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Heikki Ilvessalo
Managing Director
Heikki Ilvessalo
Managing Director
About
Heikki has over 20 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.
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 that contains the most seasoned legal field pioneers in Finland. The network has grown over the years and has become a forum of over 100 members from in-house teams, legal service providers, and legal tech vendors. Regular network meetings hosted by Heikki, in collaboration with the member firms’ legal tech experts have become a forum for open innovation and shared learning. Contact Heikki to join the network.
Prior to his appointment 2018, he was the development director for Castrén & Snellman (2005-2018). He received his LLM 2001 and started his career as a lawyer.
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Expertise
- Innovation & Strategy
- Legal design
- Future of work
- Knowledge management
- Culture development
Articles by Heikki
Ilves’ 2021 – an action-packed year
What an action-packed past year we have had, and what an exciting year ahead we have to look forward to. We would like to thank all of our clients and business partners for the confidence and great moments on our path this year! We are starting the year with confidence and anticipation.
Season’s Greetings
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Nordic Legal Tech Day 2021, Episode 2: Stockholm
Here is my experience of NLTD events in general and what I took away from the event in Stockholm.
Tear Down the Silos that Keep Your Contracts Hostage
In this guest post, Zefort’s CEO Jussi Karttila discusses why you should not build walls around your contracts.
Nordic Legal Tech Day 2021, Episode 1: Oslo
I'm the co-organizer of the Helsinki event on the 3rd of November 2021. In order to get a feel for the event, I decided to attend the NLTD, Oslo, which was organized for the first time.
Public speaking
Heikki is a regular speaker and event chair on legal tech events and webinars.
Future events
| November 17, 2022 | Nordic Legal Tech Day, Helsinki Digitalization & Development of the Legal Industry |
Co-organizer and co-moderator |
| June, 2022 | Legal tech glögit hosted by Ilves Finnish legal tech solutions |
Chair |
Past events
| 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 s, 2020 | Legal tech glögit, hosted by Krogerus The status of AI capabilities |
Chair |
| September 8, 2020 | Legal tech glögit, hosted by Merilampi Modern work |
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 |
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 |
