Liveweek Concludes the Biggest Sustainability Conference in India

New Delhi, India – India  Liveweek, India’s leading legal and sustainability advisory firm, successfully concluded Sustainability Liveweek 2025, the country’s largest and most comprehensive sustainability conference, hosted at India International Centre, Delhi. The event brought together global thought leaders, policymakers, corporate visionaries, ESG professionals, academicians, climate advocates, and nonprofit changemakers under one roof to deliberate on the future of sustainable governance, ESG mandates, and climate responsibility.

Held over three transformative days, www.sustainabilityliveweek.com featured over 75 speakers, 30+ technical sessions, and representation from more than 200 organizations across industries. The conference spotlighted urgent themes including Legal Regulations, ESG compliance, CSR law, Net Zero transitions, biodiversity, DEI, circular economy, green finance, sustainable supply chains, and AI in climate action.

Key Highlights:

• Inaugural Address by [Insert Keynote Speaker], emphasizing the legal enforceability of sustainability in India’s evolving corporate landscape

• Launch of India’s First Non-Financial Reporting Handbook, a joint effort led by Liveweek’s ESG research team

• Exclusive panels on mandatory ESG reporting under SEBI BRSR, EU CSRD alignment, and global ESG frameworks (GRI, SASB, TCFD)

• Dedicated sessions on green arbitration, climate litigation, IP in cleantech, and gender in sustainability law

• A spotlight on Liveweek’s LPO innovations supporting ESG data due diligence for U.S. and EU clients

Purpose and Vision:

Amit Sachdeva, Founder of Liveweek and the visionary behind the event, shared:

“The future of business is rooted in law-backed sustainability. Our goal was to not just convene a conversation—but to lead a movement. With the right legal frameworks, data integrity, and human commitment, India can shape global sustainability standards.”

Global Collaboration:

The conference saw participation from international bodies including the UN Global Compact, OECD, World Bank, and leading ESG think tanks. Cross-border dialogues fostered shared understanding of climate disclosure laws, social impact frameworks, and technology-driven governance.

Looking Ahead:

With overwhelming response and success, Liveweek announced that Sustainability Liveweek will now be an annual event, growing into a pan-Asia platform to mainstream legal and accountable sustainability practices.

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Case Study: Transforming U.S. Legal Operations through LPO and AI Integration

Client: A Mid-Sized U.S. Law Firm Specializing in Corporate and Commercial Law

Service: Contract Review, Legal Research, E-Discovery, and Document Management

Tools Used: Kira Systems, Relativity, CaseText, and Custom AI Workflows

Region: California, United States

Duration: Ongoing since Q2 2024

Challenge:

The client, overwhelmed by increasing volumes of contracts, compliance filings, and discovery requests, needed a cost-effective yet high-quality solution to streamline its legal workflows. They struggled with turnaround time, accuracy in document review, and lacked the capacity to handle seasonal spikes in legal work.

Liveweek’s Solution:

Liveweek established a dedicated offshore legal support team tailored to the client’s needs. Our approach included:

• Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM): Automated using Ironclad and Kira Systems for clause detection, deviation analysis, and risk tagging

• Legal Research: Performed using CaseText’s AI-driven CoCounsel, accelerating memo drafting and case summarization

• E-Discovery Support: Leveraged Relativity and trained professionals for document coding, privilege tagging, and redactions

• Compliance Checks: Automated reporting aligned with U.S. regulatory updates using customized AI tools

• Data Security: Ensured full HIPAA and GDPR compliance, with 24/7 monitored secure access and encrypted systems

Results:

• 45% reduction in turnaround time for contract reviews

• 70% cost savings compared to onshore paralegal staffing

• Consistent 99.2% accuracy in document review and discovery tagging

• Enhanced ability to take on new clients and expand practice areas

Client Testimonial:

"Liveweek has fundamentally changed the way we manage our legal backend. Their use of AI tools not only improved accuracy but gave our attorneys more time to focus on strategic work. We now scale faster and serve better."— Managing Partner, U.S. Law Firm

Embracing Generative AI in the Legal Landscape: Threat or Opportunity?

From typewriters to computers, from paper filings to e-filing systems, each shift has invited skepticism, fear, and eventually, adaptation.

The legal world is no stranger to transformation. From typewriters to computers, from paper filings to e-filing systems, each shift has invited skepticism, fear, and eventually, adaptation. Today, we find ourselves at a similar crossroads with the rise of Generative AI in the legal landscape. The acceleration in this space has triggered a mixed reaction, while some hail it as a revolution, others see it as a threat. Some believe it will empower lawyers and law firms, while others fear it may replace them entirely.

These sentiments are not new. When computers first entered the workforce, many feared job loss and disruption. But instead, what we witnessed was a profound expansion of markets, diversification of skill sets, and the birth of entire new industries, including the now-flourishing Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) sector. Organizations and professionals who adapted and upskilled flourished. Those who resisted were eventually left behind.

The same truth applies today.

A Paradigm Shift or a Perilous Future?

Generative AI is not just another trend; it’s a foundational shift. It holds the potential to automate repetitive tasks, draft contracts, summarize legal documents, analyze case law, and even assist in litigation strategy. But rather than fearing job losses, we must see it for what it truly is: a tool for amplification, not replacement.

Just as IT and IT-enabled services revolutionized how we work, AI promises to enhance legal service delivery making it more precise, efficient, and cost-effective. It is not here to make lawyers obsolete; rather, it is here to elevate their capabilities and expand the frontier of what’s possible in law.

The LPO Sector: Threatened or Thriving?

One of the sectors under the microscope is Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO). Given its reliance on high-volume document review, contract lifecycle management, compliance, and legal research, many fear AI could decimate the workforce by automating such tasks.

But at Liveweek, we believe the opposite.

AI is not a threat to our LPO division, it is an opportunity to deliver smarter, faster, and more accurate services to our global clients. By embedding AI-driven tools into our workflows, we are transforming traditional LPO into a next-generation legal support system. This allows our professionals to shift from low-value, repetitive work to higher-value, strategic roles such as quality analysis, advisory, and client engagement.

This transformation is not theoretical; it is happening now. Tools like contract analyzers, document summarizers, and predictive legal analytics are enabling our teams to work with more accuracy, speed, and insight than ever before.

Upskilling Is Not Optional, It’s Survival

However, the key to harnessing AI lies not in the technology itself but in the human readiness to adapt. Just like the computer age demanded digital literacy, the AI age demands a new kind of professional, one who understands law and tech equally well.

At Liveweek, we are investing heavily in upskilling our teams, not only in legal knowledge but also in AI literacy, data privacy, and tech ethics. We believe that a human-AI collaborative model is the future, where judgment, empathy, and legal reasoning are provided by humans, while AI handles the heavy lifting. Firms and LPOs that refuse to evolve will struggle. Those who embrace AI as a co-worker, not a competitor, will lead the future.

AI Will Not Destroy, It Will Empower

Despite the alarmist narratives, AI will not destroy the legal profession. It will reshape it. It will free lawyers from routine work and allow them to focus on strategy, client relationships, and critical thinking, the areas where human touch matters most. It will enable smaller firms to offer competitive services. It will democratize access to justice by reducing legal costs and increasing efficiency.

The ethical dimension is equally important. As a Gandhian lawyer, I believe that law must serve justice, not just efficiency. AI must be guided by values, transparency, and accountability. It should augment human conscience, not override it.

The Liveweek Perspective

At Liveweek, we see AI as an enabler and not a disruptor. We are blending legal expertise with AI innovation to build a new model of legal service delivery, one that is agile, ethical, and future-ready. Our commitment is to legal integrity, social responsibility, and technological foresight. This triad guides how we support our clients and how we build the legal teams of tomorrow. As the world changes, law must evolve. As technology accelerates, people must adapt. AI is here to stay and it’s here to help, not harm. Let’s use it wisely, ethically, and collaboratively. Because the future of law is not about humans versus machines. It’s about humans with better tools, serving justice with greater reach.

Amit Sachdeva, Gandhian Lawyer

Founder and Partner, Liveweek