Legal Leaders to Watch
Flagship series · The 2027 Class · Nominations open
Legal Leaders to Watch
The counsel the business calls first.
In-house counsel: GCs, CLOs, deputies and specialist counsel.
The 2027 Class
The class is forming.
The first names appear here as leaders accept and approve their own card. 689 names have been put forward so far.
Featured in this series
The long form.
Features and lists published in this series. Every piece is the leader's own, approved word by word.
Cover Stories · Oct 2026
You 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.
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In Conversation · Sep 2026
There Is No Such Thing as a Legal Issue
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In Conversation · Sep 2026
The Third Option
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Cover Stories · Aug 2026
Whichever Courthouse Is Nearest
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AI · Aug 2026
The Question the Risk Register Cannot Answer
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In Conversation · Aug 2026
Best Idea Wins
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Culture · Aug 2026
Commercial First
Read→The record
The Legal Power List 2026
The founding list, 100 leaders. It stays as the record; the 2027 class builds on it.
See the 2026 list→
Why this series
Every company has one lawyer the business calls before it calls anyone else. This class is a record of those people: the ones whose judgment gets used, not just cited.
Judgment in the room
The business brings them the decision, not the paperwork.
A function they built
Counsel they hired, systems they installed, risk they took off the table.
Named by peers
Nominated by the people who have watched them work, then reviewed by our desk.
The path
Nominated to featured.
Four steps. Free at every one. Nobody buys a place, and the leader signs off on every word.
Nominated
By a peer, a partner or our desk. Free.
Recognized
A card in the class, from your own answers, approved by you.
In your own words
A longer record from your portal, when you want one.
Featured
A full feature, chosen editorially, never sold.
How the class is chosen
- NowNominations open. Names arrive from peers, partners and our desk.
- As names arriveEach nominee gets a private portal. They accept, answer in their own words and approve their card.
- 2027Features drop through the year, newest first, here.
- December 2027The class is revealed together, as one record.
Trusted partners
The firms this class names.
Leaders name the firms and vendors they trust from inside their portal. Listing is free and comes from the leader, never from a form.
The first names appear here as leaders accept.
Partners of the series
Firms that stand beside the class.
Partners pay to stand beside the class: their name on the series, their ad beside the stories they bring in, and their brand beside the cards of the leaders they bring. The recognition is earned either way. They never choose who is recognized and never touch a word. See the 2027 partner levels→
Bring someone with you.
Know a leader who belongs in this class? A nomination takes five minutes and costs nothing. They hear from us, not from a form, and they approve every word before anything publishes.
