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Legal Ops in 2025: What to Ask for This Christmas
December 12 2024
11:00 am UTC (GMT)
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Legal Ops in 2025: What to Ask for This Christmas
Overview
How do you manage your legal operations to get the most out of your team?
With challenging deadlines and demanding internal clients to deal with, even the most organised GC can easily find their matter management, legal intake and contract management going from efficient to messy very quickly.
Luckily, help is at hand with innovative tech solutions aimed at making these challenges a thing of the past.
In this coffee morning session, produced in association with the team at Legal 500, we will hear from corporate counsel who have had success with using new solutions and discuss their experiences with practical examples added throughout.
Ideal food for thought for any corporate counsel looking to write their 2024 Christmas list.
Speakers
Markus Warmholz, head of commercial legal, Hartmann Group
Markus Warmholz is a seasoned legal leader and strategist, currently serving as Head of Commercial Law and Legal Operations at PAUL HARTMANN AG. With over 17 years of experience across Europe and the Middle East, Markus directs a global legal team and drives digital transformation initiatives, including state-of-the-art Legal Intake and Matter Management, contract automation, AI-powered client and lawyer assistant tools, and comprehensive legal spend management.
Markus is also a Supervisory Board Member for one of the Group’s entities. Known for his expertise in corporate and commercial law, complex cross-border transactions, and M&A, Markus serves as an Advisory Board Member, Judging Panel Member for The Lawyer European Awards, and a dynamic speaker on topics spanning Legal Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Global Legal Strategy.
Kirsten Maslen, Director Product Marketing, Thomson Reuters
Kirsten Maslen is responsible for value proposition design and customer insight to inform the continued development of Thomson Reuters’ portfolio of legal software solutions.
Kirsten joined Thomson Reuters as Editor for Practical Law, writing content on public procurement, outsourcing, employee transfers and public to public arrangements. After several years in strategy and customer proposition in Thomson Reuters’ legal professionals and corporates businesses, Kirsten became Director in the Product Marketing team focused on legal technology.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Kirsten trained at a city law firm and continued to work in practice on a variety of public sector projects. She then moved to the public sector where she advised on and negotiated major public to public partnerships and complex outsourcing transactions.
Philipp Sammern, Legal-IT & Data Privacy Officer, BWT Group
Philipp Sammern is a System Architect for HighQ, where he oversees digital processes within the legal department of BWT Group.
Prior to this role, Philipp held various technology-driven positions in digital marketing and data analysis, serving as both a project leader and consultant.
As a lecturer at Danube University Krems, he has guided students through their academic research on digital transformation for many years.
Philipp is a certified Data Privacy Officer and holds product certifications in HighQ and Contract Express.
Joseph Bowell, Global Editor — The Legal 500 Powerlist Series, Legal 500
Joe Boswell has been a part of The Legal 500’s editorial team, specialising on the in-house legal community, for more than seven years. He now heads The Powerlist team, acting as chief editor for the over 40 separate editions of the GC Powerlist series which serve as The Legal 500’s flagship title celebrating the world’s top in-house counsel, as well as Global Editor for The Legal 500’s Private Practice Powerlist Series.
During the course of researching for the GC Powerlist series, Boswell has interviewed a vast number of world-renowned general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal directors about overcoming the challenges they face, their legal innovations, and how they see the general counsel role progressing in coming years. As well as this, he is a regular speaker at Legal 500 summits, roundtables, award ceremonies and other events, and often writes in-depth reports on business and legal issues.
Boswell is an alumnus of both the University of Sussex in The United Kingdom and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in The Netherlands.