NewLaw – what’s that? What does ALSP stand for?? How is a law company different from a law firm? What does the South African alternative legal sector look like? What transformation is the legal industry going through? Are lawyers going to be replaced by AI?

Great questions. Join this session to hear the answers and more with Janet Taylor-Hall, CEO of Cognia, Aalia Manie, Partner and Head of Legal Solutions & Technology at Webber Wentzel and Vanessa Kingsmill, Head of ALT at Herbert Smith Freehills.

Data, data, data – it’s everywhere, it’s become a valuable commodity, but how do you extract  value from it and how do we protect it?

Linked to this, is the development of generative AI and how it is impacting the transformation of the legal industry. This includes the creation of new jobs like prompt engineering and Genai Research Engineering. Interested in learning more?

Join Joanna Oomen, a Legal Delivery Manager,  from Cognia, and our speakers for an insightful discussion around these questions and the integral role data analysts play in the business and practice of law:

Legal project managers are delivery specialists – their role is to help ensure that legal services are delivered in a way which meets the client’s cost, time and quality expectations – all the while enabling a law firm’s/legal department’s commercial objectives, driving technology-enabled transformation, and maintaining the mental well-being of its lawyers.

In this session, Stefan Crous, a lawyer at Cognia who also fulfils the role of LPM, will explore how legal project managers make all the pieces fit together, with these specialists:

What do consultants, consult about? What do legal design thinkers design? Good questions!

Sharing expertise and knowledge is no longer confined to LEGAL expertise and knowledge in law firms, legal departments, or ALSPs. Solutions to clients problems increasingly require an holistic approach, that uses expertise of various specialists including adopting new ways of solving legal problems by applying business advisory and design principles.

In this session, Janet Taylor-Hall, CEO of Cognia Law, will explore these roles and concepts with these experts:

The NewLaw sector gives legal professionals an option to work in legal but outside the traditional law firm and in-house legal models. They can be found working alongside with legal technologists, analysts, and project managers and deliver legal services in an efficient, tech enabled way!

In this session, Oliver von Hasseln, a Legal Delivery Manager at Cognia Law, will explore how legal professionals fit into the NewLaw space, with these great panellists:

Legal tech is a multi-billion-dollar global industry and a driver for legal innovation and the legal industry’s transformation.

The role of a legal tech developer is about understanding this context, working with clients, and then creating tech solutions to solve the problem. The role of the legal technician is to know how the relevant legal tech solution works, what problems it can solve and how to apply it to the client’s problem.

In this session, Calvin Simpson, Solutions Architect at Cognia Law, will explore how these roles interface with the legal industry, with these awesome panellists:

The role of the legal operations professional is one of THE hot evolving specialisms in the legal ecosystem right now. So, what’s involved in this role? Why would anyone want to do it? What do you need to know to be successful in it? And, how will the role change in the future?

In this session, Alison Trappler, a Legal Solutions Architect at Cognia, will explore these questions with these panellists: