Artificial intelligence is creating meaningful opportunities to improve legal work, client service, and firm operations. For small and mid-sized law firms, the opportunity is to prepare now—establishing practical safeguards and visibility that enable responsible adoption without requiring a BigLaw budget or team.
This actionable lunch-and-learn will explore how firms can build a resilient and proactive security operating model that supports responsible AI adoption. Attendees will examine continuous 24/7 monitoring, comprehensive protection, and an agentic security operations center that uses automation for known events while keeping experienced human analysts involved when judgment is essential.
The presenters will also discuss how continuous monitoring and after-hours operational response can work together to help lean IT teams identify concerns earlier and move decisively from signal to action. A law-firm-specific example will show how signals across identity and document-management systems can provide greater context and enable earlier intervention when suspicious account activity occurs. The discussion will touch on AI best practices, approved tools, data protection, and practical steps firms can take now to prepare for broader adoption.
Designed as an educational, peer-oriented conversation, the session will help participants assess preparedness, identify gaps before they become barriers, and define priority actions with internal teams and security partners.
Learning Objectives
• Explain how a comprehensive security approach can support confident and responsible AI adoption.
• Recognize practical AI best practices, including approved tools, data safeguards, human oversight, and employee awareness.
• Distinguish the roles of automation, agentic security operations, and human expertise in responding to known and emerging threats.
• Assess the value of 24/7 monitoring and coordinated after-hours operational response for firms with lean internal teams. Key Takeaways
• Recognize practical best practices for approved AI use, data protection, and appropriate human oversight.
• Understand appropriate guardrails for automated and agentic response, including when human review is essential.
• Explore how 24/7 monitoring, identity protection, document-management integrations, operational response, and escalation paths can work together.
• Apply a practical readiness checklist to prioritize near-term improvements.
Who Should Attend: CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, IT directors and managers, security and infrastructure leaders, firm administrators, executive directors, and other professionals responsible for technology risk, operations, or business continuity at small and mid-sized law firms.
Presenters:
Jim Moreo, CEO and Co-Founder of Cornerstone.IT, brings more than 25 years of legal technology experience helping law firm leaders align secure technology infrastructure with business and financial goals.
Mitchell Wolff, Arctic Wolf Systems Engineer, He specializes in cyber risk mitigation, improving insurability, and the compliance drivers underpinning security trends in the modern threat landscape.
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: FBT Gibbons, One Gateway Center, 21st Floor, Newark, NJ 07102
Lunch generously provided by Cornerstone.IT and Arctic Wolf.
Questions? Please reach out to Adriana Vitale at adriana.vitale@cornerstone.it.
Event ID: a1oVN00000VR3PsYAL
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