DLA Piper AI Legal Summit

Wednesday, November 11 –  Friday, November 13, 2026

Set against the backdrop of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, DLA Piper’s inaugural AI Legal Summit convened legal executives, investors, general counsel, compliance officers, and other innovators for two days of engaging discussions focused on the legal, regulatory, and business implications of artificial intelligence (AI).

The program featured a fireside chat with Dean Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, alongside speakers from Microsoft, Stanford, and other leading organizations. Together, they explored how AI is driving value, reshaping legal risk, and transforming the legal industry. Key topics included:

• The AI-enabled legal function and the future of law: Explore how AI is redefining legal departments and law firms, transforming technology adoption, talent strategies, pricing models, and service delivery.
• AI governance and enterprise risk: Examine practical governance frameworks, compliance strategies, incident response planning, and litigation readiness measures that enable organizations to deploy and scale AI with confidence.
• Autonomous and physical AI: Analyze the legal, regulatory, intellectual property, and commercial challenges posed by agentic AI, robotics, autonomous systems, and intelligent infrastructure, along with strategies for responsible deployment and risk mitigation.
• AI value, diligence, and private capital: Discover how investors and business leaders are evaluating AI opportunities through diligence, valuation, transaction structuring, risk allocation, and portfolio oversight.

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