Building the Next-Generation Legal Team: How Legal Teams Are Creating Their Own Systems
Legal teams are being asked to operate with greater precision, speed, and consistency, often without meaningful increases in headcount or legal engineers. At the same time, expectations are expanding across both public and private company environments, from stronger reporting and governance to faster, more scalable decision-making. In response, many teams are moving from simply adopting tools to redefining fundamental workflows for legal service delivery. This includes overarching core principles that we are all familiar with: working with verifiable and accurate data, designing workflows for the culture and teams we support, increasing efficiency for our pain points/friction points.
This forum focuses on how legal leaders are building that internal capability in practice. Rather than emphasizing strategy or tool selection, the conversation centers on execution: what teams are building, how they are doing it, and where they are encountering constraints. Participants will explore how roles are evolving across attorneys and legal operations, how company context influences these efforts, and what it takes to make these systems durable. The goal is to surface practical insights that reflect the realities of operating across a range of team structures and resource levels.
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How Legal Teams Are Adapting to New Operational Expectations
Legal teams are operating in an environment where expectations around speed, consistency, and scalability continue to increase. In response, many are rethinking how work is structured, how data is used, and how processes are designed to support more repeatable outcomes. These shifts are taking place across both public and private companies, with different considerations around governance, risk, and complexity. Speakers will share how their teams are adapting in practice, including how roles are evolving across attorneys and legal operations. The focus is on how legal leaders are translating new expectations into practical, day-to-day execution.
→ Data Readiness in Practice: What Do You Actually Need to Build on Top Of?
As legal teams design more structured workflows, the quality of underlying data often becomes the primary constraint. Many teams need to first understand what data exists, how it is organized, and whether it can support repeatable processes. Inconsistent contract data and fragmented tracking can slow progress significantly. This roundtable will focus on how teams are assessing and improving data readiness in practical terms. Participants will share where gaps typically exist and how they are addressing them in manageable ways.
→ Building AI Agents for Legal Work: What Teams Are Creating and Why
As access to enterprise AI tools expands, legal teams are moving at different speeds in building agent-like tools to support their work. Some are identifying initial use cases, while others are refining or scaling more structured implementations across the function. This roundtable will focus on how teams are deciding where to start, how to expand, and what distinguishes early experiments from more durable solutions. Participants will share examples of AI agents they have built, how those efforts have evolved, and how they are evaluating impact over time. The conversation is designed to support participants across stages, with an emphasis on practical decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons that hold up in real environments.Â
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