Succession Planning in the era of AI: Navigating new partnership challenges – Professional Practices Alliance (PPA) Webinar Recording

Is your firm ready for the seismic shift AI is bringing to succession planning, partnership structures and the future of legal leadership? 

We are delighted to share with you the recording of our recent webinar, Succession Planning in the era of AI: Navigating new partnership challenges. 

In this audio recording of the webinar recording, Corinne Staves (Partner at CM Murray LLP), David Shufflebotham (Founder at PepUp Consulting) and Zulon Begum (Partner at CM Murray LLP) join webinar chair ​Rob Millard PhD (Director at Cambridge Strategy Group) to discuss how AI is redefining partner roles and governance models and how it demands new approaches to talent development, retention and succession. In particular, the panel discuss:

• AI’s Impact on Legal Careers: How is AI changing workflows and career paths for legal professionals at all levels?
   
• Skills for the Future: Are your teams developing the emotional intelligence, adaptability, digital literacy, entrepreneurial thinking and evaluative judgement needed to succeed?
   
• Training and Leadership: Is your firm’s approach to training and mentorship keeping pace with rapid technological change?
   
• Succession Planning Pressures: Firms must maintain strong talent pipelines and adapt culturally as AI, private equity and partner mobility reshape the landscape.
   
• Evolving Partnership Structures: The fixed share and equity partnership landscape is shifting, requiring new strategies for performance, evaluation and recruitment.  PE investment is also a key driver for the adoption of technological solutions.
   
• Regulatory and Ethical Challenges: Are you addressing bias in AI-driven decisions and ensuring client service, confidentiality and fair recruitment and promotion? Are regulators ensuring regulation keeps pace with technological advancements?
   
• Retirement and Partner Exits: AI is influencing attitudes towards retirement; how proactive is your firm in assessing valuable partner performance/contribution in an evolving market and supporting transitions and succession?
   
• Strategic Agility: Law firms need to be forward-looking and agile, investing in continuous development of people and processes to thrive in a changing market.

If you have any questions arising from this recording or wish to discuss succession planning and AI in more detail, please contact Corinne Staves or  Zulon Begum (Partners at CM Murray LLP), David Shufflebotham (Founder at PepUp Consulting) and join webinar chair ​Rob Millard PhD (Director at Cambridge Strategy Group).