Building the modern legal AI stack
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way legal teams operate. Yet many General Counsel and legal leaders continue to grapple with a common challenge: where do you begin, and how do you build a technology ecosystem that genuinely delivers value?
Join Taylor Root and Legal Benchmarks for an exclusive evening in Farringdon, London, where we’ll bring together senior legal leaders who are actively transforming their legal functions through technology and AI.
Building on the success of Taylor Root’s recent event, ‚How to start your legal AI journey‚, this discussion will move beyond theory and explore the practical realities of creating an effective legal technology stack. First, we’ll have an update on the latest research into legal AI tools from Legal Benchmarks. Then our panellists will share the tools, platforms and approaches they are using today, providing a valuable starting point for legal leaders looking to embrace AI and modernise their legal operations.
Whether you are at the beginning of your AI journey or looking to better connect existing technologies across your legal function, this event will offer practical insights, real-world examples and lessons learned from legal leaders who are already leading the way.
WHAT WE’LL DISCUSS
- Update from Legal Benchmarks on their latest AI research as well as launching a new independent guide to the legal AI market, combining product intelligence, benchmark performance and verified user reviews
- The technology and AI tools legal teams are using today
- How to build a connected legal technology ecosystem
- Key considerations when selecting and implementing new legal technology
- The role of AI in improving efficiency, productivity and business partnering
- Common challenges and pitfalls when introducing AI into legal teams
- Practical advice for General Counsel looking to develop their AI strategy
Whether you are exploring AI for the first time or seeking structure around early adoption, this event will give you the frameworks, questions and next steps you need to get started.
AGENDA
5:00pm | Registration and networking
5:30pm | Legal Benchmarks update, panel discussion and audience Q&A
6:45pm | Networking reception (drinks and canapes)
7:30pm | Close
Join us for an evening of practical insights, peer discussion and networking with fellow legal leaders exploring the future of legal technology and AI.
MEET YOUr PANELLISTS

ANDREW COOKE
Chief Legal Officer
Perk
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Andrew Cooke is Chief Legal Officer at Perk, the leading AI-powered travel and spend platform. Perk’s legal and privacy team has been recognised by FT Innovative Lawyers and The Lawyer for its pioneering work in the use of AI. Team members play leading roles in AI working groups and legal communities across Europe and the US.
Andrew speaks regularly to diverse audiences regarding technology, status anxiety, and legal as a product.

ANDIE GARFORD-TULL
General Counsel for AI Transformation & Governance, dentsu
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Andie Garford-Tull is General Counsel for AI Transformation & Governance at dentsu, a global advertising group, where she also serves as General Counsel for its creative advertising business.
A tech lawyer by background, she helps dentsu operationalise responsible AI – translating emerging regulation into scalable frameworks and delivery models. She’s also actively involved in dentsu’s Legal and Compliance transformation, partnering with Legal Ops to cultivate innovation, evolve ways of working, and rethink how value is derived from law firm partnerships.

SARAH-JANE DAVIES
Head of Legal Technology & Operations
ArcelorMittal
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Sarah-Jane Davies is Head of Legal Technology & Operations at ArcelorMittal, shaping how a global legal function harnesses operational excellence, data, and AI to deliver greater business value.
Drawing on more than 12 years’ experience across in-house, consulting, and professional services, she designs scalable operating models and connected technology ecosystems that turn innovation into measurable impact—enabling legal teams to work smarter, move faster, and lead change.
MEET YOUr HostS

Sarah Ingwersen
Managing Director | Global Head of In-house Legal
Taylor Root
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Sarah heads our global in-house legal team based in London. She focuses on recruiting general counsels for corporates and has worked with leading companies since 2000 to build out their legal teams.
Sarah is a lawyer by background, having trained and qualified at a global law firm in Australia after obtaining a bachelor of laws (hons) from Bond University.

ANNA GUO
Founder
Legal Benchmarks
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Anna Guo is the Founder of Legal Benchmarks, an independent research initiative evaluating how AI models and legal technology perform on real legal work. A lawyer and legal tech founder, she works with legal teams and AI builders on benchmarking, evaluation and the adoption of AI in legal practice.
Legal Benchmarks is an independent research platform helping legal teams to understand and evaluate the rapidly evolving legal AI market through independent benchmarks, practitioner research and verified user insights.

Elgar Weijtmans
Incoming AI & Innovation Partner
NautaDutilh
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Elgar Weijtmans is the incoming AI & Innovation Partner at NautaDutilh. He combines a background in software engineering and law, contributes to research at Legal Benchmarks, writes the legal tech newsletter Unfiltered Bits and speaks internationally on legal AI.