The GC Insider 2025
The GC Insider Report 2025 presents valuable insights from 114 in-house counsel, offering a
clear view of what General Counsels expect from external legal advisors. The report
highlights a shift in preferences, emphasizing peer referrals, proven expertise, and sector-
specific experience as key decision-making factors. It explores how GCs now prioritize
business-aligned legal solutions, strategic collaboration, and industry understanding over
traditional legal services alone.
Key themes include:
- Peer referrals and existing work as primary evaluative tools.
- Sector knowledge and commercial awareness driving final law firm selection.
- Rising expectations for law firms to serve as strategic business partners.
- A growing openness to new partnerships, with a majority of GCs engaging new firms
recently. - Diminished reliance on individual partners, with emphasis on consistent quality and
team-based delivery.
This report captures the evolving expectations of GCs and serves as a roadmap for law firms
looking to deepen engagement with in-house legal teams.
2025
Sania
Independent Consultant
Sania is a lawyer who combines her legal expertise with a passion for creating high-impact content. With a background in litigation, Sania has worked with one of India’s leading law firms, a prominent senior advocate, and also served as a research assistant to former Supreme Court Judges.
Alokita
Lawyer and Research Support
Alokita is a Delhi-based lawyer with specialisation in Insolvency and Bankruptcy, with prior experience at one of India’s most prominent and respected law firms.
Eager to explore broader opportunities in the legal field, she currently works with the Growth, Collaboration, and Content team at LawWiser. She brings her legal expertise to the forefront by creating engaging content around law and policy, closely collaborating with the research and editorial teams.
In addition, Alokita is responsible for developing content outlines for various discussions hosted on the LawWiser platform as well as at physical conferences. She is also actively involved in the development of LawWiser Learning courses, contributing to the platform’s expanding knowledge ecosystem.
Why This Report?
The Indian legal industry continues to change, grow and innovate. In this second edition of LawWiser’s GC Insider report, general counsel from a range of industries discuss the challenges of working with external advisers and how they expect the relationship between general counsel and law firms to change in a world increasingly driven by technology and regulation.
The GC Insider 2025
The GC Insider Report 2025 presents valuable insights from 114 in-house counsel, offering a
clear view of what General Counsels expect from external legal advisors. The report
highlights a shift in preferences, emphasizing peer referrals, proven expertise, and sector-
specific experience as key decision-making factors. It explores how GCs now prioritize
business-aligned legal solutions, strategic collaboration, and industry understanding over
traditional legal services alone.
Key themes include:
- Peer referrals and existing work as primary evaluative tools.
- Sector knowledge and commercial awareness driving final law firm selection.
- Rising expectations for law firms to serve as strategic business partners.
- A growing openness to new partnerships, with a majority of GCs engaging new firms
recently. - Diminished reliance on individual partners, with emphasis on consistent quality and
team-based delivery.
This report captures the evolving expectations of GCs and serves as a roadmap for law firms
looking to deepen engagement with in-house legal teams.
2025
Sania
Independent Consultant
Sania is a lawyer who combines her legal expertise with a passion for creating high-impact content. With a background in litigation, Sania has worked with one of India’s leading law firms, a prominent senior advocate, and also served as a research assistant to former Supreme Court Judges.
Alokita
Lawyer and Research Support
Alokita is a Delhi-based lawyer with specialisation in Insolvency and Bankruptcy, with prior experience at one of India’s most prominent and respected law firms.
Eager to explore broader opportunities in the legal field, she currently works with the Growth, Collaboration, and Content team at LawWiser. She brings her legal expertise to the forefront by creating engaging content around law and policy, closely collaborating with the research and editorial teams.
In addition, Alokita is responsible for developing content outlines for various discussions hosted on the LawWiser platform as well as at physical conferences. She is also actively involved in the development of LawWiser Learning courses, contributing to the platform’s expanding knowledge ecosystem.
Why This Report?
The Indian legal industry continues to change, grow and innovate. In this second edition of LawWiser’s GC Insider report, general counsel from a range of industries discuss the challenges of working with external advisers and how they expect the relationship between general counsel and law firms to change in a world increasingly driven by technology and regulation.