Past eventHeld October 21–23, 2026
Legal Operations Forum 2026
An invitation-based forum for legal operations executives addressing law department modernization through new practices and tools.
JW Marriott Atlanta, Georgia
- Held
- October 21–23, 2026
- Venue
- JW Marriott Atlanta, Georgia
TL;DR
- Legal Operations Forum took place October 21–23, 2026 at JW Marriott Atlanta, Georgia.
- The invitation-based forum gathered legal operations executives and senior law-department leaders to address modernization and transformation of corporate legal functions.
- Sessions were billed as featuring senior legal-operations speakers from companies including Brightflag, Novartis, and Koch in a Critical Voices, Exceptional Dialogue format.
About
Consero hosted this forum by invitation only, aimed at legal operations executives and senior leaders of law departments. The focus was on helping law departments move past inefficiency and transform through newer practices and tools, with legal operations leaders guiding that change. Its discussion format was titled Critical Voices, Exceptional Dialogue, and was billed as featuring senior legal-operations professionals from organizations such as Brightflag, Novartis, and Koch.
Who was in the room
Legal Operations Executives
Senior Law-Department Leaders
Public posts about this edition
2 postsQuoted word for word from public posts; each links to the original.
“As always, we enjoyed connecting with the legal ops community and exchanging ideas throughout the event.”
Onit
Read the post“Beyond fragmentation, the panel got into AI adoption versus governance, bringing resistors along, and why executive sponsorship matters.”
Legal.io
Read the post
Featured speakers
44 listedHayley Ackerman-Barton
Adriana Agudelo
Brian Arbetter
Steve Bell
Mary Beth Blair
Ryan Black
Cicely Breckenridge
Christina Bucker
Rowe Carenen
Lauren Coley
Meggie Dials
Elaine Drager
Peter Dubose
Brent Dyer
Bojan Galijot
Brenda Hansen
Kristi Hanney
Letitia Haynes-Frasier
Sarah Herzog
Diane Homolak
Brandon Jackson
Carena Koeppl
Nancy Kumar
Judy Lao-Klinker
Jordan Lawson
Ginene Lewis
Ana-Lisa Montoya-Torres
Kali McKee
Jennifer McIver
Chris Meyer
Jessica Nguyen
Stephanie Nweke
Memme Onwudiwe
Jon Patterson
Rupali Patel Shah
Nikki Rahimzadeh
Matt Rygler
Patrick Ryan
Courtney Sanders
Jeffrey Solomon
Anita Turner
Mimi Walker
Andrea Webster
Wendy Wheeler
Venue & travel
Venue
JW Marriott AtlantaQuestions people ask
7 answeredThe next Legal Operations Forum is scheduled for February 21–23, 2027 in Westlake Village, CA.
Legal Operations Forum took place October 21–23, 2026.
The forum took place at JW Marriott Atlanta in Georgia.
The forum brought together legal operations executives and senior law-department leaders. Participants were billed as representing companies including Brightflag, Novartis, and Koch.
Speaker and participant companies were billed as including Brightflag, Novartis, and Koch.
Junior legal staff and outside law firm lawyers would have gotten less from it, and vendors should note that Brightflag appeared on the speaker side, so access depended on the invitation-based format.
Legal operations executives at corporate forums usually wear business casual to business professional, with suits or blazers common. Atlanta in October is mild, so a light jacket was sufficient.
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