A day in the life of a Synergy 2026 corporate legal professional attendee

No two days at Synergy 2026 look the same. This is one version of what’s possible, built around real sessions, real conversations, and real momentum.

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6:45 AM – Rise and shine

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7:00 AM – Breakout: From Peers, Not Playbooks: How Changemakers Are Using CoCounsel Legal

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8:30 AM – HighQ 2026/2027 Product Roadmap and Ask Me Anything

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10:30 AM – Corporate Professionals General Session

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11:50 AM – Lunch and networking

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1:00 PM – Your Organization Adopted AI. Did Your Risk Framework?

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2:10 PM – Managing Shadow AI: How Legal Organizations Actually Change Individual Behavior

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4:10 PM – Ask the Experts: Your Guide to Thomson Reuters Corporate Legal Solutions

6:45 AM – Rise and shine

The alarm goes off, and you’re still thinking about yesterday’s sessions on legal operations and contract management. Today’s agenda, all real sessions confirmed for Tuesday, is built for exactly where your department is headed next.

7:00 AM – Breakout: From Peers, Not Playbooks: How Changemakers Are Using CoCounsel Legal

You start the day in an Ask Me Anything panel built for smaller legal departments and government agencies navigating a changing profession. It’s less a presentation and more an open conversation. Peers trade candid, experience-driven insights on integrating CoCounsel into real workflows, evaluating new technologies, and learning from trusted communities. You leave with practical takeaways and a reminder that you’re not figuring this out alone. There’s a whole community dealing with the same questions.

8:30 AM – HighQ 2026/2027 Product Roadmap and Ask Me Anything

The HighQ product team walks through what shipped in 2026 and previews the strategic plans, including deeper AI investment, heading into 2027. During the live Ask Me Anything, you get direct answers on the features you’ve been wondering about, and you make sure your team’s long-term product wishes are on the record.

10:30 AM – Corporate Professionals General Session

The keynote kicks off, and the energy in the room is palpable. This is the session built specifically for corporate professionals like you, and the conversation makes one thing clear: the pace of change in corporate legal work is only accelerating.

11:50 AM – Lunch and networking

You find yourself sitting down with corporate legal professionals from banking, healthcare, and retail. Different industries, similar challenges, and an afternoon of sessions built around solving them still lies ahead.

1:00 PM – Your Organization Adopted AI. Did Your Risk Framework?

This session lands hard. Courts are assigning liability, regulators are activating compliance obligations, and the vendor contracts sitting in your drawer probably contain AI terms nobody flagged during review. The session pushes past the question of whether your organization has a governance framework, to whether that framework was actually built for today’s landscape, including the categories of risk in AI vendor agreements standard contract review isn’t designed to catch. You leave with a clearer sense of what’s realistically negotiable versus what needs an internal policy fix.

2:10 PM – Managing Shadow AI: How Legal Organizations Actually Change Individual Behavior

This session reframes a problem you’ve been treating as a compliance issue. Despite policies and CLE programs, attorneys keep experimenting with consumer-grade AI tools outside approved systems, not out of bad intent, but because of time pressure, workflow friction, and uncertainty about how approved tools fit into real work. The session treats shadow AI as a change-management challenge rather than a rules problem, and you walk away with practical strategies for supervision, training, and normalizing responsible AI use at scale. This is governance that works in practice, not just on paper.

4:10 PM – Ask the Experts: Your Guide to Thomson Reuters Corporate Legal Solutions

You close out the day with Thomson Reuters product specialists and support leads in an interactive Ask Me Anything built specifically for corporate legal teams using Legal Tracker, HighQ, CoCounsel, and the rest of the suite. You come prepared with your team’s specific questions and leave with direct answers, a few best-practice workflow tweaks, and a clearer sense of what’s coming next.

What comes next

Back at the hotel, you flip through your notes and set up a few follow-up meetings, as you envision a real, working picture of what these tools could do to elevate your legal department. Before bed, you confirm tomorrow’s sessions and a few follow-up questions for the product specialists you met today.

The energy from these few days doesn’t fade when the conference ends. It’s the start of something. You’ve got new ideas, new contacts, and a plan to bring real transformation back to your organization. That’s exactly what you came here for, and it’s only the beginning.

Your own day at SYNERGY 2026 is still unwritten. Register now and start building it.