Articles for In-House Legal Professionals

Why the next era belongs to teams whose AI runs on a governed legal operating system.

Legal Technology AI1+

How to track matters without relying on your memory

By Sam Kidd

If your best lawyer went on leave tomorrow, how much of what they’re working on would the rest of the team know? ...

AI Insight1+

ChatGPT is free the way a shared drive is free

By Sarah Webb

Access is easy, but trusting what you get back is the hard part. Here’s where the real cost of AI shows up for legal te...

Legal AI AI Governance3+

Context-Aware AI still can’t make the calls

By Sarah Webb

Context-aware AI can surface contracts and approvals in seconds. But legal teams don’t need more information; they need help ...

What GCs really look for when hiring in-house lawyers

Career Development Business2+

Dennis Garcia’s hiring checklist has nothing to do with legal skill, and that’s the point

By Heather Kidd

Litera’s General Counsel Dennis Garcia explains why none of his hiring criteria are about legal skill, and what gets la...

AI Leadership1+

How a legal operating system turns every legal request into visibility and foresight.

By Sam Kidd

Here’s why the inbox fails legal teams, and what changes when intake becomes part of a legal operating system.

AI Leadership2+

The problem is memory, not access

By Sarah Webb

Legal teams manage decisions, not documents. MCP makes information easier to reach, but it can’t preserve the reasoning behin...

What is a lawyer's value in the age of AI?

Leadership AI5+

When AI knows what you know, where does your value go?

By Heather Kidd

Adrian Moffatt explains why judgment, not knowledge, now defines legal value, and how to build it across your legal team. ...

Leadership Business2+

Being “just the advisor” is why in-house lawyers don’t get invited into the room

By David Lancelot

General counsel who only advise limit their impact. Adrian Moffatt on why GCs must decide, not just analyze, and how to avoid...

person evaluation what AI to buy for in-house legal

Legal Technology AI1+

Your AI is a brilliant stranger who’s never met your client

By Sarah Webb

The goal shouldn’t be to prevent lawyers from working with a brilliant stranger, it should be to ensure that stranger h...

Legal Technology AI1+

Build vs. Buy (legal AI) was never a technology question

By Sarah Webb

Build vs. buy isn’t a technology decision. It’s a legal operations maturity question, and getting that right is w...

Leadership Future Trends

The identity gap: why technical excellence isn’t enough for legal leadership

By Connor Amor-Bendall

Legal leadership coach Marija Dukadinovska explains why in-house lawyers get stuck in “proving mode”, and what it...

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What the best legal communities teach that law school never could

The general counsel seat was never going to be Ona Alston Dosunmu’s ceiling

Contracts: The knowledge hiding in plain sight

Three questions that tell you if you’re ready for AI

How to future-proof your legal career

Why legal transformation starts with the operating model

Stop asking what your AI can do. Ask what it’s running on.

How to track matters without relying on your memory

ChatGPT is free the way a shared drive is free

Context-Aware AI still can’t make the calls

Dennis Garcia’s hiring checklist has nothing to do with legal skill, and that’s the point

How a legal operating system turns every legal request into visibility and foresight.

The problem is memory, not access

When AI knows what you know, where does your value go?

Being “just the advisor” is why in-house lawyers don’t get invited into the room

Your AI is a brilliant stranger who’s never met your client

Build vs. Buy (legal AI) was never a technology question

The identity gap: why technical excellence isn’t enough for legal leadership