what’s ahead.

A leadership reset. High-performing decision makers operate best when clarity and focus are prioritized. This session sets the tone for intentional leadership throughout the day. 

When visibility is high and stakes are real, leadership decisions carry long-term operational consequences. This conversation explores how leaders balance judgement, communication, and system oversight in moments of scrutiny, and how disciplined leadership prevents reactive mistakes that ripple through the organization. 

Beyond the hype, AI success isn’t determined by the tool, it’s determined by the conditions around it. This session explores why AI delivers results in some firms and fails in others. Vivek will break down how to assess your current workflows, identify where AI can create real impact, evaluate vendors intention, and build a practical roadmap that actually works in production. 

Learn what the reality of AI in practice is from 7 vendors. 

A VIP working session where attendees are invited to map and pressure test your workflows with peers with the goal of moving work forward without adding complexity.

As legal organizations adopt new tools and processes, leaders must manage uncertainty, communication, and culture. This roundtable explores how to guide teams through transition while maintaining trust, morale, and performance. 

Law firms rely on dozens of vendors, platforms, and service providers, yet many partnerships remain transactional and underutilized. As firms scale and operations become more complex, the ability to build and manage strategic partnerships become critical to growth, efficiency, and client outcomes. This session explores how firms can reimagine partnerships to move beyond vendors and build collaborative relationships that driver stronger performance and long-term value. 

As law firms adopt AI, many are discovering that technology alone doesn’t solve their operational challenges; it reveals them. Matt Spiegel examines how AI is surfacing gaps in intake, communication, and process design, and what firms must address to truly benefit from it. 

Narratives can move faster than process. When structure, oversight, and discplined communication are absent, perception shapes outcomes before facts fully surface. In this brief address, LaShay Dodd reframes Amanda Knox’s experience as a leadership case study while examining what happens when systems fail and how stronger review protocols, clarity, and accountability could have changed the trajectory.

When the stakes are high, leadership matters most. Drawing on experience as both a military commander and trial attorney, John Berry shares practical lessons for law firm leaders on decision-making under pressure, building disciplined teams, and leading organizations through complex change. 

Even the best legal teams struggle with manual processes that lead to missed updates, communication breakdowns, and avoidable errors. In this session, Matt explores how law firms are using process automation to eliminate common operational mistakes, improve transparency with clients, and create more reliable workflows. Attendees will learn how small changes to systems and communication processes can dramatically improve consistency, efficiency, and the client experience. 

See what’s possible when a case management platform is built around your firm’s reality, not how a software company thinks it should work. In this session, Neostella CEO and VP of Product will walk you through the tools that change what’s possible for your firm.

This hands-on session helps you diagnose your firm’s growth gaps and walk away with one clear action to improve conversion and client acquisition. 

Many firms are leaving value on the table and not because of strategy but because of operational overload, fragmented data, and missed insights buried in records. This short In-Brief explores how leading firms are uncovering hidden case value, improving settlement outcomes, and scaling operations using AI-driven case intelligence, without sacrificing trust, accuracy, or client experience.