The pace of change throughout 2025 is exponential. A change in administration and state legislatures resulting in an overturn in legislation and geopolitical relations means legal teams have to adapt internal policies and in-house counsels are working overtime to ensure compliance with regulatory change. There are two approaches to change, small steps which add up over time or ripping the band-aid off. Whichever approach you take requires careful consideration whilst involving all stakeholders to justify your decisions. Hear from organizations from differing industries going through significant change due to new regulations.
With 80% of data breaches involving third parties, organizations need a strong, connected approach to vendor risk management. However, many struggle with siloed processes between risk, compliance, legal teams, and the broader organization – leaving gaps in contract governance, regulatory compliance, and incident response. In this session, you’ll learn how to shorten the gaps between third-party risk management and enterprise legal management solutions, as well as improve vendor onboarding, review, and oversight, streamline compliance workflows, and strengthen their ability to respond to third-party incidents.
• Delve into the reasons why third parties are a leading source of breaches, paying particular attention to the evolving risk landscape and regulatory scrutiny
• Explore legal’s critical role in TPRM, from contract enforcement to breach response, and how legal teams share vendor risk mitigation
• Home in on real-life success stories, facilitated by improved visibility into vendor disputes, strengthened incident response, and enhanced regulatory readiness
• Discover technology’s role in better risk and legal collaboration, and how automation and AI-driven insights improve third-party risk governance
Legal professionals are all aware how important delivering greater efficiency, precision, and strategic value is. By automating time-intensive tasks, AI can allow lawyers to focus on higher-value advisory work, leveraging machine learning to flag potential risks, inconsistencies, and critical clauses and reducing the margin for error in even the most complex documents. Tools can also be used to anticipate outcomes and craft smarter legal strategies with confidence. Nevertheless, it remains clear that while AI is a powerful tool, in the legal field, it must be used with care to respect the boundaries of professional responsibility.
• Learn to streamline workflows through intelligent automation of contract review, compliance screening, and document generation
• Discover the importance of identifying risk factors, missing terms, and legal inconsistencies early on to mitigate negative outcomes
• Explore what predictive analytics and trend forecasting can offer you to improve your accuracy and efficiency over the long term
Struggling to cut through the AI noise? It’s time to explore the real-life applications of AI within legal and beyond. Against a backdrop of regulatory change and pressures on efficiency, hear practical lessons on how to implement and maximise value from AI to drive business growth.
• Distinguish AI hype from reality, determining how to cut through the noise and decide which technology to use, when and how
• Explore the ROI of AI for legal, ensuring compliance, saving time, reducing cost, and redeploying staff to higher value tasks
• Delve into how specialist technologies are driving productivity businesswide, whilst reducing legal’s workload
Resource constraints and cost pressures continue to inhibit in-house counsel. Legal and compliance teams must find a new balance between internal legal work and outside counsel reliance, without impacting the quality of work delivered. Legal technology, streamlined processes, and enforcing outside counsel guidelines could help reduce spend externally. However, with limited resources, is it best to invest heavily upfront in your team’s headcount and legal technology or continue to pay the rising costs of outside counsel?
Effective third-party due diligence is crucial for mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. This matter is made ever more complex with evolving compliance standards and regulations both nationally and internationally. This collaborative session is a platform to share and ask for best practices in conducting third-party due diligence audits. Leave this session with practical tools and strategies to ensure your due diligence process is agile and effective in mitigating regulatory risk.
In today's rapidly evolving global marketplace, in-house counsel faces unprecedented challenges when guiding their organizations through international business ventures. From setting up trade hubs in overseas territories to keeping up with local regulatory and litigation trends, teams need the tools and insights to navigate the complex landscape of cross-border operations whilst supporting organizational growth and success.
Attorney fees, document review, and expert witnesses are some of the biggest and least predictable cost drivers in litigation—yet many in-house teams remain dependent on outside providers and outdated processes that keep them in the dark. It’s time for a reset. Today’s AI-powered, cloud-native eDiscovery platforms are shifting control back to in-house teams—providing real-time visibility into outside counsel billing, simpler workflows, and more predictable budgets. Join our panel of discovery experts as they unpack what’s changed, why traditional approaches are breaking down, and how modern eDiscovery solutions are driving a measurable impact on legal budgets and business strategy.
In an increasingly complex legal and regulatory landscape, legal departments face mounting pressure to deliver high-quality outcomes with limited resources. This session focuses on strategies for legal departments to maximize value and efficiency while working within tight budgets. It will explore practical approaches to reallocating resources, prioritizing high-value tasks, AI and technology adoption and leveraging external providers like ALSPs and law firms for scalable expertise. Participants will gain actionable insights into balancing cost-efficiency with risk management, selecting the right mix of external partners, and optimizing workflows to meet growing demands without compromising quality or compliance.
After a down period of mergers and acquisitions on the market, they are once again on the rise with 2025 suspected to continue this trend. In-house counsel plays a vital role in these transactions and managing the aftermath, leveraging your unique position to drive business success while managing the legal risks. Managing the smooth integration of these organizations, specifically the legal and compliance functions can be challenged by opposing cultures to the make-up of the team.
Managing legal spend is more than just reviewing invoices—it’s about visibility, efficiency, and strategic decision-making. Yet, many corporate legal teams still struggle with uncontrolled costs, manual processes, and proving ROI. The solution? AI-powered eBilling and spend management.
In an era of heightened scrutiny and evolving expectations, the social component of ESG has become a critical focus for many large organizations in the USA. Despite some organizations noting they are peeling back their DE&I policies, some organizations have been faced with lawsuits from grassroots causes. The country is seeing a shift from DE&I to “belonging” and current workplace practices need careful consideration of fair pay and labor issues, especially within your supply chain.