The Silent Lunch Series #7

*PLEASE NOTE, that registering for a ticket does not guarantee a seat. We will review your application before confirming*

What is it?

Meet the architects: The Silent Lunch Series is an intimate, two-hour, silent conference in Sandton where 100 senior legal industry professionals will gather each month, and rotate through four focused 20 25 minute sessions each time. Each session runs simultaneously in its own zone, and guests listen via wireless headsets while enjoying complimentary coffee, tea, water, and snacks. Every 25 minutes, you move to the next zone, until you have heard all 4 speakers. Then pick up some free snacks and head back to the office.

When is it? Lunch number 7

The second silent lunch conference is between 12pm - 2pm on Friday 27th May 2027 and is being held in the atrium of the WeWork, 155 West St, Sandton.

Lunch 7 Globalisation, Offshoring and Talent Flows

Theme: The global market for legal skills

Target market: International Managing Partners, HR/Mobility heads, Outsourcing/Shared-services leaders

Value Proposition

Legal work is globalising, and so is legal talent. When clients can shop worldwide and AI erodes location advantages, what happens to SA rate premiums and partner profits? When firms build captive centres in Mauritius or nearshore to Rwanda, what does that do to local associates? This lunch tackles the uncomfortable truths about offshoring, talent arbitrage, cross-border careers and regulatory constraints essential for international managing partners and HR leads navigating a borderless legal market.

Four Topics

1. Global rate and salary compression: When clients can shop worldwide and AI erodes location advantages, what happens to SA rate premiums and local salaries?
2. Offshoring, nearshoring and captive centres: What they really do to partner profits, associate pay and career paths in the home office real P&L impact.
3. Cross-border careers: Lawyers building international, hybrid and remote portfolios - how they price themselves and what firms must pay to retain them.
4. Regulatory and compliance constraints: What is and isn't legally possible across African and global jurisdictions when you globalise teams and compensation structures.

Where is it?

WeWork, 155 West St, Sandton. Go to the front entrance, ask for the Silent Lunch, and they will show you where we are.

Cost?

Zero for attendees

Who will attend?

Depending on the monthly theme, the audience could be Legal Industry professionals at every level. From students, candidate attorneys, associates, advisors, and counsel to legal technologists, founders of AI ventures, marketers, senior partners, GCs, CFOs, and CEOs.

Why attend?

1. High value, zero fluff
2. Curated lunchtime sessions on pay, careers and AI that directly affect bonuses, promotions, hiring and retention.
3. Four punchy briefings in two hours, with direct access to experts who see what s working across firms and in-house teams.
4. Deep focus, no noise
5. Silent headsets supplied, short 20 25 minute talks, and intimate 25-person zones keep the content sharp, practical and easy to engage with.
6. Low-pressure, lunch-time format
7. Running 12 2pm in Sandton, so you don t lose a billable afternoon or a travel day.
8. Coffee, tea, water, snacks and natural networking through zone rotations make it feel more like a small-room briefing than a formal conference.
9. Real, usable takeaways and strategies shared.
10. Every session answers what should we change in the next 6 12 months? on remuneration, training and careers, while 100 delegates rotate through all four zones benchmarking and sharing ideas.

For Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Sue Smith on sue@barazaevents.com