The OsgoodePD Innovators + Entrepreneurs Speaker Series - Andy Daws: Do Alternative Business Structures Work for Law Firms?

Faculty Agenda

Agenda

• Session 2: Andy Daws

  May 29, 2014

  • 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
    Andy Daws
    VP, North America, Riverview Law
    New York, New York

    Do Alternative Business Structures (“ABS”) work for law firms?
    

    You may be in private practice and rethinking the organization of your firm, in-house and asking your legal providers to help you manage costs, hoping to attract non-lawyer investment in your business, or debating the merits of ABS law firms. If so, you need to know which strategies work for ABS law firms, which strategies make them profitable, and what it is like to practise law within them.
    

    Andy Daws is Vice President North America for “new model” legal services provider, Riverview Law, which has been dubbed by more than one market commentator as “the most innovative law firm in the world!” Launched in the wake of the UK’s Legal Services Act, Riverview’s approach (operating structure, fixed-fees, process management, use of technology, business outputs, etc.) has attracted both media attention and flagship clients. The firm was recognized as a Standout Legal Industry Pioneer at the 2012 FT Innovative Lawyers Awards, Best Emerging Firm in the 2013 MPF Awards for Management Excellence, and a 2013 InnovAction award winner from the College of Law Practice Management.

    Andy will cover:
    
    
    • His experiences managing the North American branch of Riverview Law, a firm organizing itself as an ABS
    • His perspective on non-lawyer investment and ownership of entities offering legal services
    • How and why the emergence of new, innovative and alternative business models for legal entities is changing the legal profession and the practise of law
    • What is important to him regarding skills development – for law students and managing partners – to stay relevant and valuable to clients

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2-3 delegates: 25% off archived program fee
4-10 delegates: 30% off archived program fee
11+ delegates: 35% off archived program fee
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