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September 8-11 | Running Legal Like a Business 2026

Fontainebleau Las Vegas

We are heading to the Running Legal Like a Business 2026 conference, where legal operations professionals, GCs, and industry leaders will explore practical strategies for building more efficient, data-driven legal functions.

Meet with our team to discuss how legal departments are optimising outside counsel and ALSPs relationships, improving spend management, and adopting operating models that deliver greater value, transparency, and business impact.

Speaking at the Conference

Topic: All Aboard: Sailing Through Outside Counsel & ALSP Management

Date: Wednesday, September 9

Time: 11:10 a.m. PDT

Speaker: Jeni Atlan , alongside:

Chris McCloy, Global Head of Outside Counsel & Legal Spend Management, IBM
Dayna Trautwein, Legal Operations Manager, Stryker
Mason Freeman, Litigation Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Together, the panel will share practical approaches to partner selection, onboarding, performance management, and legal spend optimisation, while sharing perspectives from both corporate legal departments and legal service providers on building stronger, more strategic partnerships.

Topic: CLM Is Dead. Long Live CLM!

Date: Thursday, September 10

Time: 4:00 p.m. PDT

Speaker: Pratik Patel, alongside:

Justin Schwartz, Vice President and Chief Counsel, Americas, Epiroc
Jason Smith, Global Director, CLM Product Launch & LegalTech, Conga
Mark Allen, Senior Director of Legal Innovation, Legora

As organisations embrace AI across the contract lifecycle, the discussion will explore how contract management is changing, what capabilities still matter most, and how legal teams can balance innovation with the governance, processes, and outcomes that remain essential to business success.

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Combine ELM technology, AI-powered intelligence, and managed services to gain greater control over legal spend, improve outside counsel performance, and increase operational visibility.

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Meet the Team

Alongside Jeni Atlan and Pratik Patel, Nicole Nehama Auerbach, Erica White, Devdeep Ghosh, and Branden DeMass will also be attending the conference.

Book a one-on-one with our team to discuss legal operations, outside counsel strategy, legal spend management, AI-enabled legal service delivery, and opportunities to improve efficiency across your legal function.

Jeni Atlan

Director, Global Talent Management

Pratik Patel

VP, Innovation

Nicole Nehama Auerbach

VP and GM, ElevateNext

Erica White

Associate Director, Consulting

Devdeep Ghosh

VP, Consulting

Branden DeMass

Director, Legal Operations

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INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Elevate’s Customer Partnerships Earn Industry Recognition for the Third Consecutive Year

Elevate and its customers have been recognised at the Running Legal Like a Business Awards for driving meaningful transformation through innovation, technology, and expertise. This year’s finalists include UiPath and Elevate for IP Operations Excellence and UKG and Elevate for Innovator of the Year. Elevate’s Kunoor Chopra is also a finalist for the HERizon Leadership Award, celebrating leadership and innovation across the legal industry.