ReInvent Law · New York
Keynote at Cooper Union’s Great Hall: “The Legal Delivery Model: A Post-Cubist Paradigm”—an early call to reassemble legal delivery around the client.
Watch the talk ↗Thought Leadership · Speaking & collaboration
Global Keynotes & Dialogues
Mark A. Cohen brings the perspectives of lawyer, entrepreneur, business leader, educator, and trusted adviser to audiences around the world. His keynotes and conversations connect legal business transformation with technology, human adaptation, enterprise value, and the rule of law.
North AmericaEuropeAsiaSouth AmericaAfricaAustralia
Representative engagements span conferences, universities, professional bodies, corporate leadership teams, and online programmes. Each setting brings a different perspective to the same question: how can law better serve business and society at large?
Representative Global Keynotes & Forums
Selected keynotes, headline talks, conference appearances, and professional dialogues. In-person and virtual engagements are identified where applicable.
North America
Legal Geek North America · Brooklyn
Headline speaker at the inaugural North American conference, connecting the emerging legal technology community with the broader transformation of legal services.
Speaker profile ↗Canadian Bar Association
Keynote address to the Canadian Bar Association.
Europe
Legal Geek · London · Multiple editions
Keynotes, headline-stage appearances, opening-session contributions, and moderation across multiple editions.
Conference record ↗LegalTechTalk · London
“Aligning Law with Business and Social Transformation”; a fireside conversation with Cleary Gottlieb’s Ilona Logvinova on “The ‘X’ Factor of Legal.”
Event record ↗German Bar Association
Keynote addressing the relationship between legal change, the rule of law, democracy, and professional responsibility.
Speaker interview ↗Solicitors Regulation Authority · United Kingdom
Professional dialogue on legal education and qualification, including a recorded discussion with the SRA’s Julie Brannan about the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.
Listen to the discussion ↗Liquid Legal Institute · Germany
Opening keynote addresses at Liquid Legal Institute conferences.
Bucerius Law School · Germany
Keynote addresses at Bucerius Law School.
Association of Corporate Counsel Europe · Paris
Keynote address at the ACC Europe conference in Paris.
Asia
TechLaw.Fest · Singapore
Conference dialogues on legal innovation and transformation, including the in-house innovation journey and “The Uncertain Decade” conversation with Richard Susskind.
Event interview ↗Singapore Academy of Law
As inaugural LIFTED Catalyst-in-Residence and subsequently Distinguished Scholar, Mark engaged government, judicial, business, technology, legal, and academic leaders on legal delivery and education.
Appointment profile ↗South America
Chilean Legal Tech Conference · Santiago
Keynote programme examining how technology-enabled service providers are reshaping the global legal marketplace.
Event record ↗Universidad del Pacífico · Peru
Virtual keynote, “Law In A Time Of Paradigmatic Change,” for Los Abogados del Futuro, connecting legal services with changing societal needs.
Conference programme ↗Africa
Uganda Legal Tech Conference · Kampala
Keynote on technology’s impact on legal delivery, the new skills legal professionals need, and emerging career opportunities.
Event record ↗Africa Legal
An interview on legal operations and innovation in Africa, extending the conversation from technology adoption to integrated, client-focused delivery.
Read the interview ↗Australia
Legal Mavericks · Sydney
Keynote programme for “Alternative Legal Service Providers: Legal Disruptors and Innovators.”
Event record ↗Law Society of New South Wales · Sydney
Speaker at the FLIP conference on “The Future You—Legal Professionals in the Uber Era,” examining the changing roles of legal professionals.
Speaker profile ↗The College of Law · Sydney
Teaching Fellow and programme Board Advisor for the Master of Legal Business, teaching market-driven legal delivery and collaborative culture.
Course record ↗Representative Universities & Executive Education
Teaching, guest lectures, master classes, and conversations with students, faculty, and professional leaders connect practical experience with the questions shaping legal careers and institutions.
Harvard Law SchoolStanford Law SchoolOxford Law & Saïd Business SchoolKing’s College LondonUniversity College LondonLondon School of EconomicsBucerius Law SchoolIEGeorgetown LawNorthwestern Pritzker School of LawThe College of Law, AustraliaNational University of Singapore
Harvard Law School · Speaker Series
“Clearspire in Retrospect and Observations on the Current Global Legal Landscape”—a conversation connecting entrepreneurial experience with changes in the legal marketplace.
Watch the lecture ↗UCL · Centre for Ethics & Law
“The Changing Legal Services Marketplace: A View From Across the Pond,” on innovation, the buyer–seller relationship, and opportunities for young lawyers.
Event record ↗University of Oxford
“Digital Transformation in Legal Services,” with Bill Deckelman and Dan Reed at Saïd Business School.
Event record ↗Northwestern · Beyond Our Borders
Opening remarks and moderated discussions at the Global Legal Innovation Summit, bringing together legal educators, regulators, technologists, and industry leaders.
Event record ↗Representative Enterprise Audiences & Leadership Teams
Mark has addressed scores of leading multinational enterprises and corporate legal teams around the world on legal business transformation, enterprise value, technology, and human adaptation. Representative engagements include:
Shell · Scenarios Team
Collaboration as an outside adviser with Shell’s multidisciplinary scenario-planning team, exploring signals, interconnected risks, and possible futures to strengthen enterprise foresight.
Economist Impact · Leadership Summits
Moderation and conversations for general counsel and business innovation audiences, connecting developments in legal services with the wider challenges of enterprise leadership.
Temasek
Speaking engagements on legal business transformation and the changing role of the legal function.
Deloitte Academy
Executive education and dialogue on legal business transformation, technology, and the people who make change possible.
Representative Collaborations & Dialogues
The work extends beyond the stage: sustained exchanges with thinkers, institutions, and business leaders help connect different disciplines and turn perspective into practical insight.
Singapore Academy of Law
As inaugural LIFTED Catalyst-in-Residence and subsequently Distinguished Scholar, Mark worked with senior government, judicial, business, finance, technology, legal, and academic leaders to advance legal innovation, education, and cross-sector collaboration.
Richard Susskind · The Uncertain Decade
A four-part international online series, followed by further summit conversations, examining clients, legal delivery, technology, and transformation.
Series record ↗University of Strathclyde · Ross Priory
Invited keynote, “Law in an Uncertain Decade,” at the 28th annual retreat. The ensuing dialogue with Richard Susskind and senior judicial, academic, and professional participants explored law’s changing role in business and society.
Stanford CodeX & IE
Collaborations and exchanges at the intersection of legal innovation, technology, education, and new approaches to legal delivery.
Erik Brynjolfsson · Technology & human adaptation
An interview exploring the gap between technological capability and organizational adaptation, a recurring theme in Mark’s work on the human requirements of transformation.
Digital Legal Exchange & Liquid Legal Institute
Co-founding and leadership of a multinational community advancing legal-function integration, followed by its union with LLI and the continuing Digital Leaders Exchange.
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Keynotes, master classes, leadership dialogues, and moderation tailored to the audience and the questions that matter to it.
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