LAWTECH
AI 2026
The modern firm and AI: Transforming workflows, talent, and legal business models
About the forum
The legal sector is undergoing its most significant operational shift in a generation. As technology rapidly reduces the time required to complete traditional legal tasks, the firms that thrive will be those that fundamentally evolve their business models, infrastructure, and talent pipelines.
This summit is the definitive forum for managing partners, legal operations directors, C-suite executives, and practice leaders who want to move past isolated IT experiments and drive firm-wide transformation.
Keynote Spotlights
Leaders setting the agenda
Industry keynotes that frame the day — from firm-wide operational strategy to accelerating AI programs.
Kim Trajer · Chief Operating Officer, McCullough Robertson
Reimagining work: Firm-wide transformation
Moving past scattered, individual software pilots to build a cohesive, firm-wide operational strategy that aligns leadership with long-term revenue models and digital workplace workflows.
Iain McGuire · Partner, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Wotton Kearney
Accelerating AI programs
Establishing strategic initiatives focused on innovation, capability building, and long-term strategic alignment through collaborative partnerships and specialised adoption teams.
Speaker Spotlights
Voices driving firm-wide AI transformation
Hear from the leaders building cohesive operational strategies and accelerating AI programs across Australian legal practice.
What you will learn
Commercial evolution and business models
How to successfully transition away from traditional hourly billing toward flat fees, subscriptions, and value-based pricing — protecting your firm's profit margins while meeting corporate client demands for transparent fee structures.
Advanced workflows and infrastructure
Strategies to systematically automate routine legal processes, clean up fragmented legacy files and emails into highly searchable central databases, and navigate the modern eDiscovery landscape of digital message evidence.
Governance, risk and talent pipelines
Proven frameworks to establish human-in-the-loop verification protocols, eliminate unapproved shadow software, and redesign junior lawyer training and metrics when traditional entry-level tasks are automated.
Why You Should Attend
Sessions at the summit look far beyond the technology hype to deliver a practical, commercial blueprint for the modern legal landscape. By attending, you will learn how to:
Safeguard future profitability
Convert rapid, tech-driven time savings into new revenue models and capture the financial upside of multi-tiered pricing strategies.
Unlock firm-wide innovation
Gain the leadership tools needed to secure partner buy-in, overcome cultural resistance, and successfully scale technology from small trials into firm-wide adoption.
Mitigate enterprise risk
Proactively audit your workflows, identify vendors that meet strict enterprise security standards, and establish non-negotiable safeguards to protect client confidentiality.
Future-proof your workforce
Bridge the training gap, ease the anxiety of risk-averse partners, and build modern mentorship models focused on human judgment and critical analysis.
Networking and celebration
Connect with industry peers during dedicated networking, morning tea, and lunch sessions, and close the day celebrating excellence at the Australian AI Awards 2026.
Drive firm-wide transformation.
Join managing partners, legal operations directors, C-suite executives, and practice leaders at LawTech AI Summit 2026 — then close the day at the Australian AI Awards.