How can Chief Legal Officers lead AI transformation in ways that are strategic, practical, and tied to how legal work actually gets done?

In this episode of AI Sidebar, host Irene Liu sits down with April Miller Boise, former executive vice president and chief legal officer of Intel, to discuss how legal leaders can guide their organizations through both AI adoption and broader corporate transformation. Drawing on her experience leading Intel’s legal and corporate functions through a period of major change, Boise explains why CLOs must set the tone from the top, align AI strategy with business priorities, and remap legal work rather than simply layering new tools onto old processes. Together, they explore practical techniques Miller Boise used for leading transformation, from benchmarking legal tech and running AI sprints to training teams, rethinking law firm partnerships, and building the legal department of the future as generative and agentic AI reshape in-house practice.

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Irene Liu, Executive Director of the Stanford Law School AI Initiative

April Miller Boise, Former Executive Vice President & CLO, Intel

Chapters:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:06) Leading Intel Through Transformation

(00:03:05) Aligning Legal Teams With Business Strategy

(00:05:20) Strategy on a Page

(00:06:44) Moving From AI Awareness to Experimentation

(00:09:17) Why CLOs Must Lead Strategy Change

(00:12:52) Benchmarking AI Across Legal Departments

(00:16:14) Building an AI Task Force

(00:18:45) Running AI Sprints

(00:21:51) Encouraging Training in AI

(00:24:21) Key Lessons From the AI Survey

(00:25:46) Remapping Legal Work

(00:28:09) The Legal Department of the Future

(00:32:12) Rethinking Law Firm Partnerships

(00:36:18) Advice for New CLOs

(00:39:25) Conclusion

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