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 at Leonid Group
  • Rob Jarrett, Co-founder at flexible resourcing platform Allegro and founder of fractional counsel support firm Size Seven
  • Anthony Cherchian, Co-founder of The Legal Tech Consultancy
  • Oliver Rutherford, Head of Customer Success and Sales at Nomio
  • Host: Sarah Ouis, former General Counsel and 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 learn how to identify the 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 secure resources, when and where to bring in extra permanent hires, and where to leverage on-demand and flexible support.
  • 11:30-12:15: Navigating legal tech selection in an ever-crowded ecosystem. An introduction to the evolving legal tech landscape, followed by a roundtable on how legal teams tackled selection, shortlisting, implementation, and learning from failed implementation strategies.
  • 12:30-13:00: Networking and 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 and 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.