On-demand webinar series
The Future-Ready General Counsel
150 general counsel. 4 regions. One inflection point.
An ongoing series for the people running in-house legal functions. Each session takes one hard question, puts our own research against it, and brings in a practitioner who has actually done the thing. No vendor pitch, no feature tour, 45 minutes.
The research behind it comes from 150 general counsel across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and EMEA.
What you will take away
Every session is built the same way: name the problem honestly, show what the data says, then hand over something you can use on Monday.
Where the time actually goes
- Why GCs say they want 45% of their week on strategy and get 12%
- The 56% of lawyer time spent on work that could be automated
- What a legal function looks like when someone has deliberately designed it
Why good decisions stall
- Why 77% of in-house lawyers have watched a rollout fail
- The gap between the 58.7% who have started and the 6.7% who finished
- How to tell a shortlist problem from a sequencing problem
The seat at the table
- The governance mandate only 8.7% of GCs have claimed, and what claiming it changes
- What separates the general counsel from the chief legal officer, in practice
- What the future-ready ones are prioritising over the next 6 to 24 months
A future-ready General Counsel in 2026 will be defined less by technical legal mastery (which is assumed) and more by how effectively they translate law, risk, and technology into business value.
The inflection point is now
Missed the earlier sessions? Both are available to watch in full.
14 May 2026
The compounding gap: stop piloting, start operating
- Andrew Mellett, Plexus
- Jason McQuillen, MinterEllison
- Ivana Kovacevic, Group General Counsel
26 March 2026
From legal manager to chief legal officer
- Andrew Mellett, Plexus
- Jason McQuillen, MinterEllison
About Plexus
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