Top 10 Legal Geek 2026 Sessions on AI and Pricing

Legal Geek 2026 brings more than 5,000 legal professionals to the Old Truman Brewery in London on October 14-15. Over two days, four stages run more than 150 sessions, from short talks to hands-on workshops and small roundtables.

This guide picks the ten sessions most useful for law firm leaders who follow AI adoption, pricing and the economics of legal work.

The official Legal Geek agenda lists sessions by day. Session times and rooms are released to ticket holders in the event app. Build your plan by day here, then confirm times in the app.

Know Before You Go

• Dates: Wednesday, October 14 and Thursday, October 15

• Location: The Old Truman Brewery, 15 Hanbury Street, Shoreditch, London E1 6QR (entrance via Ely's Yard)

• Daily schedule: Doors open at 8:00 a.m., talks run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and networking and drinks follow until 6:30 p.m.

• Format: In-person, four stages, with keynotes, short talks of under 15 minutes, panels, workshops and roundtables of about 20 people

• Keynotes: Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, on Day 1, and a fireside chat with Louis Theroux on Day 2

• Tickets: Senior in-house lawyers can apply for a free ticket. Law firms buy a discounted ticket, and vendors, consultants and investors buy a standard ticket. See the Legal Geek conference page for current availability.

• Included: Street food lunch, coffee and snacks, and the afterparty on both days

Workshops and roundtables have limited space. If a small-format session is on your list, arrive early.

The Top 10 Legal Geek 2026 Sessions on AI and Pricing

1. Rethinking Legal Billing: Pricing for Value, Risk and Efficiency (Day 2, Panel)

The panel brings together Pim Betist (Clay Richard), Inka Luhrs (Bayes Business School), Frans Post (Hudson View Partners), Jennifer Berrent (Covenant) and Sarah Wilson-Ward (Elevate). They discuss how AI changes the economics of legal work, pricing models and the billable hour.

If you set rates or approve fee proposals, this panel is a good place to start as it is most focused on how pricing changes once AI makes certain work faster to complete.

2. From Fixed Fees to Client Trust: The Forces Reshaping Law Firms in 2026 (Day 1, Talk)

Harry Black, Sales Manager EMEA at Clio, presents a survey of more than 1,000 legal professionals and clients in the UK and Ireland. It covers pricing, workflow design and client trust. Expect data on how firms compete and win work, and where clients want fixed fees.

A good fit for finance leaders looking into different legal billing models, and deciding whether to offer more fixed fees.

3. Six Minutes: Law, AI and Why the Phone Stopped Ringing (Day 1, Roundtable)

Felix Riley of Brilliant Thinking leads a roundtable on how AI weakens the link between time spent and value delivered. The session covers firm profitability, talent, client relationships and the risk that clients start doing more work themselves.

Roundtable formats are typically more dynamic at conferences. This is a great discussion for attendees looking to hear how other firms are thinking through industry trends. The session seats about 20, so arrive early.

4. How Do We Know When We Are All Measuring the Wrong Things? (Day 1, Talk)

Lucy Shurwood, Partner at Simmons & Simmons, argues that logins, licenses and prompt counts do not show whether work or outcomes changed. She asks what firms should measure instead.

If you report on AI to partners or a management committee, this one is for you. Login and license counts are easy to report but say little about whether lawyers work faster or bill differently. Expect practical ideas on what to track instead.

5. Leading the Modern Law Firm: New Operating Models, Clients, and Cultures (Day 2, Panel)

Clare Bolton (Centellic) moderates Claire Clark (Managing Partner, Mills & Reeve), Christian Bartsch (CEO, Bird & Bird) and John Wood (Managing Partner, TLT) on firm-wide transformation, operating models and changing client and team expectations.

For managing partners and COOs. Three sitting firm leaders explain how they are changing their operating models, which is useful if your firm is rethinking staffing, practice group structure, or how partner performance is measured.

6. What Are Law Firms For Now? (Day 2, Workshop)

John Bennett, CEO and Founder of Melius, runs a workshop for general counsel and legal operations leaders who own external spend and panel decisions. It asks what in-house teams still buy from outside counsel, what they stop buying, and what they should pay for.

For partners who own key client relationships. The workshop is built for in-house buyers, so it is a rare chance to hear what general counsel plan to stop paying for. Those decisions show up later in panel reviews and the Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) your firm bills under.

7. Buy, Build or Bin? What the Data Really Tells Us About Legal Tech (Day 1, Talk)

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Legal IT Insider, presents data on how UK and US law firms choose technology, including the buy-versus-build debate and cloud adoption.

For IT and innovation leaders planning next year's technology budget. If your firm is weighing a new platform against building in-house, the data shows what comparable firms chose and why. Nicole Bradick's Day 1 talk, "One Size Doesn't Fit All: Rethinking Build, Buy and Partner in Legal Tech," pairs well with it.

8. A Bouquet of Value: Proving AI's In-House Impact (Day 2, Workshop)

Kerry Westland, Elliot White, Laura Sanders and Sophie Jackson of Addleshaw Goddard's innovation and legal technology consulting teams work through which metrics show AI's business impact, beyond adoption numbers.

9. Stuck in Pilot? Make the Change Stick (Day 2, Workshop)

Chuck Kellner (Everlaw), Melina Efstathiou (Grant Thornton UK) and Rolf Brustad (Wikborg Rein) cover why legal technology projects stall after the trial stage, and how to build the business case, manage stakeholders and measure adoption.

If your firm bought a tool that never got past a small test group, go to this one. The speakers cover how to build the business case and bring partners along so a rollout reaches the whole firm. Most useful for innovation and operations leaders who own change management.

10. Closing the Accountability Gap in AI-Assisted Legal Work (Day 2, Talk and Q&A)

Johanei Venter (Radiant Law) and Jaimini Shah (FactSet) discuss the gap between AI-generated legal output and the human judgment and accountability behind it. Their argument is that adoption depends on people who can challenge and own the result.

For risk, compliance and billing leaders. The talk covers who reviews and signs off on AI output. That applies to time entries and pre-bills as much as to contracts: when AI drafts the entry, someone still confirms it before it reaches the client.

Also Worth Your Time

• Why Data Not AI Will Define the Future of Legal Services (Day 1): Marcus Ong of OneAdvanced on governed data as the real basis for automation in law firms.

• Human Advantage: Leading Law Firms in the Age of AI (Day 1): Christian Bartsch of Bird & Bird on where people, judgment and culture still differentiate a firm.

• Enablement Over Excitement: AI Adoption Stories From Real Professionals (Day 2): A panel with speakers from DISCO, HFW and Hill Dickinson on what made AI adoption work in practice.

Build a Day-by-Day Plan

With four stages running at once, pick two or three priority sessions per day and leave the rest open. Day 1 is stronger for pricing data and technology strategy (sessions 2, 3, 4 and 7). Day 2 is stronger for operating models, measurement and adoption (sessions 1, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10).

Make the Most of the Networking

Legal Geek treats networking as part of the program. Attendees can request one-to-one meetings in the event app, and the afternoons end with drinks from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on both days. On Day 1 evening, Legal Geek hosts its Leaders in Tech Law Awards. The program also lists side activities such as speed networking, a run club and tastings.

Use the app to book meetings before the event. Two days of talks across four stages make it hard to find a specific person by chance.

Travel and Venue Information

Legal Geek 2026 takes place at The Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch, East London, where it has run for the past eight years.

The venue address is: The Old Truman Brewery, 15 Hanbury Street, London E1 6QR. Entrance via Ely's Yard.

The closest stations are Shoreditch High Street (about a six-minute walk), Aldgate East (about eight minutes) and Liverpool Street (about ten minutes). Legal Geek does not run a hotel block. Its location guide recommends staying in Shoreditch, Aldgate, Hoxton, Liverpool Street or Moorgate and booking early.

Mid-October in London usually brings highs around 60°F (15°C), cool evenings and frequent rain. Pack a rain jacket, layers and comfortable shoes, since the venue spreads across several buildings.

Meet PointOne at Legal Geek

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Most of the sessions above come back to the same input. A firm cannot reprice work, prove an AI tool's value or protect its realization rate without a complete record of the work its lawyers did. PointOne captures that work across email, documents, calls and meetings and turns it into draft time entries that attorneys review before they reach the firm's billing system.

PointOne's team will be at Legal Geek in London. If you oversee billing or finance and want fewer missed hours, or you lead innovation and need better data for pricing decisions, book a demo or a meeting with the team on site.