PRELIMINARY FUTURES CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(as of February 6, 2025*)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time Description Presenters
8:00 a.m. Registration Opens: Enjoy continental breakfast and networking with new and long-time friends! All
8:40 a.m. President's Welcome Chris Boyd
9:00 a.m. Conference Intro: 100 Years in 15 Minutes—A brief history of law firms and the accidental inertia that profession needs to shake off. Why is this different? 

Joshua Fireman
Patrick DiDomenico
9:15 a.m. Keynote: Whistling Past the Graveyard - What Will it Take to Run a Law Firm Tomorrow
What is it going to take to run a successful law firm in the future? Jason will explore the impact of generative AI as well as market forces impacting the size, scope, and necessity for business services support in law firms. 		 Jason Marty
9:55 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
10:00 a.m.  Panel: Lawyers and Business Professionals—Parallel Worlds and Opportunities for Change
A look at the professionalization of law firm management and the need to treat all professionals as equal business stakeholders (COOs or Managing Partners)		 Jennifer Johnson
Catherine Krow
Ed Macnamara
William Washington III
10:40 a.m. Audience Lightning Round: Each panel will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A in which attendees are asked to offer feedback, ask questions, and call bullsh*t as they see fit.  Audience
10:50 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
10:55 a.m. A.M. Break All
11:25 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
11:30 a.m. Panel: Law Firms and Law Departments—"The Newlywed Game" 
Our game show participants will see if they truly understand each other's needs, motivations, and business drivers!		 Clint Crosier
Joe Milcoff
Meredith Williams-Range
12:05 p.m. Audience Lightning Round Audience
12:15 p.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
12:20 p.m. Executive Lunch Hot Buffet All
1:05 p.m. Panel: Data, Analytics, and AI 101
How do these combine and why can they both help access to justice and disrupt law firm and law department models? 		 David Cambria
Evan Shenkman
1:35 p.m. Audience Lightning Round Audience
1:45 p.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
1:50 p.m.

The AI Hunger Games: How to Address the Coming Hollowing Out of Law Firm Resourcing and the Elimination of Income Partnership! 

♦ Part 1: Robot Leverage—When confronted with change, the reaction is: How to preserve the status quo. There's a difference between PPP, revenue, and profitability. Key question: How to preserve and increase leverage.

 Sara Lord
Greg Kaple
Adam Elgar
Oz Benamram
2:30 p.m. P.M. Break All
2:55 p.m.

Session 4 (continued)—

Part 2: AI and the Effect on Law Firm Resourcing—The future role of the associate. Competition with robots. Vanishing career paths or dynamic career opportunities? 

 Sara Lord
Greg Kaple
Adam Elgar
Oz Benamram
3:30 p.m. Audience Lightning Round Audience
3:45 p.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
3:50 p.m. Session 5: All-Hands Lightning Round All
4:30 p.m. Closing Joshua Fireman
Patrick DiDomenico
4:45 p.m. Presentation of the Michael Mills InnovAction Award Bill Garcia
Rick Kathuria
5:00 p.m. Reception: Networking All + Paid Guests
6:00 p.m.-
7:00 p.m. 		 New Fellows Induction Ceremony  All + Paid Guests
7:15 p.m. Dinner on Your Own All

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
8:00 a.m. Registration Opens: Enjoy continental breakfast with new and long-time friends! All
8:45 a.m. Opening Joshua Fireman
Patrick DiDomenico
9:00 a.m. Fireside Chat: Lessons From the Front Lines of Multi-Disciplinary Professional Services Wendy Bernero
Christopher Marston
Joelle Paul-Cook, PhD
9:35 a.m.  Panel: The New Legal Services Provider—The Power of Brands and Brand Extensibility David Bruns
Nicole Giantonio
Barry Solomon
10:15 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight Sponsor
10:20 a.m. A.M. Break  
10:50 a.m. Panel: Partnership Models, Regulatory Change, and Lessons from Professional Wrestling Joshua Fireman
Bob Glaves
Roberta Tepper
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Sandwich Bar All
12:15 p.m.

Transition 

 All
12:25 p.m.

Closing Exercise: Blood on the Floor–A Multiversal Future

Attendees will work in groups to address a series of opportunistic or apocalyptic fact patterns and report to the group on their respective future professions.

Each group will present their "thrive, survive, or die" arguments to a Star Chamber panel that will mercilessly grill them on their assumptions and plans for the future.

 Small Groups
1:45 p.m. Closing Remarks Chris Boyd
Joshua Fireman
Patrick DiDomenico
2:00 p.m. Adjourn All
2:15 p.m.-
4:15 p.m.		 COLPM Board of Trustees Meeting COLPM Trustees

 
* Subject to change without notice.