Marc Jenkins


Director of Legal Operations & Innovation, Constellation


Rediscovering Talent in the Age of AI: Leading People and the Coming Digital Workforce of the Future


The Challenge:
AI’s rise is often framed as a threat to jobs and legacy industries. But what if its actually fueling new growth—revitalizing infrastructure, redefining roles, and expanding what’s possible.


The Reality:
At Constellation, one of the nation’s leading energy companies and the leading generator of nuclear energy in the US. The transformation is being seen first hand in the data economy and AI build out that it supports. It’s legal department has also begun its journey with AI, training an initial cohort or employees on General Purpose AI tools and have seen adoption begin to significantly climb and prompt engineering skills to develop. Change Champions have been found and the organization is positioning itself and its people to carry the next wave of innovation forward and be ready for the digital workforce and agentic workflows to come.


What You’ll Learn:

• How to start building an AI-enabled workforce
• How to measure ROI and adoption success
• How to lead teams through transformation without losing momentum or culture
• Creative thoughts on how to address workforce gaps through sharing knowledge, intellectual curiosity, and reinvention

Key Takeaway:
AI isn’t ending work-it’s rewriting it. The leaders who thrive will be the ones who turn curiosity into capability and empower their people to lead the legal industry forward.

Dan Lantry


Vice President, Legal Affairs, North America, Sonova Group


The Buyer’s Journey for Legal AI: From Hype to High-Value Decisions


The Challenge:
AI is everywhere, but for many legal leaders, it still feels like hype, risk, or someone else’s job. The question isn’t whether to use Legal AI—it’s where to start and how to make it real without losing focus or control.


The Reality:
Dan Lantry, VP of the Americas Legal Team at Sonova Group, has lived this journey from the ground up—starting in a legal department with no tools, no automation, and no roadmap. By building a transformation mindset, defining real pain points, and experimenting with both traditional and GenAI tools, his team saved over $1M in external spend and unlocked new capacity for strategic work.


What You’ll Learn:

• How to build an innovation mindset inside any legal team
• Where to start—prioritizing real pain points before chasing tools
• How to test, measure, and scale Legal AI solutions with purpose and momentum
• Why people—your “co-conspirators”—are the most powerful accelerators of change

Key Takeaway:
Legal AI isn’t magic—it’s method. The leaders who win will be those who reject the status quo, lean into experimentation, and turn momentum into transformation.

Adam Gajadharsingh


Discovery Counsel, Google


The AI Dividend: How Google’s Legal Team is Rewriting Speed and Strategy


The Challenge:
Legal teams are expected to modernize without new resources. The mandate is clear, do more, faster, with the same people and tighter budgets.


The Reality:
At Google, Adam Gajadharsingh’s legal team is proving what’s possible when AI becomes part of daily work. By integrating Gemini and Notebook LM across discovery and strategy workflows, they’ve reduced cycle times, improved cross-team insight sharing, and created an “AI dividend” time and value returned to the business.


What You’ll Learn:

• How AI tools are reshaping legal productivity and decision speed
• How to measure adoption and business impact without adding cost
• How to elevate expectations with outside counsel and partners

Key Takeaway:
AI isn’t just a tool — it’s a value multiplier. The teams that capture the AI dividend will define the next era of legal excellence.

Rose Jones


Partner, Hilgers Graben PLLC


Unlocking Growth: How Radical Curiosity with AI Transforms Legal Practice


The Challenge:
For many legal teams, AI feels like a tool for doing the same work, just faster. But stopping there means missing the bigger story: how AI can actually create new ways of practicing law, new client value, and entirely new business opportunities.


The Reality:
Through two years of hands-on client work, Rose Jones has seen firsthand how curiosity and experimentation turn AI from an efficiency tool into a platform for growth. From drafting deficiency letters to developing litigation AI solutions and thought leadership that attracted Fortune 100 clients, her journey shows what’s possible when you lean in.


What You’ll Learn:

• The tipping point where AI shifts from saving time to generating growth
• How thought leadership + experimentation = business development
• Why AI is changing not just how we work, but how we think
• Lessons for lawyers at every stage: associate, partner, or leader

Key Takeaway:
AI isn’t just making lawyers faster, it’s making them smarter, more strategic, and more valuable. Curiosity is the bridge from productivity to growth.

Lawrence Briggi


Manager e-Discovery Legal Specialist Team, IBM


The Test-Pilot Playbook: How Legal Teams Run AI Pilots, Pick Winners, and Scale


The Challenge:
Everyone’s under pressure to “do AI,” but most pilots stall. Budgets are tight, expectations are fuzzy, and teams confuse inspiration with instruction.


The Reality:
At a Fortune 100 enterprise, Larry Briggi has turned experimentation into a discipline. He runs AI and process pilots like a portfolio: clear gates, crisp success criteria, and a bias to learn fast. Along the way, his team has proven ideas like custodian saturation (where adding more custodians no longer adds value) and structured partner POCs that generate results before major spend.


What You’ll Learn:

• How to design pilots with “R&D from partners” instead of large up-front POs
• How to use portfolio thinking (many small bets, few scale bets) to set expectations
• How to quantify “custodian saturation” and use it to negotiate scope and cost

Key Takeaway:
Innovation isn’t luck — it’s a system. Treat pilots like test flights, measure what matters, and only scale what clears the runway.

Esther Birnbaum


Executive Vice President of Legal Data Intelligence, HaystackID


GenAI in Action: From Legal Discovery to High-Value Business Solutions


The Challenge:
Generative AI is moving faster than most organizations can adapt—and nowhere is that tension sharper than in legal and compliance. Teams are being asked to manage unprecedented data volumes while finding new ways to surface risk, insight, and value.


The Reality:
What began as experimentation in eDiscovery has evolved into a broader transformation of compliance and business operations. GenAI-powered agent workflows are now enabling scalable, repeatable investigations—turning once manual, reactive processes into proactive intelligence engines.


What You’ll Learn:

• How GenAI is moving beyond discovery to reshape risk detection, supervision, and surveillance
• Real-world examples of agent workflows driving faster, smarter compliance outcomes
• Why adaptability and curiosity—not just technology—are now the defining skills of modern legal leaders

Key Takeaway:
GenAI isn’t just changing how we work—it’s redefining what’s possible across law, compliance, and business.

Laura Dieudonne


Legal Operations and Administration Director, Delta Air Lines


Trust by Design: How Delta Built a High-Value Outside Counsel Panel


The Challenge:
Too many firms, too little focus. Without a trusted panel and clear expectations, law departments struggle to move fast, measure value, and adopt new capabilities like AI.


The Reality:
Delta cut from 200+ firms to a curated panel of ~50, set an explicit “how to be successful” playbook, and paired its Outside Counsel Summit with community impact work to deepen relationships. That trust now powers faster decisions, better outcomes, and a safer path to AI—complete with updated outside counsel guidelines and a structured vendor bake-off.


What You’ll Learn:

• How to stand up a high-trust panel and a clear partner playbook
• How “service as strategy” (e.g., United Way) elevates collaboration and results
• How to vet AI with IT and InfoSec, and what to ask firms using AI today

Key Takeaway:
When you design for trust, you earn the speed to execute. Panels, playbooks, and shared purpose turn outside counsel into true partners—and make AI adoption smarter, safer, and faster.

Michael Mendola


Director, eDiscovery, Data Governance & Litigation, Discover Financial Services


The First to 10,000 Hours Wins: Leadership, Grit & Getting Smart Fast


The Challenge:
AI promised efficiency, but it’s made the game faster, not easier. Legal leaders are under pressure to learn, adapt, and deliver in real time.


The Reality:
At Discover, Mike Mendola’s five-person team sits at the center of nonstop change — from new technology to corporate transformation. Their edge isn’t size, it’s mindset. By making learning, curiosity, and grit part of their culture, they’re turning pressure into performance and progress. This is the new 996 — not a work mandate, but a mindset: those who learn fastest, adapt fastest, and show up most consistently are the ones who move the business forward.


What You’ll Learn:

• Why “lifelong learning” isn’t a cliché — it’s a survival skill in the modern legal enterprise.
• How to lead teams through complexity by giving people space, trust, and ownership.
• How to build and rely on a “Core Four” of external partners who help you stay ahead of the curve.
• What 996 looks like today — and why visibility, curiosity, and readiness still define opportunity

Key Takeaway:
There’s no easy button for transformation. The leaders who thrive are those who stay radically curious, keep showing up, and put in the hours to get smart fast. In a world of accelerating change, the first to 10,000 hours wins.

Kevin Young


Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP


The Next Generation of Legal Talent: What AI Natives Are Teaching Us About the Future of Work


The Challenge:
The legal profession has always been built on apprenticeship — learning by doing, following the people ahead of you. But a new generation of “AI natives” is entering the workforce, and they’re learning, working, and thinking differently. They move faster, question more, and expect technology to be part of every answer.


The Reality:
As a partner at Seyfarth and a law professor, Kevin Young sits at the crossroads of two legal worlds: the seasoned practitioner and the next wave of AI-empowered talent. What he’s seeing in his classroom is reshaping how firms attract, train, and retain their people. The next generation isn’t looking for titles or tradition — they’re looking for curiosity, capability, and connection.
For firms and in-house teams alike, this is the new talent equation: Curiosity + Adaptability + Digital Resourcefulness = Competitive Advantage.
The question isn’t if you’ll embrace it — it’s how fast you’ll learn to.


What You’ll Learn:

• How AI-native lawyers are redefining what it means to “learn fast”
• Why curiosity and humility now outweigh pedigree and experience
• How leading firms are blending innovation and apprenticeship for real cultural change
• What tomorrow’s top talent wants — and what they won’t tolerate

Key Takeaway:
Legal innovation isn’t just about tools — it’s about people who learn faster and think forward. The firms that win the war for talent will be the ones who build environments where curiosity thrives and learning never stops.

Prabhdeep Singh


Chief Operating Officer, Steno


Tech on the Edge: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Legal Data


The Challenge:
For decades, the legal industry has been generating massive amounts of data — deposition transcripts, filings, communications — but most of it gets stored, forgotten, and never reused. Firms keep investing in new tools while sitting on a wealth of untapped intelligence.


The Reality:
AI is changing that. What used to be “waste data” is now becoming a strategic asset. By mining and connecting existing information, legal teams can unlock insights that transform strategy, collaboration, and outcomes.
As Steno’s Prabh explains, hidden data reservoirs are fueling a new wave of productivity and client value.”


What You’ll Learn:

• How to turn underused data into a competitive advantage
• Why information — transcripts, notes, and communications — is now gold
• How firms and legal departments can share insights without adding cost
• What “tech on the edge” really means for the next phase of legal innovation

Key Takeaway:
The next leap in legal transformation isn’t about buying new software — it’s about rediscovering the data you already own. Those who learn to “frack” their data responsibly will uncover insights that redefine how the business of law operates.

Frank Gorman


Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, Relativity


Five Practical Tips to Assess Gen AI Like a Technologist


The Challenge:
Every legal team is exploring AI, but few know how to separate the signal from the noise or what truly defines successful adoption.


The Reality:
Drawing from hundreds of client conversations and deployments, Relativity’s Frank Gorman has five practical tips to help guide organizations from gen AI assessment to impact. Success starts with fit-for-purpose design and grows through measurable outcomes, strong governance, defensible workflows, and forward-looking adoption of agentic systems. The organizations thriving today aren’t guessing—they’re building AI that learns, collaborates, and scales responsibly.”


What You’ll Learn:

• The five real signals that define AI success in legal workflows
• How governance and oversight build trust and scalability
• Why human-in-the-loop design is essential to defensible AI
• How agentic AI is changing the shape of work

Key Takeaway:
AI is reshaping the way legal teams work. The legal leaders who master use case fit, governance, and adaptability today will help to define the next chapter of legal innovation.

Kim Wolfe


Senior Managing Director / SVP – Chief Administrative Officer for Legal / Global Head of Contracts, State Street


Beyond the Annual OKR Parade: A Framework That Actually Works for Legal


The Challenge:
Every January, Legal teams dust off last year’s OKRs, change a few verbs, and call it strategy. But in reality, most OKRs were never designed for Legal — they measure activity, not impact, and turn strategy into performance theater.


The Reality:
Kim Wolfe and her team decided to stop marching in the same parade. They reframed OKRs around behaviors, not buzzwords — clarity, curiosity, and collaboration — and built a new rhythm of change: Enable. Execute. Elevate. This 3E Framework transformed how Legal plans, measures, and shows value across the business.


What You’ll Learn:

• Why traditional OKRs fail in Legal — and what to do instead
• How the 3E Framework makes behavioral change visible and measurable
• Practical examples you can apply to any Legal initiative — from tech adoption to culture change

Key Takeaway:
Transformation doesn’t start with new metrics — it starts with new behavior. When Legal stops marching in someone else’s parade, it finally starts leading its own.

Nick Robertson


Operating Partner, OnDeanForward


Legal Tech’s Tipping Point: Funders, Founders, and the Innovators in the Room


The Challenge:
The legal market is crowded with AI promises and new vendors — but most leaders don’t have a simple way to separate signal from noise or to engage without risk.


The Reality:
Capital and top-tier talent are pouring into legal innovation, from early-stage tools to enterprise platforms. The difference-makers are the innovators — GCs, legal ops, eDiscovery leaders, and firm partners — who bring real problems, run disciplined pilots, and help shape what gets built.


What You’ll Learn:

• A clear map of today’s ecosystem: funders, founders, and where you fit as an innovator
• A practical checklist for spotting high-potential solutions (workflow fit, security, evidence, integrations)
• How to run short, smart pilots with success criteria, exit ramps, and procurement guardrails

Key Takeaway:
Legal isn’t waiting on the sidelines anymore. If you want tools that work for your world, become the voice the market builds around — early, safely, and on your terms.