Legal Alliance Law Firm Senior Partner Dimtry Aleshko Attended Third CIS Local Counsel Forum

The third CIS Local Counsel Forum took place in St. Petersburg on 25 – 27 June 2008.

The event was attended by over 200 executives of CIS’s most prominent law firms, as well as by representatives of international legal community and counsels for top legal practices.

Legal Alliance Law Firm was represented at the Forum by its senior partner Dmitry Aleshko.

The CIS Local Counsel Forum was designed as a comprehensive gathering of legal community representatives from across the CIS and other countries, focused on improvement of joint business environment and long-term cooperation opportunities.

The event set off with an informal round table discussion on organisation and management of a legal practice.  

Forum participants discussed aspects of relationships between partners, market rollout strategies, retention of interns, personnel skill improvement, invoicing, remuneration of attorneys, development planning, and use of state of the art technologies in a legal practice.  

Of particular interest was the subsequent focus discussion on virtual office technologies implementation and development.

During the three days of the Forum’s agenda the lawyers were offered discussions and section workshops on subjects reflecting the most critical aspects of legal markets operation, such as model client/attorney agreements, professional associations and (self-)governance of the legal profession, relationships between domestic and international law firms, and more.

The attendees pointed out that the Forum had been an excellent opportunity to exchange experience and knowledge that relate to laws and economies of their home countries, as well as to identify opportunities for joint business and long-term cooperation.

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