Seyfarth Hosts, Sponsors, Lorie Almon Speaks, and Zeynep Ersin is a Panelist at SOLID San Francisco

On February 27, 2025, Seyfarth was thrilled to host and sponsor SOLID San Francisco. SOLID conferences are multi-city events encompassing a TED-style summit connecting industry leaders to discuss the future of legal innovation and technology.  

Chair and Managing Partner Lorie Almon provided the welcoming remarks, leading a session that served as a cornerstone of the summit, with a forward-thinking perspective on how legal teams can define, create, and add value by embracing technology, data, and rethinking traditional value frameworks. Chief Innovation and Strategic Design Officer, Zeynep Ersin, participated in a panel on emerging and evolving roles in the legal space.

SOLID summits cover the intersection of innovation, advanced technology, and the business of law, with sessions that offer practical and in-depth coverage of the latest updates, current issues, and strategies critical to navigating the evolving legal technology and innovation landscape.

The summit also covered:

• Getting Legal to Love New Tech: Secrets to Successful Adoption
• The Global Advantage: Thriving in Expanding Roles Through Prioritization and High-Impact Relationships
• The Encryption Illusion—Why Our Data Isn’t Safe (And What to Do About It), Unleak the Leak
• Squad Goals: Crafting Teams for Success
• The Evolution of Legal Ops: Driving Change with New Specialized Roles
• From Tactical to Transformative: The Expanding Mission of Legal Ops
• Generative AI: A Personal Exploration from eDiscovery to Reimagined Opportunities in Law and Business
• How to Upskill in the Era of AI
• The AI Agent Takeover: How Lawyers Are About to Be Replaced—Without Losing Their Jobs
• Big Fish, Small Pond to Small Fish, Big Ocean - From Legal Ops to Strategic Operations and Enablement
• Legal Data Intelligence in the Age of Generative AI