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Chief Legal Officer Program

Deloitte’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Program connects legal executives with business leaders and innovators to help them master their complex leadership role atop the worlds of law and business by providing actionable insights and cutting-edge resources.

Our latest thinking

Our latest thinking to help CLOs on how to lead, navigate, and disrupt to tackle today's complex legal and business issues.

Resilient CLO podcast: Conversations with legal leaders

A podcast for chief legal officers, legal executives, and in-house counsel.

Nancy Berardinelli-Krantz, chief legal officer of W.W. Grainger, Inc., shares how her experience in the military informed her leadership style as well as her perspective on how leaders drive company culture.

Neil Pasricha—author of The Happiness Equation, The Book of Awesome, and other books—discusses how his journey of overcoming failure and trauma has led him to seek a joy-filled life. Learn five practices that can foster happiness for lawyers and uncover the connection between happiness and resilience.

Data-driven research to help accelerate the future of legal

Insights on legal strategy, operations, and the evolving role of the chief legal officer.

We asked 460 legal executives about various enterprise-wide and legal function-specific topics including transformation, trust, Generative AI, understanding the work and priorities of the legal function, and how that work is accomplished. Respondents were grouped into four geographical clusters--the United States, Europe, Australia, and Canada--to better understand where legal functions around the world are aligned, and where they are not.

Being an in-house counsel is considered by many to be a good job. Could it be better? To find out, we surveyed attorneys working in-house across a range of industries, and 305 of them responded.

How Deloitte can help

Insights and Resources for legal executives to help stay ahead.

Labs

Deloitte's CLO Program offers a suite of customized and immersive Lab experiences for executives in the roles of Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance officer, and Legal Operations Executive. Our Labs are designed to help leaders be more efficient and effective, with a 180-day action plan for addressing their most pressing challenges. The agenda generally focuses on the three most important resources a leader must manage—time, talent, and stakeholder relationships—while focusing on aligning personal priorities with those of the business.

Take Note: Insights to help legal professionals tackle complex legal and business issues

The role of the Chief Legal Officer has become increasingly complex, requiring not only an understanding of corporate law, but strong business and leadership skills. To help CLOs keep pace with the latest developments and trends, we offer the Take Note newsletter, which is designed to assist both in-house and outside counsel in how to lead, navigate, and disrupt to tackle today’s complex legal and business issues.