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

Join us for our 2^nd 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:
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO Global Legal, LexisNexis

9:05 AM | AI Held to the Standard of Law: The Next Generation of Legal Intelligence
We’ll highlight the emerging AI stack for legal, including agents, skills, workflows, plug-ins, and multi-component design, and how these capabilities enable more autonomous, task-oriented outcomes. Most importantly, we’ll show how LexisNexis brings together best-of-breed AI with a secure, private platform—grounded in authoritative legal content and deep domain expertise—to deliver more trusted, higher-quality legal results. 

Speakers:
Greg Dickason, Chief Technology Officer, 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
Ilona Logvinova, Chief AI Officer, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
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 
Lacey Bundy, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, PetSmart
Anton Levchik, Chief Financial Officer, Seward & Kissel
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
Alex Denniston, Director of Innovation & Insights, Factor 
Stefanie Lindquist, Nickerson Dean & Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
Nik Reed, Chief Executive Officer, Knowable - A LexisNexis Company

12:30 PM | Closing Remarks

Speakers:
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO Global Legal, LexisNexis
Ari Kaplan, Principal, Ari Kaplan Advisors