2026 AI Native Law Conference

Charting the course for next generation of the practice and business of law.

The AI Native Law Conference connects law firm leaders, legal innovators, technologists, founders, investors, and in house legal leaders to examine how legal services are being rebuilt around AI, agents, legal engineering, new pricing models, and new client expectations.

Why this conference, why now? 

Legal AI has moved beyond experimentation. The next question is not whether lawyers will use AI. The question is what legal services look like when AI is built into the operating model from the beginning.

AI native firms are already testing new approaches to staffing, pricing, supervision, client service, knowledge capture, and delivery. Traditional firms are responding with their own AI strategies. Clients are asking harder questions about speed, value, transparency, and outcomes. This conference is where those questions come together.

Who will be there?

This conference reaches well beyond AI native law firms. We are living through what may be the most transformational period in the history of legal services, a shift most of us will see only once in our careers. AI does not touch one corner of the industry; it touches everyone who practices, buys, builds, funds, or runs legal services. That is why this room is open to the full legal community. Here is who you will be in the room with:

Traditional law firm leaders. Managing partners, practice group leaders, COOs, and partners rethinking how their firms staff, price, and deliver work.

Private capital markets professionals. Venture capital, private equity, and investment bankers and advisors, and funders backing law firms and legal technology.

In-house and legal department leaders. General counsel, deputy GCs, heads of legal operations, and innovation leads evaluating AI-native providers and pressure-testing their own AI strategies.

Founders and operators of AI-native firms. The people building new firm models around AI from day one.

Legal engineers, KM, and innovation professionals. The practitioners turning legal judgment into reusable systems, workflows, and AI-enabled processes.

Legal technologists and product leaders. The builders and buyers deploying legal AI inside firms and companies.

Pricing and business-of-law professionals. The people designing flat fee, subscription, and outcome-based models that move beyond the billable hour.

Location

Ease Hospitality Center
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10105

Date & Time

September 9, 2026
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Early Rates:
$999 / $1999
Expires: Aug. 26

Standard Rates: 
$1199 / $2199

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Agenda

1:25-2:15 Can AI Native Law Firms Compete with Traditional Law Firms?  

Can AI native firms win the trust, judgment, and relationships that incumbents have built over decades? Can traditional firms defend their position against rivals with lower costs, fixed pricing, and capital to spend? This session examines both sides of the competition. We will look at where AI-native models are gaining ground, where established firms still hold the advantage, and how the market may split between them. The discussion will draw on economics, client demand, regulation, and capital. Founders, firm leaders, and investors will leave with a sharper view of who is positioned to succeed, and what each must do to thrive in an uncertain future.

Avi Gesser, Partner and Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practice Group, Debevoise & Plimpton
Sanjay Kamlani, Co-founder and Partner, FairPlay Law; Innovation Advisor, Holland & Knight 
Liz Paisner, Managing Partner, General Legal

3:15 -4:00 Outside Money, Inside Pressure: Funding the AI Era of Law

Two forces are reshaping how legal work gets funded. Outside investors are backing AI-native law firms built from scratch, putting hundreds of millions behind a model designed to compete with incumbents on speed and cost. At the same time, traditional firms are spending more on AI and research and development than ever before, straining a partnership structure that was never built to fund heavy technology investment. This session examines both sides: how outside capital is entering legal services through new ownership structures, and how the pressure to fund AI is changing the economics and independence of established firms.

David Perla, Vice Chair, Burford Capital
Lee Minkoff, Managing Director, Renovus Capital Partners
Speaker TBA