St Regis, Mumbai • November 18, 2026
The Future of Law
With the Indian economy set to be the largest in the world by 2050, is India’s legal profession keeping pace? What are the reforms needed to ensure that Indian lawyers can enable business and society to flourish? How can young people access legal careers and develop into world-class legal advisers? This session explores the challenges, the potential solutions and outlines a roadmap for Indian lawyers who want to be part of the change.
Interactive workshop of lawyers, clients, technologists and international experts. Key trend analysis, impact of AI and the changing client relationship.
Interactive workshop of lawyers, clients, technologists and international experts. Key trend analysis, impact of AI and the changing client relationship.
Bite sized training, or maturity assessments to help lawyers see the limits of their AI use, and where to go next.
Opportunity for lawyers to experience coding, agent building and to explore other technologies that can help them stay abreast of market changes.
Mingle with your peers and experience demonstrations from curated technology and professional services exhibitions.
Panel session with leading general counsel discussing how their priorities and pain points, how they are changing their legal departments and their expectations of external counsel.
Mingle with your peers and experience demonstrations from curated technology and professional services exhibitions.
Panel Session into how AI is changing the way lawyers think about knowledge, what ‘augmentation’ really means, the power of the model context protocol to be a gamechanger and the best ways to leverage your existing institutional intelligence.
Interactive workshop of lawyers, clients, technologists and international experts. Key trend analysis, impact of AI and the changing client relationship.
As AI transforms practices, how can lawyers remain on top of all the latest tech solutions, demands from clients and big picture world trends that are changing their careers?
Bite sized training, or maturity assessments to help lawyers see the limits of their AI use, and where to go next.
Opportunity for lawyers to experience coding, agent building and to explore other technologies that can help them stay abreast of market changes.
Mingle with your peers and experience demonstrations from curated technology and professional services exhibitions.
Interactive workshop of lawyers, clients, technologists and international experts. Key trend analysis, impact of AI and the changing client relationship.
Indian general counsel are rapidly growing in role, power and influence. They too are subject to technological disruption. How can they build their tech stacks and work with the business to ensure they are delivering a top-class service?
Bite sized training, or maturity assessments to help lawyers see the limits of their AI use, and where to go next.
Opportunity for lawyers to experience coding, agent building and to explore other technologies that can help them stay abreast of market changes.
As more lawyers use AI, the questions on how to teach judgement intensify. But an even more pressing concern is how to deal with lawyers not wanting to make the mental effort – in effect – cognitively surrendering work to AI. What are the best strategies to ensure lawyers use the technologies at their disposal to enhance their judgement?
Join us for the closing remarks.
Opportunity to reflect on the day's sessions.
Winners announced live at the event.
RSGI reveals the results of its investigation into the top Indian law firms across the RISE criteria and its rating of the most involved foreign law firms in India.
The awards list includes:
1. RISE Award for AI-Enabled Innovation
Recognising the firm using AI most intelligently to improve delivery, insight, productivity and client value.
2. RISE Award for Business Professionalisation
Recognising the firm that has most clearly strengthened its governance, systems, and modernised its management and institutional platform.
3. RISE Award for Future-Ready Talent
Recognising the firm investing most convincingly in the skills, culture and career experience needed for the next generation of legal work.
4. RISE Award for Responsible Business
Recognising the firm showing leadership on ethics, inclusion, sustainability, pro bono, governance and having a positive impact on its broader communities.
5. RISE Award for Client Experience
Recognising the firm whose clients scored its lawyers highest against eight indicators, including service, commerciality, EQ, networks and leadership.
6. RISE Award for International Strategy
Recognising the firm with the strongest strategy for cross-border work, global relationships and India-linked international growth.
7. RISE Award for Brand Momentum
Recognising the firm whose market profile, positioning and reputation have advanced most strongly over the past year.
8. RISE Award for Foreign Firm Momentum in India
Recognising the international firm making the most credible and strategically significant progress in the Indian market.
9. Resight India 2026: Small law firm of the year
Recognising the firm with 100 lawyers or less that had the strongest overall performance across Reputation, Instructions, Sophistication and Experience.
10. Resight India 2026: Highest-Scoring RISE Firm
Recognising the firm with the strongest overall performance across Reputation, Instructions, Sophistication and Experience.
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