AI Risk Forecast Program

In Person | Fordham Law, Lincoln Center

Join us at Fordham Law School on March 19, 2027 for our second annual one-day conference where the law and compliance meet technology: “AI Risk Forecast: Legal Trends to Watch in 2027.” This year’s program pairs expert-led panel discussions with hands-on workshops where attendees will work directly with AI tools in guided, practical exercises.

The technological landscape is rapidly changing for in-house legal and compliance professionals as new products continue to emerge and be refined. This event will endeavor to provide much needed context to practitioners grappling with the pace of change, to expand their knowledge on the most current thinking, the evaluation of risk and what might be on the horizon for 2027 and beyond. Through interactive workshops — including prompt engineering, AI output auditing, policy drafting, and vendor evaluation — attendees will gain practical, immediately applicable skills for integrating AI into their daily practice.

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    Cost & Payment

    • Early Bird Registration: $699
      • Until October 31st
    • Standard Registration Fee: $799

    SPACE IS LIMITED

    Program fees cover instruction, access to electronic course materials, and food and beverage during the program.

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  • Please see below for our current confirmed speakers - we will be updating the schedule closer to the start of the program with each sessions' specific panel of speakers. Note that these are subject to change:

    Diana Bernabei, Associate, Debevoise

    Andrew Fede, Senior Compliance Manager, Google

    Marta Galan-Ricardo, Assistant Dean, Fordham Law School

    Beth Haddock, Chief Legal Officer, AdvisorEngine

    Tara Herman, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Girl Scouts of America

    Katherine Hughes, Clinical Associate Professor of Law & Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, Fordham Law School

    Sam Karlin, Head of Legal, Ops & Product, Blee

    Michael Kitson, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel, Bridgewater Associates

    William Sadd, Senior Director of AI, Covington & Burling

    Greg Walters, Senior Manager, IESBA

Program Sponsors

Sponsors TBA.

 

 

Program Schedule

Please see below for the tentative 2027 schedule. We will continue to update as speakers are confirmed. All topics and speakers are subject to change.

  • 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

    Complimentary breakfast will be served, where you will get to meet your peers and panelists of the program.

  • 9:00 - 9:10 a.m.

    Dean Joseph Landau to welcome participants of the program.

  • 9:10 - 9:40 a.m.

    Ryan Carrier, Founder, ForHumanity

  • 9:40 - 10:40 a.m.

    A fast-moving survey of the global regulatory landscape for AI, including the EU AI Act implementation timeline, U.S. federal and state legislative developments, and emerging enforcement trends. Panelists will assess which regulatory frameworks are most likely to affect legal and compliance teams in 2027 and how to prepare now.

    Panelists:

    Panelists TBA.

  • 10:40 - 11:00 a.m.

    Morning coffee break to network with fellow participants.

  • 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

    AI is reshaping how legal work gets done — from contract review and due diligence to litigation strategy and client counseling. This panel explores how leading practitioners are integrating AI tools into their workflows, the new competencies lawyers and compliance officers need, and where the profession is headed as these tools mature.

    Panelists:

    Panelists TBA.

  • 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

    Complimentary lunch served while participants debrief the morning's sessions and network.

  • 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

    Deploying AI responsibly requires more than compliance — it demands ethical judgment. This panel examines the hardest questions practitioners face: When should AI-generated work product be disclosed? How do you manage bias in client-facing outputs? What guardrails should organizations establish before ethical failures occur?

    Panelists:

    Panelists TBA.

  • There will be a brief break in between our panels and the afternoon workshops.

    2:30 to 2:45 PM

  • 2:45 - 3:45 p.m.

    A. Designing Meaningful Prompts

    Hands-on prompt engineering for legal tasks — draft, iterate, and compare prompts for contract summarization, risk identification, and legal research using live AI tools

    B. Building Your Own AI Use Policy

    Collaborative exercise using AI tools to draft, stress-test, and refine a model AI acceptable-use policy for a legal or compliance department

  • 3:45 - 4:00 p.m.

    Afternoon coffee break to network with fellow participants.

  • 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Practitioners face a dual challenge: employee use of AI is accelerating while third-party tools flood the market. This session shares practical frameworks to identify, assess, and mitigate risk in both homegrown and third-party AI technologies so that organizations can adopt AI responsibly and swiftly. 

    A. AI Output Auditing: Spot the Hallucination

    Participants submit legal research questions to AI tools, then verify citations and claims
    using legal databases — scored exercise to build critical evaluation skills

    B. Vendor Risk Assessment: Evaluating AI Tools

    Teams test-drive AI legal tools and score them against a due-diligence rubric covering
    data handling, explainability, accuracy, and bias — hands-on vendor evaluation for legal
    and compliance professionals

  • 5:00 to 6:00 PM

    The Networking Reception will be held at the Skadden Conference Center.