Speakers
London Law Expo 2018 Speakers
Prof. Stephen Mayson
Honorary Professor of Law
University College London
For more than 30 years, Professor Stephen Mayson has advised law firms around the world on issues of strategy, economics, ownership, and valuation. He has a particular interest in the reconfiguration of the legal world being driven by competition and the Legal S…
Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE
Founder and Executive Chair
Doteveryone.org.uk
Martha is founder and executive chair of Doteveryone.org.uk, a charity fighting for a fairer internet Martha became a crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords in March 2013 In 2017 she was appointed a member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy In M…
Ian Jeffery
Chief Executive
Lewis Silkin LLP
Ian Jeffery is the Chief Executive of Lewis Silkin LLP having previously been the Managing Partner. He combines skills and experience as a specialist IP and technology lawyer with over a decade of senior management experience and an MBA from a London Business…
Janet Day
Independent Consultant
Janet has worked in the broad sphere of legal IT virtually all her working life – even her MBA speciality was ‘Competitive Advantage in the Legal Profession’. After working in administration at A&O, Janet set up a specialist consultancy practice look…
Andrew Haslam
UK eDisclosure Project Manager
Squire Patton Boggs
Andrew joined our London office in 2016 as UK eDisclosure Project Manager, after nearly 20 years of working as an independent consultant. He supports the Litigation and International Dispute Resolution Practice Groups.
Working closely with the Practice Grou…
Admiral Sir Trevor Soar KCB OBE DL DEng FCMI
Founder
TRUE Leader
Sir Trevor served in the Royal Navy for 37 years achieving a tremendously successful career attaining the highest rank in the Service as an Admiral. He held many diverse leadership positions including 5 independent Commands from diesel submarine Captain as a 29…
Dr Simon Moores
Futurist, Information Risk Analyst, Writer & Presenter
Zentelligence (Research)
Security futurist and risk consultant Dr. Simon Moores uses his expertise in social media, ‘disruptive technologies’, ‘Big Data’, and ‘cyber security’ to forecast how emerging trends will shape the future of business. A respected thou…
David Beech
Chief Executive
Knights plc
A corporate lawyer and former manager of a private equity fund, David joined Knights in 2011 with the vision to transform the business into the UK’s number one regional, legal & professional services business. With David’s clear strategy for growt…
Adrian Biles
CEO
Gordon Dadds Group
After completing a law degree at Southampton University, Adrian trained as a solicitor at a large City law firm. He has advised on a wide range of mergers, acquisitions and related transactions in respect of both private and public companies in the UK and internat…
Ruth Ward
Head of Knowledge & Collaboration Technologies
Allen & Overy
Ruth Ward is Head of Knowledge and Collaboration Technologies and a key member of A&O’s Legal Technology Group, driving the firm’s work in the rapidly evolving field of legaltech. A finance lawyer by background, Ruth moved into the KM area with Allen &am…
Ron Immink
Partner
Strategy Crowd
Entrepreneur Ron Immink is a Dutch/Irish entrepreneur and author with extensive experience in the areas of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, strategy, innovation and SME engagement. Author Ron’s books focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, market…
Tim Aspinall
CEO and Founder
Aspinall Consultants
Tim is the CEO and Founder of Aspinall Consultants Limited. He works with law firms, investors and new entrants into the legal services market on strategic projects including strategy reviews, pricing, productivity, client development, and mergers & acq…
Alicia Hardy
Director of Professional Support
White & Case
Alicia Hardy is Director of Professional Support and Counsel at White & Case responsible for leading the Professional Support function worldwide in developing and implementing global, local and practice-specific knowledge management strategies and i…
Dr. Frank-Stephan Hardt
Chief Financial Officer
T-Systems Slovakia
Dr. Frank-Stephan Hardt is T-Systems’s Slovakia s.r.o. Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for various finance operations such as the company’s corporate controllership as well as legal, compliance and procurement. Frank-Stephan started hi…
Mo Ajaz
Group Head of Legal Operational Excellence
National Grid
Mo was voted 2017 Hot100 Lawyer by the Lawyer Magazine, he has an MBA from Warwick University and MSc in Lean Enterprise from University of Buckingham. Mo has a keen interest in exploring Lean, Operational and Process Excellence in the legal market. He is a Directo…
Lisa Forte
Partner & GCHQ Certified Training Provider
Red Goat Cyber Security
Having gained her LLM from Bristol University, Lisa Forte worked for the UK Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Services before moving into the Police Cyber-Crime Unit. Here she got to know hackers’ mind sets and methodologies well. The Unit dealt with seriou…
Rachel Roberts
Head of Business Solutions
Burges Salmon
Rachel Roberts is Head of Business Solutions at independent UK law firm Burges Salmon. Rachel leads a growing team of innovation, technology and legal service delivery specialists, project managers and business analysts. The team works alongside lawyers t…
Mike Giles
Finance Director
Fieldfisher
Mike Giles is the Finance Director at Fieldfisher and has over 35 years’ experience of working in professional services organisations, including 18 years in law firms. He has significant international experience and expertise across the finance funct…
Stephen Allen
Global Head of Legal Services Delivery
Hogan Lovells
Stephen is a former lawyer who has devoted his career to delivering legal market change. Internationally recognized as a leading innovator, most recently by Legal Business, who named him the 2016 Legal Innovator of the Year, Stephen joined Hogan Lovells just ov…
Karen Jacks
IT Director
Bird & Bird
Karen leads the global technology team at Bird & Bird and has been a key player in the Firm providing the technology platforms to enable this rapid and diverse growth and support the strong tech & comms sector focus of the firm. Karen is a keen contributor to…
Warren Foot
Chief Executive
Fulcrum Chambers
Warren is a solicitor with significant and varied experience in legal business management. He was managing partner of niche City firm, Tarlo Lyons which he took into a merger with large regional player, Blake Lapthorn (now Blake Morgan LLP) in 2006. He was a Board…
Stuart Whittle
Business Services and Innovation Director
Weightmans
Stuart is a qualified lawyer by trade, having practiced law as a professional indemnity lawyer from 1995. He has been a partner at Weightmans since 2002. During 2003, Stuart become involved in Weightmans’ IT, designing, developing and rolling out case manage…
David Fazakerley
Chief Information Officer / Company Director
MW Solicitors
Over the last 5 years David has delivered an IT Strategy that allowed MW to grow rapidly, from 10 to 28 high street offices and 160 to 480 staff members whilst maintaining robust IT systems which are fit for purpose and value for money. His current focus is on systems a…
Barry Rodick
Legal Operations Consultant
Eversheds Sutherland
An ex IT professional turned Legal Operations owner, Barry started his career as Business Analyst for William Hill before joining Eversheds-Sutherland’s IT department helping the Practice Groups improve their processes and technology and then applied th…
Ben McGuire
Innovation & Business Change Director
Simmons & Simmons
Ben is the Innovation & Business Change Director and is responsible to the Managing Partner for the execution of the firm’s strategy in three key areas – innovation and new business, service excellence and the delivery of strategic projects.…
Thereza Snyman
Consultant
Baskerville Drummond Consulting
After a career as a lawyer specialising in Corporate and Commercial law, both in South Africa (where she was a partner of Webber Wenzel) and in the UK, Thereza’s interest in IT and the potential impact on the delivery of legal services led to a career-change and to…
Ruth Gawthorpe
CEO
The Smart Working Revolution
Ruth is the CEO of The Smart Working Revolution – a passionate champion of Smart Working. About 5 years ago Ruth became wheelchair bound for a while and realised just how much talent cannot do the commute 5 days a week. Today, she’s CEO of the Smart Worki…
Mabel Evans
IT Director
Fieldfisher
Mabel joined Fieldfisher more than 20 years ago as an IT manager, responsible for easing the change to desktop computers for every partner. She became IT director three years ago and now heads a team of around 40 technicians across the firm’s UK and internat…
Tim Roche
Head of IT
Stone King
Tim has worked in the Legal industry for the past 20 years. He has worked for both National and Global firms providing expertise in IT technical management, IT Director and CIO roles delivering IT services, project management, strategic planning and IT trans…
Tim Carter
Head of Ethical Hacking
S-RM
Tim joined S-RM to head up the Ethical Hacking service and with his varied expertise, he also consults across the other technical service lines. He brings 16 years experience working in the I.T. industry across various disciplines. These include software devel…
Dr. Heather Anson
Managing Director
Anson Evaluate
Heather is Managing Director of Anson Evaluate Ltd, a specialist Regulatory Compliance and Training Provider in the UK. Anson Evaluate delivers services through a variety in person training seminars, webinars, online e-learning courses and podcasts. Heath…
Will Stockdale
Director, Cyber Security
S-RM
As a Director at S-RM, Will has spent the past seven years working across the risk management sector, advising clients on a range of risks to their organisations and people globally. Within the firm, he has been responsible for the strategy and successful develop…
Paulina Jedwabska
Head of Information Governance
Dept. for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Paulina Jedwabska is a civil servant with excellent interpersonal skills and a genuine enthusiasm for creative solutions. She has proven track record in compliance, data protection and training. Currently working as a Head of Information Governance and acti…
Nigel Stott
Head of IT
Hudgell Solicitors
A veteran of legal technology, Nigel has worked both in-house and vendor side during his career and now heads up IT at Hudgell Solicitors. Nigel is a strong advocate of using cloud technology so that IT teams can focus on “getting the real work done”. H…
Adam Hembury
Director of Innovation
DLA Piper
Adam Hembury’s career spans 30 years and centres on delivering innovation and transformation through strategy and change management across professional services, finance, retail and manufacturing industries, for companies including Ashurst LLP,…
Christel Aguila
Partner & Head of IT
Winckworth Sherwood
Christel heads up Winckworth Sherwood’s IT department and has overall responsibility for IT Strategy, IT Business Continuity, Information and Data Security, and delivery of technological and transformation projects to the business. Christel joined WS a…
Dale Hodgkinson
Strategy and Architecture Manager
Slaughter & May
Over 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles within the legal sector of which 5 plus years have been both a consultant and strategy and architecture manager at Slaughter and May.…
John Croft
President & Co-Founder
Elevate Services
John is one of the leading innovators in the legal services industry, having spent the last thirty years helping law departments and law firms improve their efficiency, quality and outcomes. He is co-founder of Elevate, a law company that provides consulting, t…
Hossein Kakavand
CEO & Founder
Luther Systems
Luther Systems CEO, Hossein Kakavand has extensive experience in the technology space and financial enterprise services. Hossein received his Ph.D from Stanford University in Information Systems and Statistics, and subsequently Stanford Business School…
Matthew Newton
Joint Managing Director
Oosha
Matthew is Joint Managing Director and co-founder of Oosha Ltd, a leading cloud desktop and managed IT service provider for the legal sector. Matthew regularly advises law firms on the most effective IT strategies to help them modernise, stay compliant and mana…
Tetiana Bersheda
Founder & Director
LexSnap
Dr. iur. Tetiana Bersheda is an attorney at the bar of Geneva and former lecturer at the University of Geneva with a passion for innovative solutions to problems facing the legal market. Her practice has focused on the resolution of complex international dispute…
Rick Hellers
President & CEO
nQueue
Rick has more than 35 years‘ experience in legal technology and operations management for various law firms (including two Amlaw 200 firms). Rick is a former member of Association of Legal Administrators and a founding member of International Legal Technolo…
Barry Vickery
General Manager of Corporate Services
InfoTrack
Barry is General Manager of Corporate Services and has over 20 years’ experience in providing innovative solutions to the corporate market in the UK and Australia. Barry joined the InfoTrack team in June 2016 and is responsible for the strategic and operation…
Jeanette Makings
Head of Financial Education
Close Brothers
Jeanette heads up the financial education business at Close Brothers and is a well-known thought leader in the UK financial wellbeing space. She has spent her whole career working with UK businesses; first with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young and for the la…
Stevie Ghiassi
CEO & Co-Founder
Legaler
Stevie Ghiassi is the CEO and co-founder of Legaler, an Australian company focused on advancing the delivery of legal services and expanding access to justice through blockchain technology. Stevie is also the host of the LegalMeets podcast, showcasing global…
Geoff Hornsby
General Manager, EMEA
iManage
Geoff is the General Manager for iManage in EMEA. In this role he looks after all operations in EMEA including development, support, sales, partner management and marketing. Geoff was part of the original iManage team and has been with the company for 15 years. Pr…
Ian Raine
VP of Product Management
iManage
Ian has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, building information governance and records management software products for the enterprise. Ian is currently VP of Product Management for the Security and Information Governance division of iManage, re…
Martin Ward
Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance
iManage
Martin Ward is the Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance at iManage. Martin joined iManage in early 2018 and is focused on building and expanding the security compliance, risk management and certification programmes. Martin has spent over 15 years in Cyb…
Ann Hemming
Engagement Manager
LexisNexis
Ann is an Engagement Manager at LexisNexis. She has 30 years’ experience of working primarily within law firms but also as a consultant with suppliers of KM and technology solutions. Ann specialises in helping clients deliver value from the strategic use of te…
Daniel Boddington
Enterprise Sales Engineer
StarLeaf
Dan is an Enterprise Technology Engineer in the UK Major Accounts team at StarLeaf. Having graduated from the University of Durham, Dan has supported the StarLeaf team working on large accounts moving from channel account support, project engineering into ent…
Nima Nikoobian
Partner for the Professional Services
Frosch Learning
With the current battleground as competitive as ever, Nima concentrates his efforts on fee earners and senior partners alike, exposing them to best practice and helping them to stand out from the pack- by implementing next practice. As a partner at Frosch, Nima s…
Rachael Dunkerley
Partner, Professional Services
Frosch Learning
With over 25 years’ experience working with a range of professional service industries including the legal, financial and insurance sectors, Frosch Learning are experts in bespoke business development and management training. As a partner at Frosch, Rach…
Barry Meaden
Head of Scanning Solutions
Pitney Bowes
Barry Meaden is UK lead for Inbound Digital Technologies for Pitney Bowes, leading and advising sales teams on inbound digitisation and scanning solutions. As one of our specialists in the field of Inbound Digital Technologies, Barry works in partnership with…
Clementine Fox
Head of Account Management
Luminance
Clementine is Head of Account Management at Luminance, the artificial intelligence platform for the legal profession. She is responsible for managing and overseeing Luminance clients across the globe, as well as leading adoption and strategic planning for i…
David Arnold
Distinguished Solutions Architect
BlackBerry
David has worked in mobile since 2009, heavily specializing in Enterprise Mobility and Application Development on all modern mobile platforms. Prior to mobile, David graduated from Queens’ College, Cambridge with a Masters Degree and went on to work as lead…
Nicola Smith
Business Development Manager, EMEA
nQueue
Nicola Jane Smith holds a LLB Law Degree & LLM Master’s Degree in Legal Professional Practice at The University of Law with a Commendation Award and was Called to the Bar of England and Wales. Having worked at Sanders Witherspoon LLP – As a Criminal Law Cons…
Nick Francis
Senior Growth Marketer
Clio
Nick Francis is the senior Growth Marketing Manager for Clio – Legal Case Management Software in the UK and Europe. He has led growth and marketing teams at technology companies specialising in artificial intelligence and financial technology. He is ene…
Darren Ingles
Senior Director, Program Management
LexisNexis Enterprise
Darren Ingles is Programme Director responsible for the operation and governance of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, LexisOne. He also contributes to the strategic direction of the company. Prior to this role, he was focussed on delivering Lexis…
Jason Hart
CTO of Data Protection
Gemalto
As a former ethical hacker with 24 years’ experience in the Information Security industry, Jason has used his knowledge and expertise to create technologies that ensure organisations stay one step ahead of the risks presented by ongoing advances Cyber threa…
Faraz Aladin
Sr. Director, Product Management & Marketing
Illumio
Faraz Aladin is part of Illumio’s product and technical marketing team. He has more than 25 years of industry experience having worked at industry leaders as well as start-ups. His subject matter expertise spans across Networking & Cloud Infrastructure…
