2021 LWOW Sprint-X Inc. Webinars
February - April 2021| LWOW sprint-x Inc. Webinars
1. 17 February 2021 | You Think You Know, But You Have No Idea: The Art of Problem Refinement.
The first 2021 LWOW webinar will revisit how to understand and identify the difference between symptoms and problems. It will highlight approaches for unpacking different aspects of a problem/challenge and explore how the refined problem impacts the final product and pitches.
Host: LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
2. 24 February 2021 | Tell Me A Tale, Sell Me a Story: Constructing, Scripting and Relaying the Consumer Story
Understand the importance and role of the target audience in designing, testing, and communicating an effective solution/product and explore different tools and techniques to structure and develop the client/consumer/user story. This webinar will review client/consumer/user stories to understand what works when (and why).
Host: LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
3. 03 March 2021 | If You Build It, Will They Come? A workshop on the What, How, and Why of Prototyping.
This live webinar, with an introduction by Thought Leader, Co-Founder and Director of Avvoka.com David Howorth, explores the fundamentals, goals, and methodology of prototyping and provides a guided strategy for embarking on the prototyping process. It also outlines a process by which developers can understand how to measure prototyping success and assess learnings from each stage of development.
Host: Thought Leader David Howorth, Director, Avvoka.com and LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
4. 10 March 2021 | Strategies For Success: The Mechanics and Meaning of a Business Plan.
Start Me Up! This Webinar will identify key components of a business plan and their function and help you to understand how investors evaluate the structure and strength of a business plan (and the people behind it). We visit and explore successes and failures of past real-world business plans.
Host: LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
5. 17 March 2021 | Start Me Up Part II: The Specifics to a Business Plan, the Legal Issues, and Financials.
What is the definition of a well-crafted business plan? Building a business plan is not just a SWOT analysis. This Webinar explores the specifics to a business plan and the myriad components of a business case that builds, well, a successful case.
Host: LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
6. 24 March 2021 | Brand Building Blocks: From Logo to Launch.
What’s the relationship between marketing and branding? Phyllis Schaeffler Dealy of Reinvent the World and STUDIO/Reinvent will be our Thought Leader in this live LWOW webinar. In addition to exploring the ties that bind branding to marketing, Phyllis will provide tips and advice on how to develop a brand identity from logos to launch for a new product or service that matches the refined problem and target audience and describes how to align learnings from prototyping, refined problem, and target audience exploration with a successful branding and marketing strategy.
Host: Branding Thought Leader Phyllis Schaeffler Dealy of Reinvent the World (www.reinvent.world) and STUDIO/Reinvent (www.studioreinvent.com) and LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
7. 31 March 2021 | Getting Ready Without Breaking Your Leg: A ConPosium Crash Course.
LWOW ConPosium is coming up. What does your team need to do to prepare? This Webinar offers tips and advice on the best ways to ready and steady yourself for a remarkable experience. You’ve done the work, it’s time to learn strategies and tactics to polish the goods and show it (and your team) in the best and most persuasive light.
Host: LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
8. 7 April 2021 | A Review: 2019 LWOW X ConPosium Presentations
Watch and discuss segments of the LWOW’s 2019 X Virtual ConPosium Presentations. What worked, what didn’t and where can teams find opportunities
Host: LWOW Program Director Anita Ritchie
Previous 2020 LWOW Live Webinars
17 June 2020 | LWOW Sprint-X WebinaR: The Art of Giving Feedback
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Thought Leaders: Chad Fischer (Microsoft, US) & Steve Mehr (Ballard Spahr LLP, US)
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January 2020 - April 2020 | LWOW Xed Live Webinars
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22 January 2020 | Xed KickOff: Why and How Lawyers Need to Innovate and Collaborate
The first 2020 LWOW Live webinar will focus on the new expectations of legal professionals and why they need to hone new mindsets and skill-sets—and learn how to innovate—in order to meet these expectations. It will then turn to how: how legal professionals can innovate via the 3-4-5 Method of Innovation designed by Professor Michele DeStefano that over 200 LWOW teams have utilized to develop their Projects of Worth in the past. It will conclude with best practices for multicultural, virtual teaming and collaboration. Click here to see the reading list.
Host & Thought Leader: Professor Michele DeStefano (University of Miami, US)
29 January 2020 | Innovation in the Legal Marketplace: Disruption or Evolution?
Fueled by accelerating digitization, increased global interconnectivity, and transparency, the legal industry is facing unprecedented change across the entire value chain. But will these changes be disruption or evolution? This webinar is designed to teach the theory behind the underlying key concepts of invention, innovation, diffusion, and disruption and then explore and debate the answer the question. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Thought Leaders: Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna (PWC, Switzerland ), Jordan Furlong (Law 21, Canada), Professor William Henderson (Indiana University Maurer School of Law, US), and Matthias Trummer (PWC, Austria)
5 February 2020 | New Law: An Unavoidable Reality—Not Just an Alternative
What happens when the alternative becomes mainstream? According to research, companies that have been recently called “Alternative Legal Service Providers” aren’t just alternatives as more and more in-house legal departments utilize them and their market share continues to grow. The session will begin by describing what types of services these new law companies provide and how they are similar and different from that of traditional law firms. Then it will explore whether alternative legal service providers could/should be rebranded to fit the true breadth, type, and quality of services they provide. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Thought Leaders: Amir S Dhillon (Axiom UK), Professor Maria Jose Esteban Ferrer (ESADE, Spain), Patrick Lamb (Elevate Services, US), James Peters (Pulse Global Services/Legal Zoom, UK & US), and Professor David Wilkins (Harvard Law School, US)
12 February 2020 | The Innovation Tournament: How are Law Firms Playing the Game?
Driven by a combination of technology, socio-economics, and globality, we are witnessing innovation on almost every legal dimension, including how legal services are priced, packaged, sourced, and delivered. Importantly, this innovation is not only coming from legal tech startups and alternative legal service providers (now called ‘law companies’). The Big Four, corporate legal departments, and law firms are creating some innovations of their own, including new services, products, tools, and, importantly, new processes. For example, big firms have purchased LPOs, created new tools to provide self-service to clients, and developed innovation incubators. Even those organizations that aren’t creating the innovations are playing in what Professor Michele DeStefano’s calls the “Innovation Tournament” by utilizing the innovations (or exapting them) to become more efficient and effective and deliver better service. This session is designed to explore real-life examples of innovation at law firms to determine how well law firms are playing the game. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Thought Leaders: James Batham (Eversheds Sutherland, UK), David Halliwell (Pinsent Masons, UK), Nicky Leijtens (NautaDutilh, Netherlands) Lisa Leong (010 Australia), Adam Ryan (Freshfields, UK), and Nikki Shaver (Paul Hastings, US).
19 February 2020 | Lions, Tigers, & Bears: Blockchain, AI, and Automation in Law
Often the emphasis is on creating new tools, yet half the struggle is getting lawyers to use them. By utilizing resources that often already exist within a law firm, efficient and transparent knowledge sharing can increase productivity and remove anxiety around routine tasks that junior lawyers undertake. Attend this webinar to hear how blockchain, AI, and automation are being used in simple ways to make legal services more efficient and effective. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Featured Thought Leaders: Joshua Lenon (Clio, Canada), Erika Pagano (Simmons Wavelength, UK), Alex Smith (iManage RAVN, UK), and Noah Weisberg (Kira Systems, Canada)
26 February 2020 | A Journey’s End to Legal Design: From Operationalizing the Legal Function to Digital Transformation
Historically, the focus of the legal function was primarily on the quality of the output. For years, in-house departments were able to defend their budgets/cost base and to contain costs by reducing headcount, utilizing LPOs and other low-cost service providers, changing the make/buy balance, and enhancing oversight of law firms. Today, in order to meet the demands of the less-for-more challenge, in-house lawyers are being asked to operationalize their legal departments. Moreover, senior management have begun to expect the in-house department to support the enterprise’s digital transformation journey not only by defending the enterprise but by embracing digital transformation internally to add value to the bottom line. This webinar is designed to explore these new demands from various perspectives and to unpack what digital transformation really means. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Thought Leaders: Catherine Alman MacDonagh (Legal Lean Sigma Institute, US), Ines Bahachille (Mondelez, US/Latin America), Caroline Brown (Aviva, UK), Dan Hendy (United Lex, US), and Maurus Schreyvogel (Novartis, Switzerland)
4 March 2020 | Meet RegTech & SupTech: The New Super Heroes of Compliance
Government regulations are on the rise and sometimes they destroy legal initiatives and innovation. Other times, they foster them. This webinar is designed to explore two examples of the latter. It will focus on the two new Super Heroes of compliance: RegTech and SupTech. Come prepared to learn and discuss how RegTech and SupTech have entered the compliance scene to enhance regulatory compliance, process, and monitoring for both the regulated businesses and the agencies that supervise them. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Marcia Narine (University of Miami, US)
Thought Leaders: David Bundi (PWC, Switzerland), Dave Curran (FiscalNote, US), Richard Montes De Oca (MDO Partners, US), and Peter Sudbury (Handelsbanken, UK)
11 March 2020 | Bittersweet C-Suite Symphony: Chief Officers of Law Firms (Note: TIME CHANGE; webinar starts @5pm ET but due to daylight savings, this might mean it starts an hour earlier for you e.g., if you live in the UK or Europe etc.).
As the legal ecosystem has become more global, complex, competitive, and multi-disciplinary, more and more law firms have hired C-suite professionals to help run the day-to-day operations of firms and help build competitive advantage. The professionals lead innovation, talent & development, recruitment, operations, marketing, business development, technology, knowledge management, and strategy to name a few. However, research indicates that these professionals are often under-utilized, under-invested-in, or un-empowered or ill-equated to engage and influence senior law firm leaders at the firm to add true value. This webinar begins by overviewing the goals and roles of law firm C-Suite officers as described by the literature and enhanced by the Thought Leaders. It then seeks to identify the gaps that, if filled, represent opportunities to help C-Suite officers of law firms to increase their contribution to their firms, better leverage their capabilities, and enhance their sphere of influence. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Professor Michele DeStefano
Thought Leaders: Katie DeBord (BCLP, US), Lucy Dillon (Reed Smith, UK), Suzanne Donnels (Jenner & Block, US), Mark Higgs (Freshfields, UK), Maggie Suender (Pepper Hamilton, US), and Mark Thompson (Alston & Bird, US) (Note: daylight savings will have occurred in some locations. The webinar starts at 5pm ET which will be 9:00pm UK/10:00pm Europe on this date.)
18 March 2020 | GC Legal Jetsons: Envisioning In-house Legal Departments of the Future
In-house legal departments are traditionally focused on controlling costs however, there is an increasing emphasis and shift for the in-house legal department to play a larger part in strategic advising for overall organization objectives. The shift from being a cost-center to a value-driver/key partner also serves as a transformation driver. This webinar is designed to hear predictions for the future (about legal departments and legal careers)from the Thought Leaders who are acting as legal jetsons and paving the way. Click here to see the reading list.
Hosts: Professor Michele DeStefano and Fred Headon (Air Canada, Canada)
Thought Leaders: Augusto Aragone (Ingram Micro, US), Andrea Convalia (L´Oréal, Chile & Perú), Dan Kayne (Network Rail, UK), Fergus Speight (Royal London, UK), Bjarne Tellmann (Pearson, US) and Jeff Carr (Race car driver & formerly Univar, FMC, US) (Note: daylight savings will have occurred in some locations. The webinar starts at 5pm ET which will be 9:00pm UK/10:00pm Europe on this date.)
25 March 2020 | Future Legal Careers: LWOW Success Stories
After years of rigorous education, many young legal professionals will face a prisoner’s dilemma of sorts when entering the legal field. Inherently risk averse, law students are often pressured into following a traditional path setting aside opportunities to upskill on practical and soft skills. For example, asking the right questions at the right time to the right people is a job in itself in the first year (or years) of practice. In the end seemingly small tasks that are second nature to senior lawyers can be anxiety inducing, often leading to inefficiency and low utilization. On the opposite spectrum, junior lawyers opting to fake-it-until-they-make it, present their own set of issues. Certain strains of overconfidence can lead to repeated mistakes, learning plateaus, and costly oversights. This webinar is designed to explore the dos and don'ts in the first years and feature the success stories of LawWithoutWalls student alumni who took their learnings and applied them to their own unique successful career. Click here to see the reading list.
Host: Lulia Hito (University of Miami, US)
Featured Thought Leaders: Nawal Fakhoury (LinkedIn, US), Koren Grinshpoon (echoAR, Inc., US), Vanessa Kuljis (University of Miami, US), Ana Martinez Valls (Cleary Gottlieb, US), and Felix Schulte-Strathaus (Simmons Wavelength Limited, UK)! (Note: daylight savings will have occurred in some locations. The webinar starts at 5pm ET which will be 9:00pm UK/10:00pm Europe on this date.)
1 April 2020 | Accessibility & Inclusion: Sourcing Innovation in Law
There has been a lot of articles highlighting the importance of diversity for innovation. Research shows that diversity of all kinds—including but not limited to race, religion, age, culture, generation, gender identification, ambition, psychological, personality, and cognitive, diversity—enhances complex problem solving, creativity, and innovation. As such, it is not surprising that there is also a lot of research on the importance of inclusivity i.e., if the environment is not inclusive, then it won’t be diverse. This is also true for accessibility: if our innovation process is not accessible, it won’t be as diverse because people with disabilities will not be able to contribute. Further, there is also a lot of research—and proof—that when we approach innovation (product or service improvement of any kind), when we design for accessibility, we end up developing improvements that are better for all users. Despite this, the importance of accessibility seems under-emphasized in the legal practice and education. This webinar is designed to explore how accessibility and inclusion can and should be included in the law marketplace and simultaneously serve as a source of innovation. Click here to see the reading list.
Hosts: Professor Michele DeStefano and Vanessa Kuljis (University of Miami, US)
Thought Leaders: Marcy Cox (University of Miami, US), Cameron Dadkhah (Pupil Barrister, UK), Carrie Gilman (Goodwin, US), Lydia Petrakis (Microsoft, US) Mark Swatzell (Microsoft, US) Dave Walton (Cozen O-Connor, US), and Scott Westfahl (Harvard Law School, US) (Note: daylight savings will have occurred in most places by this date. The webinar starts at 5pm ET which will be 10:00pm UK/11:00pm Europe on this date.)
8 April 2020 | ConPosium: LWOW Xed Team Presentations
By this point, the 65 students who participated in LWOW Xed in 2020 will have finished their 4 month journey on a multi-cultural team to create a solution to a social justice problem. (Click here to see the teams’ topic challenges). This final webinar consists of presentations of the Projects of Worth by the student teams in a quasi-ignite style format: 20 slides in five minutes. Come and support our LWOW Xed students’ efforts in collaborative, creative problem finding and solving! Click here to see the reading list. (Note: daylight savings will have occurred in most places by this date. The webinar starts at 5pm ET which will be 10:00pm UK/11:00pm Europe on this date.)