Zach Cass opened the CLOC Global Institute this week with a question: if you could automate everything, what would you leave in? It’s a critical question for legal ops and for the legal profession .

I’ve been told C-suite executives are already wondering how to build agentic workflows that reduce the need to consult in-house counsel. Asking outside counsel for something will be a last, last resort.

So what’s left? What do we leave in? Where will human lawyers still add value? Hard questions.

Here’s my post on the keynote and the questions for Above the Law.