Expert Panel | Outsourcing in a Legal Context

Svetlana Johnson

Jon Kenton

Head of Consulting APAC at Elevate Services

An experienced strategic enabler and change agent, Jon Kenton has worked for over 20 years in the Professional Services industry in the UK, USA and Australia, including premium brands such as Royal Bank of Scotland, NAB, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and now Elevate Services. Jon has transformed individual business units, driven organisation-wide strategic change and created new ground-breaking businesses. Always searching for a more efficient, effective and strategic way to solve existing client problems, Jon helps clients make necessary strategic change happen in a pragmatic, sustainable way.

Mike Brookes

General Counsel at Hall & Wilcox

As the General Counsel at Hall & Wilcox, he manages a team of in-house legal professionals. The team looks after the development of high quality, legally correct precedents for use by lawyers in all practice areas. The team is also responsible for implementing and overseeing quality control and risk management policies and procedures, designed to enable the firm to manage its legal risks.

Mike also looks after the firm’s company secretarial duties and responsibilities, as well as acting as an advisor to the firm on all general legal queries relating to the firm’s business, including its duties and obligations under the various legal profession statutes, regulations and rules.