Today, we live in a fast evolving world, and we are changing with it, too.

We invite you to Minsk on October 22-24, 2015, to discuss, how to change while remaining true to oneself and develop the best professional consulting traditions and practices.

Minsk Legal Forum is both a venue for meeting colleagues and old friends, and a breakthrough platform for a dialogue of legal professionals from different countries, a professional forum in the center of Europe providing for exchange of opinions, experience, and for establishment of new business contacts.

At the meeting, we are going to discuss the advocacy reform outcomes and ways of improvement based on case studies of a number of European countries. We are looking forward to an exciting expert discourse on such crisis manifestations of the present day, as bankruptcy and debtor asset search.

With strategy & growth consultant, we shall discuss topical challenges faced by the legal business today, as well as new opportunities for development in the present context. A session on the correlation between the lawyer’s mission and hobby will be just as interesting and useful, as it may promote brand reputation in general, and we would be happy to hear your stories.

Representatives of the leading law companies and legal practices from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have confirmed their participation in the forum.

We have prepared warm welcome, friendly informal conversations during unofficial activities, as well as a varied entertainment program for the forum guests

We are certain that Minsk will turn to a true European capital of lawyers for these days!

Agenda of the Minsk Legal Forum:
New Challenges and Opportunities for Lawyers
at the Modern Stage

22.10 – 24.10.2015

Renaissance Hotel, Minsk, Belarus

October 22, 2015, Thursday

10:00-23:00. Arrival of the participants

16:00 – meeting with students of the Faculty of Law of Belarusian State University

Topic: “Role of the Professional Lawyer Community in Law Education Development: Practical Aspects and Experience of Various Countries”

20:00-00:00 – informal welcome dinner for the participants

October 23, 2015, Friday

08:00-09:00 – Registration of the participants. Welcoming coffee

09:00-09:05 - Welcome address – Mr. Oleg Leonidovich Slizhevsky, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus

09:05-09:10 – Welcome address – Mr. Valery Vatslavovich Mitskevich, Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus

09:10-09:15 – Welcome address – Mr. Viktor Ivanovich Chaichits, Chairperson of the Belarus National Bar Association

09:15-11:00 – Forum Plenary Session: “Advocacy Reform Outcomes and Development Perspectives in Various Countries”

Moderators:

• Mr. Valery Papakul, Partner, Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners Advocates Bureau, Belarus
• Mr. Evgeny Shestakov, Managing partner, INTELLECT-S The Group of Law Firms, Russia

Speakers:

• Mr. Viktor Ivanovich Chaichits, Chairperson, Belarus National Bar Association

Mr. Andrey Suchkov, Counselor, Russian Federal Chamber of Advocates 

• Mr. Denis Bugay, Attorney, Chairperson, Ukrainian Lawyer Association, Ukraine
• Mr. Tugel, Anuar Kurmanbayuly, Chairperson, Kazakhstan Republican Bar Association

11:00-11:30 – coffee break.

11:30-13:00 Session: “Bankruptcy, Asset Search (Domestic and International), Criminal Aspects of Bankruptcy”

Moderators:

•   Mr. Eduard Olevinsky, Board Chairperson, Olevinsky, Buyukyan and Partners Law Bureau, Russia
•   Mr. Denis Saushkin, Partner, Zabeyda, Kasatkin, Saushkin and Partners Advocates Bureau, Russia

Speakers:

• Mr. Yuri Monastyrsky, Partner, Monastyrsky, Zyuba, Stepanov & Partners Law Firm, Russia (The speaker is to be confirmed)
• Mr. Feodor Vyacheslavov, Partner, ALRUD Law Firm, Russia
  
   13:00-14:30 - lunch

14.30-16.30 – Session: “Current Challenges for the Law Business”

Moderators:

• Ms. Irina Nikitina, Strategy & Growth independent Consultant, Ukraine
• Ms. Tatiana Ignatovskaya, Partner, Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners Advocates Bureau, Belarus

Speakers:

• Mr. Roman Zaitsev, Partner in Dentons' Moscow office
• Mr. Oleg Makarov, Partner, Vasil Kisil and Partners Law Firm, Ukraine
• Mr. Denis Kachkin, Attorney, Managing Partner, Kachkin and Partners Advocates Bureau, Russia
• Mr. Ramunas Audzevičius, Partner, Motieka & Audzevičius Law Firm, Lithuania
• The speakers are to be confirmed

16.30-17.00 – coffee break

17:00-18:30 Session: “Hobby-Mission/Mission-Hobby: Can Devotions be Converted into Reputation?”

Moderators:

• Mr. Andrey Korelskiy, Managing Partner, KIAP Advocates Bureau, Russia
• Mr. Alexander Stepanovski, Stepanovski, Papakul and Partners Advocates Bureau, Belarus

Speakers:

• Mr. Kirill Saskov, Partner, Kachkin and Partners Advocates Bureau, Russia
• Mr. Glenn S. Kolleeny, Partner in Dentons' Moscow office
• Mr. Sergey Saveliev, Partner, Nektorov, Saveliev & Partners Law Firm, Russia
• Mr. Nazar Chernyavsky, Partner, Sayenko Kharenko Law Firm, Ukraine
• Mr. Kirill Belski, Partner, Koblev & Partners Advocates Bureau, Russia

18:30-18:45 – Closing remarks of the Organizers

19:15-22:00–  Cocktail

October 24, 2015

10:00 – 12:00 – Minsk sightseeing tour

12:00-13:30 – Visit to the World War II Museum

If you have any questions, please write to our PR manager:
Alina Kurlenka minsklegalforum@gmail.com

+375 296 11 23 40   http://eng.minsklegal.by/