The in-house legal community L Suite now counts roughly 2,200 general counsels and legal team members, as co-founders Greg Raiten and Kiran Lingam revealed in a recent AL TV interview. The group, which started in 2015 as Tech GC, has expanded into a broader network that includes deputy counsels, legal operations professionals, and enterprise GCs.
L Suite runs more than 500 events annually across the US, London, and other international hubs. The model blends in-person networking with online collaboration, according to Raiten. Many events are recorded for on-demand viewing and CLE credit, making education a core part of the offering.
How the community shares intelligence
Members use a private platform to share peer recommendations on outside counsel, contract lifecycle management tools, and other legal technology. The co-founders said this intelligence is highly contextual and unbiased because it is private, in-house only, and not supported by ads. The monetization model combines annual paid memberships with sponsor-supported content and events.
Lingam introduced Top Council, an anonymized public version of the community's recommendation layer. This tool lets the broader legal market tap into the collective experience of the L Suite members without revealing their identities.
Where AI is capturing value today
The interview's AI discussion focused on specific, measurable use cases. "The universal answer in one recent call was no," Lingam said, when asked whether law firms and in-house teams were seeing meaningful cost savings from AI yet. The fastest gains are still in repeatable work, he said.
Current value comes from contract playbooks built from historical company data, intake workflows, and other process-heavy use cases. Some companies are bringing work back in-house as AI makes it faster and cheaper, including M&A diligence. Raiten argued that AI is pushing legal work back toward judgment rather than process.
NewMod law firms and the future
The interview closed with both guests saying their members are excited about NewModel law firms. This signals growing interest in alternative legal service providers that operate differently from magic circle firms.
For in-house legal professionals, the key is watching where peer spending goes. The community model demonstrates that dozens of peer recommendations hold more weight than vendor claims.
Why this matters for legal professionals
The L Suite's findings suggest two concrete takeaways for in-house counsel. First, if you are not yet building contract playbooks from your company's own data, you are leaving money on the table. Second, the cost savings from AI are not universal. The technology works best on repeatable, process-heavy tasks, not on high-stake judgment calls.
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