FOREWORD
Your strategic advantage in a shifting environment
If there's one thing we hear consistently from in-house counsel, it's this: the pace of change feels relentless. Between AI disruption, talent pressures, cost scrutiny and rising stakeholder expectations, legal leaders and their teams are navigating challenges that would have seemed exceptional just a few years ago.
What strikes us most in our conversations is not the pressure—though that's real—but the quiet determination to lead through the shifting environment. You're not waiting for the dust to settle. You're building new capabilities, investigating emerging technologies, empowering colleagues and investing in those all-important relationships.
At Chambers, we've spent decades understanding the legal market and talking to thousands of in-house lawyers around the world as part of our research. We appreciate the dynamics at play, whether that’s having to work with lean resources, handling broad mandates or making high-stakes decisions without the peer networks that private practitioners take for granted.
That context shaped this report. When the landscape is shifting rapidly, access to peer benchmarks and market intelligence becomes a strategic advantage, not just a reference point. In uncertain times, trusted data provides the foundation for confident decision making.
This research reveals how your peers across the US and UK are prioritising their challenges, embedding legal data into their workflows and leveraging rankings as practical tools for counsel selection and talent development.
