Four armchairs drawn around a low table in a top-floor lounge, city lights beyond the glass at dusk.

The Rooms

Small rooms, built for the in-house counsel who are in them.

Three formats, one rule: nobody in the room is selling to anybody else in it. How that gets enforced changes with the format, and each page says exactly how.

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What we run

Three kinds of room. Every event we build is one of them.

Formats first, so the calendar can grow without the idea changing. The legal industry doesn’t sit still. Every format brings in outside insight from people living the change, and the peers you’ll call when you need a second opinion. Nothing below is booked, priced or signed, and no fixture has a date. It is here so you can see the kind of thing we build.

A long table laid on a rooftop at dusk, string lights above and the skyline behind.

The roundtable

Serious talk, memorable rooms

Local rooms that bring industry figures together on a pressing topic, run under the old Chatham House rule — in-house only, unrecorded by default: what’s said in the room stays there, but what you learn leaves with you. Most run as a closed room, just for the department. Some are built as an open room instead, a small in-house panel in front of a host’s audience, when the room calls for it. A mixer opens up afterwards, with a capped number of our supporters in the room.

Table Talk in full

A wide course in a river valley, low sun, hills closing the far end.

The contest

Competitive, not corporate

Nothing builds a bond like a team with something on the line. FutrGC puts in-house counsel and private practice on opposite sides of a contest built for them — a round of golf, a raft build, whatever the group calls for — with teams drawn rather than entered, so nobody is up against the firm that already acts for them. The part of the day where the room does its talking stays in-house only. The game changes each time; what people go home with doesn’t.

The contest in full

The citadel at Machu Picchu seen along the terraces, peaks and cloud behind it.

The expedition

TED Talks meets a great adventure

Everyone else gets these people from three rows back, for twenty minutes. FutrGC takes a handful of the sharpest minds in the industry somewhere that has nothing to do with the office — the trip you always promised yourself, before work got in the way. Invitation only, captured as it happens, and the start of relationships that actually last.

The expedition in full

One person per company. No list leaves the room. No speaking slot for anyone who paid.

Every room is a decision about who’s in it, never a target being hit and never something bought into. That’s true whichever format you’re in.

01 Nobody in the room is selling
In a Table Talk session and in a contest’s afternoon roundtables that means in-house only. On the expedition it means a stated mix, published in advance and never quietly exceeded.
02 Nobody buys the right to speak
No session is named after a company and no one supplying a speaker has paid for the slot. That rule costs money and it is not for sale.
03 No badges, and no list leaves the room
You see who is in the room before you commit and you can strike a name. Nothing is scanned, and no list is handed to anybody afterwards, least of all to somebody who paid. You still leave with the numbers you want, because you asked for them yourself.
04 Declining costs you nothing
Say no and the invitation stands next time. You are not added to anything for having read this.

From the rooms

Filmed conversations, footage from the day itself, and written notes from the rooms — now over on Content & Insights

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Tell us which room interests you and why. 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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