ABOUT THE FORUM

    

Who We Are In Less Than 3 Minutes

 

  

Overview and Mission

The General Counsel Forum has been serving in-house leaders since 1998.  The Forum is a community of 600 general counsel and senior managing counsel representing more than 350 companies and organizations, as well as a number of underwriters (law firms and legal product and service providers).
 

The Forum strives to be the best at discovering, benchmarking and sharing best legal practices, and delivering them to members in a local, peer-to-peer community. No legal department – even the largest and most well funded – knows it all.  In-house innovation comes from diverse sources, and the most direct path to those solutions is from the innovators themselves.  This is the power of collaboration: the power of a forum.

To meet our mission objectives, the Forum hosts networking and educational events in chapter cities, in a multitude of venues and program formats.  Events include breakfast, lunch and dinner meetings with and without speakers; cocktail parties in prominent GCs' homes; sporting events; awards dinners; conference meetings; and special one-off meetings.

Unlike similar organizations, our mission is advanced by Forum members partnering with valued underwriters and sponsors who share and support our mission. This partnership helps the Forum achieve its mission to improve the professional lives of in-house leadership through the discovery and sharing of best legal practices.
 
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