Jeremiah Weasenforth
AI Innovation Attorney,
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
No Shortcuts: How Legal Teams Build Operational Excellence From the Ground Up
The Challenge:
Legal teams are under pressure to move faster, do more, and enable the business, but there’s no magic tool, consultant, or shortcut that builds operational excellence overnight.
The Reality: It takes ground-up work: examining processes, fixing inefficiencies, retraining mindsets, and doing it before you can scale AI, data intelligence, or predictive risk modeling.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to find inefficiencies—and save full-time headcount—without cutting staff
- Why legal ops transformation starts with process, not technology
- How a 20% time investment changed the trajectory of Jeremiah’s legal team
- Replacing the “fail” fast mindset with “try and win”
Key Takeaway:
If you want to future-proof your legal department for the AI era, you have to build your foundation first. This session shows you exactly how to start.
Nathan Reff
Senior Manager, Applied Science at Relativity
From CAL to Agentic AI: The Next Era of Legal Data Intelligence
The Challenge:
For years, legal teams have wrestled with overwhelming volumes of data. Continuous Active Learning (CAL) helped tame the chaos, driven by human feedback and measurable, defensible predictions. But the profession is now at another inflection point with the emergence of agentic AI built on LLMs.
The Reality:
Generative AI has already expanded what’s possible, moving beyond search into reasoning, summarization, and classification. The next leap – Agentic AI – will push even further. Instead of static models, we’ll see agents acting as collaborators: exploring evidence, testing hypotheses, and connecting facts at scale.
What You’ll Learn:
- How AI in legal tech has evolved from CAL to generative to agentic systems
- Why responsibility, transparency, and defensibility remain non-negotiable
- What agentic AI can actually do in practice: from uncovering hidden patterns to delivering strategic insights
- How legal experts must guide and shape this next era of AI adoption
Key Takeaway:
The future of legal data intelligence isn’t about managing documents; it’s about empowering lawyers with AI collaborators that surface insights, accelerate decisions, and reshape the role of legal teams in the business.
Joe Pirrotta
Director of Review Services at ProSearch
Soundtrack to an Existential Crisis – Rhythm and Harmony in the Age of Disruption
The Challenge:
AI is transforming legal work faster than most leaders can grasp. What feels like a brilliant lightbulb moment for us can land as a blaring siren for others; creating fear, paralysis and resistance. Legal professionals, trained to value precedent and policy, now face a pace of change that feels more like a remix than a rulebook.
The Reality:
Disruption doesn’t pause for reflection. Standing still is no longer an option. The same adaptive skills that keep a dancefloor alive – reading the room, shifting the tempo and keeping the rhythm – are the ones that leaders need to guide their teams and clients through existential uncertainty.
What You’ll Learn:
- Ways to encourage “the lightbulb moment”
- Practical strategies for aligning divergent reactions – from panic to possibility
- A simple adaptive framework for leading through disruption
- Why rhythm and harmony matter more than rigid plans in this moment of rapid change.
Key Takeaway:
Disruption is noisy, but adaptive strategy helps leaders find a rhythm and create harmony to keep people moving forward.
John Wilson
Chief Information Security Officer, HaystackID
False Faces, True Evidence: Unmasking Deepfakes with Digital Forensics
The Challenge:
Deepfakes are no longer futuristic threats; they’re here, already undermining reputations, influencing negotiations, and calling evidence into question. For legal professionals, the stakes are enormous: trust in clients, cases, and even the justice system itself is on the line.
The Reality:
AI-generated deception is advancing quickly, and the legal, technical, and ethical risks are mounting. But with the right tools and expertise, legal teams can expose synthetic media, safeguard evidence, and protect the integrity of their work.
What You’ll Learn:
- How deepfakes are already impacting clients and cases today
- The key legal and ethical risks every professional needs to understand
- Practical steps for detecting and countering AI-generated deception
- How digital forensics can restore clarity and truth in a world of synthetic media
Key Takeaway:
Deepfakes aren’t just a tech problem; they’re a legal problem. Digital forensics offers a clear, practical roadmap to defend against AI-driven deception and protect the credibility of the justice system.
Josh Kreamer
No Data Left Behind: Legal Data Intelligence in High-Stakes Transactions
In today’s fast-paced mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures environment, legal teams are expected to anticipate risk, protect value, and move quickly – all while navigating a growing web of regulatory, contractual, and data-related complexity. But traditional due diligence methods often miss the mark when it comes to the messy middle: unstructured data, data ownership disputes, privacy concerns, and legal hold chaos.
In this talk, Josh Kreamer, Legal Data Intelligence (LDI) founding member and team lead for the LDI Architect group focusing on corporate use cases, shares how an LDI approach can transform MA&D activities from reactive firefighting into proactive control.
The GC Redefined: From Risk Manager to Business Builder
The Challenge:
General Counsels are being asked to do more than ever - drive strategy, manage risk, and deliver business value. But the traditional model of “legal advisor” no longer fits the demands of today’s business.
The Reality:
The modern GC is part lawyer, part strategist, part technologist. Success now means leading teams that think like business leaders first, lawyers second, and building the data and AI foundations to keep pace with change.
- How GCs are moving from productivity gains to true business value creation
- Why building data foundations is the prerequisite to leveraging AI
- The new roles and skills shaping tomorrow’s legal departments
- What top CLOs are actually looking for when hiring and growing their teams
Key Takeaway:
The GC role is no longer just about practicing law - it’s about building the business of law.