The GC Rendez-Vous : Resourcing your legal team in 2026.
Join us over brunch for a session designed for legal leaders including General Counsels, Heads of Legal Departments, Legal Directors and CLOs ready to reimagine how their teams are resourced for 2026.
Together, we’ll explore how you can recalibrate your resourcing mix across people, process, and technology and leave with a practical roadmap to act on.
In this first edition, we’ll take you through a strategic journey to optimise legal team capabilities through:
Functional Strategy & Legal Ops : defining purpose and priorities.
People & Resourcing Models : balancing permanent hires with fractional support
Technology Enablement : understanding what’s available and how to free up capacity effectively.
Walk away with peer insights, actionable frameworks, and new perspectives from across the in-house legal ecosystem from operations to tech to talent.
🎙️ Our speakers
Our speakers bring complementary lenses from across the in-house legal ecosystem, from legal operations and people strategy to tech enablement and flexible resourcing.
John Bennett & Lucy Powell
Legal Ops Consulting firm Melius
Phil Redhead
Head of Legal Recruitment @Leonid Group
Rob Jarrett
Co-founder at flexible resourcing platform Allegro
Founder of fractional counsel support firm Size Seven
Anthony Cherchian
Co-founder The Legal Tech Consultancy
Oliver Rutherford
Head of Customer Success and Sales @Nomio Contract Management Service
Host: Sarah Ouis
Former General Counsel
Marketing consultant for legal providers.
Agenda
9:00-9:30: Registration, Networking, Breakfast
9:30-10:15: Legal Operations Workshop
An interactive session where you’ll get to learn how identify your key challenges in your legal team, set objectives, and define roles
10:30-11:15: People Resourcing Allocation Session Learn from the speakers how legal teams are navigating how they secure resources. We’ll dive into the specifics of when / where to bring extra permanent hires and where to leverage ondemand / flexible support.
11:30-12:15: From Navigating Legal Tech Selection in an Ever-crowded Ecosystem to Implementation & Preventing Failure
You’ll be introduced to the evolving legal tech landscape and the different tech available today in this increasing supply of legal tech options
Shortly followed by a roundtable-style discussion to discuss how legal teams tactically addressed selection, shortlisting, implementation & more often than not had to learn from failed implementation strategies.
12:30-13:00: Networking & Wrapping Up
About The GC Rendez-Vous
The GC Rendez-Vous is a private series of intimate gatherings for legal leaders building and transforming modern legal functions.
Legal leaders are rethinking people, culture, process, and technology to create functions that deliver more impact & better user experiences.
Each edition explores one theme through multiple lenses.
By bringing together diverse perspectives from across the legal ecosystem, the sessions enable leaders to see what’s possible and to translate fresh thinking into practical action.