The Last Mile of Client Intelligence: A First Look at the 2026 Chicago Agenda Law firms have spent years building the machinery of client intelligence: CRM platforms, experience databases, financial analytics, competitive intelligence functions, relationship-mapping tools and, increasingly, AI. The volume of available information has grown considerably. The commercial return remains uneven. While 78% of firms have a CRM, only 7% use it effectively. The difficulty is rarely a complete absence of data. It appears when that data must reach the right person, at the right moment, in a form they trust enough to act upon. That operational challenge shapes the agenda for Inside Client Intelligence , taking place in Chicago on November 4, 2026. The one-day program brings together leaders working across business development, CRM, marketing, analytics, knowledge, innovation and client strategy to examine how firms can convert information into sharper decisions, stronger relationships and measurable growth.
Inside Practice's Legal AI comes to Toronto on October 27th, 2026
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.
Building neuro-inclusive cultures, systems, and performance strategies for the modern legal profession.
From Experimentation to Infrastructure: AI x KM Returns to New York on April 29 The legal profession has crossed an inflection point. Generative AI adoption among legal professionals has more than doubled in the past year. According to the 8am 2026 Legal Industry Report, 69% of legal professionals report personally using AI. The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer 2026 report paints an even sharper picture: more than 90% of lawyers surveyed now use at least one AI tool in their daily work. The experimentation phase is over. The question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but whether firms have the knowledge foundations to make it reliable, scalable, and defensible in practice. That question sits at the center of AI x KM , a one-day, in-person program taking place at the SUNY Global Center in New York City on April 29, 2026. The event brings together Chief Knowledge Officers, innovation leaders, technology executives, and partners to address what may be the most consequential infrastructure challenge facing law firms today: building the knowledge backbone that AI depends on.
The Last Mile of Client Intelligence: A First Look at the 2026 Chicago Agenda Law firms have spent years building the machinery of client intelligence: CRM platforms, experience databases, financial analytics, competitive intelligence functions, relationship-mapping tools and, increasingly, AI. The volume of available information has grown considerably. The commercial return remains uneven. While 78% of firms have a CRM, only 7% use it effectively. The difficulty is rarely a complete absence of data. It appears when that data must reach the right person, at the right moment, in a form they trust enough to act upon. That operational challenge shapes the agenda for Inside Client Intelligence , taking place in Chicago on November 4, 2026. The one-day program brings together leaders working across business development, CRM, marketing, analytics, knowledge, innovation and client strategy to examine how firms can convert information into sharper decisions, stronger relationships and measurable growth.
The AI performance gap is, at its core, a knowledge management problem. Firms are discovering that powerful tools do not automatically produce results. Only 19% of firms report measurable AI productivity gains, according to PwC, even though 85% are at some stage of AI adoption. PwC's 2026 AI Performance Study sharpens the point across the wider economy: 74% of AI's financial gains are being captured by just 20% of organisations, while the majority remain stuck in pilot mode. The tools are not the bottleneck. The knowledge infrastructure beneath them is. Where KM is genuinely AI-ready, firms report retrieval time falling by as much as 65%. That realisation is driving the most significant transformation in legal KM since the profession first formalised the function in the early 1990s, and it is the organising premise of Inside Legal KM: London , a one-day, in-person working forum taking place at 10 Union Street on September 17, 2026. This is not a showcase. It is a peer-led, implementation-focused programme built around real architectures, working patterns, and production controls, convening KM leaders, PSLs, knowledge lawyers, librarians, legal operations, IT, innovation, and risk teams.
Legal AI Toronto brings Canadian legal leaders together on October 27 to turn AI pilots into governed, measurable, enterprise-wide value.
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.
There are moments in the evolution of business where two previously distinct domains collide with such force that they reshape the operating landscape for an entire generation of leaders. The convergence of geopolitics and ESG is one of those moments.
For the past several years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria represented a clear, forward-moving consensus. That consensus has fractured. We have entered "The ESG Reset" - a fundamental reframing of the landscape driven by a potent mix of political whiplash, volatile investor sentiment, and persistent geopolitical crises.
Highlights from Legal ESG: London 2025, where legal and ESG leaders explored risk, resilience, and the future of sustainable law and governance.
Announcing the finalists for the Legal ESG Awards 2025. The awards highlight the significant influence of legal experts in creating a responsible business landscape and challenge the profession to innovate and lead in integrating ESG principles.
The Last Mile of Client Intelligence: A First Look at the 2026 Chicago Agenda Law firms have spent years building the machinery of client intelligence: CRM platforms, experience databases, financial analytics, competitive intelligence functions, relationship-mapping tools and, increasingly, AI. The volume of available information has grown considerably. The commercial return remains uneven. While 78% of firms have a CRM, only 7% use it effectively. The difficulty is rarely a complete absence of data. It appears when that data must reach the right person, at the right moment, in a form they trust enough to act upon. That operational challenge shapes the agenda for Inside Client Intelligence , taking place in Chicago on November 4, 2026. The one-day program brings together leaders working across business development, CRM, marketing, analytics, knowledge, innovation and client strategy to examine how firms can convert information into sharper decisions, stronger relationships and measurable growth.
The AI performance gap is, at its core, a knowledge management problem. Firms are discovering that powerful tools do not automatically produce results. Only 19% of firms report measurable AI productivity gains, according to PwC, even though 85% are at some stage of AI adoption. PwC's 2026 AI Performance Study sharpens the point across the wider economy: 74% of AI's financial gains are being captured by just 20% of organisations, while the majority remain stuck in pilot mode. The tools are not the bottleneck. The knowledge infrastructure beneath them is. Where KM is genuinely AI-ready, firms report retrieval time falling by as much as 65%. That realisation is driving the most significant transformation in legal KM since the profession first formalised the function in the early 1990s, and it is the organising premise of Inside Legal KM: London , a one-day, in-person working forum taking place at 10 Union Street on September 17, 2026. This is not a showcase. It is a peer-led, implementation-focused programme built around real architectures, working patterns, and production controls, convening KM leaders, PSLs, knowledge lawyers, librarians, legal operations, IT, innovation, and risk teams.
Legal AI Toronto brings Canadian legal leaders together on October 27 to turn AI pilots into governed, measurable, enterprise-wide value.
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