How Good a Head of Legal Are You, Really?
Fifty questions across ten competencies and the four faces of a modern head of legal — Counsel, Protector, Operator, Partner. Behavioral and scenario-based, not flattery. About 15 minutes. Built for the people who run the legal function: sound craft, real protection, an efficient operation, and a pragmatic partnership that finds the path to yes.
What this assessment measures
10 competencies across the 4 faces of the Head of Legal role — Counsel, Protector, Operator, Partner — built on the Legal leadership: counsel, protection, operations, partnership. Five questions each: scenarios, honest reads and forced choices designed to resist self-flattery.
Counsel
The legal craft — expertise, contracts and disputes.
- Legal Expertise & Judgment — Deep, current expertise and the judgment to give practical, defensible advice.
- Contracts & Commercial — Drafts and negotiates robust, balanced contracts that protect and enable the business.
- Disputes & Litigation — Manages disputes and litigation shrewdly — settles or fights on the merits and the economics.
Protector
Legal risk, IP and corporate governance.
- Legal Risk & Preventive Law — Spots and heads off legal risk early; preventive, not just reactive.
- IP & Asset Protection — Protects the company’s intellectual property and key legal assets deliberately.
- Corporate Governance & Compliance — Sound entity governance, corporate housekeeping and regulatory compliance.
Operator
Legal operations and managing outside counsel.
- Legal Operations & Efficiency — An efficient, tech-enabled legal function — fast, measured, not a bottleneck.
- Outside Counsel & Spend — Directs outside counsel to value and controls legal spend deliberately.
Partner
Business partnering and leadership.
- Business Partnering — A pragmatic partner who finds the path to yes, not the department of no.
- Team & Leadership — A strong legal bench; a trusted, influential voice with leadership.
How the score reads
- Emerging (0–34) — Foundations forming — operating below a full legal-leadership mandate today.
- Developing (35–51) — Real strengths with clear, nameable gaps before a top legal seat.
- Established (52–67) — A solid, credible head of legal across the four faces.
- Advanced (68–82) — A strong legal leader operating ahead of the role.
- World-class (83–100) — A world-class head of legal — protection and enablement in equal measure.
What you get
- An overall score out of 100 and a maturity level
- Your Head of Legal archetype — the honest read on how you lead today
- A 10-competency radar across the faces above
- What companies actually demand from Head of Legal hires, from real job postings, against your profile
- A personalized AI analysis and development roadmap, delivered by email with a print-ready PDF report
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