The L Suite: Inhouse Community + Legal AI

This week’s special AL TV interview is with L Suite co-founders Greg Raiten and Kiran Lingam. We explore, among other topics, how this inhouse community shares notes on what legal tech tools to buy and which law firms to use, and where GCs are now with AI.

To watch, please press Play, or you can also go direct to the AL TV Channel. And you can find more about the L Suite here.

Key topics

• We discuss how the L Suite started in 2015 as Tech GC, a curated dinner series for venture-backed startup and fund GCs, before expanding into a broader community for in-house lawyers.
• Greg Raiten explains that the L Suite now covers more than just GCs, including deputy, counsel, and legal ops tiers, plus enterprise GC and VC GC communities.
• Kiran Lingam shares scale details: roughly 2,200 general counsels and legal team members, plus 500 plus events a year across the US, London, and other international hubs.
• The conversation covers the blend of in-person networking and online collaboration, which Greg describes as the core value of the community.
• In-house education is a major part of the model, with many events recorded for on-demand viewing and CLE credit.
• The L Suite’s private member platform is used for peer recommendations on outside counsel, contract lifecycle management tools, and other legal tech.
• Greg and Kiran explain what the platform’s AI tool, Lloyd, does.
• The discussion highlights how peer intelligence in the community is highly contextual and unbiased because it is private, in-house only, and not supported by ads.
• Kiran introduces Top Council, an anonymized public version of the community’s recommendation layer.
• The monetization model is straightforward: annual paid memberships plus sponsor-supported content and events.
• The AI conversation focuses on where value is actually being captured today, especially contract playbooks built from historical company data, intake workflows, and other process-heavy use cases.
• Whether law firms and in-house teams are seeing meaningful cost savings yet, and Kiran says the universal answer in one recent call was no.
• The group discusses how some companies are bringing work back in-house when AI makes it faster and cheaper, including M&A diligence.
• Greg argues that AI is pushing legal work back toward judgment rather than process, while Kiran says the fastest gains are still in repeatable work.
• The interview closes on NewMod law firms, with both guests saying members are excited about them.

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Legal Innovators New York and also Legal Innovators UK, this November

Come and join us in New York and London this November at Legal Innovators! 

Legal Innovators UK – London, Nov 4 and 5

And, then Legal Innovators New York – Nov 17 and 18.

After another fantastic Legal Innovators California, where we had speakers from OpenAI, Y Combinator, Google, Meta, and many more pioneering organisations; and our stellar inaugural event in Paris this June, we are now looking forward to the landmark conferences in London and New York, both in November, and both across two days: Law Firm Day, and Inhouse Day. 

• Legal Innovators UK – London, Nov 4 and 5
• Legal Innovators New York – Nov 17 and 18