Pedro Rebelo de Sousa, Senior Partner of SRS Advogados, will be a speaker at the largest legal event of the year in Portugal, the Legal Grand Conference 2015 to be held on 13 October at the Estoril Congress Centre.
With the theme "The Future of Law", the event will include Professor Richard Susskind as keynote speaker. Professor Susskind is an author, speaker and independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments. He is also the advisor of the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the highest figure in the Courts of England and Wales, in matters relating to information technology (IT).
Professor Susskind has spoken at conferences in over 40 countries and his main area of expertise is the future of professional services and, in particular, the way in which IT and the Internet are changing the work of lawyers.