Beyond Your Job Title: Forging Your Path in Legal Innovation

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This panel brings together industry leaders who have seized emerging opportunities to carve out unique career trajectories in litigation and discovery. Get insights from the valuable lessons they’ve learned along the way, including:

• Identifying your strengths and passions to carve out a specialized role
• Effective techniques for marketing your skills and building your unique brand
• How to take advantage of opportunities as they emerge
• Navigating career transitions and embracing continuous professional development
• Attendees will then apply the insights to map their own career journeys.

Kristin Zmrhal

Vice President of Product Strategy

DISCO

Christine Riddell

Litigation Support Manager

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.

Sandra Smith

ESI Project Manager & Litigation Support Analyst

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP

Meredith Dugan

Sr. Consultant, Legal Operations

Southwest Airlines

Integrating Generative AI: How to Be A Change-Maker in Your Organization

Navigating the new legal landscape with generative AI can seem daunting. How can you effectively harness the power of generative AI to drive change in your organization? 

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Join us for an open dialogue on GenAI, including:

• How to identify high-impact areas for adoption
• Real-world challenges and success stories from early GenAI users
• Best practices for implementing technology your organization will actually want to use

Kristin Zmrhal

Vice President of Product Strategy

DISCO

Alisa McLellan

Vice President of Professional Services

DISCO

Optimizing Your AI Workflows 

Reflect on top insights from the workshop in small-group, collaborative discussions. Brainstorm solutions with your peers, exchange best practices, and build connections in the lit support community actively navigating the complexities of AI. 

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Key topics include:

• Handling objections: Learn how to overcome the “this is how we’ve always done things” mentality to find better, more efficient, and less costly ways of working.
• Building a business case for AI: Understand how to communicate the tangible benefits of AI and evaluate the impact of the technologies you’re implementing.
• Proven AI use cases: Explore real-world AI applications with peers and explore how these solutions have transformed their operations.
• Developing an AI playbook: Leave with a defensible AI strategy that can be applied across multiple processes, moving beyond a case-by-case approach.