Mobilizing for Uncertainty: How In-House Legal Leaders Are Responding to 2025’s Shockwaves

About the Webinar

If you’ve heard the phrase “unprecedented times” too often to count in the last couple months, you’re not alone. 2025 has been a perfect storm of fast-moving change that has reshaped the political, economic, and legal fabric of the United States.

Ranging from AI regulation and adoption to labor & employment laws to trade policy shifts and beyond, these changes have far-reaching implications on businesses across the US. As a result, scrambling legal departments have been forced to rapidly adapt to manage new compliance risks as well as operational changes.  

This webinar series focuses on key policy and societal changes, and their implications on legal specifically. How can in-house counsel navigate a landscape that seems to shift by the day? Each episode will provide actionable insights and strategies to help legal teams mitigate risks and seize new opportunities.  

Key Data Points: 

• 80% of legal leaders perceive moderate to extremely high legal risk due to regulatory uncertainty.
• Legal teams identified 3 primary disruptors creating significant workloads. These included:
  • DEI Requirement Changes (50% of respondents)
  • AI Regulation & Compliance (43% of respondents)
  • Cybersecurity & Data Privacy (43% of respondents)
  • Additional factors included new tariff policies, federal spending freezes, ESG reporting, and immigration policy shifts.

• Legal departments are employing myriad strategies to address increased demands
  
  • 45% are implementing legal tech as their #1 strategic move
  • 42% are boosting outside counsel spending, 41% are turning to alternative legal service providers, and 37% are hiring more FTE.
  • Larger legal departments (20+ FTE) are most likely to refer to outside counsel (51%.)