LegalTech West Coast got off to a strong start Tuesday morning with an overflow crowd at the keynote address. Kevin Genirs, now global general counsel for investment banking at Barclays Capital, reprised his popular keynote from January’s LegalTech New York, and regaled the audience with a history lesson: “2008 vs. 2012: Lessons from Lehman Brothers.”
In the talk, which was sponsored by DiscoverReady, Genirs offered a compelling insider’s perspective about the collapse of the banking giant, and how the government and banking industry struggled to make lightening-fast decisions during its demise. At the time he was general counsel, investment banking for the failing investment bank, which was eventually bought “for the price of our building” by his current employer. The move salvaged about 10,000 New York City jobs, in a challenging, fast-paced, deadline-driven deal overseen by Judge James Peck of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
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