CLI 2026 APAC SUMMIT
FUTURE OF LAW. BUILT NOW.
calendar_month19-20 October 2026
location_onHilton Sydney
CLI 2026 APAC SUMMIT
FUTURE OF LAW. BUILT NOW.
calendar_month19-20 October 2026
location_onHilton Sydney
LEGAL WORK IS CHANGING. HOW THE PROFESSION RESPONDS IS SOMETHING WE WORK OUT TOGETHER.
The CLI 2026 APAC Summit is an in-person opportunity to connect and shape the future of law.
This year, we are bringing together a broader cross-section of the profession to work through what these changes mean in practice.
Because the only way to predict the future is to create it together.
A shared conversation across the profession
The CLI APAC Summit 2026: Future of Law. Built Now, is a one-day gathering for people who want to shape what comes next, not just react to it.
And it’s built differently: no sponsors buying the agenda, no vendors on stage, and no competing tracks forcing you to pick one session and miss three others.
Just one shared path through the day, from the big-picture state of the profession to the individuals who make it work, to reimagining what comes next.
FULL-DAY SUMMIT
20 October 2026, Hilton Sydney
The programme moves from the current state of the profession through to the practical choices facing teams and firms.
Across the day we tackle the questions that matter most right now:
- State of the Profession: A comprehensive data picture of Australia's legal innovation ecosystem, the opportunities ahead, and what they mean for the future of law.
- Outside-in Lessons Learned: What legal can learn from other professional services that have already navigated major transformation.
- The Legal Professional Reimagined: Judgement, trust and the human edge - what defines a high-performing lawyer is changing, and the human capabilities that will matter most are not the ones most firms are building today.
- Closing the Education-to-Practice Gap: Where the disconnect between legal education and legal employers is greatest, and what a credible response looks like from both sides.
- Governance, Risk and the Path to Real Adoption: Beyond policy documents, how organisations are building governance that shapes behaviour, manages risk and moves at a workable pace.
- The Changing Legal Value Chain: How the boundaries between in-house, private practice and alternative providers are being redrawn, and where value is migrating.
- From Pilot to Practice: Breaking the inertia holding legal back—why awareness and endless pilots are struggling to convert into action and ROI, and what it takes to move from interest to identifying the right use cases and embedding them as business-as-usual practice.
- Future of Law. Built Now: Hear from those about to inherit the profession on their fears, their hopes, and what we need to do today to shape the future of legal services.
CLI PRE-SUMMIT WORKSHOP
19 October 2026, Hilton Sydney
Come a half-day early for the pre-Summit workshop. Hands-on, candid, and built around a single fictional case.
What you'll get:
- A scenario built to feel familiar: One real problem, three sides of it. A client cutting legal spend by 30%, the firm that stands to lose the work, and the tech-led provider circling it.
- A room where you can be honest: A fictional case study so you can say what you really think without it being career limiting.
- A table worth meeting: Lawyers, in-house counsel, legal ops, technologists and students, mixed deliberately.
- Something you build: Your group produces one sharp recommendation a real leadership team could act on next quarter, with the strongest presented on the Summit stage the following morning.