Transitioning From Lawyer to BD Professional
At last week’s Business Development Forum, Barbara Koenen-Geerdink, Partner and Co-Founder of Beyond Billable Hours, and Andrew Hutchinson, self-described “growth geek” and legal sector strategist, explored what growth really means for law firms today and why the conversation is more complex than headline merger announcements suggest. The Consolidation Wave Koenen opened by framing growth as […]
How Lawyers Can Effectively Serve Start Ups?
In our live session this week, Patricia Wing, founder of SuLE and a former VC and M&A lawyer, discussed how lawyers can better serve start-ups at a time when technology is reshaping legal delivery, founders’ expectations are shifting, and traditional fee models are under increasing pressure. Wing began by outlining her career in venture capital […]
The Impact of Coaching from the Wolf Theiss Perspective
In this session, Ronald Given (Moderator), Nikolaus Paul (Partner, Finance, Wolf Theiss), and Erik Steger (Partner, Real Estate, Wolf Theiss) explored coaching from the perspective of the coachee and the firm. The discussion formed part of Platforum9’s broader coaching series, shifting focus from theory to lived experience inside a leading Central European law firm. Both […]
How the EU AI Act Regulates High Risk AI
Moderated by Andrej Savin, Professor of Information Technology and Internet Law, Copenhagen Business School, and Sid Ali Boutellis, AI governance consultant and legal tech veteran. The EU AI Act is fundamentally a risk-based product safety regulation. Savin opened by emphasising that the Act does not create a rights-based framework akin to the GDPR; instead, it […]
Ai Heavyweight Anthrophic Takes Aim at Legal?
Uwais Iqbal, an AI engineer and founder of Simplexico, unpacked Anthropic’s latest move into legal workflows and why it prompted such an outsized reaction across legal tech and adjacent markets. He explored what “agentic” tooling looks like in practice, why the market response matters less than the underlying capability shift, and how legal teams should […]
The Importance of Higher Education for your Legal Career
In this Platforum9 live session, Miljana Bigovic, DLA Piper Managing Associate and current LLM candidate at Harvard Law School, moderated a discussion on what “higher education” really buys you in 2026. Joined by her colleagues, Angelica Maria Perdomo Luna, Anamarija Javor, Assamaual Saidi Rabah, and Vanessa Marshall de Mothé, they talked about their individual career […]
Guerrilla Warfare in Arbitration: Myth, Reality and Remedies
Moderator Miljana Bigovic opened the International Arbitration Forum live session by framing why “guerrilla tactics” remain a live challenge for arbitral efficiency and procedural fairness. She was joined by Joel Soon, Matej Pustay, Knud Jacob Knudsen, and Susan Mutangadura, who each brought a distinct lens to the issue. Soon introduced his research underpinning the session […]
How to Nail your Legal Interview
In yesterday’s Platforum9 session, Ross Macgregor, an interview coach, former Linklaters trainee, and Akin Gump lawyer, argued that candidates “nail” legal interviews by putting themselves in the interviewer’s shoes, then communicating with clarity, structure, and purpose. He traced his own path from law studies and training at Linklaters (including London and Tokyo) to a move […]
From Big Law to Legal Tech
Julia Klingberg, a Swedish-qualified lawyer and attending Cornell as an LLM candidate in New York, draws on her experience as co-founder of the Legal Network of Sweden and Kindred to explore what it truly takes to move from an elite, traditional practice into legal tech and venture-building framing the transition not as a departure from […]
Demystifying the EU AI Act
Andrej Savin (Professor, CBS Law), Sid Ali Boutellis (Legal Tech Expert), and Yuliia Habriiel (Founder, the eyreACT) explored what the EU AI Act is actually designed to do, who it applies to, and what “getting compliant” looks like in practice, particularly for smaller firms and teams integrating third-party AI components into products and services. The […]