
2:20 – 2:30 Q&A
A brief written report may be produced highlighting various elements of these presentations without necessarily naming any one source, and be provided to the media for general distribution.
2:30 – 4:30
PART TWO: PEER ADVISORY DISCUSSIONS
This is your opportunity to bring one unresolved issue or explorative idea to the table to solicit the candid feedback of your colleagues to assist you in plotting a future course of action.