Off the record. By invitation. A peer community for General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers.
The General Counsel Executive Forum gathers General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, and senior in-house legal executives. It is part of Open Future Forum, and it runs on the same principle: everyone in the room is a giver. There is no pitch, no agenda, no recording, and the conversations are the ones legal leaders cannot have anywhere else.
Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley. Its network reaches tens of thousands of executives and investors worldwide. It runs a year-round calendar of events for senior executives and investors, including CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, private equity leaders, founders, and AI leaders, through Forum Select, its invite-only private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels and gatherings. Beyond events, Open Future Forum convenes peer groups and executive boards and publishes original research built on first-party survey and qualitative data from its executive network.
The forum brings legal leaders together in two formats. Forum Select runs invite-only private events for General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers. Forum Events opens panels and gatherings to the wider executive and legal community.
Invite-only private events for General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers, off the record and among peers.
Open panels and gatherings for the wider executive, legal, and AI community.
Small legal-leadership roundtables on the decisions that carry the most weight.
Off-the-record sessions on the questions General Counsel and CLOs are working through right now.
Practical sessions on how AI is changing the legal department, built for the GC seat.
Legal leaders meeting peers across the wider Open Future Forum community of senior executives.
The forum is built for legal leaders who make the room better. The question is simple: does this person give more than they take?
Members are identified by how they show up, long before any invitation is extended. If the answer is yes, a personal note follows.
Like every Open Future Forum room, the General Counsel Executive Forum runs on Adam Grant's Give and Take: the most generous people in the room create the most value over time.
Members offer their honest read of the board, the risk, and the deal, without holding back for advantage.
The most valued act in the room is a warm introduction made without being asked.
This is not a quid pro quo network. The room holds the debt and pays it forward.
If you think you belong in the General Counsel Executive Forum, or know a legal leader who does, we'd like to hear from you. Membership is by invitation or referral.