Lexpo - where the legal market meets
Since 2016, Lexpo has been the meeting point for the Continental European legal community.
On 15 and 16 March 2027, Lexpo returns for two days on how legal work is changing, and what that means for the people responsible for it. That responsibility does not sit on a single desk: someone sets the direction, someone makes it work in practice, and someone stands behind the result.
Each day opens with a keynote, followed by panels and presentations, and the sponsor sessions are not product pitches. Delegates come from across Continental Europe, and on the first evening everyone stays on for drinks and a buffet dinner, included in the ticket.
Why Lexpo
Lexpo brings together the people who decide how legal work is changing, from both sides of the legal market. Law firms and in-house legal teams sit in the same sessions, alongside the technology providers who serve them, and work through questions that neither side can answer alone.
We curate the main programme ourselves, and we choose speakers for what they can tell you, not for how often they have been on stage: CIOs, general counsel, innovation leads and partners who are making these decisions inside their own organisations, and who come to share what worked, what did not, and what they would do differently.
Ari Kaplan, who has hosted Lexpo for several editions, once described it as "large enough to attract leading decisionmakers and small enough to have meaningful conversations with them." That is the balance we keep on purpose: you leave with ideas you can use, and with people you can call afterwards.
Lexpo'27 theme
Legal technology has stopped promising and started delivering.
Systems now draft, analyse and increasingly act on their own, and the question is no longer whether to adopt them, but who stays in charge of the work, its value, and the data it runs on. That question sits on both sides of the legal market. Law firms must decide who takes responsibility for work that technology helped produce, and what it is worth when it takes a fraction of the time. Legal departments must decide the same about their own function, what it is worth to the business and what it should now be doing itself.
Neither side can answer alone, because every decision reshapes the other's expectations, which is why Lexpo brings them into the same room.
In the room at Lexpo'26
Lexpo'27 speakers
Ari Kaplan
Principal
Ari Kaplan Advisors
Ari Kaplan
Ari, the undisputed star of Lexpo, is back to captivate us all at Lexpo'27! Making yet another dazzling appearance, he is ready to mesmerise the stage, enchant the speakers, and thrill the audience once more as our charismatic Emcee!
Ari Kaplan, an attorney and legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and a finalist for ILTA’s Thought Leader of the Year award. He is the author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016).
Kaplan serves as the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports, hosts the Virtual Lunch daily on Zoom, has been the keynote speaker for events worldwide, and is the founder of the Lawcountability® business development software platform and iPhone app. He is a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher and a struggling guitar player.
Marek Laskowski
Chief Information Officer
DZP
Marek Laskowski
Marek Laskowski is Chief Information Officer at DZP, one of Poland’s largest law firms, with 20 years of experience leading technology in organisations where security and accountability are non-negotiable – including PWPW S.A. and the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). For close to three years he has been running AI in production at DZP: Legora in core legal work – DZP was one of the first firms in Poland to adopt it – and a growing set of agentic AI deployments across the firm, particularly in data analytics, where the test is measurable value rather than activity. As the person who decides which parts of the firm’s operations are safe to hand to an AI agent next, he works where accountability questions actually get resolved: with partners who sign off on the work, clients who set the terms of trust, and vendors whose safety claims he challenges from the buyer’s side. A CIO Diamond laureate, he speaks internationally on Legal AI and cyber resilience and lectures at Kozminski University.
More speakers to be announced.
Confirmed Lexpo'27 Sponsors & Partners
Saga is a legal innovation company. We elevate quality and efficiency while safeguarding legal rigor, privacy, and transparency, empowering lawyers to transform their workflow into an AI-enabled ecosystem.
Our mission is to empower lawyers to think, act, and deliver differently by replacing complexity with clarity and routine with purpose. This means lawyers can focus on what truly matters: people, ethics, and meaningful impact.
Our company is built on three core pillars:
- Saga AI – A secure, GDPR-compliant platform designed for legal workflows across all practice areas.
- Saga Amplify – Structured training and adoption programs that help legal professionals build familiarity and confidence with AI.
- Saga Lab – Our research and innovation arm, dedicated to keeping law firms at the forefront of emerging trends.
Saga is built on progress. We’re redefining access to legal intelligence so that every lawyer can harness the power of technology to deliver better legal services for all.
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Epona’s solutions help law firms and corporate legal departments maximize their data, documents, and expertise efficiently and securely.
Visit the Epona website
In addition to offering the cloud-based integration platform Custodian and purpose-built productivity apps, PSA is an official reseller and systems integrator partner of leading legal tech solution providers such as iManage, TIQ Time, Deltek, Cleardox, Docusign, Draftable, HYCU, LawVu, Litera, Novaplex, and Wemble.
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Supporting more than 7,000 law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector organisations worldwide, the platform integrates with 150+ other technologies, including Microsoft 365 and DocuSign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. To learn more, visit netdocuments.com
Visit the NetDocuments website
With a Europe-wide track record, the firm guides legal leaders through the strategic implementation of technology, including AI solutions, connecting boardroom positioning to tech stack choices and delivery models as one coherent thread. Vendor-agnostic and operations-literate, InterAlia delivers proven change management and adoption programmes so new tools are not only launched but measurably used - leaving behind repeatable models that teams can run and scale.
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Advisory Board
Andrea Miskolczi
Founder and Director
InterAlia Consulting
Andrea Miskolczi
Andrea Miskolczi is the Founder and Director of InterAlia Consulting, a strategy and transformation advisory boutique for legal leaders. Over her 25-year career in the legal industry, Andrea has held leadership roles in, inter alia, legaltech, innovation, knowledge management, business development, marketing, and talent development with top-tier regional and global law firms. Before her foray into management, she worked as a transactional lawyer at Magic Circle law firms. Widely recognized in her field, Andrea frequently speaks and writes on topics such as applying AI technologies to legal workflows, change management, technology adoption, and the strategic challenges presented by a rapidly evolving multi-trend landscape. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the esteemed 'Innovative Lawyers' award in the Intrapreneur category by the Financial Times.
Frans Post
Chief Financial Officer
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Frans Post
Frans is an experienced CFO and law firm expert who spent most of his career in boards of international professional service firms.
He worked for Clifford Chance for seventeen years, first in their Amsterdam office and later as Regional CFO for the Americas. From New York he moved to London where he held three C-suite roles at international firms. Frans then ran the finance function of offshore law firm Mourant in the Channel Islands. He returned to Amsterdam in 2021 to join De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek as their CFO. He is now a consultant and fractional CFO.
Frans has led finance strategy and operations, change projects, and several practice management system implementations. He is passionate about the use of data and business intelligence dashboards.
Frans has an Executive Master’s degree in Finance and Control. He is a Registered Controller (RC) and the Chairman of the Dutch Association of RC’s (VRC).
Francesc Muñoz
Chief Information Officer
Cuatrecasas
Francesc Muñoz
Francesc Muñoz is CIO at Cuatrecasas, a 105 years old Iberian leading law firm, since 1998. He joined the firm after being European Project Manager and Senior Consultant at the Catalonian Institute of Technology. In his tenure, the firm has grown 300% and is currently employing around 1.100 lawyers. Managing the growth and evolving from a local small firm to a full-service leading European and LatAm law firm has been the continuous challenge.
Francesc currently leads a team of more than 80 IT professionals going beyond IT (LPM, Open Innovation, Digital dexterity, etc.). He has managed, among others, the implementation of a new SAP system that supports all major business processes (recruiting, talent management, payroll, time entry, billing, opportunity management, client & contact management, business intelligence, etc.).
Francesc's main education includes:
- Telecommunications & Computer Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
- Master in Business Administration (MBA) by ESADE
Knut-Magnar Aanestad
Founding Partner
Concide
Knut-Magnar Aanestad
Knut-Magnar is an international thought leader in legaltech and legal innovation. With a law degree with an IT-law major as foundation, he has collected vast experience through leading digital development and innovation in three top tier Norwegian Law firms. in the search of more impact on change in the sector he has founded a series of four different legaltech companies, all complementing eachother. He is currently driving frontline technological development through the state-of-the-art AI contract review comapany Maigon whiile simultaniously consulting and delivering legaltech projects to all types of legal organizations through the legaltech one-stop-shop, Concide. To spread the message further, Knut-Magnar is also active spreading the word about the future of law through extensive public speaking and through numerous articles and posts on LinkedIn.
Hans Albers
Director
Deloitte Legal
Hans Albers
Hans Albers is Director Legal Management Consulting at Deloitte Legal where he is responsible for expanding Deloitte’s Legal Management Consulting practice by developing new capabilities, skills and building on Deloitte Legal’s existing technology, change and operations teams. Hans has extensive experience in legal process improvement, legal technology, legal operations, contract life cycle management and outside counsel and spend management.
Until October 2020 Hans was Chief of Staff and Head of Worldwide Legal Operations at US Technology company Juniper Networks Inc. Before that he was EMEA General Counsel for Juniper as well as for Cisco EMEA and North America. He also served five years on the European Board of ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel), of which the last 2 years as President.
Hans is also a non-executive Director at Currencycloud, a fintech company that is part of the Visa group of companies.
Frequently asked questions
The Venue
Van der Valk Hotel Haarlem
Toekanweg 2
2035 LC Haarlem
Lexpo'27 takes place on 15 and 16 March 2027 at Van der Valk Hotel Haarlem, a full-service conference hotel on the edge of Haarlem, just outside Amsterdam, with both days under one roof. The venue offers:
- Easy access from Schiphol: a short taxi ride from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for international guests.
- Conference facilities: multifunctional meeting and conference rooms that host the full programme.
- Accommodation on site: comfortable hotel rooms and suites, a restaurant and a bar, so delegates can stay where the event takes place.
- Wellness and recreation: a wellness centre with sauna and steam room, and a fully equipped fitness room.
A discounted booking link for Lexpo'27 delegates will follow shortly.
Getting to Lexpo'27
No matter how you travel, the venue is easy to reach:
- By taxi: the venue is a short ride from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, making it easy for international guests to reach.
- By public transport: take the train to Haarlem Station, then bus line 300 towards Amsterdam via Schiphol.
- By car: the hotel is on Toekanweg, just off the N205 (Schipholweg) on the edge of Haarlem, reached from the A9 via the Rottepolderplein interchange. Full directions for every approach are on the hotel website.
- Parking: complimentary parking is available for Lexpo'27 visitors, along with free bicycle storage and electric vehicle charging points.
Lexpo is organized by Asfour, in cooperation with LegalTech Watch.
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