Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis’s legal business, where he leads strategy, growth, product innovation, and operations. We discussed the value of proprietary content in an AI era, perspectives on the potential shift in how AI is priced, how customers benefit from partnerships with different AI providers, and evolving customer expectations for legal AI.

I was fortunate to attend RelFest London 2026 and speak with the following leaders at Relativity:
Chris Brown, Chief Product OfficerGeorgia Foster, Managing Director and VP Sales, InternationalDavid Horrigan, Discovery Counsel and Legal Education DirectorPhil Saunders, Chief Executive OfficerCristin Traylor, Senior Director, AI Transformation & Law Firm StrategyAdam Weiss, Chief Administrative Officer & Chief Legal Officer 

In this 59th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed Lexpo 2026, learning from AI use cases, and attending RelFest London and LegalTechTalk.

I spoke with Collen Steffen, the Founder and President of Project Fortress, a legal operations platform for midsize and large law firms and corporate legal departments. We discussed the value of a platform-first approach, why integration with a law firm's various tools is important, the infrastructure necessary to optimize a law firm's entire suite of tools, and where law firms are succeeding with AI and where they are still facing challenges.

I spoke with Lexi Lutz, the General Counsel at Summize, a provider of AI-powered contract lifecycle management software. We discussed how law department leaders are balancing speed, governance, and trust in an AI-enabled era of legal services, where legal teams still struggle to gain credibility as innovation partners, and the skills that future lawyers and legal leaders need to succeed.

I spoke with Dean Sonderegger, the new Senior Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions. We discussed the state of AI adoption in corporate legal departments, the biggest barrier preventing legal departments from actually operationalizing AI, and what vendors can do to help move the industry forward.

I spoke with Kyle Kelly, the Founder and CEO of Zubu AI, which is an in-place data collection and preservation tool for litigation. We discussed the importance of in-place preservation, how Zubu is built for an emerging enterprise AI data layer, and what legal data preservation looks like within ChatGPT and Claude.

In this 58th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the 2026 CLOC Global Institute, revisiting law firm economics, understanding the cost of Legal AI, and looking forward to Lexpo 2026.

I spoke with Nik Reed, the chief executive officer of Knowable and VP of AI Product at LexisNexis, and Roland Vogl, the executive director and co-founder of CodeX at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, about their participation in the 2026 LexisNexis AI Symposium at the Harvard Club. The event was titled The Legal AI Inflection Point: Designing the Future of Legal Practice. Reed moderated the panel Lawyering in the Age of AI: Preparing the Next Generation for Practice, and Vogl moderated Redesigning Legal Practice for the Client-Centric Agentic AI Era.

I spoke with Torben Rankine, the Director of Corporate Sales at SS&C Intralinks, following the company's 2nd Annual AI Bootcamp on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. We discussed how corporate development teams in Silicon Valley are identifying opportunities in the current market, applying generative and agentic AI to drive growth within their organizations, and aligning legal and deal-process teams.