Session

Time

Тheme

08:30-09:00

Registration. Morning coffee 

09:00-09:10

Forum opening. Welcoming remarks

Andriy Stelmashchuk, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association

 Keynote speech

Ukraine on the map of the global legal services market

09:10-09:50

In focus:

• What partners tend to discuss and what remains unsaid?
• Ukraine on the world market of legal services. Do we keep pace with its development?
• Universality vs specialization: which approach is more effective for business?
• Game of the thrones, or how to survive the fierce competition in the legal market?

Keynote speaker:

Alexander Khvoshchinskiy, Senior expert at LS Institute –  Institute for Professional Legal Services and Advanced Legal Studies, Managing partner at Legal Stratagency GmbH

Session 1

New armada in the legal ocean: mergers and acquisitions

09:50-10:30

Moderator:

Andriy Stelmashchuk, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Issues to discuss:

• Storm warning: is there a merger trend for the legal market of Ukraine?
• Legal maneuvers: what is the use of alliances of conveniences?
• Pitfalls of mergers and acquisitions
• Great sailing: how alliances affect the legal services market?

Speakers:

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Partner at Asters

Igor Svechkar, Partner at Asters

Aminat Suleymanova, Co-managing Partner at AVELLUM

Glib Bondar Senior Partner at AVELLUM

Valentyn Zagariya, Managing Partner at SPENSERS ST

Serhii Tiurin, Partner at SPENSERS ST

Serhii Boyarchukov, Managing Partner at Alekseev, Boyarchukov and Partners

Coffee break

10:30-10:50

Coffee break and Networking

Session 2

Code of profession: ethics and antiesthetics of the legal business

10:50-11:40

Moderator:

TBC

Issues to discuss:

• Rule of Law, its connection with professional ethics and values in the era of technical revolution
• Legal practice and political lobbying. US experience.
• Success fees: future prospects
• Ethical norms as a tool for managing the company's reputation
• Coherence and double standards of legal business 

Speakers:

Dr. Irina Paliashvili, Managing Partner at RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group

Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director of the Anti Corruption Action Centre

Ihor Olekhov, Partner at Baker McKenzie 

Margarita Karpenko, Managing Partner at DLA Piper's office in Kyiv

Session 3

Legal market and legal practice: QUO VADIS?

11:40-12:30

Moderator:

Andriy Kostin, Managing partner at PRAVO Law Office, Vice-Chair of the Council of the Bar of Odessa Region

Issues to discuss:

• Shadow Report «The Advocacy of Ukraine: Lessons of the First Years of Self-Government»
• Problems currently faced by the Bar. How can Draft No. 9055 affect and change the practice of law?
• Influence of world-view conflicts on the professional life of lawyers
• New Ukrainian Bar: expectations and hopes
• Responsible leadership in the profession - why is it important?
• Dishonest game on the advocate's field: what is wrong with us and what has ECHR to do here?

Speakers:

Andriy Vyshnevskyi, Director of the Tomorrow’s Lawyer Program, attorney-at-law

Denys Bugay, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association (2013-2017), Partner at VB PARTNERS, attorney-at-law

Zoya Yarosh, President of The All-Ukrainian Non-Govermental Organization «Ukrainian Advocates' Association», Managing Partner at  Attorney company «Marshallyer & Partners», attorney-at-law

INTELLECTUAL LUNCH

Ukraine is exclusive: insights about society and the country

12:30-14:00

Moderator:

Larysa Denysenko, ukrainian writer, civil lawyer, one of the Hromadska khvylya talk-show hosts

Special guest:

Oksana Zabuzhko, writer, poet, essayist and public intellectual

Session 4

The  regional market

14:00-14:50

Moderator:

Artem Stoyanov, Senior Partner at LCF Law Group

Issues to discuss:

• How to succeed in rooting in the capital?
• Window of opportunities: a recipe for doing business in the regions
• Clash of generations: what should traditional law firms expect?

Speakers:

Taras Bachynskyy, Managing Partner at Bachynskyy&partners 

Serhiy Matviyiv, Managing Partner at Matviyiv & Partners

Oleksandr Riabets, Managing Partner at Legal partner, Chairman of the Board NGO СLaw Society of the Odessa Region»

Tatyana Titarenko, Managing partner  at Legrant, attorney-at-law

Coffee break

14:50-15:20

Coffee break and Networking

Frank interview with leading market players

«Consolidation of business: merger or acquisition?» 

15:20-15:50

Insights of creating the largest law firm in the history of Ukraine

Interviewer:

Iryna Nikitina, Strategy and Growth Consultant, Researcher & Ideologist at LegalTalents.Report

Respondents:

Oleksiy Didkovskiy, Co-Managing Partner at Asters

Serhii Sviriba,Co-Managing Partner at Asters

Session 5

Legal Tech between luddites and hype

15:50-16:50

Moderator:

Dima Gadomsky, CEO at Axon Partners, attorney-at-law 

Issues to discuss:

• If we are judged by the artificial intelligence, then by law, or ex aequo et bono?
• How do social media influence the judiciary and aren't we witnessing the uprsing of a quasi?
• How does the legal ethics affect Legal Tech?
• Innovation makes law firms attractive to investment. Does anyone need it?

Speakers:

Liubomyr  Kuziutkin, Managing Partner at EXPATPRO

Olexander Martinenko, Senior Partner

at Kyiv office of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang  

Session 6

Lawyers at the end of the gun: how to protect data and not to be caught in a net?

16:50-17:50

Moderator:

Andrii Romanchuk, Managing Partner at Moris Group

When clients are under attack: cyber-security and lawyers

Andrii Romanchuk, Managing Partner at Moris Group

Cybersecurity concerns everyone. Cyberhygiene is a compulsory course of a modern lawyer

Vitaliy Yakushev, COO at 10Guards

Lawyers as key stakeholders in powerful and complicated cyber security projects

Igor Kotsiuba, Partner/technology and R&D at CyberDesk

Bug Bounty platforms - modern means of cyber security by «ethical hackers»

Yehor Aushev, co-founder Hacken and cyberschool.tech

Evening reception

17:50-20:00

Networking and glass of wine