- When
- 14 to 15 October 2026
- Talk on the Hoxton Stage, Thursday 15 October
- Where
- Old Truman Brewery, Shoreditch, London
- What we did
- Sponsoring, Speaking
- Who was there
- Rafie Faruq, Co-founder and CEO
- Naz Tareque, EMEA Business Development Lead
- Alex Sinani, Account Executive, EMEA
- Swetha Meenal, Legal Engineer
- Organiser
- Legal Geek
- Who it is for
- In-house lawyers, law firms and legal operations teams
Our session
On stage
What will be the future role of lawyers?
Rafie Faruq, co-founder and CEO of GenieAI
Thursday 15 October, Hoxton Stage, 8 minutes
Reviewing every contract is a task on its way out. The lawyer's job becomes setting the rules: training the AI upfront, deciding when a human steps in, keeping playbooks current, and turning legal know-how into systems the whole business can use. What stays human is judgement, management and the allocation of risk.
The recap
What happened
Two days in Shoreditch with in-house lawyers, law firms and legal operations teams. We sponsored the badges and put up our first billboard campaign: 21 digital screens around Liverpool Street station and Commercial Street for both days.
The organisers asked speakers not to pitch, so Rafie Faruq's eight minutes on the Hoxton Stage were about the profession, not the product. His argument: contract review as a task is going away, and the lawyer becomes a risk operator who sets the rules the AI works to and decides where a human steps in.
The question we heard most on the stand had moved on from whether AI can do the work. Teams now ask whether they can trust what it did. Most in-house teams already use AI somewhere; what they lack is control over what it decides and a clear view of what it did.
- From lawyer to risk operator: the role shifts from reviewing every contract to setting the rules.
- Train your legal AI upfront, with your own positions and risk appetite.
- Define when humans step in, before the work starts.
- Keep playbooks evolving as living rules, not documents on a shelf.
- Build systems everyone in the business can use, so legal is not the bottleneck.
- 21 digital billboards around Liverpool Street
- 8 minutes on the Hoxton Stage
From the day
The GenieAI team at Legal Geek 2026 
Rafie Faruq on the future role of lawyers. Photo: Legal Geek 
Our logo on the sponsor wall 
The team on day one 
Rafie Faruq and Oleksandr Sidenko, who filmed the talk 
The GenieAI team at the sponsor wall
What people asked us
Can we trust what the AI did?
Only if you can see it. The answer we gave on the stand: set the standards the AI works to, have it show what it changed against them, and route anything outside them to a person.
How much should AI be allowed to do on its own?
As much as your rules allow and no more. You set the positions, the risk appetite and the points where a human signs off; Genie works within them and escalates the rest.
Can commercial teams use AI on contracts without going to legal every time?
Yes, when legal sets the playbook. Commercial teams draft and review against it themselves, and only the clauses that fall outside it go to a lawyer.
We are locked into a CLM for years. Can Genie work alongside it?
That was the question from a team mid-way through a multi-year CLM contract. Genie does the drafting, review and negotiation work, so it can sit alongside the system you store contracts in.
Read and listen
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See it for yourself
Missed us at Legal Geek?
Thank you for your interest. We'll be in touch shortly.
In the meantime, try GenieAI for free; we'll then be able to discuss any specific product or procurement questions during your bespoke demo.
Try GenieBook a session and we will show you what we showed on the day, on your own contracts.
In 30 minutes we could cover:
- Genie working on one of your own contracts, live
- How it drafts and reviews against your playbook and standards
- Which contract work AI can take on alone, and where a person signs off
- Security, data handling and how you control AI training
- What a pilot would look like for your team
Talk to the team you would have met there.
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