Agenda

Let’s talk about money!

One day, one topic, buy- and sell-side of legal services and the Impact of AI on Pricing Legal Services

 

20March2025


The advent of (Gen)AI has sparked debate about its potential impact on the commercial relationship between legal departments and law firms. How will AI change the way we deliver, evaluate and price legal work? Can it offer greater transparency and efficiency, benefiting both law firms and clients? The long-forecast end of the billable hour may not be here yet, but what does it mean to become “fixed fee ready”?

Join us for a day packed with insights from Legal Operations and Pricing experts and discussions with stakeholders from private practice and in-house legal departments.

All participants are cordially invited to an informal pre-conference get-together at 8 pm on 19 March at the hotel bar in the Hilton Frankfurt City Centre.

— The conference will be held in English. —

 

Program Schedule

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome and Introduction

9:15 – 10:00

Impact of AI on legal service delivery

  • Results of a study conducted by the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession together with Simon Kucher & Partners

Dr. Hariolf Wenzler, Director, Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession and CEO, YPOG

10:00 – 10:45

It’s not the end of the Billable Hour, but …

  • What time sheets tell us about legal service delivery
  • Efficiency and the Billable Hour
  • Roadmap to Fixed Fee Readiness

Achim Tschauder, Program Director Bucerius Legal Operations Campus / Microsoft365 for legal

10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45

Keynote: Sourcing Legal Services

  • Spend Management Process & Governance
  • How Tools support efficient Legal Spend Management

Freek Stähr, SVP, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Tech Law & Operations, SAP SE

11:45 – 12:15

Keynote: Journey to Fixed Fees

TBA

12:15 – 13:00

Panel Discussion: Balancing Perspectives – Pricing Tech enabled Legal Services

  • How AI is challenging conventional billing methods (e.g., hourly rates) and pushing towards alternative models
  • How AI is intensifying competition among law firms by enabling more competitive and data-driven pricing strategies
  • If it’s all about pricing, where does that leave the value of quality?

Stano Gejdos, Global Category Manager, Legal, Syngenta

Dr. Matthias Lichtblau, Director of Strategic Projects, Europe/COO, Germany, Dentons Europe

Freek Stähr, SVP, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Tech Law & Operations, SAP SE

TBA

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45

Breakout 1

Deep Dive into Fixed Fee Readiness

  • Standardization
  • Project Management
  • Statement of Work

Achim Tschauder, Program Director Bucerius Legal Operations Campus / Microsoft365 for legal

TBA

 

Breakout 2

TBA

14:45 – 15:30

TBA

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45

Panel Discussion: Standardizing Legal Service Delivery and Data to Support Transparency in Legal Pricing

  • The need for standardization in legal service delivery
  • The role of AI, data, and automation

Ava A. Moussavi, Head of Legal Operations & Tech, GvW Graf von Westphalen

Dr. Pierre G. Zickert, Counsel & Manager Legal Tech, Hengeler Mueller

TBA

16:45 – 17:00

Closing

Speakers

Stano GejdosGlobal Category Manager, Legal
Syngenta

Matthias Lichtblau, Ph.D.Director of Strategic Projects, Europe/COO, Germany
Dentons Europe

Ava A. MoussaviHead of Legal Operations & Tech
GvW Graf von Westphalen

Freek StährSVP, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Tech Law & Operations
SAP SE

Achim TschauderProgram Director
Bucerius Legal Operations Campus/Microsoft365 for legal

Dr. Hariolf WenzlerDirector
Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession and CEO, YPOG

Dr. Pierre G. ZickertCounsel & Manager Legal Tech
Hengeler Mueller

Venue

Hilton Frankfurt City Centre
Hochstr. 4, 60313 Frankfurt, Germany
Phone: +49 69 – 133800

www.hilton.com

Registration

The Pricing Legal Services conference is exclusively for Managing Partners, General Counsel and Heads of Legal Operations/Pricing in law firms and in-house legal departments.

Law firms can register with a maximum of 2 people. We are happy to offer sponsorship to service providers.

Participation fees

Participation fee per person:
€ 990 plus VAT.

Early bird offer for registrations up to and including 30 January 2025:
€ 890 plus VAT.

 

Register now

If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact

JUVE Verlag
Eva Wolff

Phone: +49 221 – 913 880 43
Email: pricing@juve.de

Your contacts

Helena Hauser, JUVE Verlag Program

Achim Tschauder, legal-operations.com Program

Eva Wolf, JUVE Verlag Registration