Signature initiative · published annually
The State of the Legal Business Professional
An annual report examining how the role of the legal business professional is changing — and giving the profession its own evidence base for the first time.
No data yet. Figures appear here once the inaugural survey closes. Nothing is estimated or modelled in the meantime.
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Inaugural survey
Inaugural survey
Inaugural survey
Inaugural survey
The research agenda
Six questions the profession has never had answered about itself.
Each edition reports on the same six areas, so the second edition can say what changed — which is the point of doing it annually.
- 01
AI adoption
Where AI is actually being used inside firms, by whom, and with what governance around it.
- 02
Emerging skills
The capabilities firms are hiring for, and the gap between those and the training on offer.
- 03
Workforce trends
How roles, teams and career structures are being redrawn across legal business services.
- 04
Professional identity
How legal business professionals describe their own value — and whether their firms agree.
- 05
Leadership opportunities
Routes into leadership that do not depend on a fee-earning title.
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The future of work
Hybrid practice, automation and what the next five years ask of the profession.
The inaugural survey
The first edition is built from your answers
The inaugural survey opens as part of the launch. It is short, anonymous by default, and the aggregate findings go back to every participant before they go anywhere else.
The survey opens as part of the 90-day launch. Joining is how you get the link.
- Roughly ten minutes to complete
- Anonymous by default — attribution only if you opt in
- Participants receive the findings first
- Firm-level results available to participating firms
Content platform
Research is only half of it.
The report gives the movement its evidence. The platform is how the argument travels.
LinkedIn article series
A recurring series on the future of legal business professionals — the movement's most public front door.
Newsletter
The series, the research and the community calendar, gathered for people who do not live on LinkedIn.
Podcast & interviews
Conversations with the people doing the work, and with the firm leaders deciding how it is resourced.
Webinars
Open sessions on the questions the profession is actively wrestling with, not the ones already settled.
Published on LinkedIn and by newsletter.
Original research shapes conversations across the industry.
That is the fourth pillar — and it only works if the profession answers for itself.