From AI-Assisted Lawyers to AI-Powered Legal Teams

AI is already helping lawyers draft faster, review contracts, and get through more work. The bigger shift comes when AI starts changing how the legal team itself operates.

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Join Akshay Verma, COO at SpotDraft, in a candid conversation with Nicole Ducharme, Director, Legal Operations and Contracts at Astronomer, and Irfan Siddiqui, Associate General Counsel at BeatStars.

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They'll get into where AI is creating real leverage today, what work should stay with lawyers, and how AI could change the way legal teams are structured and run.

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Then, see how that thinking translates into practice with a live SpotDraft product demo.

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About this webinar

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Most legal teams are using AI. Few have moved beyond the pilot.

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Not because the technology isn't ready, but because the harder questions haven't been answered yet. What does a human-AI legal team actually look like in practice? What should be automated, and what should stay human? And how do you build governance around AI-powered work without recreating the friction you're trying to eliminate?

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In this candid panel conversation, Akshay Verma sits down with two in-house practitioners who are navigating these questions in real time.

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Together, they'll work through what's shaping the next chapter of legal work:

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Where is AI actually creating measurable value for legal teams today, and what separates a use case that works from one that just looks good in a pilot?
What does the human-AI legal team look like in practice, and what new skills does it require?
How should legal teams think about the boundary between autonomous AI action and human judgment?
Could AI enable smaller, more leveraged legal teams, and what does that mean for how legal functions are structured?
What should GCs and legal leaders start changing now to prepare for the next three years?

A candid conversation about where legal is headed, from practitioners who are already working through it. Then, we'll open the hood on SpotDraft. Get a live look at how the platform helps legal teams move beyond managing contracts to actually putting them to work.

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What you'll take away

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A clearer view of where AI is actually taking legal.

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‍Where AI is creating real value
Move past the use cases that impress in demos and focus on the ones that actually change how Legal operates. Understand what it takes to get from productivity gains to operational transformation.‍
The human-AI legal team
Explore what this looks like in practice: the skills it requires, the structures it enables, and whether AI opens the door to leaner, more leveraged legal functions.‍
The automation frontier
The question is no longer what can we automate. It's what should we. Learn how practitioners are drawing the line between AI-led execution and human oversight, and what determines where that line sits.‍
Governance without bureaucracy
Understand how to build the controls AI-powered legal work requires without recreating the process friction you're trying to get rid of.‍
What changes next
A rapid-fire close on what the legal team looks like in three years, what's being underestimated right now, and what leaders should start changing today.‍
SpotDraft in action
See how SpotDraft helps legal teams put these ideas into practice, with a live walkthrough of the platform's core capabilities.