- Gain competitive insight into emerging practice areas, tech, and client trends.
- Explore firm culture, compensation, and equitable work allocation models.
- Learn directly from founders, managing partners, and forward-thinking leaders.
- Join candid conversations on burnout, inclusion, and leadership in law.
- Build visibility and networks that support growth across practice and brand.
- How to build a thriving practice by specializing, networking, and embracing smart tech.
- The legal ethics of innovation, AI adoption, and client data protection.
- New approaches to equitable work allocation and why they matter to firm culture.
- What future clients want—and how to deliver value beyond the hour.
- Tools and strategies for building your public presence safely and effectively.
Canadian Legal Summit 2025
The tools to grow, the insights to lead
Designed with you in mind
From solos to senior partners, private practice lawyers are facing pressure to evolve: clients are demanding more value, firms are rethinking compensation and culture, and AI is reshaping delivery. CLS 2025 gives you access to the insights, frameworks, and future-ready thinking you need to grow your practice and lead with impact — whether you’re building a firm, a book, or your brand.
Why Attend
What You'll Learn
PRIVATE PRACTICE AGENDA
Evolving Legal Practice & Business Models
Explore how private practice is transforming—through disruption, collaboration, compensation, and innovation.
Whether you're in a global firm or a solo practice, the pressures are real: pricing models are shifting, clients are demanding more, and AI is disrupting everything from research to staffing. This stream dives into the structural and strategic changes redefining private practice—from new frontiers in law to collaboration with in-house teams and the real future of compensation.
People, Purpose & Performance
Put the “whole lawyer” at the center—well-being, impact, and inclusive leadership for a more sustainable legal career.
This set of sessions goes beyond billables and courtrooms—looking at what it means to thrive in law today. Get practical insights on building a sustainable career, supporting diverse talent, navigating DEI, and finding personal purpose beyond the practice. Because healthier lawyers make stronger firms.
Values, Culture & the Future of the Profession
Step back and examine how lawyers shape—and are shaped by—wider societal, cultural, and generational change.
The legal profession doesn’t exist in a vacuum. From generational change to social division, these sessions explore how law firms can lead with integrity, adapt to cultural change, and build a profession that reflects the values of the society it serves. Expect thoughtful discussion, practical ideas, and new ways to lead.
CANADIAN LEGAL SUMMIT 2025
The Legal Profession Is Being Rewritten—Be Part of What Comes Next Canadian Legal Summit 2025 brings together in-house counsel, private practice leaders, and legal tech innovators—from solo practitioners and boutique firms to BigLaw and enterprise legal teams—to address the unprecedented transformation reshaping the legal profession. AI disruption, mounting regulatory complexity, burnout, evolving client expectations, and an escalating war for talent—these shared challenges demand bold ideas and real solutions. This is your opportunity to break silos, forge connections, and help shape the future of legal practice—no matter your role or firm size. This program contains 4 hours & 45 minutes of Professionalism Content and 1 hour & 20 minutes of EDI Professionalism Content by Law Society of Ontario