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Professional Support
Lawyer 2018
London, 10 October 2018

    Combining                           Conference Highlights
    technology and career               • Assess the latest range of technologies, their impact on training
    development as an                     and knowledge and how you can use them
                                        • Explore a case study providing practical experience on PSL
    enabler for today’s                   career development and how you can shape your role
    Professional Support                • Witness an interactive panel session that discusses client facing
    Lawyer                                experience, career evolution and trend spotting
    A one-day conference                • Discover a brand-new conference format with Legal Libraries
    specifically designed to help you     and Professional Support Lawyers events combined, including
    innovate in career development,       afternoon collaborative plenary sessions
    maximise technology solutions       • Harness practical solutions to the challenges of managing your
    and collaborate across the            demanding workload.
    business, helping you to
    broaden your skills and energise
    your work experience and
    respond to challenges.

                                                 Supported by:

                                        www.psl-libraries.co.uk
Agenda
09.00 Registration and coffee                                 12.15—13.05 Panel discussion: Perspectives on
                                                              career development
09.30—09.40 Chair’s welcome & opening remarks                 • Development of client facing roles: pros and cons
                                                              • It’s more than trend spotting: how to expand the work
09.40—10.25 The PSL role through a technology lens
                                                                 potential and career development
• Menu of technologies                                        • Is evolving your career based on a fee earner model the
• How technology will change the PSL’S role, considering         way forward?
  future developments with stakeholders                       Nancy Jones, Professional Support Lawyer, Sky
• Evaluating the benefits in online, intranet, electronic     Nicola Evans, Charities Counsel, Bircham Dyson Bell
  signatures, document automation, AI, blockchain             Charles Pigott, Professional Support Lawyer, Mills
  developments                                                & Reeve
• Impact for knowledge, precedents, marketing, training and   Anne Adamson, Professional Support Lawyer and
  process                                                     internal Coach, Mills & Reeve
Andrew Telling, UK Head of Knowledge Management,
Taylor Wessing                                                13.05—14.05 Networking lunch
10.25—11.00 Training your PSLs with new                       14.05—15.50 Managing the workload
technology                                                    • Managing team workloads: mission creep and serving two
                                                                masters
11.00—11.30 Refreshments & networking break
                                                              • Managing individual workloads: micro and macro
11.30—12.15 Case study: Career development and                • Some practical solutions from experience
the opportunity to shape your role                            • Establishing personal objectives
• Identifying the opportunities: training, marketing and      Amanda Rathbone, Professional Support Lawyer, HFW
   business development                                       14.50—15.20 Refreshments and networking break
• Collaboration with colleagues and embracing new
   technology                                                 15.20—16.05 Cross-department collaboration
• Stepping outside your comfort zone: self-motivation and     • PSLs as business development managers and how the
   defining the job                                             collaborative link with libraries can innovate career
Charles Pigott, Professional Support Lawyer, Mills              development
& Reeve                                                       • Writing reports, developing pitches, current awareness
Anne Adamson, Professional Support Lawyer and                 • Ensuring added value to your support, contribution and
internal coach, Mills & Reeve                                   collaboration
                                                              Karen Battersby, Director of Knowledge, Learning &
                                                              Development, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

                                                              16.05—16.50 Opportunities to expand your skills –
                                                              developing business research
                                                              • Practical advice to broaden experience
                                                              • Analysis and insights that provide new value
                                                              • Providing research which enables cross departmental
                                                                collaboration
                                                              Helen Cafferata, National Information Services
                                                              Manager, BLM

                                                              16.50—17.00 Chair’s closing remarks & end of
                                                              conference
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How to book                                      Sponsorship & Exhibition

Secure your place at Professional Support        Bespoke opportunities are available to
Lawyer 2018 by visiting www.psl-libraries.       support, sponsor and align your company
co.uk                                            with a well-established brand within the
                                                 legal sector, giving you a platform to
Full rate £525 + VAT
                                                 demonstrate your thought leadership,
Please note that prices are per delegate         showcase your services and develop new
and include all day access to the event,         business.
lunch and refreshment. Fees do not include
travel costs or accommodation.

              For ticket, sponsorship and exhibition enquiries, please contact
                   Patrick Brady on +44 (0)20 7324 2386 or email
                           Patrick.Brady@Wilmingtonplc.com

                                        Supported by:
About our
                              expert speakers
                      Amanda Rathbone, Professional Support                                               Nancy Jones, Professional Support
                      Lawyer (Commodities), HFW                                                           Lawyer, Sky
                        Amanda is a member of the knowledge management                                    Nancy Jones has worked as a PSL for over 15 years
                        team at HFW with responsibility for commodities. She                              in several private practice firms, starting her career
                        focuses on the provision of knowhow support to the                                at Allen & Overy. Most recently Nancy became the
                        commodities group and its clients, as well as developing                          sole in-house PSL at Sky UK Ltd, supporting their
the firm’s legal technical training programme for commodities lawyers. A             team of over 110 in-house lawyers. At Sky, Nancy has a varied work load
typical day for Amanda ranges from training and developing strategies                ranging from traditional know-how tasks such as organising training and
to curating the firm’s commodities knowledge. She is looking forward to              development to managing legal resources. She works across the team on the
speaking about managing workload! Amanda also has 15 years’ experience               development of knowledge and collaboration tools, becoming a member of
as a shipping and international trade lawyer, largely on the contentious side,       two external KM Networks.
at both Clifford Chance and HFW.

                                                                                                          Nicola Evans, Knowhow Lawyer for the
                      Andrew Telling, UK Head of Knowledge                                                Charities, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP.
                      Management, Taylor Wessing LLP                                                      Having joined Bircham Dyson Bell in 2005, Nicola
                         Andrew leads the firm’s UK knowledge management                                  has been a PSL for 13 years. Her role encompasses
                         team, working with partners, professional support lawyers                        managing knowledge sharing, training and precedent
                         and business services heads to plan and implement KM                             development. Nicola works with external bodies such
                         within the firm to promote client service, efficiency and   as the Charity Law Association, of which she became Chair in 2016. Leading
business generation. Educated at Cambridge University and The College of             on the team’s responses to consultations and calls for evidence, Nicola gives
Law, Andrew was a partner at Allen & Overy LLP before joining Taylor Wessing         evidence to Parliamentary Committees. Internally, Nicola helps manage the
in a knowledge management role. Playing a crucial part of initiatives on             team and applies her knowhow experience to risk management, efficiency
artificial intelligence, blockchain and legaltech, Andrew has created a bespoke      and governance within the team. Nicola is recognised as an Eminent
transaction due diligence system, implementing document automation and               Practitioner in Chambers & Partners UK and as a leading individual in the
developing client-facing decision engine online triage tools.                        Legal 500.

                      Anne Adamson, Professional Support
                      Lawyer, Mills & Reeve
                      Anne qualified as an employment lawyer in 2002
                      and as Principal Associate, specialised in advising
                      education clients. After moving to a PSL role in 2012,
                      Anne now provides support and innovation around the
firm’s employment training and business development initiatives. She works
closely with Charles Pigott, particularly regarding training innovations such as
podcasting and their firm’s e-learning products. Anne has also qualified as an
executive coach and works with senior fee-earners throughout the firm as part
of their career development.
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