Kirkland Spent $500M on AI. Here's How Boutique and Mid-Sized Firms Win Anyway.

​A 45-minute strategy session for managing partners and CxOs of boutique and mid-sized law firms, with a practical framework you can start using tomorrow.

​Description

​Kirkland & Ellis just committed half a billion dollars to building its own AI. Most of the profession read that as a gigantic bet. But if you take a closer look, it's actually mostly defense, and it leaves the door wide open for firms that are more agile.

​This session is about how mid-sized firms win at AI through deliberate, disciplined action, using Geoffrey Moore's Zone to Win framework, adapted for the economics of a law firm. You'll leave able to sort what you're already doing, see which side of the board you're actually playing on, and name your first concrete step.

​What you'll take away

• ​Why Kirkland's $500M is a defensive move, and what that means for a firm your size

• ​The "danger of the middle": who thrives and who gets crushed as legal splits in two

• ​A simple way to map your AI initiatives into four zones

• ​How to fund one real bet from the efficiency you're already gaining, without raiding profit

• ​The two ways firms quietly fail at this, and the disciplined path between them

​Who it's for CxOs and managing partners at boutique or mid-sized firms.

​Host Jan Roggen, Legaltech Match. Helping boutique and mid-sized law firms turn scattered AI experiments into one disciplined advantage.