08:30 - 09:00          

Registration. Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:20

Forum opening

Session 1
HOW NEW REFORMS INFLUENCE THE LEGAL MARKET  
09:20 – 11:00
Moderator – IGOR GOLOVAN, Golovan & Partners

09:20 – 09:40

Valentyn Zagariya

Spenser & Kauffmann

Quo vadis? What is to be expected this year?

09:40 – 10:00

Sergiy Koziakov

Koziakov & Partners

Politics and Law: is there any room for the law at all?

10:00 – 10:20

Oleksandr Minin

KM Partners

Tax Code: new rules for legal business

10:20 – 10:40

Maksym Lavrynovych Lavrynovych & Partners

Judicial reform: outcomes for the legal business, comparisons and conclusions

10:40 – 11:00

Discussion

11:00 – 11:20

Coffee-brake

Session 2
CLIENTS – HAPPYNESS ON THE EDGE
11:20 – 13:00
Moderator – SERGIY KOZIAKOV, Koziakov & Partners

11:20 – 11:40

Mykhailo Safarov

VEGAS-LEX

Know-how in a law firm: management opportunities and capitalization

11:40 – 12:00

Oleksandra Pavlenko 

Pavlenko & Poberezhnyuk

Client – politician and a party fellow: how to build relations with “special” clients

12:00 – 12:20

Igor Golovan

Golovan & Partners

Reputation and professional ethics as competitive advantages in the clients’ eyes

12:20 – 12:40

Armen Khachaturyan

Asters

Lawyer as a client’s business manager: a desperate cry or a foresight  vision

12:40 – 13:00

Discussion

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Session 3
LAW FIRM PARTNER IN THE EYES OF COLLEAUES, CLIENTS AND COMPETITORS

Panel discussion
14:00 – 15:40
Moderator – TIMUR BONDAREV, Arzinger

14:00 – 15:40

Participants of the panel discussion:

Oleksandr Khvoschynskiy, LegalStudies.RU; Oleg Makarov, Vasil Kisil & Partners; Sergiy Piontkovkiy, Baker&Mckenzie; Andriy Zhurzhiy, Fozzy Group; Iryna Nikitina, Magisters. 

Issues for discussion:

 - role of partner in a law firm, in relations with client and society;

 - glipmse from the inside: what colleagues and employees tend to think about and expect from a partner;

 - background of partnership;

 - glipmse from the outside: what clients, competitora and society tend to expect from a law business owner. Expectations and dissapointments;

 - how moern partnership models could possibly be improved?

All Forum participants are invited to take part in the discussion and ask questions afterwards (last 15 munites)

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee-brake

Session 4
MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN LEGAL BUSINESS
16:00 – 18:00
Moderator – SERGEI KONNOV, Konnov & Sozanovsky

16:00 – 16:20

Oleksiy Volkov

Volkov & Partners

Organization of business processes in a law firm

16:20 – 16:40

Illya Nikifirov

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners

Orientation: desired autonomy

16:40 – 17:00

Denys Mirgorodskiy,

Dynasty

Peculiarities of a regional law firm management. The main differences.

17:00 – 17:20

Oleg Marchenko

Ulysses

Financial management in a law firm: size matters?

17:20 – 18:00

Discussion

18:00 – 20:00

Wine and brie session

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