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Spend Management
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18th March 2026 / 11 AM ET

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About the Event

Welcome to the Transforming Legal Spend Management

As corporate legal departments face growing pressure to demonstrate value and control costs, the way organizations manage legal spend is undergoing a fundamental transformation.
 The convergence of AI, analytics, and automation is giving legal leaders unprecedented visibility into where budgets are being allocated, how law firms are performing, and what actions drive true business outcomes.

The Transforming Legal Spend Management Summit 2026 brings together General Counsels, Legal Operations Leaders, Finance Executives, and Legal Tech Innovators to explore how data-driven strategies, intelligent tools, and new operating models are reshaping the economics of legal work.

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Who Should Attend?

This summit will gather together General Counsels, Attorneys/Lawyers, CEOs, VPs, Directors, Heads, Managers, Leads, Senior Level Executives and Researchers from the following focus areas:

  • Legal Operations
  • Legal Tech
  • Contract Review
  • eDiscovery
  • Predictive Technology
  • Contract Due Diligence
  • Spend Analytics
  • Legal Spend
  • Finance
  • IT
  • Compliance
  • MnA
  • Legal Analytics
  • Cyber Security
  • HR
  • And many more

Why Attend

Discover Solutions

Explore a diverse array of automation technologies presented by leading solution providers in the field of legal workflow and legal spend management.

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Networking Opportunities

Connect with solution providers, industry experts, and peers to exchange ideas, explore potential collaborations, and build valuable professional relationships.

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Practical Insights

Gain practical insights into how automation can enhance legal management efficiency, reduce risks, and drive cost savings.

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Tech Showcase

Witness live demonstrations and showcases of the latest automation tools and solutions transforming legal processes.

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Strategic Partnerships

Explore opportunities for strategic partnerships and collaborations that can propel your organization towards automation-driven excellence.

Key themes

The Next Evolution of Legal Spend Management: From Tracking to Forecasting

Legal departments are moving beyond retrospective cost tracking to predictive forecasting. How can AI-driven analytics and historical data modeling help leaders anticipate future spend, optimize budgets, and prevent overruns before they happen?

Data-Driven Decision Making: Building a 360° View of Legal Spend

How can in-house teams unify fragmented billing data across firms, vendors, and regions into actionable insights? Discussion on leveraging spend dashboards, matter-level analytics, and KPI frameworks to make smarter, evidence-based financial decisions.

AI and Automation in Outside Counsel Management

The shift from manual invoice reviews to AI-enabled billing validation, matter scoping, and rate benchmarking. How automation can improve compliance with billing guidelines and free teams for higher-value tasks.


Redefining Value: From Cost Savings to Business Outcomes

Legal leaders are being asked not only to cut costs but to prove strategic contribution. How can legal departments align spend with business impact — through value-based pricing, performance metrics, and outcome-linked engagements with law firms?

Integrating Finance and Legal Operations: Building a Common Language of Value

Finance and legal still operate in silos. What frameworks, processes, and tools can bridge that gap enabling legal to speak the same performance language as finance and the boardroom?

The Role of AI in Spend Governance and Compliance

With global operations expanding, compliance and governance have become spend-critical. How can AI help identify billing anomalies, monitor firm compliance with engagement terms, and ensure ethical, transparent billing?

Smarter Law Firm Selection and Performance Benchmarking

Using data to evaluate firm performance, matter efficiency, and comparative pricing. How can technology-driven insights guide outside counsel selection and rate negotiation?

Building a Culture of Accountability in Legal Spend

Transforming the internal mindset from cost control to strategic ownership. How can legal ops leaders drive cultural change around transparency, reporting, and data discipline?

The Future of Spend Management Systems: Integration, Interoperability, and AI Readiness

Exploring how next-gen legal spend tools will integrate seamlessly with CLM, eBilling, and ERP systems to provide end-to-end visibility and control.

Key Discussion topics

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AI-Driven Efficiency

Automating billing review, budgeting, and vendor management.

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Data Visibility & Insight

Turning fragmented spend data into actionable intelligence.

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Value Over Volume

Linking legal spend to measurable business outcomes.

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Finance–Legal Alignment

Building a shared framework for accountability and transparency.

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Governance & Compliance

Ensuring ethical, policy-driven, and auditable spend processes.

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Law Firm Performance Analytics

Using data to evaluate, benchmark, and optimize outside counsel.

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Integrated Legal Tech Ecosystems

Unifying eBilling, CLM, and analytics tools for holistic visibility.

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Cultural Transformation

Driving a mindset shift toward ownership, transparency, and efficiency.

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Future-Ready Legal Operations

Creating agile, intelligent, and outcome-based spend strategies.

Past Speakers

Denise Doyle

Legal Operations Director at Extreme Network

Carrianne Fairbairn

Legal & Finance Operations Manager

David Garber

Strategic Account Executive at Mitratech

Kaylee Anselmi

Legal Operations Leader

Event Moderator

Nicole Faria Director, Legal Operations and Compliance, WeightWatchers

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