Securing the Law Firm Summit 2026
2 July 2026
Park Plaza Victoria London, London, United Kingdom
A one-day, in-person cybersecurity summit for the legal sector, held in London on 2 July 2026 and organised by AKJ Associates. The programme combined presentations, panel discussions and education seminars from law-firm security leaders, financial-services practitioners and solution providers. Key themes were identity, authority and control for non-human actors, securing algorithmic insiders, data control when there is no perimeter, the power of automation, integrity and the AI-enabled supply chain, and dealing with regulations.
19 sessions · 24 speakers
Organiser (1)
Sponsors (7)
LastPass · Threatlocker · FluidOne · Concentric AI · Risk Ledger · Doppel · Drata
Speakers (24)
- Simon Brady Event Chairman, AKJ Associates
- Philip Young Co-Founder, Garfield AI
- Jonathan Freedman Director of Technology & Security, Howard Kennedy LLP
- Manit Sahib Ethical Hacker & Former Head of Penetration Testing & Red Teaming, Bank of England
- Haydn Brooks Co-Founder & CEO, Risk Ledger
- Amelia Hewitt Director of Cyber Consulting, Principle Defence
- Mark Walmsley Chair, S4S Club
- Jai Ferguson Innovation Specialist, HSBC
- Dale Hodgkinson Head of Strategy and Architecture, Slaughter and May
- Tom Sampson Head of Information Security, Macfarlanes
- Gayle Hedgecock Business Continuity and Resilience Specialist, Clifford Chance
- Geoffrey Taylor Information Security Officer, Nordea Asset Management
- Phil Gough CISO, Pinsent Masons
- Rachel Dyges Global Business Continuity Management Lead, A&O Shearman
- Ian Dalby Head of Global Cyber GRC, A&O Shearman
- Sam Hubery Senior Technical Consultant - Information & Cyber Security Third Party Lead, Fidelity International
- Kevin Carr Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, Drata
- Ellie Ludlam Partner, Pinsent Masons
- Daniel Oxley Senior Engineer, Doppel
- Oscar Javier Hernandez Rodriguez Account Executive, ThreatLocker
- Steve Velcev Practice Lead for Offensive Security Engineering and Principal Red Team Consultant, FluidOne
- Will Collinson Technical Director – Cryptography, HSBC
- Dr Narayan Shiva CTO and Enterprise Architect, iBANK
- Stephen Beckett Global Security and Business Continuity Director, Dentons
Agenda
- Chair's welcome 2 July 2026
- Will the future law firm be indistinguishable from a tech company? 2 July 2026
- Do I need a ROC as well as a SOC? 2 July 2026
- The future of legal AI: Innovation with accountability 2 July 2026
- The AI-native attacker: How offensive AI is rewriting the playbook for breaching law firms 2 July 2026
- Social engineering attack chains: Legal exposure, regulatory accountability, and organisational resilience in the AI era 2 July 2026
- Actions speak louder than tokens: Treating frontier AI agents as insider threats 2 July 2026
- Quantum is coming. We can’t afford to wait 2 July 2026
- Zero Trust controls at the endpoint 2 July 2026
- The new non-human insider: Governing the agents you can’t see 2 July 2026
- AI is breaking data security… and fixing it: The new reality of AI-driven risk and how to stay ahead 2 July 2026
- Beyond the checkbox: When third-party risk becomes client disruption 2 July 2026
- Cyber-insurance for law firms: Protection, pitfalls, and practical use 2 July 2026
- In the age of AI, is security even possible? 2 July 2026
- Business continuity in law firms: staying operational through cyber-disruption 2 July 2026
- Conformity will not save you: AI risk beyond the EU AI Act 2 July 2026
- Customer data & AI: Control, exposure, and proof 2 July 2026
- Rise of autonomous attacks (Live Mythos-style hack) 2 July 2026
- Chairman’s closing remarks 2 July 2026