This year’s Deputy GC Summit brings together Deputy General Counsels and senior in-house counsel who sit at the center of the company’s most complex decisions. As the seat continues to expand in scope and influence, this program is designed for the realities you're living: incomplete information, real pressure, and high-stakes tradeoffs that rarely come with a perfect answer.
Deputies translate strategy into execution, steady teams through rapid change, and shape the company’s risk posture long before decisions reach the GC or the board. The Summit meets that moment with practical, peer-driven conversations that cover how you lead, how you partner, and how you stay ahead of risk.
Most importantly, this is time with peers who understand the job. You'll leave with perspective you can use immediately, relationships you can lean on, and a few new ways to approach the decisions that land on your desk every day.
This event is open to L Suite members by invitation only. Invitations are non-transferable and Chatham House Rule applies.
- AI Policy and Privilege in Practice: How teams are updating AI policies, playbooks, and outside counsel guidance. Practical privilege, confidentiality, and discovery lessons drawn from real matters.
- Career Crossroads: GC, Company, or Beyond?: How senior in-house lawyers are evaluating what to do next and what “progress” means now. Frameworks for assessing scope, influence, sustainability, and learning in your current seat.
- Doing More With Less: Headcount, Contractors, and Outside Counsel: How to structure work across FTEs, contractors or secondees, and outside counsel with limited resources. Tactics for making the case for budget and headcount using data and concrete examples.
- Leading the Legal Team: Delegation, Feedback, and Team Performance: Practical ways to run high-impact 1:1s, delegate without quality loss, and set clear decision and escalation norms; what improves throughput and consistency when you are a player-coach.
- Legal Due Diligence and Integration in M&A and Strategic Deals: Diligence checklists and red flags for tech, data, and regulatory issues in M&A and strategic deals. How legal teams plan post-close integration, governance, and risk ownership with lean resources.
- Navigating AI-Driven Privacy and Security Risk: Where AI intersects with privacy, security, and data governance in day-to-day practice. Practical approaches to DPIAs, vendor oversight, and incident response when AI is in the mix.
- Navigating Regulators and Enforcement Swings: Comparing recent experiences with key regulators and state actors and how enforcement signals are changing. How teams translate shifting guidance into internal “go/no-go” calls and practical guardrails.
- Practical Tactics for Senior In-House Resilience: The human side of senior in-house work: isolation, pressure, and decision fatigue. Concrete “what I do when…” strategies to stay effective over time, especially in sustained high-pressure stretches.
Beyond the Hype: AI in the In-House Legal Workflow
AI is now embedded in routine in-house legal work, and the challenge has shifted from experimentation to operating it reliably at scale. This session is a practical discussion for senior in-house leaders on where AI is already part of legal workflows, what risks are emerging through real use, and how teams are building governance that holds up across security, privacy, and the business. Panelists will share how they are deciding what to standardize versus keep flexible, how they evaluate tools and vendor claims, and how they set expectations for accountability as AI use expands beyond the legal team.
This dedicated time is designed to create space for meaningful connection across the community. Attendees may participate in a mix of curated small group discussions or open networking, depending on interest and group composition. Whether continuing earlier conversations or meeting new peers, this is an opportunity to engage more directly and build lasting relationships.
The New Risk Map: Cases, Crises, and “It Depends”
The risk landscape for tech and related companies is shifting quickly, from new plaintiff theories and regulatory priorities to AI-related exposure and overlapping proceedings across regulators, civil litigation, and internal reviews. This session focuses on the disputes and investigations senior in-house teams should be planning for now, and how they are responding in practice. Panelists will discuss emerging trends across securities, consumer, employment, and platform matters, how they coordinate multi-front issues, and how they approach budgeting, staffing, and executive communication when outcomes are uncertain and the answer is often “it depends.”
Off the Ladder: Designing the Legal Career You Want
Not every senior in-house lawyer wants, or can realistically pursue, the traditional path to public-company GC. Increasingly, legal leaders are making intentional choices to step sideways, specialize, take on portfolio roles, or re-enter the profession on different terms. This session focuses on real inflection points rather than abstract career advice. Panelists will share how they evaluated their options at key moments, what tradeoffs they considered across scope, compensation, and influence, and how they reshaped their roles or made transitions across industries and functions. The discussion will also explore how to assess your current role and make deliberate changes, whether by expanding scope, redefining priorities, or making a more significant move.
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We have negotiated a discounted conference rate of $349 nightly before taxes. Our hotel block expires on Friday, April 3, 2026, or when sold out (whichever comes first). Space is limited, we recommend booking early.
Extended Stays
We have arranged for our conference rate to be available 3 nights before and after the program, subject to hotel availability. Please note that the hotel booking link will only allow you to book the exact event dates. Should you wish to extend your stay outside of the conference dates please contact Fairmont Reservations at 1-800-441-1414. They will be pleased to extend the group rate subject to availability.
We expect sessions at the 2026 Deputy GC Summit to be eligible for up to approximately 5.5 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states and 7.0 hours in 50-minute states, subject to final agenda confirmation. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. This course is appropriate for experienced attorneys only. The L Suite has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and the State Bar of California as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education. Additionally, we will seek CLE accreditation in IL, WA, FL, TX, PA, CO, GA, and any of the other 50 states upon specific request from an attendee.
The L Suite is the invitation-only executive peer community where CLOs/GCs and their teams turn to make better, faster decisions that propel their companies forward.
The L Suite is made up of 5,000+ executive members who are carefully curated into different peer communities based on seniority, company type, and company stage. This enables our members to form deep, value-add relationships and quickly find and connect with the right peers at the right time to solve their most nuanced challenges.
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