Name: Inside Legal KM
Start: 2026-05-21T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-21T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 19 Duncan St

Automation, Agents, and Scale. Rethinking Legal Knowledge in the Age of AI.
About this Event

M / AI / INNOVATION / CANADA

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Toronto, Inside Legal KM, May 21

Designing the semantic layer, governance, and retrieval architecture that makes legal AI safe to scale.

Law Firms are learning a hard truth: the limiting factor isn’t the AI model, it’s the knowledge environment the model depends on.

Inside Legal KMis a senior, practitioner-led working forum for law firms and in-house legal teams building the next generation of knowledge capability: AI-ready, governed, auditable, and embedded into real workflows.

Taking place inToronto May 21st, this program will provide a practical, strategic discussion about Knowledge Management as the operating system of modern legal work, and as the foundation beneath drafting systems, search experiences, agentic workflows, client transparency, and defensible governance.

What we’ll focus on in Toronto

Redefining Value & Billing:Exploring how AI reshapes client expectations, transparency, and traditional billing models, and the role of KM in supporting consistent, high-value outputs.
Data Security & Sovereign Governance:Navigating the critical intersection of KM and risk management, including cross-border data challenges, U.S. storage concerns, and international transfer resistance.
Lawyer-First AI Adoption:Moving beyond technical deployment to lead sustainable change by aligning AI tools with real practice-group needs and reducing "tech fatigue."
Client-Mandated Restrictions:Developing "AI-restricted" workflows and audit-ready safeguards for matters where clients prohibit or limit the use of generative AI.
Knowledge Infrastructure & Data Hygiene:Preparing the "clean data" foundation required to maximize AI performance.
Breaking Functional Silos:Strategies for cross-functional collaboration between KM, IT, Research, and Business Development to build a unified firm-wide strategy.
The Canadian State of the Industry:A closing strategic look at ROI, KPI setting, and the evolving skill sets required for the next generation of Canadian legal talent.