Cordially Invites You to Attend
By Invitation Only
9th Annual
Disruption and Innovation in the Delivery of
Legal Services Conference 2025-‘26
How AI is Transforming Law Firm
Operations and Client Relationships
A Workshop with Use Case Demonstrations
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AI implementation: What have we learned in 2025?
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Collaboration with clients
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Learning by Doing: Tools and customization
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In the office uses
Thursday, December 4, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. including lunch
Paul, Weiss Conference Center
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York City
How AI is Being Used by Firm and In-House Leaders Today
The conference features actual use case demonstrations and conversations with users and developers inside firms and law departments. These use cases are being implemented in the everyday practices of law firms and by corporate counsel. They are actual situations where lawyers in firms are using AI to collaborate with clients in-house. In addition to collaboration, AI is used internally to enhance profitability and insure productivity and efficiency gains. ROI impact is just beginning to be understood. Budgeting for ’26 is a top concern. Our panel of experts are in charge of AI strategy at their firms and companies.
Key Themes
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Practice Innovation: Featuring a discussion by key practice areas includes litigation, transactions, IP, labor and employment
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Tools and customization. How to make decisions on which tools to buy and which tools to build. How do you augment and customize tools to your particular needs.
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How to make sure tools are fit for purpose. What controls are needed to maintain quality
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Examples of how to collaborate effectively with clients
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Cooperation between roles by function: COOs, heads of business functions, heads of innovation, CIOs and more
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Examples of actual use cases implemented in firms today
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Intellectual property issues including data privacy, ownership, AI containing copyrighted material; training data to avoid hallucination
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How is AI affecting lawyer training. Is there generational divide in AI adoption
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Using AI internally. Best uses in back-office situations including billing and collections, write-offs, and other business functions
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Calculating ROI: Budgeting for ‘26
Faculty:
Vishal Agnihotri, Senior Director of Knowledge & Innovation, Alston & Bird, New York
Jonathan H. Ashtor, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York
Barclay Blair, Senior Managing Director, AI Innovation Lead, DLA Piper US, New York
Karen Contoudis Buzard, Partner, A&O Shearman, New York
Sommer Costabile, VP, Technology, IP & Contracts, Goldman Sachs, New York
Jessica Escalera, Head of Legal Operations-Americas, HSBC, New York
Alistair Fatheazam, Business Development, Definely, New York
John Hamill, Partner, DLA Piper US, Chicago
Conan Hines, Director of Practice Innovation, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York
Dr. Dimitris Korres, Managing Director, Chief Data Scientist, FTI Consulting, Boston
Steven D. Lando, Partner, Co-Leader – Law Firm Group, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, New York
Daniel W. Linna Jr., Senior Lecturer & Director of Law and Technology Initiatives, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law & McCormick School of Engineering, CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, Affiliated Faculty, Chicago
Megan McMillin, Senior Practice Innovation Manager, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York
Stella M. Mendes, CAMS, Senior Managing Director, Financial Services Practice Leader, FTI Consulting, New York
Nicole Levin Mesard, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York
Sara Miro, Managing Attorney-Director KM Solutions, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York
William J. Perlstein, Senior Managing Director, Vice Chair of Client Services, FTI Consulting, Washington, D.C. (Moderator)
Lisa Vicens, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York
Watt Wanapha, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Technology Counsel, Bank of New York, New York
Winston Weinberg, CEO & Co-Founder, Harvey, San Francisco
Joel A. Wirchin, Senior Director, Legal Strategy, Williams Lea, New York
Who Should Attend?
Law Firms: Law firm leaders including Chairs, Managing Partners, Senior Partners, Executive Committee Members, Practice Group Leaders (IP, Litigation, Technology, Corporate, Transactions etc.)
Business Executives including COOs, CFOs, CIOs, Heads of Talent, Chief Knowledge Officers, Directors of Innovation, Heads of E-discovery
Law Departments: General Counsel, Deputy GC, Chief Legal Operations Officers, Heads of Innovation, Heads of Knowledge Management, Legal Practice Heads--Corporate, Transactions, Litigation, Intellectual Property
Program Highlights
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET program (including breakfast and lunch)
Panel 1. State of the AI Market. Assessing where firms and corporate counsel are in using AI effectively: what have we learned about AI in law practice in 2025?
Panel 2. Client collaboration: how firms can partner with clients
Panel 3. Law firm leaders. Getting partners to incorporate AI in day-to-day practice. Practice innovation by practice group for litigation, transactions, labor and employment and IP.
Panel 4. Tools and customization. Build or buy. When to customize.
Panel 5. Internal firm business and financial management uses of AI. Calculating ROI. Budgeting for ‘26
