86% of GCs say legal contributes significantly. Only 17% of the C-suite agrees. A new TRI video series unpacks the gap and what GCs are doing about it.

Most research reports are built from one-time interviews — a single conversation, a single data point, done. This video is about what happens when you don’t do it that way.

Yasmin O’Brien leads the team that interviews general counsel globally for the State of the Corporate Law Department report, and in this installment she talks about what comes from talking to the same GCs regularly rather than just once. It’s less about any single statistic and more about the kind of insight that only shows up over repeated conversations — the patterns you’d miss if you were only ever meeting someone for the first time.

It’s a good companion to the earlier video on research methodology. That one covered who’s in the sample and how it’s built. This one gets at something a survey alone can’t capture: how a GC’s thinking shifts year over year, and what that continuity reveals about where the role is actually heading.

Catch the rest of the videos in this series here.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Corporate Legal