The Legal AI Inflection Point: 
Designing the Future of Legal Practice
AI Symposium
 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Harvard Club of New York City
 

This symposium brings together in-house and law firm leaders who are leveraging AI opportunities for a competitive advantage.

Join us for our 2nd Legal AI Seminar to explore new practice and business models for reimagining how workflows are organized and talent is deployed in a fundamentally different, competitive reality. 

Attendees will hear from a roster of distinguished speakers discussing AI's opportunities, practical strategies, pricing models, and setting priorities that drive innovation without disrupting client relationships or revenue. 

Breakfast and networking will take place prior to the sessions.

Agenda

8:00 AM | Networking Breakfast

9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks

Speaker:
Mike Walsh, CEO, LexisNexis

9:05 AM | Workflows, the Next Stop in the Legal AI Journey
Plus, a sneak preview into LexisNexis Protégé Workflows for agentic litigation and transactional legal work.

Speaker:
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO Global Legal, LexisNexis

9:20 AM | Fireside Chat with Jeff Bleich

Speakers:
Jeff Bleich, General Counsel, Anthropic 
Ari Kaplan, Principal, Ari Kaplan Advisors 

10:00 AM | Redesigning Legal Practice for the Client-Centric Agentic AI Era
AI is shifting legal work from simple Q&A to complex, multi-step task execution, driving a major transformation in legal practice. Law firms and legal departments must decide whether to adapt existing processes or redesign them entirely to optimize talent, organization, and value delivery. 

Speakers:
Danielle Benecke, Founder & Global Head of Baker McKenzie Machine Learning Practice, Baker McKenzie
Kurt Chauviere, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
Gina Lynch, Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer, Paul Weiss
Roland Vogl, Executive Director & Co-founder CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics

10:45 AM | Networking Break

11:00 AM | Inverting the Pyramid: Reimagining Legal Economics
AI-driven efficiency gains pose fundamental challenges for Law Firms around pricing, profitability and career progression as clients insource work and AI-native competitors emerge. This panel focuses on real-world approaches to pricing innovation, team restructuring, and competitive repositioning in an AI-driven legal market. 

Speakers:
Lorie Almon, Chair and Managing Partner, Seyfarth Shaw 
Stuart Bedford, Global Head of Legal Services, KPMG
Lacey Bundy, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, PetSmart
Ari Kaplan, Principal, Ari Kaplan Advisors 

11:45 AM | Lawyering in the Age of AI: Preparing the Next Generation for Practice
AI’s ability to rapidly draft, research, and analyze raises fundamental questions about the future role and identity of lawyers. The discussion explores how lawyers will develop new forms of value and expertise in an AI-enabled profession. 

Speakers:
Hugh Carlson, Chief Executive Officer, Three Crowns
Stefanie Lindquist, Nickerson Dean & Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
Danny Tobey, Partner - Global Co-Chair and Chair of DLA Piper Americas AI and Data Analytics Practice, DLA Piper
Roland Vogl, Executive Director & Co-founder CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics

12:30 PM | Closing Remarks

Speakers:
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO North America, Ireland and UK, LexisNexis
Ari Kaplan, Principal, Ari Kaplan Advisors 

Speakers

 
Here are the speakers for the AI Syposium.

Mike Walsh

CEO
LexisNexis

Ari Kaplan

Principal
Ari Kaplan Advisors

Sean Fitzpatrick

CEO Global Legal
LexisNexis

Jeff Bleich

General Counsel
Anthropic

Danielle Benecke

Founder & Global Head, Machine Learning Practice
Baker McKenzie

Kurt Chauviere

Senior Managing Director
Blackstone

Gina Lynch

Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer
Paul Weiss

Roland Vogl

Executive Director & Co-founder
CodeX

Lorie Almon

Chair and Managing Partner
Seyfarth Shaw

Stuart Bedford

Global Head of Legal Services
KPMG

Lacey Bundy

EVP & Chief Legal Officer
PetSmart

Hugh Carlson

Chief Executive Officer
Three Crowns

Stefanie Lindquist

Nickerson Dean & Professor of Law
Washington University
School of Law

Danny Tobey

Partner
DLA Piper

The Legal AI Inflection Point: 
Designing the Future of Legal Practice

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Harvard Club of New York City