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Welcome to the Q1 2026 GC edition of Legal LinkedInfluencers, proudly sponsored by Arbor Law.
If I were in private practice, the GCs report is the one I would download first and read carefully.
Every person listed here has demonstrated, in public, that they are willing to speak about things that matter – to their business, to their colleagues, to their department, and to the profession.
That is a rare thing when you sit in the GC seat. There are regulatory constraints, internal politics, organisational guardrails, and a long list of stakeholders to consider before you press post. Anyone on this table has already navigated all of that.
The reciprocity is now showing up on LinkedIn from the in-house side, and the range of voices is wider than it was a year ago – as are the topics they are speaking about.
For private practice, the strategic case is straightforward. Pick the top twenty GCs on this list. Ask whether all of them sit inside your practice area. The answer is probably no.
Now ask whether it is a bad idea to be well known to the twenty most-followed in-house voices in the country, given how often each of them gets asked the question that matters most to your bottom line: “who do I pick for this?”
Every comment you leave on a thoughtful post by a senior in-house lawyer is a piece of evidence. It says you are the kind of practitioner who works in partnership, who asks questions, and who is in inquiry about the things that matter to that person and their business. The audience for that evidence is bigger than you think; it includes the GCs who are watching but not yet posting themselves.
The relationship between private practice and the GC seat is being rewritten in real time. Many of the briefs that used to drift directly out to a panel firm are now being answered in-house, at pace, with AI in the first chair. That makes these relationships more important than ever before. To do the premium work, private practice needs to be closer to a broader range of clients – the commoditised end of the market is disappearing.
That is the strategic shift sitting underneath this report.
Should you be ranked in our reports?
The report includes a link to a calculator where you can work out whether you should be included in our tables.
As a guide, you’ll need a power score of around 650 to rank in the GC table. Our methodology: total likes plus four times total comments across Q1 (1 January to 31 March 2026) gives you your power score.
If you are close to 650 by the end of the next quarter (ends 30 June), it’s worth submitting your data through this form.
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