11:00 am EDT, 8 am PDT.
Lawyers are trained to question, verify, and challenge. Those instincts are essential to the practice of law -- and they're exactly what kicks in when firms introduce AI. What looks like resistance is really the profession working as designed.
The problem isn't the skepticism. It's what happens when there's no framework to channel it. Without one, healthy questioning becomes wholesale rejection and firms lose the very people whose critical thinking they need most in the loop.
Attorney-turned-psychologist Dr. Larry Richard has spent decades quantifying the behavioral traits that shape how lawyers assess risk, process change, and decide what to trust. Change management strategist Julia Montgomery builds AI adoption programs that work with those traits instead of against them.
Together, they'll unpack why lawyer resistance to AI is psychologically predictable, why it's actually the right instinct -- and how to channel it from avoidance into the kind of rigorous verification lawyers are already built to do.
Moderator:
Jennifer Mendez, Senior Director of Knowledge Management Innovation, Fisher Phillips
Panelists:
Julia Montgomery, Director of Practice Enablement, King & Spalding LLP
Dr. Larry Richard, Founder & CEO, LawyerBrain