Opening Remarks | FlexFest: Legal Work, Unbundled

Priori CEO and Co-Founder Basha Rubin opens FlexFest with a look at where the legal industry stands right now, and where it’s heading. Featuring a framework for understanding the two unbundlings reshaping legal work: the disaggregation of execution from judgment, and the institutional restructuring that follows from it.

What does a high-performing legal team look like when headcount is no longer the primary lever? The CLOs of DHL and Cargill join Meta’s Global Head of Legal Operations for a conversation on how they’re redesigning their departments in real time, from team composition and data infrastructure to AI adoption, work routing, and the changing role of outside counsel.

Most legal departments agree that work should be distributed more intentionally. Far fewer have built the systems to do it. Ava Guo and Brendan McMurrer from AT&T’s team walk through what execution actually looks like, how they built an AI-first center of expertise from the ground up, why they started big instead of running small pilots, and what it takes to operationalize change inside a 150-year-old company.