09:30 – 10:00

Registration. Morning Coffee

10:00 – 10:15

Forum opening. Welcoming words

Maksym Sheverdin, Managing Partner at Sheverdin & Partners

Oleksiy Savchuk, Head of the UBA Branch in Dnipropetrovsk Region області

10:15 – 11:35

Session 1. Panel Discussion
Procedural Codes in Action

Moderator: Maksym Sheverdin, Managing Partner at Sheverdin & Partners

Participants:

Liudmyla Volkova, Managing Associate at Kinstellar, ex-judge

Iryna Verba, judge-speaker of the Dnipropetrovsk District Administrative Court

Volodymyr Vaschenko, partner at VB PARTNERS

Issues for Discussion:

• Viewpoints of lawyers on the novelties of the procedural codes.
• Measures to prevent the abuse of procedural rights.
• Proportionality in economic justice.
• Reimbursement of expenses for professional legal assistance.

11:35 – 11:50

Q&A Session

11:50 – 12:20

Coffee break

12:20 – 13:20

Session 2. Panel Discussion
Modernazation of the Criminal Procedural Code

Moderator: Serhiy Tarasevych, senior partner at Smyrnov, Tarasevysh & Partners

Participants:

Yevgen Grushovets, advocate, partner at Ario Law Firm

Oksana Dytynko, partner at Fomin & Partners

Maryna Starovoitova, advocate, deputy head of the Board of the NGO "Bar Association of Legal Aid Providers"

Issues for discussion:

• Challenging suspicion in a new way.
• Compliance with reasonable timelines: realities and prospects.
• Appointment of expertise: monopoly procedures vs adversarial parties.
• Strengthening the competitive principle.

13:20 – 13:35

Q&A Session

13:35 – 14:20

Lunch

14:20 – 15:20

Session 3. Panel Discussion
Elements of successful law firms and attorney's offices

Moderator: Iryna Khymchak, partner of the communication group BeCentric

Participants:

Denys Myrgorodskiy, Partnership Manager at Dynasty Law Firm

Olena Parkhomenko, director on business development at ILF

Nikolay Melnykov, Partner at Interlegal

Oleksandr Bondarchuk, Managing Partner at Absolute

Roksolana Kostur, Partner at Matviyiv and Partners

Issues for Discussion:

• Practical cases of effective communication.
• Internal structuring in a law firm
• Corporate and personal PR and promotion
• How toxic client's reputation may affect your personal brand?

15:20 – 15:35

Q&A Session

15:35 – 16:05

Coffee break

16:05 – 16:45

Special Presentation
Legal Tech or What Does Legal Robotics Mean?

Speaker:

Dima Gadomsky, CEO Axon Partners

16:45 – 17:45

Session 4. Panel Discussion
Legal Peculiarities of East Ukrainian Region

Moderator: Oleksiy Savchuk, director at Assyria Law Firm

Participants:

Maksym Korniev, Deputy General Director of Legal Affairs at SOUTHERN MINING FACTORY

Serhii Slyvka, Commercial Director at Grand Distribution

Anton Kharytonov, CEO at QFM Group

Sergiy Smirnov, counsel at Sayenko Kharenko

Issues for Discussion:

• Problems and needs of large industrial business.
• Legal challenges of retail.
• Forensic and other risk prevention tools for business.

17:45 – 18:00

Q&A Session

18:00 – 20:00

Vine and Brie Session