SOLID is a TED-STYLE Talk summit focused on innovation and the business of law. Did you ever listen to a great SOLID Talk or panel and wish you had time to engage and brainstorm in real time on how to apply those ideas to your business? 16+ speakers will give TED-STYLE talks around the intersection of innovation, advanced technology, and the business of law. They share what they are doing, how they are doing it, and the business impact it has.
Our talks are followed by facilitated table talks, sprint panels, and town hall discussions, whereby participants discuss what they know now that they did not know before the session started and how to apply these lessons to their own organizations. SOLID provides participants with maximum interaction with peers and colleagues in a round table, workshop environment to assess current challenges and design concrete solutions.
Welcoming Remarks – Seyfarth
Key Takeaway:
AI transformation doesn’t start with tools, it starts with partnership. When legal learns to speak to CIO priorities, the entire enterprise moves faster.
The Challenge:
Everyone is chasing the “AI dividend,” but very few teams know how to capture it , or scale it. The gap isn’t the technology. It’s the operating model. Leaders are struggling to translate individual productivity wins into team-level outcomes and enterprise-level value that a CEO or CFO can feel.
The Reality:
AI produces value in three layers , individual, team, enterprise. Most organizations stall at the first. Dorothy has been building the next two: redesigning workflows, structuring human-plus-agent models, and reframing the value story so that a productivity gain becomes something measurable at scale. Her experience shows what it takes to operationalize the dividend, not just talk about it.
What You’ll Learn:
Key Takeaway:
The AI dividend isn’t a windfall , it’s a discipline. Leaders who connect agent-driven productivity to real business outcomes will define the next era of legal performance.
The Challenge:
AI isn’t just changing tools—it’s changing talent. The skills that got us here won’t get us there.
The Reality:
Legal departments are learning to “newskill,” not just “upskill”—building fluency in data, design, and decision intelligence.
What You’ll Learn:
Key Takeaway:
The next great skill in legal isn’t coding—it’s curiosity.
This session explores how power users become the driving force behind successful AI adoption in law firms—and why fluency, not access, determines impact. In conversation, Kelly Boyd (Of Counsel, Foley & Lardner) and Madeleine Kerr (Legal Engineer, Harvey) will discuss how a small group of highly fluent users delivers outsized, compounding value by embedding AI into everyday legal work. The discussion will focus on how these power users model new ways of working, accelerate engagement across teams, and help firms turn early AI momentum into durable, firm-wide capability.
The Challenge:
Legal teams are under constant pressure to move faster, reduce cost, and support the business — but many workflows are still built for a pre-AI world. Emergency reviews, manual contract analysis, and heroic effort remain common, even when better options exist.
The Reality:
Shanti has seen this play out repeatedly — and has actively changed it. By applying AI to real legal problems, her team has moved from all-hands, hours-long exercises to answers in minutes. The real impact isn’t just efficiency — it’s how legal work, staffing models, and relationships with the business and outside counsel are fundamentally shifting.
What You’ll Learn:
Key Takeaway:
AI doesn’t just make legal faster — it changes who does the work, how it’s done, and what legal teams can take on.
Ashley Miller (Litera) Fireside Chat
Vice President Sales, North America, Litera
The Challenge:
In the rush to automate, it’s easy to forget the human still drives meaning, judgment, and trust.
The Reality:
The future belongs to teams who balance AI scale with human insight—and know when to lean on each.
What You’ll Learn:
Key Takeaway:
The loop isn’t closed until the human completes it.
The Challenge:
Legal leaders have more information, faster access, and more powerful tools than ever before — yet many still feel overwhelmed. The problem isn’t a lack of intelligence or experience. It’s knowing what to ask, how deep to go, and how to turn raw information into judgment, strategy, and action.
The Reality:
Through his work as a trial consultant, legal solutions leader, and law professor, Joe has seen a clear shift: the differentiator is no longer recall or horsepower alone — it’s curiosity. When access to information becomes instant, the advantage moves to those who know how to ask better questions, explore more deeply, and translate insight into persuasion. In practice, that shift changes who leads conversations, who shapes strategy, and who creates leverage in high-stakes legal work.
What You’ll Learn:
Key Takeaway:
In the age of AI, genius isn’t about knowing more. It’s about asking better questions — and knowing what to do with the answers.
The Challenge:
Legal teams are under pressure to adopt AI fast — but speed without readiness leads to wasted spend, low adoption, and tools that never solve the real pain points. The market is moving quickly, but not always in ways that match your roadmap or your reality.
The Reality:
Myah has spent the past year evaluating AI tools while simultaneously leading an enterprise-wide CLM rollout. Through disciplined testing, waiting, validating, and sequencing, she learned that the biggest strategic advantage isn’t early adoption — it’s intentional adoption. Her case study with Jurist reveals why timing, integration readiness, and accuracy matter more than market buzz or vendor momentum.
What You’ll Learn:
Key Takeaway:
Progress isn’t about being first — it’s about being ready. The smartest AI teams win by choosing wisely, not quickly.
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Getting Legal to Love New Tech: Secrets to Successful Adoption
Anna Richards will share an updated “playbook” on successfully introducing new technology in the corporate legal world. In this session, Anna will guide attendees through the challenges and proven strategies for motivating technology adoption and fostering a culture of engagement.
Key Points Covered:
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The Evolution of "Legal Ops" and New Specialized Roles
AI doesn’t eliminate work—it changes it. Legal operations professionals, data analysts, and AI specialists are now critical to running a modern legal team .
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The Global Advantage: Thriving in Expanding Roles Through Prioritization and High-Impact Relationships
The Global Advantage: Thriving in Expanding Roles Through Prioritization and High-Impact Relationships. In today’s ever-evolving professional landscape, roles grow in scope, responsibilities multiply, and the need for collaboration across diverse environments intensifies. This session explores innovative strategies for managing an expanding role by "slicing the pizza" of priorities, focusing on what truly matters, and building high-impact relationships globally. Learn how to navigate regulatory, cultural, and technological complexities, deepen key partnerships, and find common ground across continents. Attendees will leave with actionable tools for prioritization, collaboration, and balance, empowering them to thrive in multi-layered, dynamic roles without losing focus—or sanity.
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From Tactical to Transformative: The Expanding Mission of Legal Ops
Legal operations is at a turning point, with a rapidly evolving role that demands that Legal Operations professionals also be a strategic business partner. In this session, Stacy Lettie explores what that really means and how legal ops can move beyond tactical support to bring meaningful, measurable value to their organizations - and most importantly how we define just what that value is. Attendees will learn about the expanding remit of legal ops, how technology is changing how we look at our roles and how we execute on our roles, and partnering with business leaders to shape the future of legal. This talk is for professionals ready to elevate their roles and become agents of change.
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Beyond Legal Advice: Building a Future-Ready Legal Department
In this session, Tim shares his vision for the future of in-house legal teams, inspired by his experience leading Toshiba’s legal transformation. With a focus on aligning operations, risk, and strategy to maximize value creation by and for the company, he’ll outline practical steps for moving beyond reactive legal services to becoming a proactive business partner. Tim’s leadership philosophy offers a blueprint for creating a legal function that drives business objectives while navigating the ever-accelerating pace of change. Discover how to future-proof your legal team and maximize its organizational impact.
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The AI Agent Takeover: How Lawyers Are About to Be Replaced—Without Losing Their Jobs
The legal industry is on the verge of a massive disruption, but the conversation has been missing a key insight. For years, AI in law has been pitched as a tool for automating routine tasks, but that narrative misses the real transformation: AI Agents. Drawing on lessons learned from working with dozens of Fortune 500 legal departments, this talk reveals how AI Agents are already reshaping legal workflows—by handling complex work that once required human lawyers. Contrary to the prevailing hype, these agents aren’t eliminating jobs; they’re transforming roles and workflows in ways that were once unthinkable. This is the true future of AI in law: replacing tasks, not jobs, and enabling legal teams to focus on higher-value, more strategic work. Prepare to rethink what it means to be a lawyer in the age of AI.
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How to upskill in the era of AI
In this session, we will explore how, in this new era, you can secure your future and how AI can help supercharge your Security, Legal, and Compliance teams. By now there’s no doubt that generative AI is here.
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Generative AI: A Personal Exploration from eDiscovery to Reimagined Opportunities in Law and Business
This talk explores the personal journey of discovering the transformative potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in law and business. Beginning with the foundational use of GenAI in eDiscovery for document review, analysis, and classification, the discussion expands to its applications in many other business areas. Emphasizing the critical skills and knowledge needed in selection and application of models, tools, and prompting techniques, this talk focuses on the critical skills for optimizing GenAI capabilities across applications. By weaving in real-world examples, this talk highlights the potential of GenAI application for data across legal and compliance areas, while also reflecting on the adaptability and curiosity that drive innovation and redefine career paths.
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The Evolution of Legal Ops: Driving Change with New Specialized Roles
The legal operations world is at a turning point. With 20 years of investments in people, process, and technology, corporate law departments have built a foundation that’s driving a new wave of transformation. Generative AI is not just changing how legal teams operate—it’s creating entirely new specialized roles to meet the demands of today’s business challenges. Drawing on parallels between the eDiscovery revolution and today’s generative AI-driven shift, this session explores how technology shapes roles, the skills leaders are hiring for, and the opportunities for professionals to stay ahead in this dynamic field.
Key topics include:
This isn’t just a session about what’s changing—it’s about what’s next and how to prepare for it.
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Big Fish, Small Pond to Small Fish, Big Ocean: From Legal Ops to Strategic Operations and Enablement
How starting my career at Uicorn Start Ups, prepared me for the jump from Legal Ops to Strategic Ops and Enablement. In this session, Angela Mendenhall will discuss her journey from small pond to big ocean, and how Zoom is challenging the Legal Ops status quo with a cross functional Strategic Ops and Enablement team. Angela will discuss how this models allows Legal Ops to get out of the weeds, distinguish themselves from other Legal admins, and have a voice, not just a seat at the executive table.
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How to Get the Most Out of SOLID
SOLID isn’t just another conference—it’s a fast-moving think tank designed for action. Whether you're a first-timer or a veteran, this session will give you the blueprint to maximize your time, make meaningful connections, and leave with real takeaways. Learn how to engage, contribute, and walk away smarter, more connected, and ready to turn insights into impact.
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Now to Next, Together: Defining, Creating, and Adding Value in the Legal Landscape"
The Power of Technology, Data, and Collaboration
This session serves as the cornerstone of the summit, offering a forward-thinking perspective on how legal teams can define, create, and add value in a rapidly evolving landscape. By embracing technology, data, and deeper collaboration, we can unlock efficiencies and drive meaningful results. This talk will challenge attendees to rethink traditional value frameworks and inspire a collaborative approach to align stakeholders’ goals, leveraging the theme, “Now to Next, Together.”
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Legal Data Intelligence in the Age of Generative AI
Consensus is building across legal departments that generative AI represents an inflection point in our industry, providing the ability to effectively manage laborious data tasks and quickly find relevant information that can be transformed into insights, intelligence, and advice. Legal Data Intelligence (LDI) practitioners are uniquely positioned to help legal teams adapt to these changing times with their deep experience in managing large data volumes, deploying AI in secure environments, building defensible workflows, and overcoming intractable data challenges across a wide array of use cases.
In this talk, LDI founding member Bobby Malhotra shares his views on the importance of applying a legal data intelligence framework to solve complex legal data challenges in the age of generative AI. He also highlights five important traits that set LDI practitioners apart, enabling them to more efficiently solve data challenges, break down silos, and deliver business value.
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Squad Goals: Crafting Teams for Success
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The Encryption Illusion—Why Our Data Isn’t Safe (And What to Do About It), Unleak the Leak
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