The congress raises the question whether the legal sector, in particular the in-house lawyers of legal protection insurers – “The Legal Protection Lawyer” – are fit for the future.
Delegates will look at and compare regulations of the legal profession in different countries. You will see how ongoing societal, technical and other changes impact consumers and their demands. How these developments have a severe, mid to long-term impact on all legal professionals. The congress will show how digitalization invades our working environment and changes working processes of organizations. An explanation will be provided on how legal professionals need to adapt if they want to be “modern”; the new skills they need today which reach far beyond any legal training.
Legal Protection International is hosting it’s 30th Annual International Legal Protection Insurance Congress as a virtual event, which means participants can enjoy the benefits of a congress remote from their office / home.
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The event will be broadcast live online for virtual attendees. For the full experience, there are a number of limited places available to attend in person ‘physically’ at The Hague Marriott. For more information visit the Hybrid section.
A legal issue can threaten lives and therefore it is important to be able to get legal counsel quickly and be prepared for a situation in which a dispute brings about uncertainty, high costs and immeasurable stress. Legal professionals have the necessary expertise to help solve legal conflicts. Legal protection insurers give legal advice, provide financial security, actively support people if needed and pay for a lawyer if necessary. A good legal protection can save a life!
However, times are a-changing. Are we ready for the future? The congress will seek answers to whether legal protection insurers respond in a satisfactory way to changes and offer their policy holders tangible solutions. Are lawyers fit to face commercial and technical challenges? How important is the ‘human factor’ for consumers and how can we make the triangle Lawyer – Insurer – Legal-Tech work
The event will be broadcast live online for virtual attendees. For the full experience, there are a number of limited places available to attend in person ‘physically’ at The Hague Marriott. For more information visit the Hybrid section.
A legal issue can threaten lives and therefore it is important to be able to get legal counsel quickly and be prepared for a situation in which a dispute brings about uncertainty, high costs and immeasurable stress. Legal professionals have the necessary expertise to help solve legal conflicts. Legal protection insurers give legal advice, provide financial security, actively support people if needed and pay for a lawyer if necessary. A good legal protection can save a life!
However, times are a-changing. Are we ready for the future? The congress will seek answers to whether legal protection insurers respond in a satisfactory way to changes and offer their policy holders tangible solutions. Are lawyers fit to face commercial and technical challenges? How important is the ‘human factor’ for consumers and how can we make the triangle Lawyer – Insurer – Legal-Tech work
We use ‘Hopin’ as event platform where speeches will be streamed and recordings of each session will be available afterwards on-demand. Moreover, this platform offers all participants many different options for commenting, asking questions and networking.
To make this virtual event as lively and interactive as possible we will ask questions and polls which you can engage with via sli.do.
Silvia Onos is Innovation Manager at the largest Dutch legal protection insurer, DAS. DAS is committed to making and maintaining legal assistance accessible to everyone. Prevention and smart use of digital channels as well as innovations are key to making this possible. Silvia combines thinking big and making it small in order to get moving. She is energetic, knows how to involve people and to keep them motivated to reach the common goal together. For Silvia, the lessons learnt from many small experiments ultimately add up to successful solutions. Examples of current projects are in the field of online dispute resolution, risk-sharing and voice assistants, mostly in cooperation with external parties such as start-ups, SMEs and students.
Legal Protection International aisbl want to put our employees who help policy holders on a daily basis, the legal protection lawyers, into the limelight because these people are the core of our business!
Simon Warr has worked in the legal protection profession since 1989, primarily focusing on underwriting. He is one of the very few legal protection underwriters to write business in both the Lloyd’s and company markets. He has been involved in promoting and establishing new markets for legal protection insurance in jurisdictions around the world.
Simon has worked for AmTrust for the past 10 years and currently runs the underwriting teams across 3 sites in the UK.
He started his engagement with RIAD in 2010, joined the RIAD Board in 2013. He was elected President in April 2017.
Maxim discusses his analysis of the legal framework for legal professions in 19 countries and how this impacts legal protection lawyers.
Maxim Baer is the Managing Director of Legal Net, a subsidiary of ERGO (Munich Re). Legal Net settles international legal protection claims for insurance companies and is the German market leader in this field. Furthermore, he is the coordinator of a “Task Force Legal Tech Germany” within the group. Prior to these tasks, he was responsible for the corporate development of DAS Switzerland, the former Swiss branch of ERGO. He started his career as an Executive Assistant for a group board member.
Maxim holds degrees in Economics, Business Administration and International Relations. He studied at HEC Paris, University of Cologne, Université de Bordeaux, Trinity College Dublin and University of Hamburg.
Prof. Domselaar studied both philosophy and law and she addresses the question how to account for ethics and moral perception in legal practice. Of particular interest is her position on legal technology and ethics.
Iris van Domselaar is associate professor in Legal ethics and Legal Philosophy and founding director of the Amsterdam Center on the Legal Professions at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the question how to account for ethics in legal practice. She especially addresses this question in relation to the classic legal institutions, like the judiciary and advocacy. In her research she seeks to come to grips with ethics as lived experience on the part of legal professionals and of citizens who are directly involved in legal procedures.
Dr. Van Domselaar has published extensively in professional and international top journals and is a frequently invited speaker on the topic of lawyers’ ethics, judicial ethics, moral dilemmas in legal practice, courage for legal professionals and legal ethics for corporate lawyers. Recently, she has stirred the public debate in the Netherlands about the scope of social responsibility of corporate lawyers.
Enjoy our virtual cocktail bar in one of our breakout rooms with music to connect with colleagues and make friends. Make use of the cocktail recipe sent to you via the virtual package.
Also, check out the presentations about different, innovative IT tools used by legal insurers and connect with the speakers to ask them what you need to know.
Make the most of this event: use the ‘meet and connect’ function!
Over a year ago, Mille ‘hired’ Sødde, her first digital employee. She shares with delegates her experience, what she has learnt and how she sees the future of this kind of technology.
Mille Haslund Mellbye is Head of Department at Söderberg & Partners, Norway, where she is responsible for claims handling in Sweden, Denmark and Norway and the implementation of the overall growth strategy regarding independent claims handling, including implementing RPA and bot-projects in order to minimize manual handling. She is an experienced lawyer and has a wide spectrum of competences within strategic management at C-level as well as profound knowledge of and experience with all lines of insurance businesses from a legal point of view. Mille Haslund Mellbye completed an Executive Master of Management in 2018 with a focus on innovation, digitalization, and new business models and she is experienced in handling media attention.
Hagen’s Insurance Innovation Lab is a unique offer for collaborative research and individual innovation in the insurance industry. Learn how he enables insurers to innovate in agile, customer-centred, data-based processes.
Dr. Hagen Habicht has been Managing Director of Digital Impact Labs Leipzig GmbH and Head of the Insurance Innovation Lab since July 2016. After studying Intercultural Business Administration at the universities of Jena and Paris Val de Marne, he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on the subject of stakeholder management.
The design of the Insurance Innovation Lab follows his findings from innovation projects in various industries. It enables the participating insurers to innovate customer-centred in agile, data-based processes. The Insurance Innovation Lab is a unique offer for collaborative research and individual innovation in the insurance industry.
The T-shaped lawyer perspective has become a prominent topic of debate in law schools and legal practice. What role, skills, and ethics should legal professionals have in order to contribute meaningfully to the challenges of contemporary societies?
Elaine Mak was appointed Professor of Legal Theory in June 2016. She obtained her PhD in Rotterdam and was a visiting fellow in – among other places – Berlin, Washington DC, Oxford and Florence. In 2016, she received a grant from the Dutch research council for research into the development of judicial cooperation in the European Union.
Elaine Mak’s research connects a legal-theoretical perspective with studies in comparative constitutional law and empirical analysis (inter alia surveys, interviews). In her research, she focuses on the functioning of the institutions of government (legislature, executive branch, and in particular the judiciary) in Western liberal democracies in an evolving legal context. In connection with this focus, she has a particular interest in the knowledge, skills and professional ethics of ‘legal professionals of the future’ and the way in which legal educational programmes can prepare students for this role.
We invite you to be part of our interactive ‘Have your Say’ session which Prof. Elaine Mak will moderate. You as delegate can join in the discussion and share your views.
Elaine Mak was appointed Professor of Legal Theory in June 2016. She obtained her PhD in Rotterdam and was a visiting fellow in – among other places – Berlin, Washington DC, Oxford and Florence. In 2016, she received a grant from the Dutch research council for research into the development of judicial cooperation in the European Union.
Elaine Mak’s research connects a legal-theoretical perspective with studies in comparative constitutional law and empirical analysis (inter alia surveys, interviews). In her research, she focuses on the functioning of the institutions of government (legislature, executive branch, and in particular the judiciary) in Western liberal democracies in an evolving legal context. In connection with this focus, she has a particular interest in the knowledge, skills and professional ethics of ‘legal professionals of the future’ and the way in which legal educational programmes can prepare students for this role.
Thierry Wickers has been Chairman of the CCBE’s (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe) Future Committee since 2016 and was appointed in 2020 as member to the Perben Ministerial Commission on the Future of the Legal Profession.
Erik is CEO of Euromex (Bâloise Group) and Board member of Brocom, a platform that brings together the broker federations and the main Belgian insurance companies. He is also Chairman of the Financial Forum of the National Bank (Antwerp region) and of the Commission of Distribution of Assuralia.
From the beginning of his career, he worked for a series of societies (De Vaderlandsche-Patiotique, ING Insurance, Mercator – Baloise Group) where he held different positions, e.g. Director Marketing, Sales Support and Corporate Communication; Commercial Director; Director Underwriting, Product and Risk management, Mitarbeitervorteile.
From 2014 to 2018, in Baloise Insurance he was Member of the Executive Committee in charge firstly of Life Insurance, ICT & General Services and later of Non-life Corporate and Marine Insurance and Marketing, Distribution support, Broker administration, PR and Events. Erik became Board Member of Legal Protection International aisbl in March 2019.
Dennis Vink has a law degree from Leiden University and during his study he followed an exchange programme at Monash University of Melbourne in Australia. He started his professional career in 2003 with Klaverblad Insurances where he was involved in the improvement of business operations and in charge of claims handling for legal insurance. He is now managing for DAS the Southern District of the Netherlands with 10 team leaders and indirectly more than 100 lawyers. His team provides specialist legal assistance and he is responsible for realizing DAS’ policy within the legal protection sector. His tasks also include the implementation of changes and the contribution to a vision of an agile organization such as DAS Netherlands. Dennis is a legal protection expert and has a precise and strong understanding of what it takes to provide legal assistance in today’s world.
Simon Warr has worked in the legal protection profession since 1989, primarily focusing on underwriting. He is one of the very few legal protection underwriters to write business in both the Lloyd’s and company markets. He has been involved in promoting and establishing new markets for legal protection insurance in jurisdictions around the world.
Simon has worked for AmTrust for the past 10 years and currently runs the underwriting teams across 3 sites in the UK.
He started his engagement with RIAD in 2010, joined the RIAD Board in 2013. He was elected President in April 2017.
Simon Warr has worked in the legal protection profession since 1989, primarily focusing on underwriting. He is one of the very few legal protection underwriters to write business in both the Lloyd’s and company markets. He has been involved in promoting and establishing new markets for legal protection insurance in jurisdictions around the world.
Simon has worked for AmTrust for the past 10 years and currently runs the underwriting teams across 3 sites in the UK.
He started his engagement with RIAD in 2010, joined the RIAD Board in 2013. He was elected President in April 2017.
We use ‘Hopin’ as event platform where speeches will be streamed and recordings of each session will be available afterwards on-demand. Moreover, this platform offers all participants many different options for commenting, asking questions and networking.
To make this virtual event as lively and interactive as possible we will ask questions and polls which you can engage with via sli.do.
Silvia Onos is Innovation Manager at the largest Dutch legal protection insurer, DAS. DAS is committed to making and maintaining legal assistance accessible to everyone. Prevention and smart use of digital channels as well as innovations are key to making this possible. Silvia combines thinking big and making it small in order to get moving. She is energetic, knows how to involve people and to keep them motivated to reach the common goal together. For Silvia, the lessons learnt from many small experiments ultimately add up to successful solutions. Examples of current projects are in the field of online dispute resolution, risk-sharing and voice assistants, mostly in cooperation with external parties such as start-ups, SMEs and students.
Legal Protection International aisbl want to put our employees who help policy holders on a daily basis, the legal protection lawyers, into the limelight because these people are the core of our business!
Simon Warr has worked in the legal protection profession since 1989, primarily focusing on underwriting. He is one of the very few legal protection underwriters to write business in both the Lloyd’s and company markets. He has been involved in promoting and establishing new markets for legal protection insurance in jurisdictions around the world.
Simon has worked for AmTrust for the past 10 years and currently runs the underwriting teams across 3 sites in the UK.
He started his engagement with RIAD in 2010, joined the RIAD Board in 2013. He was elected President in April 2017.
Maxim discusses his analysis of the legal framework for legal professions in 19 countries and how this impacts legal protection lawyers.
Maxim Baer is the Managing Director of Legal Net, a subsidiary of ERGO (Munich Re). Legal Net settles international legal protection claims for insurance companies and is the German market leader in this field. Furthermore, he is the coordinator of a “Task Force Legal Tech Germany” within the group. Prior to these tasks, he was responsible for the corporate development of DAS Switzerland, the former Swiss branch of ERGO. He started his career as an Executive Assistant for a group board member.
Maxim holds degrees in Economics, Business Administration and International Relations. He studied at HEC Paris, University of Cologne, Université de Bordeaux, Trinity College Dublin and University of Hamburg.
Prof. Domselaar studied both philosophy and law and she addresses the question how to account for ethics and moral perception in legal practice. Of particular interest is her position on legal technology and ethics.
Iris van Domselaar is associate professor in Legal ethics and Legal Philosophy and founding director of the Amsterdam Center on the Legal Professions at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the question how to account for ethics in legal practice. She especially addresses this question in relation to the classic legal institutions, like the judiciary and advocacy. In her research she seeks to come to grips with ethics as lived experience on the part of legal professionals and of citizens who are directly involved in legal procedures.
Dr. Van Domselaar has published extensively in professional and international top journals and is a frequently invited speaker on the topic of lawyers’ ethics, judicial ethics, moral dilemmas in legal practice, courage for legal professionals and legal ethics for corporate lawyers. Recently, she has stirred the public debate in the Netherlands about the scope of social responsibility of corporate lawyers.
Enjoy our virtual cocktail bar in one of our breakout rooms with music to connect with colleagues and make friends. Make use of the cocktail recipe sent to you via the virtual package.
Also, check out the presentations about different, innovative IT tools used by legal insurers and connect with the speakers to ask them what you need to know.
Make the most of this event: use the ‘meet and connect’ function!
Over a year ago, Mille ‘hired’ Sødde, her first digital employee. She shares with delegates her experience, what she has learnt and how she sees the future of this kind of technology.
Mille Haslund Mellbye is Head of Department at Söderberg & Partners, Norway, where she is responsible for claims handling in Sweden, Denmark and Norway and the implementation of the overall growth strategy regarding independent claims handling, including implementing RPA and bot-projects in order to minimize manual handling. She is an experienced lawyer and has a wide spectrum of competences within strategic management at C-level as well as profound knowledge of and experience with all lines of insurance businesses from a legal point of view. Mille Haslund Mellbye completed an Executive Master of Management in 2018 with a focus on innovation, digitalization, and new business models and she is experienced in handling media attention.
Hagen’s Insurance Innovation Lab is a unique offer for collaborative research and individual innovation in the insurance industry. Learn how he enables insurers to innovate in agile, customer-centred, data-based processes.
Dr. Hagen Habicht has been Managing Director of Digital Impact Labs Leipzig GmbH and Head of the Insurance Innovation Lab since July 2016. After studying Intercultural Business Administration at the universities of Jena and Paris Val de Marne, he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on the subject of stakeholder management.
The design of the Insurance Innovation Lab follows his findings from innovation projects in various industries. It enables the participating insurers to innovate customer-centred in agile, data-based processes. The Insurance Innovation Lab is a unique offer for collaborative research and individual innovation in the insurance industry.
The T-shaped lawyer perspective has become a prominent topic of debate in law schools and legal practice. What role, skills, and ethics should legal professionals have in order to contribute meaningfully to the challenges of contemporary societies?
Elaine Mak was appointed Professor of Legal Theory in June 2016. She obtained her PhD in Rotterdam and was a visiting fellow in – among other places – Berlin, Washington DC, Oxford and Florence. In 2016, she received a grant from the Dutch research council for research into the development of judicial cooperation in the European Union.
Elaine Mak’s research connects a legal-theoretical perspective with studies in comparative constitutional law and empirical analysis (inter alia surveys, interviews). In her research, she focuses on the functioning of the institutions of government (legislature, executive branch, and in particular the judiciary) in Western liberal democracies in an evolving legal context. In connection with this focus, she has a particular interest in the knowledge, skills and professional ethics of ‘legal professionals of the future’ and the way in which legal educational programmes can prepare students for this role.
We invite you to be part of our interactive ‘Have your Say’ session which Prof. Elaine Mak will moderate. You as delegate can join in the discussion and share your views.
Elaine Mak was appointed Professor of Legal Theory in June 2016. She obtained her PhD in Rotterdam and was a visiting fellow in – among other places – Berlin, Washington DC, Oxford and Florence. In 2016, she received a grant from the Dutch research council for research into the development of judicial cooperation in the European Union.
Elaine Mak’s research connects a legal-theoretical perspective with studies in comparative constitutional law and empirical analysis (inter alia surveys, interviews). In her research, she focuses on the functioning of the institutions of government (legislature, executive branch, and in particular the judiciary) in Western liberal democracies in an evolving legal context. In connection with this focus, she has a particular interest in the knowledge, skills and professional ethics of ‘legal professionals of the future’ and the way in which legal educational programmes can prepare students for this role.
Thierry Wickers has been Chairman of the CCBE’s (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe) Future Committee since 2016 and was appointed in 2020 as member to the Perben Ministerial Commission on the Future of the Legal Profession.
Erik is CEO of Euromex (Bâloise Group) and Board member of Brocom, a platform that brings together the broker federations and the main Belgian insurance companies. He is also Chairman of the Financial Forum of the National Bank (Antwerp region) and of the Commission of Distribution of Assuralia.
From the beginning of his career, he worked for a series of societies (De Vaderlandsche-Patiotique, ING Insurance, Mercator – Baloise Group) where he held different positions, e.g. Director Marketing, Sales Support and Corporate Communication; Commercial Director; Director Underwriting, Product and Risk management, Mitarbeitervorteile.
From 2014 to 2018, in Baloise Insurance he was Member of the Executive Committee in charge firstly of Life Insurance, ICT & General Services and later of Non-life Corporate and Marine Insurance and Marketing, Distribution support, Broker administration, PR and Events. Erik became Board Member of Legal Protection International aisbl in March 2019.
Dennis Vink has a law degree from Leiden University and during his study he followed an exchange programme at Monash University of Melbourne in Australia. He started his professional career in 2003 with Klaverblad Insurances where he was involved in the improvement of business operations and in charge of claims handling for legal insurance. He is now managing for DAS the Southern District of the Netherlands with 10 team leaders and indirectly more than 100 lawyers. His team provides specialist legal assistance and he is responsible for realizing DAS’ policy within the legal protection sector. His tasks also include the implementation of changes and the contribution to a vision of an agile organization such as DAS Netherlands. Dennis is a legal protection expert and has a precise and strong understanding of what it takes to provide legal assistance in today’s world.
Simon Warr has worked in the legal protection profession since 1989, primarily focusing on underwriting. He is one of the very few legal protection underwriters to write business in both the Lloyd’s and company markets. He has been involved in promoting and establishing new markets for legal protection insurance in jurisdictions around the world.
Simon has worked for AmTrust for the past 10 years and currently runs the underwriting teams across 3 sites in the UK.
He started his engagement with RIAD in 2010, joined the RIAD Board in 2013. He was elected President in April 2017.
Simon Warr has worked in the legal protection profession since 1989, primarily focusing on underwriting. He is one of the very few legal protection underwriters to write business in both the Lloyd’s and company markets. He has been involved in promoting and establishing new markets for legal protection insurance in jurisdictions around the world.
Simon has worked for AmTrust for the past 10 years and currently runs the underwriting teams across 3 sites in the UK.
He started his engagement with RIAD in 2010, joined the RIAD Board in 2013. He was elected President in April 2017.
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Date: 15 / 10 /2020 | Included with the congress fee | Accompanying partner fee: €80 + VAT
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Please note: great savings apply when booking together as a group.
Virtual attendance fees
We kindly request members who consider registering a substantial number of staff to contact us directly to negotiate possible further discounts.
Please note: For non-members the maximum discount per registration is €90 per delegate*.
*VAT will be added at 21% to above costs.
Please note: great savings apply when booking together as a group.
Virtual attendance fees
We kindly request members who consider registering a substantial number of staff to contact us directly to negotiate possible further discounts.
Please note: For non-members the maximum discount per registration is €90 per delegate*.
*VAT will be added at 21% to above costs.
Example Organisation registers four delegates. Delegate 1 & 2 = €1050 x 2 = €2100 Delegate 3 & 4 = €420 x 2 = €840 Total = €2940 + VAT (saving €1260)
Date: 15 / 10 /2020 Accompanying partner fee: €80 + VAT *please note that delegates registered as students need special admittance if they want to attend the networking cocktail & dinner.
Date: 16/ 10 /2020
This is an optional social event. Places are limited on a first come first serve basis.
*VAT will be added at 21% to above costs.
Please note: great savings apply when booking together as a group.
Virtual attendance fees
We kindly request members who consider registering a substantial number of staff to contact us directly to negotiate possible further discounts.
Please note: For non-members the maximum discount per registration is €90 per delegate*.
*VAT will be added at 21% to above costs.
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Legal Protection International aisbl (LPI): our members are legal protection insurers and service providers in this field from 20 different countries on 4 continents. Founded as Rencontre Internationale des Assureurs Défense (RIAD) in 1969, our Association has helped to establish important standards in the area of legal protection. While legal protection is abstract, complex and not well known, a good legal protection can change a life. Therefore, we help our members to constantly learn about it and enable them to measure up to the expectations invested in them. We firmly believe that everyone in the world deserves good legal protection providing them with access to justice and the law. Legal Protection International and its members are devoted to improving our sector to provide a better access to legal protection in the world. In order to achieve this, we raise awareness, share information and best practices to promote legal protection and constantly improve its quality.
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LPI Congress Update: Please note that the LPI Congress will take place as a fully virtual congress. The health and wellbeing of our delegates is our top priority and in accordance with the Dutch government guidelines we have cancelled all in-person attendance to avoid non-essential travel to The Netherlands (the original location for this event). If you have any questions please contact us.
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