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What’s important to the chief legal officer and general counsel in 2026
Executive insights
Five topics shaping the legal agenda
From risk protector to value creator: Legal, reimagined
As chief legal officer (CLO), you face more complexity and change than ever. Constant tech innovation, regulatory volatility, and other new business challenges have upended established ways of working. Emerging technology—most notably AI for legal—is helping to improve processes, manage workflows, and strengthen operations. If you can harness these new enablers, enhancing legal’s capacity and efficiency, then you can significantly increase the strategic value—and user experience—that you provide for your company.
In the spotlight
Protect and grow corporate value amid change
Volatility tests every aspect of business. As a legal leader you don't just manage risk, you shape how the enterprise responds, adapts, and grows.
By anticipating regulatory change, cybersecurity threats and operational disruption, you can embed resilience into strategy. To preserve your momentum and accelerate your future growth, automation and advanced analytics can strengthen business continuity, safeguard reputation, and unlock new sources of value.
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Where to focus in 2026
Strategy and growth
Boost legal’s efficiency, capacity, and value
Advancing legal as a strategic value driver means working more efficiently, innovating to expand capacity and using appropriate technologies to deliver tangible business impact. An agile legal function doesn't just advise or support—it helps shape products, transactions, and relationships.
High-performing legal teams evolve alongside their organization’s goals. This starts with a flexible design—one that scales with shifting priorities, supports continuous improvement and connects legal decisions to broader business impact.
Your approach will depend on your vision and legal delivery model. You may choose to engage external advisors differently, automate or introduce self-service, or apply specialized AI to enhance efficiency and insight. Legal managed services can also help extend your team’s capacity and improve spend—so you can focus on what matters most to the business.
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Managed services
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Technology
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Artificial intelligence
Refine your legal AI and technology strategy
Legal has traditionally been cautious in adopting new technology—often for good reason. Concerns about risks, limited budgets, and a lack of deep familiarity with software or architecture have slowed progress. And while technology can’t replace legal judgment, it is increasingly complementing it.
Emerging tools, especially AI technologies developed for legal work, are creating more scalable and cost-effective ways to work. The first step is building a digital foundation—standardizing and centralizing data and documenting processes in playbooks for routine or repeat scenarios. From there, new tools can provide a valuable “first draft,” accelerating routine tasks.
AI is already expanding legal’s capabilities in areas like contract data extraction, risk review, research, document summarization, and regulatory tracking. Next-generation agentic AI goes further—executing advanced workflows and drawing on multiple knowledge sources to deliver faster, smarter outcomes. These tools don’t just support legal work—they redefine how it gets done.
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Artificial intelligence
Generative AI for chief legal officers
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Artificial intelligence
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AI and analytics
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Risk and regulatory
Anticipate and manage legal and regulatory risk
One of legal’s core responsibilities is to help anticipate and manage operational and reputational risks. That means being closely attuned to a global patchwork of compliance mandates, cybersecurity, data privacy—the list goes on.
A practical risk management playbook can help you proactively stay ahead of regulatory obligations and stakeholder expectations. With a clear strategy in place, you can identify where to uplift, reconfigure, augment, or replace resources, processes, and tech—freeing up time and capacity. You can also offer insights to the business, including where to focus and grow, and perhaps where to scale down.
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Risk and regulatory
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Resilience
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Cybersecurity and privacy
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Data governance
Driving information governance and knowledge management
Strong information governance and knowledge management capabilities enable legal teams to work more effectively, safeguard your intellectual property and highly confidential information while promoting secure, responsible use of corporate data. It also supports more efficient work across your legal function, reduces repeat work, may reduce the need to pay legal advisors for advice previously obtained, and promotes more accurate search, reporting, and faster decision-making. It enhances the user experience for legal and the businesses it supports.
Systems themselves aren’t enough. You also need clear processes and protocols built into everyday workflows that meet legal teams where they work for access and use, sharing, retention, and defensible disposal. When supported by training, oversight, and appropriate technology, this becomes part of business as usual. A well-designed, flexible program can help your teams work more effectively, adapt to new technologies, and support collaboration with your external advisors.
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Data governance
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Strategy and growth
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Operations
Transform contract management
Efficient, secure contracting that accelerates speed-to-market helps legal teams create business value on a daily basis. But contract lifecycle management (CLM) has grown more complex because of emerging risks. These include data security and global disruptions, increasing regulator and investor inquiries into your contract positions, regulatory changes that require rapid understanding of your exposure, and the need for new terms and safeguards. At the same time, improvements in contracting processes, combined with technological advances, can enable legal teams to manage these risks more effectively and give your organization a competitive edge.
Assess your contracting function. Standardizing and automating processes, developing playbooks and clause libraries, and applying new technologies across drafting, negotiating, and execution can help you improve performance, reduce risk, and unlock greater benefit from each agreement.
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Operations
Considerations for a successful CLM implementation
Find out how to drive the business strategy, align key legal processes and risk guardrails, and take key steps toward strategic technology enablement of your contracting function.
Technology
Take charge of your contract lifecycle management
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Automation
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