Beyond Billables: Training Disputes Lawyers for the Age of AI

We are already almost comfortable with the idea that GenAI and automation will increasingly take on routine tasks in disputes, such as disclosure exercises and some legal drafting, but this is just the beginning— GenAI tools are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and agentic AI is on the horizon, bringing the potential to perform autonomous reasoning and decision-making, and to ultimately reshape the practice of law.

Join us for a futuristic debate, as we discuss:

● Agentic AI Impacts on Litigation: what will it mean for lawyers, when AI can be used to reason, interpret, and make decisions autonomously? Can we trust AI to interpret legal arguments accurately—or does it risk missing nuances essential to justice?

● Training Lawyers for Strategic Thinking: how can we maintain core legal judgement and critical thinking when knowledge can be so easily outsourced? How should law firms prepare their teams to navigate a landscape where technology and human judgment must coexist? What is the role of the junior lawyer in the era of GenAI?

● Guardrails for the Future: What are the appropriate ways for lawyers to mitigate risks; are further frameworks or regulation necessary, and how much of the current guidance will soon be obsolete.

● The End of the Billable Hour?: How urgently do we need to think about how legal services are priced and valued?

Don’t miss this critical session as we explore how to train disputes lawyers not just to survive the age of AI, but to rethink, adapt and build new ways of litigating disputes.