Proactive Law and IT
In today’s business environment of increased inter-corporate dependency and complexity, organizations must carefully nurture their transactions and relationships. They need a disciplined approach to legal, commercial, financial and operational challenges. They must detect and strengthen weak links in their supply chains and manage their projects, contracts and risks properly. Rather than dealing with problems and disputes that have already developed and which consequently require resolution, organisations must create an enterprise culture on how to proactively prevent disputes. IT definitely contributes to a rise in complexity, but IT tools, like for example contract management, may also contribute to new solutions on legal and commercial incident resolution.
(a) Legal risk analyses in IT Projects, Tuesday November 18th
Chair: Peter Wahlgren
The session on legal risk management in IT projects is intended to address some of the analytical challenges related to the complexity of legal and technical problems in IT projects. Legal risk management intends to enrich lawyer's analyses by importing risk management approaches from other disciplines.
| 13:30 | Prepatory Steps for the Drafting of new IT-related Legislation Professor Peter Wahlgren |
| 14:15 | A method for legal risk management, exemplified in a case study on IT outsourcing (abstract) Research Fellow Tobias Mahler |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | Legal Risk Management of advertising in a digital environment (abstract) Associate Professor, Ph.D. Jan Trzaskowski, Copenhagen Business School, Law Department |
| 16:00 | Proactive Remedies Schemes: A Manifesto For A New Approach To Outsourcing Contract Solutions Roger Bickerstaff, Bird & Bird |
| 16:30 | Panel discussion: Prospects, costs and limitations of legal risk management |
(b) Contract management and IT outsourcing, Wednesday November 19th
Chair: Tobias Mahler
The “Contract Management in IT Outsourcing” seminar touches upon the criticality of establishing an efficient contract management enterprise-wide methodology. Sound contract management systems result in the optimisation of complex international outsourcing contracts in a virtual business environment while facilitating the integration of new regulations and their direct application.
| 09:00 | Can ICT “capture” contracts and contracting? (abstract) Researcher Carolyn Paris, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 09:45 | Pitfalls in implementing and running a CM-system Partner Helge Follestad, Input.no |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | What can contract management learn from regulatory management? Professor Jon Bing, NRCCL Oslo |
| 11:30 | A contract lawyer's perspective on contract management Olav Torvund |
| 12:00 | Panel discussion: The role of lawyers in contract management |
