The Power Behind Every Great Legal Team: How GCs Become Strategic Business Partners
How legal transforms from bottleneck to the trusted engine behind business decisions
Legal teams are under pressure to move faster, but the bigger challenge is changing how the business sees them. Too often, legal is viewed as the team that slows deals down, says “no,” or increasingly, acts as the AI police. At the same time, disconnected tools, flat headcount, and the rise of generic AI are encouraging teams to take legal matters into their own hands, often without the context, accuracy, or accountability they need.
The opportunity is to make legal expertise easier to access wherever business decisions are being made. That means moving beyond standalone legal tools and exploring AI grounded in trusted legal knowledge, embedded directly into the platforms teams already use. Done well, legal can help the business move faster with confidence while demonstrating its impact on growth, risk, and decision-making.
Join Summize and a select group of your peers as we discuss how to reposition legal as a strategic business partner, bring trusted legal knowledge into everyday workflows, and prove legal’s value across the organization.
Speakers
Alexandria (Lexi) Lutz
Discussion Topics
Repositioning legal as a strategic partner: defining the metrics, evidence, and decision points that shift perception from gatekeeping to value creation
Build versus buy for legal AI: comparing accuracy, liability exposure, maintenance burden, and time to impact when choosing generic models versus knowledge-grounded contract intelligence
Embedding legal knowledge into business workflows and tools: practical integration patterns, change management, and how to surface actionable obligations where nonlegal teams work
About Summize
We are the power behind every great legal team. Summize is a contract intelligence system that wraps around the tools your business already uses, ensuring contract intelligence reaches every team and informs every decision.
Three sophisticated layers power the system: a Knowledge Layer built on your contracts and playbooks, a Contract Operations Layer running every step from creation to signature, and an Agentic AI Layer where SIA surfaces the right answers to the right people instantly.
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