Cover story · 2 Nov 2026AI Has Outgrown Your Management Team
Danielle Sheer argues that companies should stop organizing leaders around yesterday’s functions and start building teams around tomorrow’s enterprise outcomes.
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Cover story · 29 Oct 2026What Only a Lawyer Should Do
Cetera Legal built something that answers the questions which never needed a lawyer. The harder work was deciding which questions those are.
Cover story · 26 Oct 2026Juan Longoria: Courage Before Confidence
Juan Longoria, Vice President of Customer Care at Enseo, on the site that went from last to first, the call center job he thought was temporary, and why he tells new leaders how the path actually works.
Cover story · 6 Oct 2026You Define What a Leader Looks Like
Diana Lauritson learned the legal industry’s template for leadership in rooms where she did not fit it. Now she has a clear view of the people the template keeps missing.
Cover story · 24 Sep 2026Marketers Wanna Market. Let ’Em.
Roy Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer at Vedder and past International President of the Legal Marketing Association, on why legal marketing is a career, not an accident. The lead piece of Behind the Brand's Class of 2027.
In conversation · 24 Sep 2026There Is No Such Thing as a Legal Issue
Luis Machado spent nearly forty years arguing that the category itself does the damage. He thinks the profession is finally coming around.
In conversation · 10 Sep 2026The Third Option
When a legal department is already running lean, one extended leave, transaction surge, regulatory deadline or product launch can create an immediate capacity issue. Daniel Feingold is helping build the market for the option many legal leaders need before they know what to call it.
In conversation · 20 Aug 2026The Question the Risk Register Cannot Answer
Devon Euring left iHeartMedia in May and had a firm by the end of the month. His argument: governance can tell you what went wrong, but not who owned the decision, and that gap is where the next decade of risk lives.
In conversation · 17 Aug 2026Best Idea Wins
Adam Frankel built NWN's first in-house legal department in 2019. Three acquisitions later he has stopped believing in the one thing every acquirer wants, and he is unusually direct about why.
In conversation · 10 Aug 2026Commercial First
Ana King joined a pre-revenue fintech that had gone two years without a people function and was losing the staff it could least afford to lose. Three years on: roughly fifty hires, no agency spend, and an annual people budget of twenty thousand pounds.
In conversation · 6 Aug 2026The Same Bet, Twice
Oscar Casanova advised on more than $30 billion in transactions at Goldman Sachs and helped scale software companies from the inside. Then he walked away to give the businesses that power the American economy the one thing they almost never get: someone who has made their bet before.
In conversation · 31 Jul 2026From Locker Room to Boardroom: Kieron Frazier
Kieron Frazier went to law school to run a sports team. Years in-house with an NFL franchise gave him what most gaming attorneys cannot claim: he has been the client.
In conversation · 30 Jul 2026Style as Advisory: Samantha Hershman and the Case for Taking the Way You Show Up Seriously
Samantha Hershman, founder of SJ Styles, on treating personal style as advisory work: filtering the noise so high-achieving women show up as themselves.
In conversation · 27 Jul 2026Building from Zero: Inside Eastern Dental's New Legal Function
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.
In conversation · 27 Jul 2026Building the Modern Legal Function in Africa
When Tochukwu Okezie joined the legal team at Interswitch, the thing that stopped him was not a hard legal question. It was a queue.
Cover story · 2 Jul 2026What GCs Actually Need (And Why Law Firms Should Listen)
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.
Cover story · 25 Mar 2026The Owner in the Room
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.
In conversation · 29 Jan 2026Culture as a Collective Act: Inside Patagonia’s People + Culture Leadership
Shannon Ellis on Patagonia's people and culture leadership, and how culture is built as a collective act rather than handed down.
Cover story · 29 Jan 2026Why Counsel Collective Exists
Counsel Collective is built around professional storytelling — where shared experience becomes connection, growth and opportunity.
