Marc Jenkins
Director of Legal Operations & Innovation, Constellation
Digital Workers: Redesigning the Legal Organization for the Age of AI
The Challenge:
AI agents aren’t just automating tasks; they’re joining the workforce. As digital workers become embedded across legal and business functions, traditional org charts, workflows, and reporting lines are being tested like never before.
The Reality:
Leaders can’t simply “add AI” to existing teams. They must rethink how people, processes, and machines interact, defining accountability, governance, and performance in hybrid human–digital environments.
What You’ll Learn:
- How forward-thinking teams are redesigning roles to integrate agents and automation
- Where oversight, risk, and innovation must intersect
- Practical steps to build an organization ready for AI-driven scale
Key Takeaway:
The future of work isn’t about humans vs. machines; it’s about designing organizations that know how to make them work together.
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 knowing what to buy, why, and when has never been harder. Legal teams face a flood of promises, pressure from leadership to “do something with AI,” and a procurement process that often breaks under complexity.
The Reality:
Successful adoption isn’t about picking the flashiest tech; it’s about solving the right problems, aligning stakeholders, and setting expectations early. The smartest teams treat AI adoption as a strategic journey, not a single purchase.
What You’ll Learn:
- How leading legal departments map their AI investment journey from discovery to deployment
- Where buying decisions stall, and how to get them moving again
- A practical framework for evaluating vendors, building internal consensus, and avoiding costly detours
Key Takeaway:
AI success starts long before implementation; it begins with a smarter, more strategic buying process.
Adam Gajadharsingh
Discovery Counsel, Google
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
Update Your Priors: Rethinking Innovation in the Age of Legal AI
When headlines scream that 95% of AI projects fail, most leaders panic. But seasoned innovators know: failure rates like this are the baseline, not the exception. In this session, Larry Briggi (IBM) will unpack why recalibrating your assumptions—your “priors”—is essential to leading in an AI-driven world.
Drawing on lessons from multiple innovation cycles, Larry will share how to:
Build and manage a tiered experimentation portfolio (small bets, medium pilots, big strategic plays).
Recognize when to escalate, pivot, or walk away.
Create organizational “air cover” that rewards experimentation instead of punishing failure.
Attendees will walk away with a sharper lens for evaluating AI initiatives, a framework for increasing learning velocity, and the confidence to lead when success isn’t linear but probabilistic.
Aaron Crews
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
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.
Zeynep Ersin
Chief Innovation & Strategic Design Officer, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Laura Dieudonne
Legal Operations and Administration Director, Delta Air Lines
Michelle Lange
Laura Dieudonne
Dave Bernstein
Marc Jenkins
Dan Lantry
Alison Grounds
Dionne Lackey
Heather Potter
Michael Mendola
Michelle Norman
Chris Blenden
Keysha Dixon
Alex Khoury
Terrance Pryor
Bradley Johnston
Kathleen Novak
Jay Powell
Hosted By
Premium Sponsors
Roundtable Sponsors
- David Cowen
- By Zeynep Ersin
- The Buyer’s Journey for Legal AI
The Challenge:
AI is everywhere, but knowing what to buy, why, and when has never been harder. Legal teams face a flood of promises, pressure from leadership to “do something with AI,” and a procurement process that often breaks under complexity.
The Reality:
Successful adoption isn’t about picking the flashiest tech; it’s about solving the right problems, aligning stakeholders, and setting expectations early. The smartest teams treat AI adoption as a strategic journey, not a single purchase.
What You’ll Learn:
--- How leading legal departments map their AI investment journey from discovery to deployment
--- Where buying decisions stall, and how to get them moving again
--- A practical framework for evaluating vendors, building internal consensus, and avoiding costly detours
Key Takeaway:
AI success starts long before implementation; it begins with a smarter, more strategic buying process. - Digital Workers: Agents, Automation & Org Design
The Challenge:
AI agents aren’t just automating tasks; they’re joining the workforce. As digital workers become embedded across legal and business functions, traditional org charts, workflows, and reporting lines are being tested like never before.
The Reality:
Leaders can’t simply “add AI” to existing teams. They must rethink how people, processes, and machines interact, defining accountability, governance, and performance in hybrid human–digital environments.
What You’ll Learn:
--- How forward-thinking teams are redesigning roles to integrate agents and automation
--- Where oversight, risk, and innovation must intersect
--- Practical steps to build an organization ready for AI-driven scale
Key Takeaway:
The future of work isn’t about humans vs. machines; it’s about designing organizations that know how to make them work together. - Town Hall + Table Talk: What’s your organization’s “big picture” priority for 2025?
- 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. - 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. - Town Hall + Table Talk:
Where are you experimenting on the edge — and what’s holding you back?
- Gourment Lunch
- Update Your Priors: Rethinking Innovation in the Age of Legal AI
When headlines scream that 95% of AI projects fail, most leaders panic. But seasoned innovators know: failure rates like this are the baseline, not the exception. In this session, Larry Briggi (IBM) will unpack why recalibrating your assumptions—your “priors”—is essential to leading in an AI-driven world.
Drawing on lessons from multiple innovation cycles, Larry will share how to:
Build and manage a tiered experimentation portfolio (small bets, medium pilots, big strategic plays).
Recognize when to escalate, pivot, or walk away.
Create organizational “air cover” that rewards experimentation instead of punishing failure.
Attendees will walk away with a sharper lens for evaluating AI initiatives, a framework for increasing learning velocity, and the confidence to lead when success isn’t linear but probabilistic.
- TBD
- Town Hall + Table Talk:
What part of your business model won’t exist in five years?
- TBD
- Panel: TBD
- Town Hall + Open Floor:
What bold idea is worth your next move?
- Cocktails and Wrap Up
Nishan DeSilva
Partner Group Product Manager, Microsoft
Micki Nute
Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Pure Storage
Leo Murgel
SVP, Office of Legal and Corporate Affairs Tech, Data, Ops Innovation, & Enablement, Salesforce
Deborah Haile
Associate Director, Legal Operations, Gilead Sciences
Bradley Johnston
Former Legal Chief of Staff and Director of Operations
Shannon Bales
Litigation Support Sr. Manager, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Kshitij Dua
Director, Legal Operations, HashiCorp
Bobby Malhotra
Litigation Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP
Mike Russell
Head of Global Legal Operations, Expedia Group
Stacy Lettie
Chief of Staff to the General Counsel, Organon
Linda Drucker
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Atomic Invest
Mick CoxVP, Legal Operations, Procore Technologies
Discovery Counsel, Google
Bill Shafton
VP, Business & Legal Affairs, Grindr
Cheryl Strom
Records Information Sr. Manager, McDonald's Corporation
Chris BeahnDirector of Business Architecture, Legal, Cisco
