What Every Legal Team Will Be Talking About in 2026 (and How to Get Ahead Now)

Discover the top 3 priorities shaping legal operations in 2026 and how to prepare your team for success.

Connie Brenton

Co-Founder of LegalOps.com, Founder & Founding CEO of CLOC, Former VP Legal Ops at NetApp

Connie Brenton is the Co-Founder of LegalOps.com and Founder & Founding CEO of CLOC. She has almost two decades of LegalOps expertise at major enterprises such as NetApp & Oracle and had been named a Market Shaper by The Financial Times, 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley, Top 10 Deputy General Counsel in California and was recognized as LegalTech's Law Department Operations Manager of the Year. In her time, she has built a legendary legal department that became a center of excellence for process improvement and digital transformation, enabling organization-wide innovation.

Jen Lenander

Sr. Director & Chief of Staff @Elastic

Jen Lenander is Senior Director & Legal Chief of Staff at Elastic, bringing deep legal-operations and business-strategy expertise from her prior roles at global life-sciences and law-firm environments.

Evan Wong

CEO & Co-Founder of Checkbox, Forbes 30 Under 30

Evan Wong is the CEO & Co-Founder of Checkbox, a 14x award-winning no code workflow automation platform, and is a listed Forbes 30 Under 30. Evan has worked with many legal teams globally on their digital transformation projects by leveraging the power of no code automation and his expertise in developing digital solutions to solve business process problems. Through this work, he has helped redefine how lawyers conduct intake and triage, generate documents, provide advice, and facilitate workflows, with a focus on applying innovation with ruthless practicality.