“𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀.”

At #ILTACON2026, Tim Kenney sat down with Andrew Hutchinson, Founder of Rebel.Group, to talk acquisitions, AI hype and what law firms actually need.

After more than 20 years in legal tech, Hutch has seen the same pattern play out again and again: companies get acquired, founders move on, and the people with the passion and deep product knowledge disappear with them.

𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗹.𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁.

And on AI? Hutch isn’t buying all the hype.

His view is simple: 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁. Remove the painful manual work. Give people their time back. Then start layering intelligence on top.

They also get into whether AI will really reduce legal spend, whether today’s valuations make sense, and why better data could completely change pricing and how firms resource matters.

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𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲?

Ahead of the Centre for Legal Innovation 2026 APAC Summit, David Woolstencroft sat down with Alison Laird, Director at the Centre for Legal Innovation, for a preview of what’s coming on 19–20 October in Sydney.

Alison shared some early findings from CLI’s Future of Law research, including a pretty striking gap: 𝟴𝟲% 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟵% 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀.

They also talked about what’s really getting in the way of transformation, the skills lawyers will need next, how the traditional career path may start shifting, and why the summit is designed to get people beyond talking about change and into actually building what comes next.

As Alison put it, “𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.”

Looking forward to 𝗖𝗟𝗜 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗖 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁: 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝘄. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘄. 📍 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆📅 𝟭𝟵–𝟮𝟬 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁?

At #ILTACON2026, Tim Kenney sat down with Robert Martorana from Theo Ai and Pamela Fehring (JD, CIPP/US), an 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿, to talk about litigation defence intelligence and why the corporate legal side has been somewhat overlooked in the AI rush.

When Theo AI spoke with in-house legal teams, one answer kept coming back: many were still managing litigation portfolios through spreadsheets, pulling information manually from billing systems, document management systems and other sources.

Theo AI takes a different approach, bringing that information together so legal teams can see not just one matter, but their 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 in one place. That opens the door to better benchmarking, outside counsel spend decisions, settlement strategy and identifying trends before they become bigger problems.

Robert also shared why Theo AI chose to focus specifically on the 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, where they saw far fewer AI solutions compared with the plaintiff side.

The bigger idea? Helping legal departments move from 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 by actually using the data they already have.