
LIVE 29th April 2025
2:00pm – 3:00pm BST
Session Overview
AI that merely assists is no longer enough. Agentic AI can coordinate tasks, make decisions, and drive complex legal workflows end-to-end — but only if firms deploy it with intent.
This high level session cuts through the hype to examine the real opportunities, risks, and readiness challenges of Agentic AI in legal practice. Our speakers will share where firms are seeing genuine productivity and quality gains today — and how leaders should prepare their firms for an AI driven value based operating model.
- How are law firms adopting Agentic AI, i.e what are the main use cases?
- What are the biggest concerns around Agentic AI in legal decision-making and how are law firms addressing regulatory and ethical risks
- How will Agentic AI impact the legal profession in 2026 and beyond
Webinar Host
Christina Blacklaws
Managing Director
Blacklaws Consulting
Christina studied Jurisprudence at Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in 1991.
Christina Blacklaws is a former President of the Law Society of England and Wales, the representative body of over 200,000 solicitors.
She is an innovator in the legal field, having developed and managed one of the first ‘virtual’ law firms and set up the UK’s very first Alternative Business Structure with the Cooperative Group. She was also one of the first Directors of Innovation at a top UK firm.
She now runs her own consultancy business providing strategic advice particularly in the areas of transformational change, technological developments and diversity and inclusion.
Christina is a non-executive director for 3 large law firms and for a lawtech business specialising in resource management and provides bespoke advice to many more.
Christina is the Head of Faculty of the Legal Technology and Innovation Institute.
She holds a range of public appointments including chairing two UK Government bodies in lawtech- The LawTech UK Panel and Innovate UK’s Next Generation Services Advisory Group. She is a member of the Ministry of Justice’s Legal Support Advisory Group.
Christina is appointed to the Queens Counsel Selection Panel.
Passionate about diversity and inclusion, Christina is the former representative for the Women Lawyers Division on the Law Society of England and Wales Council and a current active member of Thomson Reuters Women in Leadership in Law Advisory Board. She also sits on the editorial board of Women Lawyers.
As President, she spearheaded the largest ever global research on women in law involving thousands of lawyers over 20 countries and resulting in three reports and a UK government backed Pledge.
Christina is the UK representative on the International Bar Association Council and the UK President of the World Jurist Association.
Christina speaks internationally on a wide range of business, legal and ethical topics and is a multi-award winning (for innovation and diversity and inclusion) published author, lecturer and frequent media commentator.
SPEAKERS
Pamela Hill
Senior Product Marketing Manager
CS DISCO
Pamela is a Senior Product Marketing Manager and former practicing attorney with a decade of experience in eDiscovery, including project and review management. Pam graduated with honours from the University of Miami School of Law, where she won awards in Advanced Patent Law and Policy and Civil Procedure II, as well as Best Brief in the C. Clyde Atkins Moot Court Competition. Prior to her career in eDiscovery, Pam worked in-house for a world-famous visual artist, and continued her IP practice after law school, counselling clients in copyright and trademark matters. Pam was also an active member of AIPLA, co-authoring a position paper on Oracle v. Google and a white paper on modernization of the Copyright Office
Kristin Zmrhal
Vice President of Corporate Strategy
DISCO
Kristin joined DISCO in 2018 and has held various leadership roles including in professional services, client success, and, most recently, as Vice President of Product Strategy. Before her tenure at DISCO, she spent nearly eight years at Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters, where she oversaw the Ediscovery project management and operations team.
Kristin began her career in the early 2000s as a consultant in litigation support and ediscovery, managing significant litigation and regulatory projects for multinational corporations and their legal teams.
She earned her Bachelor of Science in Economics from Miami University in Ohio and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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