EVENT DETAILS:

AI strategy is no longer simply a technology decision. It is also a talent, training, organizational, and business decision.

In this session of The AI-Enabled Law Department, TruLegal and Today’s General Counsel bring together senior legal leaders to discuss how organizations are approaching build-versus-buy and hire-versus-train decisions as artificial intelligence becomes embedded across the legal function.

The panel explores how different AI strategies create new skill requirements across legal operations, privacy, product counsel, compliance, litigation, governance, and other legal functions, while examining the practical decisions leaders are making about internal development, outside technology, specialized talent, and hybrid models.

What You Will Learn:

1. How build, buy, and hybrid AI strategies create different talent needs across product counsel, privacy, compliance, litigation, legal operations, and other legal functions.
2. How legal departments are approaching the train-versus-hire decision, including when to upskill existing professionals and when to bring new AI-enabled capabilities into the organization.
3. Which vocational, technical, educational, and alternative training paths can help legal professionals develop the skills required for AI-enabled roles.
4. How AI strategy is affecting compensation, competition for talent, speed of hiring, talent availability, and ALSP and secondee utilization.
5. How build-versus-buy decisions are changing the relationship between in-house legal departments, outside counsel, technology providers, and specialized legal talent.

Speakers

Zeno Capucci

Chief Legal and Risk Officer, DocPlanner

Zeno Capucci is Chief Legal & Risk Officer and Board Secretary at DocPlanner, where he oversees the company’s global legal, privacy, risk, and public affairs teams. An experienced legal executive with prior leadership roles at WorldRemit and Worldpay, Zeno focuses on helping fast-growing technology companies navigate AI, data privacy, commercial contracting, and governance while building legal teams that scale alongside the business.

Shannon Ralich

Chief Privacy Officer and VP of Compliance, Machinify

Shannon Ralich is Chief Privacy Officer and VP of Compliance at Machinify, where she leads responsible AI governance, global privacy, and data governance programs.

Over more than two decades, Shannon has helped high-growth technology companies build the governance foundations required to move quickly while managing privacy, risk, compliance, and emerging technology. Her experience spans organizations including JFrog, Zendesk, and Bandwidth, with work covering the full lifecycle of enterprise technology decisions, from strategy through implementation and operating models.

Patricia Kovacevic

General Counsel and Head of External Affairs, CryoMass Technologies Inc.

Patricia Kovacevic is an experienced global legal, regulatory, and compliance leader and an early adopter of artificial intelligence in legal practice and regulatory strategy.

Her career spans senior in-house legal and regulatory leadership at multinational companies, private practice, public policy, sophisticated corporate transactions, and highly regulated industries. She currently serves as General Counsel and Head of External Affairs at CryoMass Technologies Inc. and advises organizations through her firm, RegulationStrategy.

Moderator

Jared Coseglia

Founder & CEO, TruLegal

Jared Coseglia is the Founder and CEO of TruLegal and a longtime advisor to legal professionals and organizations navigating the intersection of law, technology, data, talent, and risk.

For more than fifteen years, Jared and TruLegal have helped organizations identify and secure specialized legal talent across legal operations, litigation and eDiscovery, data privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, Legal AI, and emerging legal technologies.

Jared is also a regular contributor to Today’s General Counsel, where his The AI-Enabled Lawyer column examines how artificial intelligence is transforming legal careers, team structures, compensation, hiring, and the future legal workforce.