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Legal 2030: 8 Shifts in Legal’s Operating Model to Build Legal Intelligence
Rapid AI adoption, regulatory volatility and ongoing budget pressures are reshaping legal departments, making traditional long-term planning increasingly difficult. To stay ahead, General Counsel (GC) must redefine legal’s value proposition and operating model, turning disruption into strategic opportunity.
Download the Legal 2030 report to discover the eight legal operating model shifts that GC need to make to effectively support their business between now and 2030. This research enables you to improve:
- Executive education: Educate the CEO and other executives on trends affecting your business
- Risk identification and assessment: Identify emerging risks and strengthen legal risk planning
- Legal strategic planning: Shape future-ready legal strategies through operating model transformation.
About Legal 2030: The Future of Legal
Many General Counsel view legal department transformation as a top priority as the function navigates an increasingly complex and dynamic business environment. This imperative is driven by a combination of forces that are reshaping both legal's role within the enterprise and its operating model:
- Extreme volatility in regulatory, political and geopolitical environments will force businesses to rapidly adjust strategies and respond to emerging opportunities and threats, making long-term planning more challenging.
- The rapid advancement of technology — especially AI — and shifts in talent and sourcing markets are creating new opportunities to evolve how legal delivers services.
- Organizations are setting more ambitious goals amid resource constraints, pressuring legal to rethink its pace of operating and the business value of its work.
This research outlines eight critical shifts General Counsel must make to legal's operating model by 2030 to build and sustain legal intelligence—the ability to transform legal, contractual and regulatory information into actionable, forward-looking insights that drive strategic decisions, proactively mitigate risk and create demonstrable business value.
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