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IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017

8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017

Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Aku Johannes Sorainen

Biography

Aku Sorainen is the founder and senior partner of SORAINEN, an international business law firm with offices in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Founded in 1995, the firm has grown organically to 44 partners and over 250 lawyers with integrated legal practice and sector groups, firm-wide leadership, quality management processes and business services. Aku is of Finnish origin but has worked as a lawyer in the Baltic states since 1993. In 2015, Aku was honoured to receive the Knight’s Cross, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland from Finnish President Sauli Niinistö for two decades of work developing relations between Estonia and Finland; and in 2021, he was awarded the Service Cross of the Estonian Foreign Ministry for promoting Estonia’s national interest. Aku is also the honorary consul of Malta in Estonia. He is recognised as an eminent practitioner by international legal directories and is an active member of the IBA.

Session

The no longer brave new world: artificial intelligence and other new deliveries of legal services

Tuesday 10 October (1430 - 1730)

Room C4.10, Convention Centre, Level 4

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Law firm management profit-increasing café: how to remain valuable, cost-effective and successful

Tuesday 10 October (0930 - 1230)

Parkside Ballroom 2, Convention Centre, Level 2

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