DIARY LEGALCOMMUNITY WEEK 2024
From June 10 to 16, the eighth edition of Legalcommunity Week, the event dedicated to the Italian and international legal community, will be staged in Milan. This year there will be more than twenty opportunities for discussion hosted by the Hotel Principe di Savoia, in Piazza della Repubblica: conferences, round tables and keynote speeches and discussions on the issues of the moment for the legal profession and the business world.
But Legalcommunity Week also means fun and opportunities to get together: institutional events are flanked by cocktails, moments for sports and even a music contest of bands formed by lawyers and other members of the business community. And of course the Legalcomunity Corporate Awards, the gala evening dedicated to the best business lawyers and law firms of the year.
At www.legalcommunityweek.com you will find the updated schedule of all events, with the relevant headliners, and links to register and attend.
DAY 1
Legalcommunity Week 2024 kicks off. Opening day diary
Legalcommunity Week 2024 has begun. The main hall of the Principe di Savoia Hotel in Milan, which hosts the Week’s institutional program again this year, is dedicated to the opening conference, which could only deal with the theme of the moment, artificial intelligence. Title: The human side of AI.
After the greetings of Lc Publishing Group ceo Aldo Scaringella, and welcome messages from Emmanuel Conte, councillor for budget and real estate of the Municipality of Milan, and Antonino La Lumia, president of the Milan Bar Association, it was then the turn of an initial discussion on the “ethical shield” that legal affairs departments must prepare to protect themselves from the risks arising from the use of AI. Taking part were Valentina Ranno, general counsel and head of legal & compliance at L’Oréal; Marco Ditta, group head data & artificial intelligence office at Intesa Sanpaolo; and Gordon Abeiku Mensah, advisory board member of the Berkeley Center of Comparative Equality & Anti-discrimination Law and partner at Diversitee. Moderating was Andrea Lensi Orlandi, new law partner at Pwc Tls.
A face-to-face discussion followed between Riccardo Ceccarelli, ceo and founder of Mental Economy, and Giovanni Stefanin, co-managing partner of Pwc Tls.
After a coffee break, work resumed with a three-sided discussion: insurance, marketing, and legal. Representing them were Diana Allegretti, general counsel of Zurich Italia; Lucio Lamberti, full professor of marketing analytics at Politecnico di Milano; and Umberto Baldi, general counsel of Snam. Moderating, Paola Furiosi, head of Ip at Pwc Tls.
The last segment of the opening conference, dedicated to the Ai Act, was moderated by Chiara Giannella, head of data practice at Pwc Tls, and featured Marco Boldini, global head of governmental affairs and Italian ceo of Terrapay; Emiliano Berti, head of Mn legal & compliance at Nokia Europe and chairman of the board of Nokia Italy; and Giusella Finocchiaro, lawyer and professor of Internet Law at the University of Bologna.
Closing the morning, closing remarks by Nicola Di Molfetta, editor-in-chief of Legalcommunity and MAG; and Giovanni Stefanin, co-managing partner of Pwc Tls.
At 2 p.m., a panel moderated by Ilaria Iaquinta, editor-in-chief of Iberian Lawyer and The Latin American Lawyer, and introduced by a speech by Elena Carpani, partner at Ey Slt, outlined what soft skills are essential for tomorrow’s business lawyers.
Participating in the discussion were Dahir Ali, vice president and general counsel for Asia Pacific at Cnh Industrial; Christian Busca, partner at Ey Slt; Giuseppe Catalano, board secretary and head of corporate affairs at Assicurazioni Generali and president of Aigi; and Isabel Fernandes, group legal counsel at Grupo Visabeira; Claudia Marmolejo, senior managing director, institutional and asset owners solution at Iq-Eq; Carlos Menor, legal director and compliance officer at Groupo Renault Iberia; and Javier Ramirez, vp legal & associate general counsel regions litigation at Hp and head of advocacy at Acc Europe.
Two panels, at 4 p.m., rounded out the first day’s program at the Principe di Savoia.
Amanda Wood and Gabriel Monzon Cortarelli, attorneys with the U.S. firm Becker & Poliakoff, introduced a discussion focused on investment opportunities in the United States by European companies in the year marked by November’s presidential election. In addition to Wood and Cortarelli, the panel discussion was attended by Barbara Benzoni, head of legal international mid-downstream and chemicals activities at Eni, and Umberto Simonelli, chief legal & corporate affairs officer and secretary of the board of directors at Brembo. Moderating was Giuseppe Salemme, Legalcommunity reporter.
Instead, Inhousecommunity manager Michela Cannovale moderated a panel discussion focused on ways to improve companies’ allocation of legal costs using a data-driven approach. Participants included Stefano Brogelli, legal, regulatory and compliance director at Axpo Italia; Gianluca Canessa, sales manager at Wolters Kluwer; Francesco Leggiadro, director of legal, corporate affairs and compliance at Ferservizi; Concetta Leone, head of legal at Cifa; Jessica Meloni, head of legal Italy and Ocean Europe at Ceva Logistics; and Giuseppe Piscitelli, director of legal and corporate affairs at Tirreno Power.
