🇩🇪 GC Rendez-Vous : The Legal Operating Model in the Age of AI
How should legal teams rethink what they build, buy and outsource as AI reshapes the economics of legal work?
AI is changing more than how legal work gets done.
It is starting to change how General Counsel think about the operating model of their legal function — what should sit in-house, what can be automated, where external expertise still adds value, and what we should expect from law firms and other legal service providers.
For our next GC Rendez-Vous breakfast in Frankfurt, we're bringing together a small group of General Counsel and senior in-house legal leaders to compare notes on what the next-generation legal operating model actually looks like.
Over breakfast, we'll explore:
→ Build, buy or outsource?
How is AI changing decisions around internal headcount, technology and external support?
→ Rethinking outside counsel
If AI makes legal work faster and more efficient, how should that translate into pricing, delivery and value from law firms?
→ What should stay in-house?
Where does institutional knowledge and strategic judgement matter most — and where can work increasingly be delegated or automated?
→ From legal spend to legal value
How should GCs evaluate external providers when hours worked becomes a less meaningful measure of value?
→ The next-generation legal operating model
What does the right mix of people, technology, law firms and alternative providers look like?
The format
No lengthy presentations or back-to-back panels.
This is an intimate, interactive breakfast built around peer discussion — bringing together the in-house and outside counsel perspectives to explore how legal service delivery is changing in practice.
The aim? To leave with a clearer view of what others are changing, what they're keeping, and where AI is genuinely shifting the equation.
Who is it for?
General Counsel, Heads of Legal and senior in-house legal leaders responsible for legal strategy, resourcing, outside counsel relationships and/or legal transformation.
📍 Frankfurt — hosted at the Future Lawyer Conference
📅 Tuesday 29th September
🥐 Executive Breakfast
👥 Invitation-only | Limited capacity
Hosted at the Future Lawyer Conference in Frankfurt on law firm day
Request your seat to join the conversation.