Free Summit

AI Summit: The EMEA legal summit on AI, growth, and running the firm

Tuesday, September 29th, 2026

Event from 11:00am – 3:00pm

The legal profession is changing fast and AI is at the centre of it. This free, one-day virtual summit brings together some of the sharpest minds in legal technology to help you cut through the noise and get practical about what AI means for your firm right now.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore AI or ready to take your next step, this summit is built around real-world insight, honest conversations, and tools you can actually use. No hype. No jargon. Just a full day of sessions designed to help you move forward with confidence.

What You’ll Learn:

The AI Landscape: Hear from Ed Walters on where AI is genuinely headed for the legal profession — and what it means for firms of every size.

Real-World Adoption Stories: Join a panel of legal professionals hosted by Rob Hanna as they share what’s working, what hasn’t, and the lessons learned along the way.

AI in Practice: The Legl team get hands-on with AI tools for legal workflows, practical takeaways you can bring straight back to your firm.

See It in Action: Watch a live demo of Clio Work, tailored to the real day-to-day workflows of solicitors, legal administrators and paralegals.

Join legal technology leaders, innovative law firms, and Clio customers for a day of insight, clarity, and real-world inspiration.

Can’t make the date? Register anyway and we’ll send the recording straight to your inbox after the event.

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Speakers

Sarah Murphy

GM, International

Clio

Sarah Murphy is the General Manager of Clio International, overseeing EMEA, APAC, and Canada for Clio, the global leader in legal technology. With a strong emphasis on innovation, she leads and inspires her teams, ensuring Clio remains at the forefront of transforming the legal experience across these diverse regions.

Sarah’s extensive career spans various industries, including finance, insurance, telecommunications, and legal technology. This diverse expertise enables her to empower legal professionals of all backgrounds to overcome the challenges of running successful law firms. Driven by her passion for building and scaling high-growth teams, Sarah combines a commitment to innovation with a focus on customer success and exploring new markets where Clio can make a significant impact.

Ed Walters

VP, Legal Innovation & Strategy

Clio

Ed Walters is the VP of Legal Innovation + Strategy, Clio. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches The Law of Robots as well as GenAI & BigLaw, and at The University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches Generative AI in Practice.

Rob Hanna

Legally Speaking Podcast

Rob is the founder of KC Partners legal recruitment who partner with prestigious law firms worldwide, hosts the #1 rated law podcast Legally Speaking – which us at Clio are such bigs fans of we had to become the headline sponsor, Co-Founded The Great Big Legal Offsite – A premier law firm leadership strategy event and is an advisor for Caseguru, AIR and NRG lawyers.

Julia Salasky

CEO and Founder of Legl

Legl

Julia Salasky is a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Legl, a platform used by more than 600 UK law firms—including 50 of the Top 200—to modernise and manage complex operational workflows across AML compliance, client onboarding and payments.
Before Legl, Julia founded CrowdJustice, an award-winning platform that transformed access to the legal system by enabling people to crowdfund legal cases. She began her career as a lawyer at Linklaters and later worked as a lawyer at the United Nations.

Julia’s work has earned widespread recognition, including Financial Times Legal Innovator of the Year, Legal Week’s Outstanding Legal Innovator of the Year, CityAM’s digital innovators power list, and a place on The Lawyer’s Hot 100.

Agenda and session information

AI in the Legal Landscape

Don’t miss your chance to hear one of legal technology’s most respected voices. In this session, Ed Walters cuts through the noise to deliver a clear-eyed view of where AI is genuinely headed for the legal profession, what’s real, what’s hype, and what it means for law firms of every size. Originally delivered at Clio’s Innovate Legal Summit, this is your opportunity to catch the session if you missed it, or to revisit it if you didn’t.

Ed Walters
Leading Voice in Legal Technology and AI

Ed Walters is one of the most respected and sought-after thinkers in legal technology. With decades of experience at the intersection of law and emerging technology, he has built a reputation for bringing clarity and rigour to conversations that others find difficult to navigate. His session will covers the real trajectory of AI in the legal profession, the practical implications for law firms of all sizes, and leaves plenty of room for Q&A. Whether you caught his ILS session or not, this is well worth an hour of your time.

Customer Panel

Some of the most valuable insights don’t come from the stage, they come from the firms in the room who are already doing it. In this session, host Rob Hanna brings together a panel of legal professionals to share their honest, unfiltered experiences of adopting AI in their practices. What’s working, what hasn’t, and what they’d do differently. No theory just real stories from real firms navigating the same challenges you are.

Rob Hanna — Host
Founder, Legally Speaking Podcast

Rob Hanna is one of the most recognised voices in the UK legal community, best known as the host of the Legally Speaking Podcast, one of the most listened-to legal podcasts in the world. Rob brings warmth, curiosity and a genuine passion for the profession to everything he hosts, and is the perfect guide for what promises to be one of the most candid and practical sessions of the day.

Panellists
Ross Galvin from Fenecas Law, Stephen Driver IBEC

Legl Session — AI in Practice

Theory only gets you so far. In this session, the team at Legl get practical, taking a ground-level look at how AI is being used inside real legal workflows right now, and what that means for the way law firms operate day to day. Whether you’re just starting to explore AI tools or looking to go deeper with what you already have, this session is designed to leave you with clear, actionable takeaways you can bring straight back to your firm.

Legl Team
CEO and Founder Julia Salasky.

About Legl
Legl is a leading legal technology company helping law firms modernise their client experience, compliance processes and payments. Their platform is trusted by hundreds of law firms across the UK and Ireland, and their team brings a sharp, practitioner-informed perspective to everything they do. We’re delighted to have them as a partner for this summit.

See Clio Work in Action — Live Product Demo

You’ve heard about AI for law firms. Now see it working. In this live demo session, Clio’s own Adrian walks you through Clio Work in action. A real look at how law firms are using AI to get more done every day. From drafting to client intake to time capture, you’ll see exactly how Clio Work fits into the day-to-day workflows of solicitors, legal administrators and paralegals and leave with a clear picture of what it could look like in your own firm.

Adrian — Clio
Product Specialist, Clio

Adrian is part of Clio’s product team and brings the platform to life for legal professionals across the UK and Ireland. With hands-on experience helping firms get the most out of Clio Work, he knows exactly what matters to the people actually using it day to day and delivers demos that are practical, relevant and refreshingly jargon-free. Full bio to be confirmed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the summit free to attend?

Yes, this summit is free to attend!

How can I earn CPD hour credits for attending this summit?

To earn CPD hour credits for the UK & Ireland (only), simply attend each CPD live webinar in full and complete the live in-session poll that will be made available at the anytime during the session.

CPD Sessions included are:

  1. Session 1: Getting Started with Legal AI: A No-Nonsense Guide for Every Law Firm
  2. Session 2: How to Prompt AI for Better Legal Work: Tips for Busy Professionals
  3. Session 3: Real Talk: How EMEA Law Firms Are Actually Using AI
  4. Session 4: AI, Ethics & Security: What Law Firms Should (and Shouldn’t) Automate

Once you have attended each of the full live webinar sessions and completed each individual poll, your CPD credits will be automatically processed. Both steps are required. A confirmation email with your CPD certificate will be sent to you after review.

After completing the webinar and the poll, please allow up to 7 business days to receive your CPD certificate via email.

Please note that you cannot earn credits for the webinar by watching the on-demand version.

Will recordings be available?

The recordings are now available on-demand! All you need to do is register to receive the Zoom link.

How do I access the summit?

The summit will be hosted on the Zoom Events platform. When you register, you will receive a link to access the summit.

What is Clio?

Trusted by over 150,000 lawyers and 100 law societies, Clio’s industry-leading cloud-based case management software makes it possible to run your firm, organise cases, and collaborate with clients from one place. Book a personalised walkthrough here.