General Counsel Conference East (GCC East) 2026 pairs cross-border and regulatory subjects with contracts, AI, and legal leadership. The ALM program includes counsel from Freepoint Commodities, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Church & Dwight, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

GCC East 2026 Overview

Detail	General Counsel Conference East 2026
Dates	November 9 to 10, 2026
Venue	New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave., New York, NY 10019
Organizer	ALM, publisher of Corporate Counsel
Format	Two-day, in-person conference
In-House Counsel Rate	US$645 through October 16
Outside Counsel Rate	US$1,175 through October 16
Vendor and Consultant Rate	US$2,250

GCC East Agenda Highlights

The agenda moves between cross-border advice, contracts, AI, legal operations, and ethics. A few of the listed sessions show the range.

Cross-Border Advice and Outside Counsel

At 10:10 a.m. on November 9, “Shaping New International Economic Order: Counseling Industry on Trade, Technology, and Investment in a Fragmented World” addresses trade, technology, and investment across a fragmented market. The same time block includes “The Outside Counsel AI Reckoning.”

Contracts, Privilege, and Tool Selection

At 11:40 a.m., “Tariffs, Force Majeure, and the Contracts Caught in the Middle” connects trade conditions to contract risk, while “Privilege on the Line: What AI Does to Your Most Important Protection” focuses on AI and privilege.

At 1:40 p.m., “Picking the Right Tools Without a Painful Rollout: How to Select and Vet Legal Tech That Actually Delivers” turns to tool selection. A 2:50 p.m. roundtable, “The Power User Gap: How Lawyers Can Close It and Get Twice the Value From AI,” takes up adoption and proficiency.

Risk, Legal Operations, and Department Leadership

On November 10, the listed program includes “Regulating the Future: AI, Data, and the New Risk Landscape” at 9:00 a.m., “Small Team, Big Mandate: How Lean Legal Departments Win” at 11:20 a.m., and “Legal Ops, Done Right: A Blueprint for Creating Value” at 1:20 p.m.

The 2:30 p.m. “Holding the Line: Ethics, AI, and Well-Being in a Profession Under Pressure” closes the day with professional responsibility and well-being.

Bring a question about a workflow, policy, or measurement problem your department is trying to solve.

Start with what the tool should do reliably: citations, Word support, security, and team fit, the criteria in a legal AI tools comparison. Then ask how the department would know it is helping: response time, quality, spend, and capacity, the measures in corporate legal department metrics.

GC AI at GCC East 2026

GC AI will be at GCC East on November 9 and 10. Our sessions on tool selection, AI privilege, adoption, and legal operations give in-house counsel concrete questions to bring into a conversation about responsible AI use. GC AI is an enterprise legal AI platform built for in-house teams.

As of October 2026, 2,200+ legal teams, including 300+ public companies, use GC AI. Legal teams at TIME, Nestlé, and SKIMS are among them.

If you are comparing tools, bring a recurring task to a conversation with the team. We can walk through what your instructions require, what the platform prepares, what the lawyer would check, and what you would measure.

The conference's ethics and privilege sessions also make a natural follow-up to GC AI's legal AI courses, including Legal AI Ethics for In-House Legal, a 60-minute live class that connects ABA Formal Opinion 512 to privilege, confidentiality, verification, and supervision.

If you want to see that workflow before the conference, watch the demo below and bring your questions to New York.