Creating the Resilient Law Firm of the Future

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
12:00PM – 1:00PM (60 Minutes)
Virtual Meeting

DESCRIPTION
It could be a burst pipe, civil unrest and protests, a fire in a neighboring suite, a workplace violence incident, a weeklong power outage due to wildfires, a cyber-attack and data breach or a global pandemic any of these disasters could close your law firm or affect its reputation. Does your firm’s current business continuity plan address all the essential components necessary to seamlessly continue providing services to your firm clients/customers? Executives are looking at their business continuity and risk management programs to determine current and future risks to their firms and help make vital business decisions. In this session we will discuss business continuity planning and the steps that your business can take now to protect your employees, make informed business decisions for working with clients/customers, and ensuring organizational resiliency and profitability. Items such as continuing to keep everyone safe while working in a hybrid work environment, conducting Business Impact Assessments (BIA’s) for your firm, the future of providing services to clients/customers, risk management and compliance issues, creating comprehensive written business continuity plans and testing those plans will be discussed.

COST
Complimentary for ALA and ALA Business Partners, $25 for other Law Firm Guests.

CERTIFICATION APPROVALS
CLM^® and HRCI credit pending

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kathryn Scourby, CBCP, CCRP
Consultant

Kathryn Scourby, CBCP, CCRP is the Principal of KNS Consulting, LLC and a Certified Business Continuity Professional and Certified Cyber Resilience Professional. Kathy consults with professional service firms in the areas of business continuity, disaster preparedness, cyber resilience, risk management and compliance. Kathy’s experience includes thirty-three years in management with international law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at legal management and business continuity conferences, state and local Bar Association meetings and conferences, other association meetings and conferences and with private service firms and businesses.

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