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Alison Laird

Alison Laird

Director, Centre for Legal Innovation

Lunch Is Being Served: How in-house teams are eating law firms' lunch - and what firms need to do before the bill arrives

The legal market is undergoing its most significant structural shift in decades - and it has nothing to do with which AI tool you're using. In-house teams are becoming genuinely self-sufficient legal operations, and the firms that treat this as a temporary trend are making a very expensive mistake. This session takes a candid, evidence-based look at how in-house teams can fully capitalise on this moment - and then asks the harder question: in a world where your clients need you less, what does a law firm actually need to become?

Drawing on real client experience and global research, delegates leave with a practical framework they can apply from both sides of the relationship - whether they're building a future-ready in-house function or rethinking what their firm stands for.

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