The pace of change has rarely been so rapid. Newer source types like collaboration tools and messaging apps are rapidly supplanting email as the source of the most important ESI. New AI-powered products and services are announced monthly, all promising an empowered, frictionless future. The nature of legal work itself is changing as legal departments and law firms rethink their roles and processes for this era.

In the face of these evolving challenges, organizations and individuals must demonstrate adaptability and resiliency – must become antifragile, turning this rapidly shifting landscape into new opportunities for growth and improvement. To do this, practitioners need to be equipped with the right knowledge. It’s for this reason that the theme for this year’s Symposium is Future Proof: Learning & Leading through Change. From new sources, to new tools, to new regulatory frontiers, this year’s Symposium will help equip you with the right knowledge to excel in an uncertain future.

Join your peers at the intersection of legal practice, technology, staffing, operations, and cybersecurity as we explore solutions to today’s challenges at Consilio’s flagship client event: Symposium. At this virtual educational conference, attendees can:

Choose from 11 different one-hour CLE sessions across a three-track curriculum and earn up to 8 total CLE credits, including ethics credits
Hear judges’ perspectives on these rapid changes at their CLE-accredited panel: Insights from the Bench: Judicial Perspectives on Evolving Challenges
Learn how to advance your own career with a CLE-accredited program on personal branding: Coloring Inside the Lines: Navigating Legal Ethics While Building Your Personal Brand

Use the hashtag #ConsilioSymposium24 on socials to check out the latest updates on all things Symposium 2024!

Innovative Education

Access to premiere education from leading innovators, including lawyers, cybersecurity professionals, operations experts, and more.

Creative Solutions

Practical and timely takeaways to help aid in your matters and shape the path for your organization through the new normal.

Unparalleled Networking

Expand and deepen your network with legal peers, leaders, and experts from all backgrounds and sectors – all over the world.

In a discussion moderated by Consilio Senior Vice President, Strategic Client Experience and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Maureen O’Neill, the judges will address important topics impacting the current and future practice of law, including the use of AI, protecting attorney-client privilege, off-channel communications, and challenges around legal professionalism.

The Honorable Andrew J. Peck (ret.)

Senior Counsel DLA Piper

The Honorable Andrew J. Peck served for 23 years (from February 1995 until his retirement in February 2018) as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, including a term as Chief Magistrate Judge from 2004 to 2005. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Peck was in private practice for 17 years, focusing on commercial and entertainment litigation, including copyright and trademark matters, with extensive trial experience.

The Honorable William Matthewman

United States Magistrate Judge U.S. District Court, S.D. Fl

United States Magistrate Judge William Matthewman was appointed to the federal bench in 2012 and sits in the West Palm Beach Division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. As a U.S. Magistrate Judge, he handles both civil and criminal cases, including pretrial matters and trials.

The Honorable Maria Valdez

United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois

Maria Valdez is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. From 2016-2020 she was the Chief Magistrate Judge for the district. Prior to becoming a federal magistrate judge, she was the Chicago Regional Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), concentrating her trial and appellate practice in the areas of constitutional law and the federal Voting Rights Act.

The Honorable Xavier Rodriguez

U.S. District Judge Western District of Texas

Xavier Rodriguez is a former Texas Supreme Court Justice and currently sits on the bench as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas Law School.

The Honorable Tanya Kennedy

Associate Justice of the Appellate Division New York

Honerable Tanya R. Kennedy is an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, First Department, appointed to the court in July 2020. Her eighteen-year career as a jurist commenced in January 2006, serving in the Criminal Court, Civil Court (including service as Supervising Judge), Family Court, and Supreme Court.

Keynote Speaker

April Rinne is a change navigator, speaker, investor, and adventurer whose work and travels in more than 100 countries have given her a front-row seat to a world in flux. She is ranked one of the 50 Leading Female Futurists in the world by Forbes and is a Harvard Law School graduate, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Silicon Guild and Thinkers50 Radar, a Fulbright Scholar, and the author of the international bestseller Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change.

April is a trusted advisor to well-known startups, companies, financial institutions, nonprofits, think tanks, and governments worldwide, including Airbnb, Nike, Intuit, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, AnyRoad, and Unsettled as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, and Italy to India. For more than two decades, she’s been known for seeing emerging trends early, understanding their potential, and helping others do the same. April is also a bridge-builder between stakeholders, priorities, business models, markets, and those excited about change and those resistant to it.

Earlier in life April was a global development executive, an international microfinance lawyer, and a hiking guide. She spent the better part of four years traveling solo, with an insatiable desire to better understand how the rest of the world lives. (One lesson: Change is universal. How we deal with it is not.) A certified yoga teacher, she can often be found upside-down, doing handstands around the world.