15 legal tech leaders shaping AI for law in 2026 (Published: Jan 2, 2026) Featured on LawFuel, this article highlights top female executives driving artificial intelligence change management at major global law firms, including Isabel Parker (Chief Innovation Officer at White & Case), Ilona Logvinova (Global Chief AI Officer at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer), and Gretchen Greene (Chief of AI Strategy at Ropes & Gray).

Linklaters announced a 20-lawyer global AI team designed to help the firm’s practices identify use cases and embed AI-enabled working practices. The firm said the lawyers would go through bespoke training on strategic AI thinking, the firm’s tools, change management, prompting, and workflow design, then deploy across practice groups and offices globally to support client-facing work. Linklaters also said the initiative follows its firmwide rollout of Legora’s generative AI pl

Isabel Parker has joined White & Case from Deloitte Legal, where she had served as global lead for generative AI. White & Case said Chief Innovation Officer Isabel Parker is leading the firm’s broader AI roadmap, which includes the launch of its proprietary assistant Atlas and a buy-build-partner strategy for legal AI. In a press item and related coverage, Parker said the firm is treating AI as part of a wider change-management effort, not just a technology rollout, and that

Husch Blackwell’s newly created Transformation Office functions as both an innovation operating unit and a firmwide deployment mechanism for AI and process change. The office’s remit includes practice innovation, strategic delivery, and data science and AI, giving Joanna Penn a central role in the firm’s technology and transformation agenda.