Irina Stepanova to speak at the Interregional Conference Innovations in Legal Support Services for Corporations

On 23-25 March, Saint Petersburg will host the Interregional Conference Innovations in Legal Support Services for Corporations. The event is organized by the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper in collaboration with the Northern Capital Innovation and Learning Center. Irina Stepanova, Senior Lawyer and Intellectual Property Practice Leader, EPAM, will speak at the conference.

A corporation’s success in business is directly linked to the competence of legal support services rendered by the corporate legal department. The accelerating momentum of business life changes the way corporate legal departments operate in front of our eyes. The efficiency of legal work performed by in-house lawyers increasingly depends on their ability to use new technology and methods of drafting documents, their prompt understanding of legislative novelties, and flexibility when following procedures that govern relations with courts and regulators. How do legal leaders currently use innovative tools? How to make the best use of modern information technologies in legal operations? Answers to these and many other questions will be discussed by heads of corporate legal services, legal firm managers, representatives of court authorities, governmental authorities and scientific society, and information technology professionals.

The conference will focus on the following issues:

- Innovations in interaction with court, supervisory and executive instances

- Contract law: judicial practice and new trends

- Specifics of intellectual property protection

- Public procurement law: time of change

- Information technologies: processing speed, search depth and coverage of legal information space

During the conference, a round table will be held to discuss interaction with the court, supervisory and executive authorities, and a workshop for new technologies in legal information and documentation processing.

Irina Stepanova will deliver a paper on the Issues arising from know how protection to speak on one of the most topical issues of intellectual property protection.

Conference website