Kim Larkin was delighted to represent Charltons at the Avrio Advocati Spring Conference, held in Bonn, Germany on 22nd–23rd May 2025.
The three-day conference featured a rich programme of sessions, with artificial intelligence and its implications for legal practice taking centre stage. Standout presentations included Dr. Ralf Schadowski of Schadowski Consulting GmbH on the use of AI in law firms in the context of the GDPR; Dr. Peter Schichl, Chief Legal Tech Officer at Deutsche Telekom AG, on AI in the legal department of a DAX corporation; Dr. Jan-Felix Kumkar and Johannes Heid of Kumkar & Co. Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB on the Agentic Law Firm; Dr. Ansgar Kalle of the Institute for Labour Law and Social Security Law on liability risks when using AI in legal practice; and Emmett Maginn, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution at Caldwell & Robinson, on advising clients in the AI era.
We also warmly welcome the three new member firms who were introduced at the conference: E & G Economides LLC (Cyprus), PHH (Austria), and bgbg (Mexico). We look forward to working with you all!
A heartfelt thank you to Matthias Arens, Elisabeth Holenhaus and Alexander-Roger Börner of host firm Eimer Heuschmid Mehle, and to Sinead Lynch, for their tremendous hard work in organising such an excellent and well-run event.