The roundtable
Serious talk, memorable rooms.
Local rooms on a subject the room chose for itself. In-house only, unrecorded by default.
FutrGC
The relationship comes first. The business follows.
The best conversation at any event happens after the agenda ends, once the titles drop and people just talk. We build the room around that moment, rather than leaving it to chance.
Why these events
Three ways we get people talking properly.
The industry doesn’t sit still, and nobody works it out alone. Every format brings in outside insight from people living the change, alongside the peers you’ll actually call when you need a second opinion.
The contest
Competitive, not corporate.
In-house counsel and private practice on opposite sides, teams drawn rather than entered.
The expedition
TED Talks meets a great adventure.
A handful of the sharpest minds somewhere that has nothing to do with the office.
Whichever room you’re in: you leave having had fun, made a friend, and got something out of it. Never just having attended something.
Why I built this
I’m not a lawyer. That’s sort of the point.
I’m Chris Muir. I spent close to a decade working with law firms of all sizes, all over the world, eight of those years at Mondaq, before getting the chance more recently to spend real time in the world of in-house lawyers instead. That’s what changed things for me. All of it meant a lot of conferences along the way too — good ones, with real speakers and a proper agenda, and I don’t think that structure is the problem. But without fail, the best conversation of any trip happened after it: the panel had finished, a glass of wine had appeared, and the people in the room stopped talking like they were still on one.
I kept noticing the same thing everywhere I went. Once the formality drops, people don’t talk about their sector. They talk about their career, why they chose it, what’s actually changing, who they trust. That’s not a coincidence: in business, the person and the relationship you have with them is usually what decides who you end up working with, far more than any pitch does. So the idea behind FutrGC is simple. Build events where the relationship comes first and the business is left to follow, instead of the other way round.
I’m also not a lawyer, and I think that helps rather than hurts. What I find genuinely interesting isn’t the law. It’s the person behind the title. Why they chose that career. What it took to get to the seat they’re in, and the mark they’ve left on their team, their company and their industry along the way. That curiosity is the whole reason FutrGC exists.
It matters more than it used to, as well. The legal industry is changing faster than it has in years — new tools, real pressure on cost, and roles and responsibilities shifting from the top down faster than any one person can track alone. FutrGC’s answer to that is two-sided: bring in the thought leaders and industry leaders who can actually explain what’s changing, and build the kind of trusted peer network you lean on to make sense of it yourself.
FutrGC is a business, not a charity. Law firms and legal technology companies pay to support a room. You don’t. My interest is in that being worth enough to them that the rooms keep happening, never in what gets said inside one.
One ask, and only one
Ask for an invitation.
Tell us who you are and which kind of room interests you. There’s no membership fee — every seat is decided, not sold or signed up for, and that’s what keeps the room worth being in. A person reads every one.
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