What is legal education and training for when AI can produce competent legal work on demand? This talk argues the answer isn't less rigor but a sharper focus on what remains scarce: posing the right question, catching the confident error, and holding a client's trust when the stakes are highest. It offers a framework — five capacities every AI-era lawyer needs, and four questions to ask of any career path you're considering — for becoming the kind of lawyer the machine can't replace. We'll map what to build, what to stop over-valuing, and where durable advantage actually lives. We'll look at what agentic AI is already changing about legal work — and how to get the most out of AI agents — and why the lawyers who thrive won't be the ones most fluent with the tools (everyone will have that) but the ones who pair that fluency with the judgment and domain depth the tools can't supply. A practical guide to preparing for a profession in transition.

Sandeep Jaggi has been practicing law for 28 years, including 14 years as head of intellectual property and corporate law departments. His experience covers corporate law while serving as General Counsel of two companies, where he supported the sale of one company and the IPO and governance of another. He also has broad experience in intellectual property law, where, as Chief IP Counsel, he has managed several patent portfolio development, licensing, and litigation initiatives and developed multiple patent management platforms. He also has 11 years of prior experience as an engineer at NASA and as a founder/CEO of a technology company. He is currently the director of patents at Intel Corporation, overseeing patent strategy, intelligence, and operations. His current area of focus is operationalizing and evangelizing traditional and generative AI across all areas of law. He is an avid AI practitioner with a mission to demystify and democratize Generative AI. He is the developer of TULIP, a cloud-based AI-enabled software for patent workflow and portfolio management. Sandeep is a registered patent attorney and holds a PhD in electrical engineering.