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Boston, MA · May 21, 2025 · 1:00 PM - 6:15 PM ET
On May 21st, we joined the Spring Boston Legal Ops Forum for a deep dive into legal budgeting that actually works.
From AI implementation to smarter counsel selection, legal leaders showed up ready to rethink how in-house teams scale efficiently.
Boston, MA · May 8, 2025 · 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Lawtrades hosted a GC Networking Mixer in Boston on Thursday, May 8, 2025, from 5–8 PM in collaboration with In-House Connect. From meaningful conversations to new connections, we loved seeing the in-house legal community show up with curiosity, insight, and real energy. It’s clear: the future of legal isn’t just about strategy — it’s about connection.
Toronto, ON · April 10, 2025 · 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Our inaugural TechGC dinner in Toronto brought together General Counsels and CLOs from high-growth tech companies and venture funds for an evening of meaningful conversation and connection. Centered around the theme “The GC & CFO Partnership: Aligning Legal and Finance for Business Success,” the guided discussion encouraged attendees to share insights and best practices in a trusted, peer-driven environment. The event fostered authentic dialogue, valuable takeaways, and new relationships within Toronto’s legal leadership community. Explore the photos below to revisit a memorable night of insight and connection.
Houston, TX · February 20, 2025 · 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lawtrades threw the ultimate networking mixer in Houston, Texas, with In-House Connect. Legal professionals gathered for an evening of mingling, sharing industry insights, and making valuable connections.
Interested in attending?
Austin, TX · February 19, 2025 · 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lawtrades held a networking mixer in Austin, Texas, in partnership with In-House Connect, which brought together top legal professionals for a fun and productive evening. There were plenty of opportunities to network, share knowledge, and build meaningful relationships for GCs.
Interested in attending?
New York, NY · February 12, 2025
On February 11-12, 2025, the 2025 Liquidity Summit, hosted by The L Suite and sponsored by Lawtrades, was held at the New York Stock Exchange, where top GCs from venture-backed startups, PE-owned companies, and public firms gathered to discuss the evolving deal landscape. The day included breakout sessions featuring peer-led discussions and expert-guided instructional sessions on specific topics like buy-side M&A, sell-side M&A, the IPO process, take-private transactions, and the unique considerations of selling to private equity versus strategic buyers.
The Lawtrades team made great connections with the legal leaders attending the event. Check out our events page to see our upcoming events, where you can meet other GCs and legal professionals driving the future of the industry.
New York, NY · January 16, 2025
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Original event descriptions and links, collected in one place.
In today’s business climate, legal teams are under pressure to handle growing workloads without a proportional increase in resources. The answer isn’t always adding headcount; it’s finding smarter ways to work. This session will explore how in-house counsel can use creative resourcing strategies, process improvements, and cross-functional partnerships to increase efficiency, improve service delivery, and demonstrate value to the business.
Through interactive discussion, we will:
Open to L-Suite members only.
An exclusive day at the US Open to enjoy world class tennis with your peers in an unforgettable setting. Join General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers from high growth technology companies for meaningful conversations and a relaxed day of tennis!
Enjoy networking, exceptional food and drink, and unmatched views of the matches, all in great company. Open to L Suite members.
Redlines are only the tip of the iceberg. Today’s most effective in-house legal teams don’t just negotiate contracts—they drive business impact by building strong, proactive relationships with sales and product teams. By collaborating earlier and more strategically, legal can reduce bottlenecks, improve deal velocity, and enhance the customer experience.
Join us on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, at 12pm ET as Chris Wlach, Senior Director of Legal at Acxiom, and Tommy Tavares, Chief Strategy Officer of Lawtrades,will share how legal can evolve from a reactive gatekeeper to a proactive business enabler. This session will offer practical strategies and tools for aligning with sales and product teams to streamline the commercial contracting process and unlock faster, more collaborative deal cycles.
Tommie Tavares-Ferreira
Chief Strategy Officer
Chris Wlach
Senior Director of Legal
Join fellow GCs and CLOs from enterprise-level companies for a special dinner where you can collaborate on the issues most relevant to late-stage organizations.
During the dinner, we will have the pleasure of engaging in a guided discussion led by Michael Grazio, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Products & Technology at Mastercard, along with Raad Ahmed, CEO of Lawtrades and Ashish Walia, COO of Lawtrades. During this discussion, we encourage you to share questions and best practices in confidence with your peers.
Michael Grazio
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Products & Technology
As legal departments embrace CLM platforms, they must help design systems that align with regulatory obligations, protect sensitive data, and scale with the business. This session will explore how legal leaders can guide cross-functional efforts to digitize contracting while ensuring that innovation doesn’t outpace risk controls.
Through an interactive panel, we will:
Nisha Ramachandran
General Counsel
Alexander Lima
Vice President, Associate General Counsel, and Regional Compliance Officer
Join fellow GCs and CLOs from enterprise-level companies for a special dinner where you can collaborate on the issues most relevant to late-stage organizations.
During the dinner, we will have the pleasure of engaging in a guided discussion led by Ed Rockwell, SVP and the General Counsel & Secretary at EPAM Systems. During this discussion, we encourage you to share questions and best practices in confidence with your peers.
Ed Rockwell
SVP and the General Counsel & Secretary
Actionable strategies for scaling legal teams by balancing limited resources, practical technology, and evolving priorities—with a focus on optimizing workflows, managing spend, and integrating AI effectively. We will be hosting two separate roundtable sessions to help you develop legal resources that improve workflows.
Roundtable Session: Making Legal Playbooks AI-Ready: Practical Tips for Smarter Document Design
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Roundtable Session: From Chaos to Clarity: Crafting a Legal Tech Roadmap That Works
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Privacy has become a defining issue for today’s General Counsels—touching everything from compliance and governance to product, marketing, and AI. As global laws evolve and teams face increasing demands with limited resources, GCs are being asked to navigate complex privacy decisions while keeping broader legal strategy on course.
We partnered with the L Suite for the 2025 Privacy Virtual Forum, taking place virtually on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. This focused, two-hour experience will feature a mainstage conversation and breakout sessions designed to help GCs and senior in-house legal leaders stay ahead of what’s next—across enforcement trends, AI regulation, privacy program design, and beyond.
You’ll leave with an actionable perspective on where the privacy function is heading, what’s driving urgency across the legal org, and how to support your business through another year of high-stakes change.
Mike Signorelli
Partner
Owen Denby
General Counsel
Issues like copyright exposure, AI misuse, and data security failures are no longer hypothetical, they’re looming risks that can trigger litigation, reputational fallout, and regulatory action. This session will explore how forward-thinking legal departments can proactively build litigation resilience into their operations and policies before a breach, infringement, or lawsuit emerges.
Through an interactive panel, we will:
Legal leaders today must be more than legal experts, they must be systems thinkers, culture builders, and strategic operators. This exclusive Offsite will celebrate the legal professionals who are not just adapting to business demands, but shaping them. You’ll explore how legal ops and GC-operators are accelerating innovation, embedding agility, and becoming essential change agents across their organizations.
Whether you’re launching a new initiative, driving AI adoption, or optimizing for speed and scale, this Offsite will equip you with strategies to amplify your influence and drive action. You’ll hear from bold thinkers and operators making high-impact decisions every day. Join us for 3 days in sunny Sonoma and help ignite what’s next for legal leadership and operations.
If you want to land more opportunities through Lawtrades, your LinkedIn presence matters more than you think.
In this practical session, LinkedIn strategist and former Big Law lawyer Sunny Kim will show you how to build a LinkedIn profile and presence that quietly works in the background, helping the right hiring partners find and trust you—and how to synthesize that into your Lawtrades presence.
What you’ll learn:
This isn’t about being loud. It’s about being clear, visible, and memorable, in a way that fits your style.
Lawtrades has partnered with The L Suite to host this session, where in-house legal teams will strengthen their collaboration with Finance by improving forecasting, accruals, and P&L communication. Attendees will gain actionable strategies for aligning across functions and building more predictable, value-driven budgets.
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As AI becomes embedded in legal workflows, in-house counsel must learn how to guide these tools with precision. This virtual panel will explore how thoughtful prompting impacts the accuracy, ethics, and compliance of AI-generated outputs—and how legal teams can use AI effectively without compromising oversight or risk exposure.
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The L Suite's AI Conference empowers GCs and CLOs with candid discussions and expert insights to tackle the most critical legal challenges of AI. Through collaborative problem-solving and the exchange of actionable insights, this exclusive event equips attendees to navigate urgent issues and shape the future of AI within their organizations.
What you can expect:
Tommie Tavares-Ferreira
Chief Strategy Officer
Ashish Walia
Cofounder, Chief Operations Officer
Raad Ahmed
Chief Executive Officer
Legal teams are under increasing pressure to deliver more with fewer resources. This session explores how leading legal departments are transitioning from reactive support functions to proactive, tech-enabled strategic partners.
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Lawtrades is partnering with The L Suite to host an exclusive Deputy GC Salon Dinner in New York.
Join fellow Deputy General Counsels from high-growth tech companies and venture funds for a candid dinner conversation on: “Getting GC Ready: Charting the Path from Deputy to General Counsel.”
This intimate, invite-only evening offers the opportunity to share questions, insights, and best practices with your peers over a 3-course dinner.
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Join us for an insightful virtual panel discussing the increasing legal risks associated with user experience (UX) compliance. As regulatory bodies like the FTC and state Attorneys General intensify their focus on digital accessibility and user interface practices, it's crucial for legal professionals to stay informed and proactive.
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Over the past decade, the L Suite’s Fullstack Conference has brought together General Counsels to navigate the ever-changing demands of legal leadership through real stories, candid discussions, and peer-driven insights. As we mark this milestone, we’re not just looking back at how the role has evolved, but also at the resilience and innovation that continue to shape its future.
This year’s Fullstack is designed for deeper engagement—conversations that go beyond panels, led by GCs who’ve faced challenges head-on and driven meaningful change. Expect immersive discussions, peer connections that last beyond the event, and a special anniversary gathering in San Francisco. Together, we’ll explore how the GC role has transformed, what’s next for legal leaders, and how to stay ahead in an era of rapid progress.
Join us as we celebrate 10 years of perseverance, progress, and evolution while shaping the future of the GC role.
As tech companies shift from rapid growth to operational discipline, legal departments are under pressure to do more with less. Amid layoffs, budget constraints, and increased scrutiny from boards and investors, in-house legal teams must rethink how they scale, prioritize risk, and maintain strategic influence. Join us for a practical discussion on how legal leaders are evolving their functions to meet today’s economic realities while laying the groundwork for long-term governance and resilience.
Through interactive discussions, we will:
During dinner, we will have the pleasure of engaging in a guided discussion on "Strategy as a CLO and the Path from CLO to President," led by our member hosts and discussion leads. We encourage you to share your questions and best practices confidentially with your peers during this discussion.
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This is a great opportunity to engage in active discussion, establish new connections, and reinforce existing ones. This will ensure that you leave with lasting professional relationships. Open to The L Suite members only.
Join us for an intimate and inspiring evening that brings together South Asian legal professionals, entrepreneurs, and innovators to explore how law, tech, and identity intersect in today's evolving legal landscape.
Hosted at the BG Clubhouse, this event will feature thoughtful conversation, meaningful networking, and opportunities to engage with the Lawtrades platform—a modern legal talent marketplace connecting top attorneys with flexible, high-impact roles at leading companies.
In partnership with the South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) and Lawtrades, this gathering is designed to foster connection, amplify visibility, and empower attendees to navigate and reimagine what career paths can look like for the new-age attorney.
📍 BG Clubhouse | 37 E 28th St, Suite 201
🗓️ Date TBD | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Expect a curated group of like-minded professionals, light refreshments, a short panel discussion, prompted networking, and space for real conversation around redefining success in the legal world.
Whether you’re a GC without legal ops, a solo in-house attorney juggling it all, or part of a small team trying to scale, this session is built for lean legal departments that need to make meaningful progress—fast. With limited time, budget, and backup, knowing what to prioritize (and what to ignore) can be the difference between spinning wheels and driving impact.
Join us on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 12pm ET / 9am PT as a Chief Legal Officer from two AI-native companies and a legal ops strategist who’s built the function from the ground up four times share a real-world framework for streamlining legal operations without losing momentum. You’ll get clarity on what matters most right now—and how to make legal feel bigger than it is through smart systems, repeatable wins, and effective cross-functional partnerships.
This session is designed for in-house counsel, GCs, legal operations professionals, and small legal teams navigating growth, scale, or high demand with limited resources. If you’re building the plane while flying it, this webinar will help you chart a clearer path forward—without burning out.
Do more with less” has become somewhat of a mantra for legal departments. Smaller teams, tighter timelines, ambitious targets… and yet, the contracts keep piling up. Of course, there’s only so much efficiency you can squeeze out of a spreadsheet. Enter: artificial intelligence.
This webinar is for in-house counsel who are curious (and even perhaps a little skeptical) about what AI can actually do for legal teams. We’ll cut through the jargon and get into the practical stuff: how AI is already reshaping legal workflows, what it can genuinely help with, and where you still need good old-fashioned legal brainpower.
Through interactive discussions, we will cover:
Whether you’ve already experimented with AI tools or are unsure beyond the term itself, this session will leave you better informed—and possibly even a little optimistic.
Open to L Suite members.
Lawtrades held an exclusive GC Networking Mixer in New York City on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 in collaboration with In-House Connect. Attendees enjoyed drinks, dinner, and great conversations with fellow in-house GCs and legal professionals.
The webinar "How Legal Teams Can Leverage ALSPs to Scale & Thrive" featured Raad Ahmed (CEO at Lawtrades), Shezi Sardar (Attorney at Lawtrades), and Chris Lalan (Chief Legal Officer at 1Money). They discussed how Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs) are transforming the legal industry by helping legal teams scale efficiently and enabling attorneys to build independent careers.
The webinar was designed for in-house counsel, legal operations professionals, and attorneys seeking scalable legal solutions. The session highlighted the growing role of ALSPs in modern legal teams and offered practical strategies for those looking to optimize their legal services.
Join us for an exclusive dinner with NYC's top legal operations leaders!
We're excited to host an intimate evening of networking, collaboration, and meaningful conversations over dinner at one of the city's finest restaurants. This event is a unique opportunity to connect with peers, share insights, and discuss the evolving landscape of legal operations. Space is limited, so please RSVP to reserve your spot. We look forward to seeing you there!
Hosted by Ashish Walia (Co-Founder & COO @ Lawtrades) and Kaylee Anselmi (Legal Operations Director @ Cision)
RSVP here ⇾ https://lu.ma/1547psv5
Carmel Mushin
Associate General Counsel
Raad Ahmed
Chief Executive Officer