PRELIMINARY FUTURES CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(as of December 20, 2024*)

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 DiDomeniconico
9:15 a.m. Keynote 1: What You Offer and Why You Disappoint Me TBA
9:55 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight 1 Sponsor
10:00 a.m.  Session 1: 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). Panel 
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 2 Sponsor
10:55 a.m. A.M. Break All
11:25 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight 3 Sponsor
11:30 a.m. Session 2: Law Firms and Law Departments—Using "The Newlywed Game" format, participants will see if they truly understand each other's needs, motivations, and business drivers! Panel
12:05 p.m. Audience Lightning Round Audience
12:15 p.m. Sponsor Spotlight 4 Sponsor
12:20 p.m. Executive Lunch Hot Buffet All
1:05 p.m. Session 3: 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?  Panel
1:35 p.m. Audience Lightning Round Audience
1:45 p.m. Sponsor Spotlight 5 Sponsor
1:50 p.m.

Session 4: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.

 Panel
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? 

 Panel
3:30 p.m. Audience Lightning Round Audience
3:45 p.m. Sponsor Spotlight 6 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. Reception: Networking All + Paid Guests
6:00 p.m.-
7:00 p.m. 		 Induction Ceremony and Presentation of the Michael Mills InnovAction Award 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. Keynote 2: TBA TBA
9:35 a.m.  Session 6: The New Legal Services Provider—The power of brands and brand extensibility Panel
10:15 a.m. Sponsor Spotlight 7 Sponsor
10:20 a.m. A.M. Break  
10:50 a.m. Session 7: Partnership Model, Regulatory Change, and Lessons from Professional Wrestling Panel
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



All
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.