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Ginevra Saylor

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Ginevra Saylor is the National Director, Innovation and Knowledge Programs with the global law firm Gowling WLG LLP, where she leads the firm’s innovation, knowledge management, client and practice solutions, legal project management, and process re-engineering strategy and initiatives. In her role, she identifies and implements programs, processes, and tools that drive innovation and excellence throughout the firm and enhance the delivery of client services. 

Ginevra has over twenty years of experience building and delivering strategies for innovation, knowledge management, client solutions, technology adoption, and process improvement. In previous KM leadership roles with two major firms, Ginevra developed strategies and initiatives for innovation, knowledge management, learning and development, client solutions, technology adoption, and process improvement and designed new projects and practice tools to leverage and build her firms’ knowledge base. A member of the Ontario and Pennsylvania Bars, she also has extensive and varied past experience as a practicing litigator and educator.

Ginevra served as President of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Board of Directors for two years, as well as Executive Vice President and Secretary respectively for four years before assuming the presidency. She also is a College of Law Practice Management (COLMP) Fellow. Ginevra and her Gowling project team won a 2021 Precedent Innovation Award for developing a contest rules application, and Ginevra earned the ILTA 2016 Publications Shining Star Award and the 2016 Global Knowledge Management Congress Knowledge Management Leadership Award. She is a frequent author and international speaker on legal practice, innovation, legal technology, knowledge management, and related topics.

Ginevra has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, Greece and Vietnam. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with her family.

Job History

National Director, Innovation and Knowledge Programs
Toronto, ON, Canada
January 2019 - present

Board of Directors, Executive Vice President
August 2017 - present

National Director, Knowledge and Innovation
August 2006 - June 2018

National Director of Knowledge Management
March 1998 - June 2006

Professional Associations

Canadian Bar Association
1999 - Present

Ontario Bar Association
1998 - Present

Education

Franklin & Marshall College
BA

Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Juris Doctor, cum laude