How to Think About AI: A Law Firm Leader’s Guide on Using AI in the New Technological Era 

Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC – President, Society for Computers & Law

Professor Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon) is an author, speaker and independent adviser to international professional firms, general counsel, judiciaries, and national governments. His main area of expertise is the future of legal service, with particular reference to the impact of information technology. He has specialised in legal technology since the early 1980s and his views have influenced a generation of lawyers and legal technologists around the world.

He has written numerous books, including Expert Systems in Law (Oxford, 1987), The Future of Law (Oxford, 1996), Transforming the Law (Oxford, 2000), The End of Lawyers? (Oxford 2008), Tomorrow’s Lawyers (Oxford, 2013), and (co-author, Daniel Susskind). The Future of the Professions (Oxford, 2015). He has written around 150 columns as a columnist for The Times and he is Founding Editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. His work has been translated into 12 languages.

Richard is President of the Society for Computers and Law and, since 1998, he has been IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. From 2003 until 2008, he was Chair of the UK’s Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information (a non-departmental public body set up by the Cabinet Office in 2003, and now part of the Ministry of Justice). He is Chair of the Advisory Board, and Visiting Professor in Internet Studies, at the Oxford Internet Institute in the University of Oxford. Richard is also Chair of the Online Dispute Resolution Group of the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales, Special Adviser to the Canadian Bar Association, and IT Adviser to the Jersey Legal Information Board

Tom Furr – Chief Marketing Officer, CS DISCO

Chief Marketing Officer Tom Furr owns strategy and execution across brand, communications, demand generation, sales enablement, field marketing, digital and performance marketing, creative, and communities. In this role, Tom further secures DISCO’s reputation as a technology leader and innovator while establishing legaltech as a fast growing and socially important technology category.
With a career built on driving large scale brand transformation, simplifying and organizing product and brand portfolios and driving category awareness, Tom previously served as the vice president of brand marketing at MongoDB, where he was responsible for how MongoDB shows up in the world. Previously, he was vice president of brand at Vonage, where he helped lead the company’s transformation into a leader in the business cloud communications and APIs.

Elizabeth Anneshansley-Leier – Senior Director Professional Services, CS DISCO

Philip Demetriou – Senior Sales Director, UK & Europe, CS DISCO

With more than 20 years of international edisclosure experience working for KPMG, Epiq, and Consilio, Philip has an extensive knowledge of how law firms and legal departments can embrace the benefits of cloud-based solutions to transform their businesses.