EVENT

KM / UK

SESSION

Developing Winning KM Strategies for Enhanced Legal Process and Reduced Risk to Enterprise

SPEAKER

Stuart Hopper

Independent Consultant

BIO

Stuart has 30 years’ experience as a practising lawyer and in senior management positions in global law firms, as well as offshore. He now works as a legal business services consultant and change expert advising law firms and legal departments on service and efficiency improvement, innovation (including digitisation and uses of AI) and process enhancement.

His roles in private practice include Director of Practice Development, Knowledge & Innovation at Dentons, where he reorganised and managed the Practice Support Lawyers, the Professional Support Team and the Innovation Team (which he set up from scratch). Prior to that he was Director of Knowledge for the Global M&A Practice at Baker McKenzie, where he introduced individual accountability for knowledge sharing—everyone was expected to identify and share best practices as part of their daily routine.

Born in Ethiopia and with dual British/Nigerian heritage, Stuart is an active champion of diversity, equality and inclusion, and is currently on the board of an Africa-wide STEM educational charity for girls, and is about to go onto the board of a Uganda-based charity working to provide extended family care to children as an alternative to orphanage placement. He has been on the board of his local arts community centre and is a past chair of the advisory board to the Social Mobility Foundation.

He is a LawTech UK mentor, a member of the Lawtech Sounding Board at the City of London, and set up (and chairs) the Industry Mentor Group for Oxford University’s postgraduate Law & Computer Science Programme. He is a contributing author to Legal Due Diligence in International M&A Transactions - A Practitioner's Guide (Kästle/Svernlöv eds, 2022), quoted in Professional Services Leadership Handbook: How to lead a professional services firm in a new age of competitive disruption (Beddow, Kent, Furner & Clark 2017) and was the editor of Baker McKenzie’s International Joint Ventures Handbook (1st ed. Oct 2015) and Global M&A Handbook (1st ed. Mar 2015).

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