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CHRISSIE LIGHTFOOT
Chrissie Lightfoot is CEO and founder of EntrepreneurLawyer Ltd, a global consulting business based in the UK that specialises in the future of legal services, AI and robots in law, personal branding, and preparing professionals and companies for the future.
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WELCOME to Legalex, the event specifically designed for the most progressive, future focussed, and ambitious law firms and professionals looking to discover the latest cutting edge and leading innovations to compete in our increasingly competitive and challenging legal market. I’m sure you will agree that the legal ecosystem is changing and evolving at a rate of speed never previously experienced before and businesses of law are being challenged and forced to adapt intelligently or risk being left in a smart competitor’s shadow. Legalex is a unique event. This conference is the largest UK legal exhibition designed specifically to help law firms and professionals improve, expand, and grow to find more clients, modernise, and ultimately take their business to the next level whilst preparing for the increasingly consumer demanding, machine intelligent, and robotic world.
premier event for those firms that are ready to mirror the evolution of the sector they operate in; standing still, doing nothing, and/or ‘doing business as usual’ is no longer a viable option for many businesses in this industry and profession. It never was, by the way. If you want to succeed in the business of law in 2017 and beyond you need to consider the unusual. And you’ll find it all here at Legalex. Staying abreast of trends, drivers, and innovations, and gaining an awareness, understanding, and helping hand to overcome the deluge of threats that sit with the legal territory is what makes Legalex a MUST attend event for anyone working in law, or about to. I feel grateful to be involved and privileged to greet you at what will be a very special and beneficial two days. Enjoy using this show guide to plan your day and make the very best of your visit to Legalex. Warmest,
There are 120 free CPD accredited seminars from leading legal business experts, 1-2-1 advice from the industry’s biggest names, unrivalled networking opportunities, interactive masterclasses, and 150 of the most innovative suppliers who are set to sculpt the future of the industry. With continual rapid change comes opportunity and Legalex stands as the
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One of the world’s top female futurists and bestselling author of ‘The Naked Lawyer’ series.
Chrissie is a prominent international legal figure. She is a solicitor (non-practising), an entrepreneur, legal futurist, legaltech investor, international keynote speaker, writer and author.
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CEO and founder of EntrepreneurLawyer Ltd
Chrissie also co-founded AI Tech Support Ltd (Robot Lawyer LISA) and is the visionary and creator of LISA - your Legal Intelligence Support Assistant – the world’s first impartial AI lawyer. She heads up the company in researching and developing legal AI apps for businesses and consumers.
She is a regular legal and business commentator (quoted periodically in The Times), Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Westminster, School of Law, specialising in the research, theory, and practice of AI and robots in the legal ecosystem, and author of bestseller ‘The Naked Lawyer’ and ‘Tomorrow’s Naked Lawyer.’ Chrissie is also an entrepreneur mentor at Law Without Walls; featured in Time Magazine, The Financial Times, and Forbes. In 2013 she was honoured as `Legal Professional of the Year 2013` and a `Top 100 International Executive` and was a thought leader and contributor in ILTA’s 2014 report `Legal Technology Future Horizons: Strategic Imperatives for the Law Firm of the Future.’ She is named in the 2015 list of the ‘World’s Top Female Futurists’ and LinkedIn as the No.1 best-connected and most engaged woman in the legal industry, Fourth in all sectors. In 2017 EntrepreneurLawyer was selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 50 Entrepreneur Blogs on the web and she became an advisor to the board of The Telegraph’s Digital Enterprise Network.
CHRISSIE LIGHTFOOT’S BRILLIANT SEMINAR
AI HYPE OR AI ROBOT LAWYER SUCCESS?
Chrissie will share with us her knowledge, experience, insights and advice by presenting a whistle-stop tour of the present and likely near future use of smart technologies, such as cognitive computing, AI apps, bots, machine learning and symbolic Al in the global legal eco-system. She will focus on how these technologies are being (and will be) deployed in the industry revealing the benefits to each stakeholder; client, lawyer; and tech supplier.
WEDNESDAY | 12.00 | KEYNOTE THEATRE 1
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