How AI Is Transforming the Practice of Law Before the Market Fully Prices It In
How AI Is Transforming the Practice of the Law arrives in NYC on May 28, bringing legal operators, AI builders, and startup executives into the same room.
Artificial intelligence is no longer circling the legal industry from the outside. It is inside compliance reviews, board reporting, contract analysis, and the operational bloodstream of startups trying to scale faster than regulation can keep up. On May 28, 2026, “How AI Is Transforming the Practice of the Law” will bring a concentrated group of legal operators, AI executives, founders, and governance specialists to Fabrik NYC in Tribeca for a rapid-fire discussion on what that transformation actually looks like in practice.
The event is organized by Lawrence Krubner through the Respectful Leadership network and features leadership from SCOREalytics alongside operators who have worked inside companies navigating IPO preparation, AI governance, cross-border compliance, and enterprise legal infrastructure. The event matters because the legal market has quietly crossed a threshold. The conversation is no longer about whether artificial intelligence will affect legal work. The conversation is now about which firms, startups, and operators understand how to deploy AI without creating institutional exposure they cannot unwind later.
That distinction is becoming expensive.
About “How AI Is Transforming the Practice of the Law”
“How AI Is Transforming the Practice of the Law” takes place at Fabrik NYC in Tribeca on May 28, 2026. The format is intentionally compressed: 4 speakers, 7-minute lightning talks, audience Q&A, and networking designed to encourage actual conversation instead of conference drift. That structure matters more than it sounds because legal conferences have developed a strange talent for stretching 12 minutes of insight into 9 hours of panel moderation and ballroom carbohydrates. This event appears built for operators who already understand the stakes and want practical interpretation instead of theatrical futurism.
The speaker lineup includes Lawrence Krubner, CTO at SCOREalytics and organizer of the event through Respectful Leadership; Moiz Shirazi, Founder and CEO of SCOREalytics; Jennie Morawetz, Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel at SCOREalytics; Monique “Mo” Tronchin, Founder of Interconnect Legal; and Eric B. Topel, Founder of ETopel General Counsel Services and legal operator across multiple high-growth technology companies. The audience is expected to include startup founders, in-house counsel, venture-backed operators, AI governance professionals, compliance leaders, and legal infrastructure builders working directly inside the current AI transition cycle. That mix matters because AI governance has become operational, not theoretical.
Why This Event Matters Right Now
The legal industry is entering a structural stress test. Generative AI systems are compressing work that historically justified junior staffing models, hourly billing structures, and massive research overhead. Simultaneously, regulators are accelerating enforcement around AI accountability, privacy exposure, data usage, consumer protection, and algorithmic transparency. The result is institutional whiplash.
Law firms are trying to protect revenue structures while adopting automation tools that reduce the labor those structures were built around. Startups are deploying AI products faster than legal review processes can evolve. Enterprise companies are discovering that governance frameworks written for cloud software do not cleanly map onto autonomous systems generating probabilistic outputs. The room forming around this event reflects that pressure because the operators involved are actively building systems, advising companies, or managing legal exposure tied directly to AI deployment decisions happening now. That distinction separates signal from theater.
The Operators Behind the Event
Lawrence Krubner has spent years building startup and leadership communities inside New York’s technology ecosystem through Respectful Leadership. His role as CTO at SCOREalytics places him directly inside one of the more interesting legal intelligence platforms currently operating in the AI governance space. SCOREalytics emerged from Baker McKenzie infrastructure and focuses on legal and regulatory intelligence across more than 100 jurisdictions. That matters because regulatory fragmentation is becoming one of the defining operational risks of enterprise AI deployment.
Companies are no longer navigating one set of AI rules. They are navigating overlapping international frameworks moving at different speeds with different enforcement priorities. Moiz Shirazi understands that problem from both sides. Before founding SCOREalytics, Shirazi spent years at Baker McKenzie as a Principal Economist focused on transfer pricing, valuation, and international legal risk analysis. His session asks one of the more important questions shaping the legal AI market right now: are companies building improved versions of existing legal workflows, or entirely new categories of legal services? That question has major implications for law firms, legal software companies, investors, and enterprise buyers.
Jennie Morawetz brings another layer of institutional perspective. After spending a decade as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, she moved into an AI-native legal intelligence company at a moment when many senior legal professionals are still trying to understand how deeply AI will alter the economics of legal work. Her talk, “Smarter, Not Just Faster,” cuts directly into the tension sitting underneath enterprise AI adoption because speed is easy while judgment remains expensive.
Why Monique Tronchin and Eric B. Topel Matter
Monique “Mo” Tronchin represents a growing category of embedded legal operators working directly inside product and engineering environments instead of operating exclusively through traditional outside counsel structures. That shift matters because many of the highest-risk AI decisions are being made during product development cycles long before contracts, litigation, or enforcement actions emerge. Her focus on “the empty seat” in AI product reviews points toward a larger operational issue across technology companies: legal review often enters the conversation after strategic exposure already exists.
Eric B. Topel brings a different form of credibility. His legal career spans UiPath, Socure, Patsnap, Perchwell, and multiple IPO-scale operational environments where governance decisions directly affected growth, financing, compliance readiness, and enterprise scalability. That operational experience matters more than polished legal theory right now because technology companies are not asking whether AI creates legal complexity. They already know it does. The real demand is for operators who understand how to build governance systems without slowing execution into paralysis. That balance is becoming one of the defining executive skills of this cycle.
What This Signals About the AI Governance Market
The broader significance of this event extends beyond legal technology. The AI market is moving into a maturity phase where infrastructure, accountability, compliance, and governance are becoming competitive differentiators rather than administrative afterthoughts. That transition changes who holds power.
For years, software markets rewarded speed above all else. Ship quickly. Raise aggressively. Grow before regulation catches up. AI changes that equation because the downside risk compounds differently. A flawed AI deployment can create legal, reputational, operational, and regulatory exposure simultaneously. That reality is forcing companies to rethink how legal teams integrate with product development, executive leadership, procurement, and enterprise strategy. The market is slowly discovering that governance is no longer defensive infrastructure. It is operational infrastructure.
The Bigger Industry Shift
The most interesting part of the legal AI market is not automation itself. It is the collapse of old institutional assumptions. The billable hour is under pressure. Junior staffing economics are changing. Enterprise procurement expectations are changing. Regulatory timelines are tightening. Legal review is moving closer to product development cycles. AI literacy is becoming a leadership competency instead of a technical specialty. That creates tension across the entire professional ecosystem while also creating opportunity.
The companies, legal teams, and operators learning how to combine AI capability with governance discipline are building advantages that extend far beyond legal departments. They are building trust infrastructure, and that may end up being one of the most valuable assets in the next decade of enterprise technology.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is “How AI Is Transforming the Practice of the Law”?
It is a May 28, 2026 event at Fabrik NYC focused on AI governance, legal infrastructure, compliance, and operational changes reshaping the legal industry.
Who is organizing the event?
The event is organized by Lawrence Krubner through Respectful Leadership and includes leadership from SCOREalytics.
Who are the confirmed speakers?
Confirmed speakers include Moiz Shirazi, Jennie Morawetz, Monique “Mo” Tronchin, and Eric B. Topel.
Why does this event matter for startup founders?
Startup founders face increasing AI governance, compliance, and operational risk exposure. The event focuses on practical legal infrastructure decisions affecting scaling companies.
What is SCOREalytics?
SCOREalytics is an AI-powered legal intelligence platform analyzing regulatory and legal risk across more than 100 jurisdictions.
Where is the event taking place?
The event will take place at Fabrik NYC in Tribeca, New York City.