ILTACON 2026
EVENT RECAP · PEOPLE IN LEGAL
People in Legal recorded these interviews on the floor at ILTACON 2026. Watch or listen to every conversation from the event.
25 interviews
Heath Harris
ILTACON 2026
Heath Harris, VP of Applied AI at NetDocuments, discusses the Google Gemini integration and extended Legora partnership, how ND Connect shares firm knowledge across AI tools without creating a shadow DMS, and why firms should plan AI investment by activity.
Alex Smith
ILTACON 2026
Alex Smith, who leads search, knowledge and AI at iManage, explains how the company is adding context to the DMS through AI enrichment, structured knowledge and a 'context fabric', and exposing it to partners and AI orchestrators via MCP.
Mathew Kerbis
ILTACON 2026
Mathew Kerbis, co-founder and CEO of Practi, explains how the alternative fee billing platform helps law firms move to subscription and flat-fee models, and why divorcing time from money suits AI-driven legal work.
Joy Heath Rush
ILTACON 2026
ILTA CEO Joy Heath Rush on record ILTACON 2026 attendance, more COOs and managing partners attending, the unsettled economics and pricing of AI in law firms, and how first-timers should approach the conference.
Joe Rayment
ILTACON 2026
Joe Rayment, CEO of Automatise, discusses Cicero, its matter analysis platform for litigators, the planned Middle East launch, why ILTACON validated the category, and his predictions for consolidation and AI lab entry into legal.
Sam Toulson
ILTACON 2026
Sam Toulson, CEO of BigHand, on its evolution from digital dictation into pricing, resourcing and business intelligence, the Ayora acquisition, matter-level profitability, and why AI in the business of law comes next.
Charlie Harrel
ILTACON 2026
Charlie Harrel, COO of Opus 2 and a former disputes lawyer, on capturing matter intelligence in systems rather than lawyers' heads, why that builds trust in AI, and how it compounds into a competitive advantage.
Helen Fan
ILTACON 2026
Helen Fan, Chief AI Officer and founder of Legal Tech Frontier, on her 100-day two-agent law firm experiment, a five-level AI transformation framework, build plus buy, client pressure on firms, junior lawyers and token economics.
Rick Hellers
ILTACON 2026
Rick Hellers, co-founder and CEO of Scan Logic and a former Big Law CFO, on using AI with expert human review to fix the e-billing compliance crisis, the new AP Sync product, and his predictions for legal tech consolidation.
Sara Elevons
ILTACON 2026
Newly appointed Manatt Director of Knowledge Management Sara Elevons on building a KM function from scratch, rolling out Harvey and Avvoka, and getting firm data AI-ready first.
Greg Blackman
ILTACON 2026
Opus 2 CEO Greg Blackman on moving AI from vision to practical use in disputes, why contextualised matter workflow beats a generic LLM, and why firms should chase effectiveness rather than efficiency.
Early Stephens
ILTACON 2026
Actionstep CEO Early Stephens explains why mid-market law firms need an AI-native platform, how Actionstep grows through implementation partners, and who will end up paying for AI token costs.
Adam Cain
ILTACON 2026
Adam Cain, COO and CTO of a Wisconsin estate planning and elder law firm, discusses his path from fire and EMS leadership into law, why he attends ILTACON, AI pricing risk and practical, problem-first technology adoption.
Brandall Nelson
ILTACON 2026
Brandall Nelson, legal solutions director at NetDocuments and a former Freshfields transactional lawyer, explains the Legal Context Graph and how organised DMS data supports faster matter onboarding, business development and verifiable AI output.
Avi Solomon
ILTACON 2026
Avi Solomon, CIO of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, explains why he brought a client's in-house counsel to ILTACON to assess vendors together, how AI has made transparency essential, and how legal CIOs collaborate even across competing firms.
Kathleen Killin
ILTACON 2026
Kathleen Killin, Senior Director of Enterprise Marketing at Clio, explains Clio's move into firms of 200-plus professionals through Vincent and Clio Operate, and why combining the business and practice of law on one platform matters.
Paul Foster
ILTACON 2026
Paul Foster, who leads sa.global's legal business, explains how it builds law firm management software on the Microsoft stack and a new decision intelligence layer that checks firm policy against live data to prove value.
Neil Blum
ILTACON 2026
Neil Blum, Head of IT at Barry.Nilsson., discusses firm-wide AI adoption, client demands on data sovereignty and pricing, shadow AI, token budgeting and the risk of vendors switching on AI features without asking.
Elena Tsalanidis
ILTACON 2026
Elena Tsalanidis, co-founder and CRO of Deeligence, explains how its end-to-end AI diligence platform for M&A lawyers is winning competitive processes where general-purpose legal AI tools fall short, and why the founding team moved to London.
Rob Kwiatkowski
ILTACON 2026
Rob Kwiatkowski, founder and CEO of Discernis and a former AWS reinforcement learning researcher, explains how it uses AI to find case-changing evidence in large data volumes for complex litigation, investigations and discovery.
Liz Salsedo & Kathryn Rattigan
ILTACON 2026
Liz Salsedo, Director of Knowledge Management, and Kathryn Rattigan, an AI and cybersecurity partner, explain how Robinson+Cole moved from writing an AI acceptable use policy to operationalising it through training, practice-group rollout and cross-functional…
Mark Garnish
ILTACON 2026
Mark Garnish, co-founder and COO of Xperate, explains how AI-accelerated development is making bespoke enterprise systems, from practice management to accounting, an affordable alternative to off-the-shelf software for larger law firms, with the firm owning…
Rob Martorana & Pamela Fehring
ILTACON 2026
Rob Martorana, Head of Partnerships, and Pamela Fehring, Head of Product Marketing and former chief AI counsel at US Bank, explain how Theo Ai gives in-house teams litigation defence intelligence instead of manually updated case spreadsheets.
Michelle Langton
ILTACON 2026
Novaplex CEO Michelle Langton discusses the firm's first US ILTACON, its drafting suite for lawyers, US expansion through the iManage partner channel, and why Novaplex integrates with AI rather than being an AI vendor.
Andrew Hutchinson: Is Legal AI Overhyped?
ILTACON 2026
At ILTACON 2026, Tim Kenney sat down with Andrew Hutchinson, founder of Rebel.Group, to talk acquisitions, AI hype and what law firms actually need.
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Legal AI · Document & Knowledge Management · Law Firm Operations, Pricing & Billing · Innovation & Change Management · Legal Tech Careers & Leadership · Legal Tech Go-to-Market & Growth · Security, Risk & Compliance · In-House & Corporate Legal Teams
Event recaps
ILTACON 2025 · ILTACON 2024 · LegalTechTalk 2026 · LegalTechTalk 2025 · Legal Innovation & Tech Fest 2026 · LTH Horizons Sydney 2026 · Women + AI Summit 2025 · LawFest 2026 · FLENA Conference 2026 · RelFest 2026
Companies
NetDocuments · Xperate · Actionstep · Legal Technology Hub · Relativity · iManage · Dye & Durham · Opus 2 · BigHand · Thomson Reuters · sa.global · Tensis · ActiveNav · Scan-Logic · Deeligence · Harbor · Automatise · Yao · InfoTrack · Clio
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