How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crises, and how does your legal strategy align with the broader business strategy to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

To introduce the analysis, is it important to keep some key concepts for key development in legal AI, quantum and computing to build hybrid models, concerns about regulatory shifts and explore automation in legal tasks. Connection with technology and trends to improve help in managing legal challenges when things are unstable is crucial. Instability could be economic downturns, regulatory changes, geographic issues, or rapid technological changes and use of adequate frameworks and best practices are crucial.

Considering legal risks that arise during instability, regulatory changes, contract disputes, compliance issues, data privacy concerns, and workforce challenges certainly come to ming while managing legal teams. Then, alignment such issues with organisational strategy build resilience and technologies such as AI automation play a great role in advancing legal departments and their role to be business partners to advance corporate goals.

Also, agile methods for contract review and AI-driven compliance checks are very important. Agile methods and quantum computing’s impact on security will also be very relevant not now but for the future. The future lawyer will need to step into a leadership role no matter their function or seniority to meet the future of the legal profession to be able to provide practical advice on integrating legal management with overall business strategy. In such role, identifying properly legal risks by assessment, agile legal operations, cross-functional collaboration, and scenario planning is mandatory. Alignment with business strategy will involve embedding legal considerations into strategic planning and using data analytics. In addition to that, training of work force about ethical and governance plays a major role about the impacts of legal functions development for the future and impacts for the job market and ethical behaviour.

As a Legal and compliance leader checking gap is relevant to approach all kinds of audiences so the message is comprehensive but not too technical, providing clead strategies with examples of technologies, maintaining compliance while being agile, so balancing speed with thoroughness. Mentioning specific tools, trainings ate are understandable for multiple audiences will reach the learning capacity of an individual in modules instead of pushing employees away with incomprehensive knowledge at first. Step by step in learning build curiosity and learning skills.

What are the main trends that are salient in your country currently (these can be legal, political, economy or business-based)?

At first, I would like to cover four main topics of concern to address those topics: identifying key legal risk in instability, align legal strategy with organisation resilience goals, build adaptive governance frameworks, and align with business strategy for long-term resilience.

For the first topic, uncertainty due to the global environment, especially in politics, affect legal work in multinational departments what will need to adapt quickly to changes combined with technology advancements. Focus on vulnerabilities are amplified by uncertainty due to regulatory volatility, such as changes in laws (e.g. AI governance, data privacy or recent trade restrictions), contractual disputes with force majeure claims, supply chain breaches or renegotiation demands, compliance gaps with risk from outdated policies (e.g. failing to meet new ESG or AI transparency standards), cybersecurity threats that increase exposure to data breaches during digital transactions, and workforce challenges with labour law compliance in hybrid work models or AI driven layoffs.

Aligning legal strategy with organisation resilience goals integrates legal considerations into broader business continuity plans. Proactive risk assessments help use AI driven legal analytics with systems to monitor regulatory impacts, productivity and simulate impact in real time. Also, use of scenario planning for high-risk areas will help to advance future issues with quantum computing breaking encryption and geopolitical sanctions. Agile operations are a necessity by replacing repetitive tasks with automatization and robotisation so lawyer focus on intellection, companies that deploy AI tools for contract review, compliance checks, and discovery free up resources for strategic work will be the future. Intelligent and modular contracting should also be developed and implemented to avoid waste of time to advance from simple tools to deploy AI tools for contract review, compliance checks and discovery resources for strategic thinking work., with flexible clauses, adjustable terms prior escalation and supply chain disruptions.

Collaboration in the future of legal plays an outstanding role for enterprises that are willing to survive in the tech future. Embed legal teams in strategic decisions making in M&A, tech adoption, among other functions pre-empt risks and save huge amounts of funds to companies. As well as partner with IT and cybersecurity teams implement quantum-safe encryption and comply with evolving standards like NIST’s post-quantum algorithms that can be used to advance legal departments which are known for being too reluctant to change.

What emerging technologies do you see as having the most significant impact on the legal profession soon, and how do you stay updated on these developments?

For emerging technologies, in addition to the words above mentioned, legal and compliance departments in my personal point of view must focus on dynamic compliance, ethical AI governance, crisis response protocols, embedded legal in digital transformation, and monitor and adapt. Transparent decisions could avoid regulatory penalties and there are some automated decisions making tools such as explainable AI for approvals and hirings, as well regulatory updated policies reflect hybrid AI-human workflows by clarifying liabilities for AI errors in legal advice. Establishing clead guidelines for AI use, include bias audits and human oversight trash holds not only help ethical AI governance but align with global standards like, for example, OECD AI principles to avoid fragmentation accord jurisdictions. Continuously, pre-draft templates for rapid responses, for instance breach notifications, regulatory filings, are friends of agile methods, together with training teams’ step by step to use generative AI, Chat GPT for drafting crisis communications while ensuring compliance.

The link between business strategy and legal creates a long-term resilience to adapt to future challenges. Embed legal in digital transformation ensure AI/automation projects to comply with laws, AI, regulation and robotisation use and its impacts, also negotiating future-proof contracts with sections for algorithm updates and regulatory shifts. A company and a legal team that invests in tech is key success for the future of enterprise, legal-tech synergies reduce risks, not only financial losses but profit in balanced deals foreseeing regulatory shift, adopting predictive analytics to anticipate litigation, regulatory or issues arising from the true connection with the business team to alert potential outcomes instead of a temporary euphoria to conclude a deal simply for meeting performance goals without thinking long term.

In addition to that, hiring thinkers and learners are key for smart lawyers that build great departments. Workforce skilling will continue to change rapidly and comes with training on AI tools, quantum risks, agile methodologies, legal data strategists and building gaps between law, business and tech. For managers, monitor and adapt is a piece of advice. Use KPI like time-to-compliance or AI audit pass rates to mease adaptability and stay ahead trans like agentic AI, autonomous systems requiring new liability frameworks or quantum to understand disputes over cracked encryption. Legal resilience will depend on balancing speed (leveraging automation) with caution (ethics guardrails), seeking for stability combining legal strategy as a core pillar of innovation but advancing the compliance function for a counterbalance safeguard that truly accompanies tech innovations to not be a roadblock but a main character for evolvement of business.