BigHand Summer Summit 2026

Q: When does the BigHand Summer Summit take place?

The BigHand Summer Summit 2026 runs from July 2123, 2026. Sessions are delivered live across three days, with on-demand access available after the event.

Summer is short.

So is your window to get ahead.

While others are out of office, leading law firms are strengthening how their business is run. Join BigHand Summer Summit 2026, a virtual series focused on bringing visibility into decisions, protecting profitability and improving performance across pricing, resourcing, finance and operations.

Event overview and benefits.

This virtual series runs July 21–23, 2026 and focuses on the decisions shaping law firm performance, from pricing and resourcing to financial control and operational efficiency. Each session explores how leading firms respond to margin pressure, limited visibility and increasing client expectations, with practical approaches to improving profitability, control and confidence across the business.

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Workflow & Operations Resource Management Finance Docs & Productivity

Agenda

Thought Leadership + Product Preview

Why (& How) Top-Performing Law Firms are Rethinking Support Services

Legal support teams are under pressure to meet rising client expectations, manage inconsistent delegation and deliver faster turnaround with limited visibility of demand and capacity. For law firm leaders, this creates risk across cost, utilization and service quality.

This two-part session examines how leading firms are addressing these challenges.

Part 1 explores the shift away from reactive, informal support models, drawing on the BigHand Workflow Leadership Report to show how firms are building more consistent and scalable approaches.
Part 2 brings this to life, demonstrating how improved visibility and structured workflows support better decisions, stronger utilization and more predictable performance.

Join for one or both parts to understand how to strengthen control, improve efficiency and protect profitability across legal support.

Date: Tuesday, July 21st
Time: 11 am EDT / 4 pm BST

BigHand Speaker:

Daniel Morrissey Senior Customer Success Manager, BigHand

Duska Frink Global Director - Solutions Management, BigHand

Thought Leadership

Why Legal Resource Management is on the Rise

Blind work allocation, limited capacity visibility and inability to map skillsets to matters are driving lawyer burnout, reducing utilization and impacting client service across law firms. Explore what effective legal resource management looks like and why more firms are adopting a structured, data-led approach. You will leave with a clear understanding of how improved allocation supports lawyer utilization, reduces margin leakage, strengthens client relationships and helps firms retain high-performing legal talent.

Date: Tuesday, July 21st
Time: 12 pm EDT / 5 pm BST

BigHand Speaker:

Dave Cook Global Director - Resource Management, BigHand

Product Preview

How to Elevate Legal BI with Self-Service & Microsoft Fabric

Static reporting and slow access to financial data leave law firms reacting to margin erosion, unprofitable work and performance issues too late to act. Find out how BigHand BI 4.0 combines expert-managed data foundations with self-service dashboards, enabling firms to identify risks and partner performance gaps earlier. Plus, get an early view of BigHand's business intelligence roadmap, including how Microsoft Fabric is expanding the way firms access, connect and analyse data at scale. You will leave knowing how to improve financial visibility, margin, cash flow and decision speed.

Date: Tuesday, July 21st
Time: 1 pm EDT / 6 pm BST

BigHand Speaker:

Alec Koster Solutions Manager, BigHand

Brian Taaffe Senior Director, Platform & Data Strategy, BigHand

Product Preview

AI, AFAs & Margin Pressure: What Top Law Firms Are Doing Differently

Client expectations for pricing and service efficiency in the AI era are putting pressure on traditional legal pricing models. Profitability now depends on active management across the full matter lifecycle, not just accurate pricing at intake. Learn how BigHand Matter Pricing helps law firms move from static matter budgeting to continuous, real-time profitability management, protecting margin and improving realization while meeting growing client demands for pricing transparency and value.

Date: Wednesday, July 22nd
Time: 11 am EDT / 4 pm BST

BigHand Speaker:

Alec Koster Solutions Manager, BigHand

Rod Wittenberg, Senior Vice President – Financial Productivity, North America Sales, BigHand

Rod Wittenberg Senior Vice President – Financial Productivity, BigHand

Product Preview

How to Make Budgeting Season Less Painful

Disconnected spreadsheets and reactive year-end processes reduce forecasting accuracy and limit financial control in law firms. Discover how BigHand Budgeting and Forecasting supports continuous, accurate financial forecasting with less manual effort, and how Partner Performance dashboards provide immediate visibility into individual contribution and commercial impact. You will leave with a clear view of how to strengthen financial planning, improve the quality of performance reviews and reduce end-of-year pressure.

Date: Wednesday, July 22nd
Time: 12 pm EDT / 5 pm BST

BigHand Speaker:

Jeff Suhr Vice President, Financial Operations Solutions, BigHand

Product Preview

A Step-by-Step Guide to Switching Document Creation Tools

Considering a move from your current document creation platform? Drawing on real client experiences, this session explores how firms have successfully transitioned to BigHand Create while minimizing disruption and accelerating user adoption. We'll discuss common migration challenges, practical lessons learned, and the strategies firms are using to reduce formatting rework, improve document consistency, and streamline collaboration between attorneys and support teams. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of what a document creation migration entails and how to plan for a successful transition.

Date: Thursday, July 23rd
Time: 11 am EDT / 4 pm BST

BigHand Speaker:

Judye Releford, Customer Success - Document Productivity, BigHand

Judye Releford Customer Success, BigHand

Tara Farhad Senior Director - Document Productivity, BigHand

Product Preview

Resource Management in Action: Smarter Resourcing with AI & Firmwide Visibility

Fragmented resourcing decisions and poor workload visibility create inefficiencies and uneven allocation across legal teams. See how firmwide management dashboards provide real-time insight into capacity, skills and demand, and discover the emerging AI resourcing capabilities designed to support more consistent and confident allocation decisions. You will leave with a practical understanding of how BigHand Resource Management can help you level out workloads, improve client service and maximize hours billed.

Date: Thursday, July 23rd
Time: 12 pm EDT / 5 pm BST

BigHand Speakers:

Dee Parmar Global Client Solutions Manager - Resource Management, BigHand

Megan Cavanaugh Senior Strategic Account Director, Global Accounts, BigHand

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