Two Days, New York, One Question: Can Law Firms Turn Data and AI Into Durable Economic Advantage?

June 18, 2026

AUTHOR Inside Practice

Next week, Inside Practice brings two senior-level discussions to New York's SUNY Global Center on consecutive days, tackling the twin forces reshaping the business of law: the data foundations firms are racing to rebuild, and the economic models that data is forcing them to rethink. 


Held back-to-back on June 24 and 25, Inside Legal Data and Inside Legal Economics, are two halves of the same strategic conversation.

Data, Wednesday, June 24


Inside Legal data opens with a blunt premise: law firms no longer suffer from too little data, but from data they cannot trust, connect, govern, or use at speed, then moves the conversation beyond IT projects toward strategic infrastructure for pricing, delivery, risk management, and AI.


Chaired by Entegrata Founder & CEO Tom Baldwin, the agenda runs from a C-suite panel on data strategy and organizational change through sessions on governance frameworks, MCP architecture for controlling the AI layer, AI-augmented data teams, and the emerging Legal Data Intelligence model.


The faculty reads as a who's-who of firm data leaders, including: Emily Rushing (Holland & Knight) - Renee Morris (Dickinson Wright) - Sara Lord (Reed Smith) - Eric Varady (Reed Smith) - Edward Longo (Ropes & Gray) - Wes Lomax (Willkie Farr & Gallagher) - Sam Rosenthal (Foley Hoag) - Morgan Llewellyn (HIKE2) - Jeff Lagana (McNees) - Eric Anderson (Epiq Advisory for Law Firms) - Melissa Muscat (Mayer Brown) - Khader Hawa (Michael Best & Friedrich) - Scott Milner (Morgan Lewis) - Ashley Christakis (Continuum Services) - Philipp Thurner (Nexl) - Rachel Shields Williams (Bass, Berry & Sims) - Jeannine Zito (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP) - and Michael Manley (Centari)


The recurring theme: the next phase of legal transformation won't be driven by technology alone, but by how well firms organize, govern, and use their data.


Economics, Thursday, June 25


If day one is about the fuel, day two is about the engine.


Presented in association with LawVision, Inside Legal Economics confronts a profession whose financial models are being rewritten in real time, as AI reshapes how firms price, deliver, and measure the value of legal services.


Chaired by LawVision Principal Mark Medice, the program tackles the practical questions head-on: whether the billable hour still holds, what firms are actually getting from AI investment, how to scale alternative fee arrangements from experiment to enterprise, and how to lead change through it all.


Clients now demand transparency, cost predictability, and genuine partnership, and the firms that thrive will be those that adapt their pricing strategies and client engagement to that reality.


Speakers include Jordan Weinstein (PERSUIT) - Todd Suhar (Mastercard) - Peter Secor (Ropes & Gray) - Larry Chung (Torys) - Joelle Bracco (The Cook Group) - Daniel Ronesi (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton) - Catherine Krow (HIKE2) - Andrew Notaro (Seward & Kissel) - Kevin Bielawski (Husch Blackwell) - Khader Hawa (Michael Best & Friedrich) - Jennifer Nelson (Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen) - Madeleine Fraser Burke (Cox & Palmer) - Mary Oliver (ArentFox Schiff) - Zach Gosnay (Baker Botts) - Jorge Arevalo (Faegre Drinker) - Julio Sanchez (Venable) - Brad Rogers (Zenvoice)


It's built for CFOs, COOs, pricing and LPM leaders, managing partners, and the in-house counterparts who increasingly shape outside-counsel economics.


Why Attend Both

Data without economic discipline is just infrastructure; pricing strategy without trusted data is guesswork. Together, the two days connect the operational and the financial sides of AI-era transformation, anchored in real case studies and candid peer dialogue rather than abstract frameworks.


The details: Both events run at the SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, with full-day programming and a closing networking reception.


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Inside Legal Data: https://www.insidepractice.com/inside-legal-data-new-york

Inside Legal Economics: https://www.insidepractice.com/inside-legal-economics-new-york

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