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Legal Tech Isn't Chasing Hype Anymore - It's Rewiring Litigation Budgets, Workflows, and What In-House Teams Keep
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- Mar 20, 2026
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Live from Legalweek 2026, David Cowen sits down with Rian Kennedy , Director of Legal Hold Sales at DISCO, to talk about what has actually changed in legal tech over the last 12 months. The conversation goes beyond AI hype and gets into what matters now: cloud maturity, agentic workflows, insourcing pressure, tighter budgets, and why legal teams are starting to use technology to control spend, consolidate systems, and rethink where legal ops ends and business ops begins. Hosted by David Cowen Key Topics Covered Why the legal market has moved from cautious curiosity to real AI adoption, with law finally pushing to stay competitive instead of lagging behind How the pandemic accelerated cloud adoption and set the stage for today's faster embrace of GenAI and agentic AI Why the most valuable buyers are still the innovators who want to build alongside vendors before tools become table stakes How corporate legal teams are reassessing what to keep in-house, what to send to outside counsel, and where ALSPs fit in the middle Why legal ops leaders who mastered contracts and workflow discipline are now asking the bigger question: what comes next How litigation budgets are becoming a strategic focus, with more interest in visibility, control, consolidation, and reducing outside counsel spend Why legal hold, eDiscovery, and preservation are becoming more important as data sources multiply and automation becomes essential 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Share this episode and take your career from now to next! 💡To learn more about the future of legal innovation, visit https://cowengroup.com/ Never eat alone!