Rob Tyler

Following the keynote, the conversation continues with Managing Partners and law firm IT leaders, bringing the AI reckoning firmly into law firm reality.

This conversation moves beyond what AI can do to the harder question of who benefits, who bears the cost and who is accountable for the consequences.

Technology investment in law firms is no longer an IT issue, it is a leadership and economic choice.

Firms are spending more than ever on AI, platforms, cyber security and data, yet many still struggle to define who truly owns the decisions, the trade offs and the outcomes, or to agree what “value” actually means.

In this Talking Heads faceoff, Managing Partners and IT Directors sit across the table to challenge a tension firms rarely address openly: leadership often delegates technology while expecting strategic impact, while IT is asked to deliver value without always having the authority, clarity or protection to make hard calls. The result is ambition without prioritisation and accountability that shifts depending on success or failure.

The session asks a blunt question: do firms genuinely want technology to be a strategic driver, with leadership prepared to own the consequences, or is IT expected to absorb risk, complexity and disappointment while rising technology spend quietly becomes a permanent cost centre rather than a strategic asset?