{"id":154781,"date":"2026-06-15T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/15\/what-makes-external-counsel-valuable-in-2026-insights-from-gcs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:12:59","slug":"what-makes-external-counsel-valuable-in-2026-insights-from-gcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/15\/what-makes-external-counsel-valuable-in-2026-insights-from-gcs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes External Counsel Valuable in 2026? Insights From GCs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deciding when to engage external counsel is becoming more critical as legal budgets tighten and AI reshapes in-house work. Three GCs share how they make the call and ensure advisers deliver value.<\/p>\n

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Deciding when to engage external counsel is becoming more critical as legal budgets tighten and AI reshapes in-house work. Three GCs share how they make the call and ensure advisers deliver value.<\/p>\n

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Deciding when to engage external counsel is becoming more critical as legal budgets tighten and AI reshapes in-house work. Three GCs share how they make the call and ensure advisers deliver value. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Deciding when to engage external counsel is becoming more critical as legal budgets tighten and AI reshapes in-house work. Three GCs share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}