From Drafter to Director: The Lawyer's Shift to Reviewing Agentic Work

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​Coding agents mark the next phase of LLMs in legal: not chatbots, but "dobots" that pull information from Outlook, mark up PDFs, work across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and complete multi-step tasks end to end. As this capability matures, the work of the lawyer is changing shape. Drafting and knowledge ownership are giving way to a new core skill: reviewing, accepting, rejecting and directing the output of agents working in parallel.

This roundtable explores what happens to the legal profession when one lawyer is managing ten, twenty or fifty agents at once. What does the review interface look like? Where does professional judgement sit when tracked changes scale across every document type a firm touches? And what does it mean for partners and innovation leaders when the holder of legal knowledge becomes the custodian of the process?

​Hosted by Ludvig Swanström of Vesence, this is a candid peer conversation about the operating model of the firm just over the horizon.

Key Takeaways:

• ​How the lawyer's identity is shifting from owner of legal knowledge to reviewer and project manager of agentic work, and what that means for partner roles, training and career paths.

• ​What the future review interface looks like in practice when agents act across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and PDFs, and where tracked changes, accept/reject workflows and human judgement fit in.

• ​How firms can prepare for an operating model where a single lawyer orchestrates dozens of agents at once, including the practice areas, workflows and quality controls that need to evolve first.

​This session is part of LegalTechTalk 2026, Europe’s Event for Legal Transformation. A dynamic, annual in-person festival bringing together 5,500+ attendees from 75+ countries and over 400 industry-leading speakers across two days, on 17-18 June 2026 at InterContinental London - The O2.