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.

It was a privilege to interview these leaders for this Reinventing Professionals mixtape at the 2026 Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Global Institute:

• Saad Ahmed, Strategic Account Executive, Everlaw
• Ed Chang, Senior Account Executive, LexisNexis CounselLink
• Jeff Cox, Director of Brand, Steno
• Dan Di Maria, Co-Founder and CRO of Spellbook
• Larry Gill, CEO, X1 Discovery
• Danielle Haugland, Senior Director of Global Alliances, Agiloft
• Sam Karlin, Head of Legal, Blee
• Somya Kaushik, Chief Legal Officer, Checkbox
• Ross McNairn, CEO, Wordsmith
• Ashley Neuman, VP of Marketing and AI Enablement, Factor
• Scott Quinn, Senior Vice President of Consulting Services, Sirion
• Steve Schley, Chief Revenue Officer, UnitedLex
• Ahmed Shaaban, CEO, Fulcrum Global Technologies
• Evan Shenkman, Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer, Fisher Phillips
• Don Swanson, Founder, eDig365
• Jonathan Williams, Legal Engineer, Legora Music credit: Upbeat Corporate by AudioCoffee

I spoke with Kyle Robisch, a partner at Latitude Legal, a provider of flexible legal talent, and founder of its Tampa office. We discussed the value of flex legal talent, how AI is creating both headwinds and tailwinds for it, and how lawyers can position themselves to succeed in 2026.

In this 57th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the emergence of AI-first law firms, Claude for Legal, upskilling to advance your career, and verifying legal citations.

I spoke with John Jakovenko, the founder of Jakovenko Group, a law firm consulting company focused on operational excellence, financial clarity, and scalable growth. We discussed the biggest operational blind spots facing small and midsize law firms, why firms struggle with profitability even when revenue looks strong, how law firms can implement KPIs, and the first system managing partners should fix.

I spoke with Adam Masarek, a lawyer, epidemiologist, and the Legal Marketing Manager for Lex Machina®, the LexisNexis® Legal Analytics® platform. We discussed how complex, high-stakes disputes are evolving, what the Trade Secret Litigation Report reveals about trade secret litigation, and the value of moving from intuition-based decisions to evidence-based planning in high-stakes cases.

I spoke with Tony McKenna, the Chief Information Officer at Lawfront, a group of regional law firms focused on providing legal services in the UK. We discussed how Lawfront differs from a traditional law firm, the advantages of law firms aligned with Lawfront that other independent firms may not have, and how AI is affecting the law firm business model.