November 5: The Fulfillment Trap: Moving In-House Legal from Contract Queue to Strategic Partner

Title: The Fulfillment Trap: Moving In-House Legal from Contract Queue to Strategic Partner

Many in-house legal teams spend most of their week clearing the contract queue — reviewing, routing, redlining, repeat. The work matters, but when it defines the department, the business starts treating legal like a fulfillment center: requests go in, documents come out, and legal is nowhere in the room when the decisions that generated them get made.

Join us on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 3 ET / 12 PT as Akshay Verma, COO at SpotDraft, Alexis Palmer, Senior Managing Counsel at Snyk, Jonathan Stark, Head of Legal Operations at Dynatrace, and Sean Coberly, Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Tendo, walk through the specific moves that get legal out of fulfillment mode — which work to automate or reallocate, which metrics to stop reporting, and how to rebuild the department’s standing with the CEO and CFO.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Diagnose how much of the team’s capacity is going to fulfillment work — and what that’s costing the department strategically.
• Reallocate or automate high-volume contract work without loosening risk coverage.
• Replace activity metrics (contracts closed, turnaround time) with measures the C-suite actually values.
• Get legal into strategic decisions before deals, launches, and budgets are set — not after.
• Spot and remove the self-imposed barriers that keep legal departments stuck in reactive mode.

Who Should Attend: This program is designed for general counsel, deputy and associate GCs, legal operations leaders, and senior in-house counsel responsible for how the legal department is structured, staffed, measured, and perceived by the business. It will be especially useful for legal leaders working to shift their teams from high-volume reactive work toward strategic partnership.

Date+Time:
Thursday, November 5, 2026
3 PM ET / 2 PM CT / 1 PM MT / Noon PT

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Speakers:

• Akshay Verma is COO at SpotDraft.
• Alexis Palmer is Senior Managing Counsel at Snyk.
• Jonathan Stark is Head of Legal Operations at Dynatrace.
• Sean Coberly is Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Tendo.

Sponsored By:
In-House Connect is an online in-house counsel networking group, comprised of over 15,000 members across the United States. In-House Connect's mission is to help in-house counsel form meaningful connections with one another and cultivate key skills so that together we can advance our careers, derive greater job satisfaction, and provide maximum value to the organizations we serve.

Credit:
1 credit hour in California. Please allow 20–30 days after the program to receive your accreditation and certificate of attendance.

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