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Legal Week Future of Legal Services Forum - What will be the most important development in the legal profession over the next 5 years?

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Welcome to the Future of Legal Services Forum 2011: Adapting to change, evolving to prosper

Thursday 14 April 2011
Chancery Court Hotel London, UK

"The legal profession faces the classic choice of seeing the future as a challenge or as an opportunity. But it can only accept change; it does not have the luxury nor the choice to ignore it. That change is overdue and, in my view, is going to be significant - indeed dramatic. For too long the profession has retained the hope that it can hide while change passes it by. No longer. So this Forum which looks at the future provides an opportunity to focus on that change, to learn and to observe and to be better prepared."

Stuart Popham, senior partner, Clifford Chance & chairman, TheCityUK
Future of Legal Services Forum 2011 conference chairman

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Legal Week's Future of Legal Services Forum will aim to get to the very heart of our changing legal landscape. With the Legal Services Act continuing to fuel change and innovation, we can weigh up whether firms are naturally evolving or whether they are being forced to change to keep up with competition. With a combination of economic, regulatory, competitive and political forces, we can agree that the next few years will be defining years for the industry.

This year's forum features a keynote speech from Jonathan Djanogly MP who will share his thoughts on the Legal Services Act and enlighten us as to where it is headed in its final stages of implementation. Delegates will receive updates from the Bar and where we expect to see major reform and how they are capitalising on such opportunities.

Delegates will also have the opportunity to:
- Understand how city firms are perceived in light of regulation
- Hear lenders' and regulators' perspectives on alternative business structures
- Hear how new market entrants are perceived by the industry
- Debate what law firms and chambers will look like in five years time
- Join debate over employment under new business structures

The forum will also feature intimate breakout sessions that will take advantage of this forum's unique ability to bring together a good mix of practice models into one place to discuss the latest developments in their sectors.

I look forward to welcoming you in April to what I assure you will be an enjoyable and thought-provoking forum.

Laura Goldberger
Conference producer, Legal Week