Topic: Creating the Resilient Firm of the Future

Speaker: Kathy Scourby, CBCP - KNS Consulting, LLC

It could be a burst pipe, a fire in a neighboring suite, a workplace violence incident, a weeklong power outage due to wildfires or a global pandemic....it doesn’t have to be a natural disaster that could close your law firm or affect its reputation. Does your firm’s current business continuity plan address all the essential components necessary to seamlessly continue providing services to clients and customers? As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to impact the current business landscape around the world, law firm leaders are looking at their business continuity and risk management programs to determine current and future risks to their firms and help make vital business decisions. In this session we will discuss business continuity and pandemic planning and the steps that your firm can take now to protect your employees, make informed business decisions for returning to the workplace, working with clients and ensuring organizational resiliency and profitability. Items such as continuing to have a remote work environment while also phasing back to an office work setting, the future of providing services to clients, risk management and compliance issues, crisis communication systems, comprehensive written business continuity plans and testing those plans will be discussed.

Kathryn Scourby, CBCP is the Principal of KNS Consulting, LLC

Kathy works with professional service firms to achieve their goals in the areas of business continuity, disaster preparedness, risk management and compliance. A Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), she consults with and trains management professionals and all levels of staff at private service firms by facilitating table-top exercises and other training in these focus areas, as well as conducting Business Impact Assessments (BIA’s) and overall business continuity planning. Kathy’s experience includes thirty-three years with international law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP, including over five years as the firm’s only Business Continuity Manager, as part of her experience in the legal industry. She continues to receive outstanding reviews as a frequent presenter at legal management conferences and local chapter meetings of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), state and local Bar Association meetings, other professional association meetings and with private service firms and businesses.  ***Meeting link will be emailed closer to the 17th***

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