Everlaw Summit is underway & I’ll be reporting on conference happenings this week. Here are the Everlaw Summit 2026 Wednesday sessions of note.

Everlaw Summit 2026 features three days of education, connection, and inspiration focused on staying ahead of the curve at San Francisco’s historic Palace Hotel this week from October 27 through October 29. Yesterday consisted of workshops, with the conference general educational track starting today.

With that in mind, here are the Everlaw Summit 2026 Wednesday sessions to check out (including one I’m speaking at, hence the image above!):

9:15 AM-10:15 AM PT

Opening Keynote (Grand Ballroom)

Join AJ Shankar, Everlaw Founder and CEO, as he showcases the future of legal technology, with the tools and teams that are leading the profession forward.

Speakers: AJ Shankar, CEO and Founder, Everlaw

10:15 AM-11:15 AM PT

Everlaw Product Showcase (Grand Ballroom)

Join us for an inside look at Everlaw’s latest product innovations and see how they can help your team work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively.

Speakers: Pauline Day, Director of Product, Everlaw; Sean Wiederkehr, Sr. Solutions Architect, Everlaw.

11:30 AM–12:30 PM PT

Change Management for Plaintiffs’ Firms (Presidio)

This session explores how to lead organizational change in high-volume litigation environments, from managing data chaos and AI adoption to building workflows that scale. Join peers to share challenges, strategies, and practical takeaways for driving tech adoption across your firm.

Speakers: Stephanie Biehl, Partner, Sher Edling; Farhad Mirzadeh, Counsel, Hausfeld; Staci Olsen, Shareholder, Baron & Budd; Stephanie Taylor, Senior Counsel, Hagans; Alex Hafez, Director, Solution Architecture, Everlaw.

Deep Dive: Use Cases That Drive Change (Twin Peaks North)

Hear how legal professionals from leading firms are using Deep Dive to find critical evidence faster, reduce review time, and build stronger cases across the entire litigation lifecycle, from early matter exploration to deposition preparation and trial readiness.

Speakers: Adam Borgman, Sr. Associate, Vorys; Gary Gonzenbach, Senior Petroleum Engineer, PGH Petroleum & Environmental Engineers; David Shargel, Partner, Bracewell LLP; Jamie Solis, Ediscovery Senior Project Manager, Holland & Knight; Natasha Kaul, Strategic Account Executive, Everlaw.

1:30 PM-2:30 PM PT

AI Case Law Updates: What’s New, What’s Next (Telegraph Hill)

Courts are setting new ground rules for AI in litigation. This session covers the latest case law developments, emerging judicial expectations, and what they mean for your practice.

Speakers: Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today; Keith Driscoll, Attorney, Harness IP; Eric Goldman, Associate Dean of Research, Santa Clara University School of Law; Tamara Lemmon, Attorney, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Mat John. Manager, Product Lead, Everlaw.

The Future of Agentic AI in Litigation Practice (Twin Peaks North)

Agentic AI systems that autonomously research, draft, and revise legal work are already here. This session examines how these tools will reshape litigation practice, the oversight they demand, and what legal teams need to know to lead this transformation.

Speakers: Alexander Nocks, Managing Attorney, Perry Law; Steve Shuldman, Manager – Legal Engineering, Harvey; Pauline Day, Director of Product, Everlaw; Kohi Easwarachandran, Director of Product Partnerships, Everlaw.

AI Workflows for Plaintiffs’ Firms (Presidio)

Learn how plaintiffs’ attorneys are using AI to cut review time, surface critical documents their teams missed after months of work, and automate time-intensive tasks like medical chronologies and demand drafting so they can focus on strategy and client advocacy.

Speakers: Nick Kohrs, Of Counsel, Beasley Allen; Sean Matt, Partner, Hagens Berman; Brian Lowry, Senior Customer Success Manager, Everlaw.

Case Study: Building the Next Platform for Litigation Practice (Marina)

Discover how Holland & Knight is building custom technology to empower its litigation teams with a unified, AI-centric platform. This session will explore how the development of custom tools built on top of key platforms is shaping the future of modern legal work at the firm.

Speakers: Manfred Gabriel, Partner, Holland & Knight; Richard Kim, Manager of Software Development, Holland & Knight.

2:35 PM-3:35 PM PT

Defending AI Workflows: Best Practices for the Modern Legal Team (Twin Peaks North)

This session explores how legal teams can design AI workflows that survive scrutiny from logging and validation to privilege preservation and chain of custody documentation. Learn best practices for maintaining defensibility across AI assisted review, summarization, and classification while keeping the human element at the center.

Speakers: Nicole Marie Gill, Chair and Managing Member, CODISCOVR, Cozen O’Connor; Daniel Gold, Principal, BDO USA; Peter Pepiton, Ediscovery Director, Dinsmore; Dana Lombardo, Principal Solutions Architect, Everlaw.

Reinventing the FRCP for the Modern Age (Presidio)

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) was not written with generative AI in mind, but courts are applying its framework to AI-assisted workflows, expert evidence, and citation integrity every day. This session examines the state of play and what’s next.

Speakers: Scott Dodson, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Law SF; Daniel Miller, Associate General Counsel – eDiscovery and Information Governance, Coinbase; Elizabeth Koenig, Senior Vice President of Litigation Consulting, ILS; Marcin Krieger, Counsel, Reed Smith; Chuck Kellner, Strategic Discovery Advisor, Everlaw.

Breaking News, Built by Technology: Inside the Modern Newsroom (Marina)

Major investigations increasingly depend on journalists’ ability to find the story within massive, complex document and data sets. This session takes attendees behind the scenes of major stories, exploring how journalists uncovered them and managed the underlying information at scale.

Speakers: Aaron Kessler, Data and Investigative Journalist, Associated Press; Joe Patrice, Senior Editor, Above The Law; Katey Rusch, Senior Investigative Reporter, UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program; Spencer Woodman, Staff Reporter, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

3:45 PM–4:45 PM

Evening Keynote: AI Through the Looking Glass: A Cross-Sector Conversation (Grand Ballroom)

This session brings together voices from journalism, legal practice, and technology for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is reshaping the legal profession. Panelists will explore how AI is changing the way legal work gets done, what it means for the future of the profession, and whether the practice of law is ready for what’s coming next.

Speakers: Nilay Patel, Editor-in-chief, The Verge; Stephanie Biehl, Partner, Sher Edling; Robert Mahari, Head of Claude for Legal, Anthropic; Max Christoff, Chief Technology Officer, Everlaw.

Those are the Everlaw Summit 2026 Wednesday sessions to check out. Last week, I said: “it’s not too late to register”. Alas, it is too late! Everlaw Summit 2026 is sold out! Next year, don’t wait so long to register! 😉

So, what do you think? Are you attending Everlaw Summit this week? If so, say hi! Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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