20 MAY, 2026

Legal Innovation Summit

New ways to win with AI — discovered together in London.

On 20 May, over 400 senior legal leaders gathered at Outernet, London, for an immersive half-day summit built around one question: how do legal leaders win with AI? Over the afternoon, attendees moved beyond pilots and proofs of concept into practical implementation — through real-world frameworks, candid peer insights, hands-on product experience, and a cinematic reveal of CoCounsel Legal.

Relive notable moments

Learn new perspectives on AI from legal and technology experts

CoCounsel Legal reveal

Product leader Rawia Ashraf pulls back the curtain on Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal, demoing the platform live and revealing what's coming next — a purpose-built legal agent that reasons with trusted content.

The future of legal value

Felix Steffek — legal AI advisor, Cambridge professor, and one of the sharpest minds in the profession — issues a bold call to arms: to reimagine legal work from the ground up or risk being left behind.

What law looks like in 2030

The future of law isn't coming; it's already being written. Lizzy Duffy delivers a wake-up call about how the choices legal leaders make today will define who wins and who gets left behind.

Knowledge, judgement and what's next

Debbie Cunningham from Thomson Reuters and Dr. Kevin Roth from DeepJudge go past the LLM hype to the real differentiator — institutional knowledge. They unpack what trust demands in practice and how lawyers sharpen judgement through context and expertise.

Hear curated conversations

Recorded live at the summit, experts went deeper on the themes that shaped the conversations on stage.

AI, trust, and the future

One of the sharpest legal minds at the intersection of academia and practice, Felix Steffek gets straight to the point on what it really means to trust AI and where the line between lawyer and machine should sit.

The pace of change

Legal tech moves quickly. Product leader Rawia Ashraf has seen the hype — and built through it. In this episode, she breaks down the pace of change reshaping legal work, what Claude MCP integration actually unlocks, and why the next generation of CoCounsel Legal isn't just more features.

Using what we build

As Associate General Counsel at Thomson Reuters, Alex Graydon doesn’t just advise on CoCounsel Legal; she puts it to the test. In this candid conversation, Alex shares what it really looks like to embed AI into daily legal work and why she can’t be without it.

Measuring AI's impact

Watch 20 years of law firm transformation experience distilled into one conversation. Thomson Reuters VP Steven Petrie cuts through the noise, revealing the mistakes legal leaders make before they deploy a single tool and how to build a bulletproof ROI case for AI.

Explore Summit highlights

One afternoon. Five sessions. One product reveal. A room full of senior legal leaders from in-house legal and law firms moving from hype to hard evidence.

CoCounsel Legal unveiled

Rawia Ashraf, Head of Product at Thomson Reuters, demonstrated how the platform transforms complex legal work into fast, confident outputs and revealed what's coming next.

The shift from AI hype to ROI

DAC Beachcroft’s COO, Marie Armstrong, and Thomson Reuters GC, Bertil Majer, discussed how legal teams can establish rigorous frameworks for measuring AI's true return on investment.

Beating the breach live

Attendees went head-to-head in the CoCounsel Legal Cyber Challenge Zone, racing against the clock to tackle a live cyber-breach scenario and claim the top spot on the leaderboard.