- Learn from GCs and legal executives navigating AI, compliance, and stakeholder alignment.
- Gain practical tools to build your business fluency and leadership influence.
- Join sessions on the evolving in-house/outside counsel relationship.
- Discover new approaches to burnout prevention, wellness, and team performance.
- Connect with peers who are shaping legal culture and innovation from within.
- How leading GCs are balancing geopolitical, reputational, and regulatory threats.
- New models of in-house/outside counsel collaboration that go beyond the traditional retainer.
- Tactical frameworks for aligning legal services with fast-moving business objectives.
- How to manage AI risks in workflows, from hallucinations to vendor compliance.
- Strategies for burnout prevention and self-advocacy in executive legal careers.
Canadian Legal Summit 2025
For legal leaders driving impact from inside the business
Designed with you in mind
As in-house legal teams face rising expectations—from business advisory to AI oversight—leaders must navigate mounting complexity with fewer resources and greater strategic demands. Canadian Legal Summit 2025 is designed to help you step into that challenge, equipping you with practical frameworks, peer insights, and the tools to elevate legal’s value across the enterprise. If you’re steering legal innovation, talent strategy, or risk management, this is your event.
Why Attend
What You'll Learn
IN-HOUSE LEGAL COUNSEL AGENDA
Leadership, Strategy & Evolving Expectations
Explore how in-house leaders are adapting to risk, regulation, business needs—and what it takes to lead through change.
Legal departments today are being asked to do more with less while balancing legal risk, business strategy, and people leadership. This set of sessions looks at how GCs and their teams are evolving—redefining what leadership looks like in the modern legal department.
Culture, Capacity & Smarter OPERATIONS
From burnout to AI and diverse talent, in-house teams are building more thoughtful, sustainable, and tech-savvy legal departments.
In-house professionals face unique internal pressures: business speed, cross-functional relationships, and limited resources. These sessions offer a roadmap for building resilient, high-performing teams—where well-being, inclusion, and innovation aren’t just ideals but everyday practice.
CANADIAN LEGAL SUMMIT 2025
The Legal Profession Is Being Rewritten—Be Part of What Comes Next Canadian Legal Summit 2025 brings together in-house counsel, private practice leaders, and legal tech innovators—from solo practitioners and boutique firms to BigLaw and enterprise legal teams—to address the unprecedented transformation reshaping the legal profession. AI disruption, mounting regulatory complexity, burnout, evolving client expectations, and an escalating war for talent—these shared challenges demand bold ideas and real solutions. This is your opportunity to break silos, forge connections, and help shape the future of legal practice—no matter your role or firm size. This program contains 4 hours & 45 minutes of Professionalism Content and 1 hour & 20 minutes of EDI Professionalism Content by Law Society of Ontario