It’s here! The first instalment of a ‘sector themed’ Fuckup Nights London!

Fuckup Nights is a global movement and event series that shares stories of professional failure. Each month, in events across the globe, we get three to four people to get up in front of a room full of strangers to share their own professional fuckup.

At this event, speakers will share stories of how they have fucked up in the legaltech space. We are looking for vendors and law firm people to come forward. Maybe someone from a vendor will tell us about how they fucked up their business or an acquisition/sale opportunity. What about a senior law firm IT leader spilling the beans on how they fucked up a major IT project?

Stephen Sacks, the Fuckup Nights London host will be joined in his hosting duties by David Gilroy, Conscious Solutions and David Newman, Agilico. This is going to be a fun evening!

Speakers:

• Stuart Whittle – hear about how a former lawyer made a hopelessly naive software choice that nearly crippled his firm.
• Dan Mitchell – will not only share how password problems resulted in him being gently menaced legally by a legal sector supplier and offers advice on the three worst passwords to use if you are an MSP.

Stuart Whittle is a former professional indemnity lawyer turned, (somewhat arbitrarily), IT director. Early in his career as IT Director, keen to make an impression in his firm and the legal IT community, he embarked on what turned out to be a spectacularly ill-judged, firmwide project to replace the firm’s front-of-house case management solution used by everyone in the firm. Come and listen to his cathartic unburdening where he talks about the impact it had on his firm (where, unaccountably, he still works) and on him personally.

Dan Mitchell has only ever worked for two law firms yet that still gives him over 20 years in the legal sector. In this Q&A style session with David Gilroy, Dan will not just talk passwords but also how not to upgrade an eight-site law firm’s telephone system overnight.

If you want to hear how you can learn from our mistakes, hear our stories, and network with a group that recognise that businesses and their leaders must fail to ultimately succeed then you need to show up on Tuesday 16 January for what promises to be an amazing evening of beer (first one is free and canapés are included), laughs and therapy.

This event is held in partnership with LegalTech Insider: https://legaltechnology.com/

Let’s change the narrative, let’s #ShareTheFailure.