The Power Behind Every Great Legal Team: How GCs Become Strategic Business Partners

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.

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.