Ten in-house legal leaders shaping how counsel works in 2026 — from Boston Dynamics to United Airlines, Ohmium International to Great Gray Trust. The founding cohort of Counsel Collective’s recurring Leaders to Watch series.

Catherine Budzynski has been on both sides of the outside counsel relationship. What general counsel actually need from their law firms, and what firms keep missing, is the work of Larimar Management.

Alex Petrik walked into Eastern Dental Management with the kind of brief most general counsel rarely inherit. No prior in-house function. A PE clock. Here is how he is building the legal seat to be sold.

Tiffany A. Archer built a career decoding risk, then realized the riskiest variable was never in the model. Counsel Collective · Leaders to Watch · Cover Story No. 03.

Scaling Boston Dynamics' legal function as Atlas walks out of the lab and into policy rooms that haven't written the rules yet.

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Ryan Cohen's GameStop leadership has quietly produced one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds in modern business — an $8.83B war chest, back-to-back earnings beats, and a bold owner-operator manifesto. Counsel Collective investigates.

Shannon Ellis and the People + Culture team at Patagonia operate at a rare intersection—where purpose is not aspirational language, but a shared operating responsibility. As Head of North America People + Culture and Global People + Culture Operations, Shannon leads alongside a deeply committed ...

The internet has become exceptionally good at consumption. Endless feeds. Infinite takes. Constant motion. What it has not done particularly well—at least not recently—is create space for meaningful creation that leads somewhere. Creation that doesn’t end at a post, a click, or a ...