FlexFest: Legal Work, Unbundled.

A half-day, nine sessions.

12:00
EST

We open the day with takeaways from our upcoming 2026 Flex Compensation Benchmark Report — what's growing, what's slowing, where rates are landing. Then a candid take on what else has shifted, what hasn't, and where the leverage is moving in 2026.

12:15
EST

Most legal departments have accepted that work should be distributed more intentionally. Far fewer have built the systems to actually do it. This session examines what execution looks like inside a leading global legal department: how work gets routed, how those decisions get measured, and what the shift means for the legal professionals who operate within it.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

12:45
EST

What does a high-performing legal team look like when scale is no longer the primary advantage? This session explores how leading legal departments are rethinking team composition in an era of AI, automation, flexible talent, specialized service providers, and smarter systems—and what capabilities will matter most as traditional staffing models evolve.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

1:15
EST

Most legal departments treat alternative resourcing as a solution to a temporary problem. Others think about it more intentionally: where different types of legal work belong, how legal teams can remain agile, and how alternative talent models fit into a broader operating strategy. This session walks through what that looks like in practice and what other legal departments can take from it.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

1:30
EST

AI is changing what legal departments expect from law firms, ALSPs, and legal service providers. This session explores how AI agents, intelligent workflows, and unified legal systems are reshaping legal service delivery — and what it will take to lead in the age of AI.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

2:00
EST

AI is not just changing how work gets done, it is changing how work gets assigned. This session explores how data-driven decisions are increasing the use of flexible and specialized talent for discrete workstreams that no longer require traditional firm staffing models.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

2:30
EST

Legal departments have more options than ever before, including AI-native law firms, ALSPs, flexible talent providers, increased insourcing, and highly specialized boutique firms. But are legal teams actually changing how they source legal work? This session explores whether legal work is beginning to shift across a broader set of providers, which work is most likely to move, and whether new delivery models are creating meaningful change—or simply adding new options alongside traditional law firms.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

3:00
EST

Behind every legal department is an invisible system — sometimes formal, but more often informal — that determines who does what work. This session examines how leading teams are building intentional work allocation systems that include non-traditional options outside of Big Law as a default option rather than a last resort.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

3:30
EST

If AI compresses execution, what happens to the traditional advantage of large law firms? This session explores how smaller, tech-enabled providers and independent lawyers can compete for work that once defaulted to scale, creating new opportunities for flexible and specialized talent.

SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

4:00
EST

A curated mix of operators, buyers, and builders.