Heikki Ilvessalo

Managing Director

Heikki Ilvessalo

Managing Director

About

Heikki has over 25 years of experience in the legal field with a particular interest in developments that contribute to evolving the digitalization of the legal field. His experience and expertise relate to the key areas of legal service providers’ and in-house teams’ digital transformation agenda.

Heikki focuses on understanding the current pain points of the legal sector and creating legal tech solutions that move the sector forward. He helps legal professionals and organizations have better workday experience and gain better results as a team.

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He is also on a mission to accelerate the evolution of the whole legal field ecosystem. During his career at Ilves, he has built the “Legal Tech Glögit’ network of legal tech pioneers in Finland. The network has grown over the years and has become a forum of over 230 members, including in-house teams, legal service providers, and legal tech and legal design vendors. Regular network meetings hosted by Heikki, in collaboration with the member companies’ legal tech experts have become a forum for open innovation and shared learning. Contact Heikki to join the network.

Heikki is also the co-organizer of the Nordic Legal Tech Day, Helsinki on 27 November 2024 and the Ambassador Finland of the European Legal Tech Association.

Prior to his appointment in 2018, he was the development director for Castrén & Snellman (2005-2018). He received his LLM in 2001 and started his career as a lawyer.

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Expertise

  • Innovation & Strategy
  • Legal design
  • Future of legal work
  • GenAI legal tech tools
  • Knowledge management
  • Culture development

Articles by Heikki

Fondia Oyj selected Ilves Search

Fondia Oyj selected Ilves Search. The business case for Ilves Search became clear from the first meeting with Ilves, says Janne Ala-Sippola, Fondia.

Questions and answers about Ilves Search

Learn more about Ilves Search by reading frequently asked questions and answers.

Castrén & Snellman selected Ilves MyActivities Pro time tracker

Ilves developed MyActivities Pro time tracker in close collaboration with Castrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd's pilot group.

Ilves’ 2023 – rapid growth & Gen AI innovation

A big thank you to all our clients and collaboration partners for this year, and wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year!

Our donations to support Ukraine

Your Finnish Friends ry ensures that Finnish soldiers in Ukraine have proper equipment. We donated € 3000 for equipment procurement.

Zefort’s Spotlight on Heikki Ilvessalo: A lawyer-innovator who builds products and communities

Zefort's Spotlight series introduces interesting individuals from the legal profession. This time the spotlight is on our CEO Heikki Ilvessalo.

Public speaking

Heikki is a regular speaker and chair of legal tech events and webinars.

Future events

November 27, 2024 Nordic Legal Tech Day, Helsinki, read more Co-organizer, moderator
June 2024 Legal tech glögit, Legal Tech in Finland Map 2024 Co-Chair
May 16-17, 2024 Future Law 2024, Tallinn, read more Panelist
February 1, 2024 Future Law 2024 webinar, Challenges of digital transformation in legal teams, (in Collaboration with Henrik Wehrs, Allen & Overy) Presentation
January 18, 2024 Legal tech network meeting, hosted by Fondia, The development of legal departments through legal design and technology Opening remarks

Past events

November 15, 2023 Nordic Legal Tech Day, Helsinki, read more Co-organizer, moderator
October, 2023 Legal tech network meeting, hosted by Castrén & Snellman, the core skills of future lawyers Chair, presentation
June 15, 2023 Legal tech glögit, Legal Tech in Finland Map 2023 Co-Chair
May 26-27, 2023 Future law 2023, Tallinn, panel discussion and digital transformation workshop, read more Panelist and Workshop
May 4, 2023 Legal tech glögit hosted by Hannes Snellman, Generative AI Chair
January, 2023 Legal tech glögit hosted by KPMG, digital transformation Chair
November 22, 2022 The Finnish Bar Association, Tekoäly ja digitalisaatio asianajajan työssä ja asiakkaan näkökulmasta, read more Presentation
November 17, 2022 Nordic Legal Tech Day, Helsinki
Digitalization & Development of the Legal Industry
Co-organizer and co-moderator
October 4, 2022 Legal tech glögit hosted by Dittmar & Indrenius Chair, presentation
September 22, 2022 The European Circuit Annual Conference in Lisbon, The most innovative ways law firms are using data, read more Presentation
June 16, 2022 Legal tech glögit hosted by Ilves & _ment
Finnish legal tech solutions
Co-chair
May 5, 2022 GBL Alliance Conference, Helsinki
Legal tech challenges
Presentation
April 11, 2022 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Roschier
Cybersecurity, Finnish Legal Tech Map
Chair
November 4, 2021 Nordic Legal Tech Day, Helsinki
Digitalization & Development of the Legal Industry
Co-organizer and co-moderator
October 14, 2021 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Hannes Snellman
Digital Transformation of the Legal Field – A Bubble in Trouble
Chair
September 2, 2021 Legal tech glögit, hosted by EY-Law
Modern management tools for General Counsels
Chair
June 8, 2021 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Roschier
Legal tech as an investment
Chair
March 25, 2021 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Dottir
Wellbeing and productive culture
Chair
January 27, 2021 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Citrus
New ways to offer legal services
Chair
December 2, 2020 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Wiidare
Digitalization of in-house teams
Co-Chair
October 29, 2020 Legal tech glögit, hosted by DLA Piper Helsinki
Digital transformation and legal tech solutions
Chair
September 8, 2020 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Merilampi
Modern work
Chair
August 11, 2020 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Ilves
Finnish legal tech solutions
Chair
February 14, 2020 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Krogerus
The status of AI capabilities
Chair
December 4, 2019 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Hannes Snellman
Legal tech-friendly culture
Chair and workshop
October 22, 2019 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Borenius
Knowledge Management 3.0
Chair and workshop
August 22, 2019 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Castrén & Snellman
Legal design
Chair and workshop
May 14, 2019 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Roschier
Legal tech, People
Chair
April 3, 2019 Legal tech glögit, hosted by Dittmar & Indrenius
People, legal tech
Chair
2018 WT Gym, Wolf Theiss
Vienna
Innovating better client experience
Keynote speaker
2017 The British Legal Tech Forum
London
Gamification
Panel Discussion with Richard Susskind and Yu-Kai Chou
2016 Law Firm Marketing Summit
London
Gamification
Speaker



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