From 2010 to 2019, VQ hosted the renowned VQ Forum, which grew to become Scandinavia’s premier event for legal innovation. This annual conference provided a strategic platform for thought leaders, innovators, and legal practitioners to connect, exchange insights, and shape the future of legal services.
VQ Forum Programmes Through the Years
VQ Forum 2019
The theme was “Law 2.0” and discussing innovation from all aspects. Technology naturally plays an important role, but innovation is not simply a case of automating process, it is about creating new ways of working and new ways of delivering services, and building new kinds of organisations.
VQ Forum 2018
In 2018 the theme was “Ushering in the Future of Practice of Law with a Client Centric Approach”. It was introduced by Johan Eriksson from Google with his clear mission about automation; anything that can be automated has to be automated.
VQ Forum 2017
In 2017 we started talking about AI. The main theme for VQ Forum this year was “Digital transformation and Legal Artificial Intelligence”. There were general views on how digitalization and AI would affect the legal sector and whether it would be an evolution or a revolution, how digitalization needed investment in both time and money and a panel discussion regarding how it would affect the business.
VQ Forum 2016
As law firms had now gained much more awareness of changes on the legal market, the theme for 2016 was “Reinvention and Disruptive Innovation”.
VQ Forum 2015
For our fifth anniversary in 2015, we could see that law firms were more aware of the need for change and we therefore focused more on business development and new legal services opportunities.
VQ Forum 2014
In 2014 we focused more on productivity and pricing strategies and “Why doing what you have always done is not the answer 2014”. This year we also arranged a parallel afternoon seminar on information security.
VQ Forum 2013
In 2013 we arranged the event together with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and their event “Commercial Objectives in International Dispute Resolutions” as a two day joint legal strategy happening; “Stockholm Legal Business Summit”.
VQ Forum 2012
In 2012 we arranged the event together with Regi and their Law Firm of the Year (Sw. Årets Advokatbyrå) survey report. We ended the conference day with the Law Firm of the Year Awards ceremony.
VQ Forum 2011
The largest inspiration for us in VQ has been professor Richard Susskind – the author of books such as “The End of Lawyers?” – so we were extremely happy to be able to invite him as our key note speaker for the second VQ Forum in 2011. He there provided insightful predictions on the future of the legal profession.
VQ Forum 2010
In 2010, “LegalTech” wasn’t an established term, and business development was something that was discussed on the side., if it was discussed at all within the law firm or legal department. The first VQ Forum in 2010 therefore focused mostly on Knowledge Management (KM); on KM trends, KM development, how IT was considered an enabler for KM and the importance of knowledge sharing.
