CLO Roundtable – Stepping Up: Your First GC Role In a Time of Widespread Disruption

GC Roundtable: ESG – What Do You Stand For?

This program brings together the GCs of Microsoft, Starbucks and Golden State Foods to discuss how they made ESG and related accountability initiatives a foundational component of their values-based leadership style and a distinguishing means for attracting and then engaging the best talent, who then work harder to assure the right results.

Speakers

• Dev Stahlkopf, CVP and General Counsel, Microsoft
• Rachel Gonzalez, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary, Starbucks
• John Page, SVP, Chief Legal Officer, Golden State Foods
• Carolyn Frantz, Senior Counsel, Orrick

The GC as Advocate in Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs

Most teams work to build a foundation by monitoring and interpreting the regulatory requirements and supporting a culture of compliance within the existing regulatory framework; but only the extraordinary CLO is able to help their client do more than successfully navigate current rules, by anticipating and even shaping emerging government and regulatory requirements that will impact their business. These CLOs assume the role of educator and guide for legislators or regulators who can’t keep up with innovative new products, services, or business models that will impact markets, workers, consumers, the environment, trade, and society in the future.

Speakers

• Craig Silliman, EVP & Chief Administrative, Legal and Public Policy Officer, Verizon
• Louise Pentland, EVP Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer, PayPal
• Frank Jimenez, EVP and General Counsel, Raytheon
• Susan Hackett, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Executive Leadership

Establishing a Strategy and Metrics to Drive Law Department Performance and Results

In this program, leading GCs will discuss how they prioritize, drive, measure, and report the higher value of their law department to their company, as well as how they are setting strategies that will drive legal’s alignment with the business’ strategy, culture and goals.

Speakers

• Savalle Sims, EVP and General Counsel, Discovery
• Dana Rao, General Counsel, EVP, Adobe
• Tonya Robinson, Vice Chair and General Counsel, KPMG
• Susan Hackett, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Executive Leadership

GC Roundtable: Navigating New Frontiers: Partnering with the Business to Drive Innovation

This conversation will focus on the challenges, opportunities, and best practices that top GCs use to steer client innovations that are bending or diverting from well-travelled paths, with a particular focus on how lawyers can partner with clients to accelerate new business advances by co-piloting the plane, even as it’s still being designed and built.

Speakers

• Kerry McLean, EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Intuit
• Wanji Walcott, EVP, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Discover Financial Services
• Todd Machtmes, EVP and General Counsel, Salesforce
• Susan Hackett, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Executive Leadership

GC Roundtable: The General Counsel as Crisis Leader

There is perhaps no greater opportunity to demonstrate your leadership skills and value than when you are able to step forward to help your board, brand, and executive management navigate an entity-threatening crisis. Companies often call upon the unique positioning and skill of the CLO to help them prepare for or manage the legal fall-out of a crisis, and even help “navigate” the company’s response. This conversation brings together leading CLOs who have seen their fair share of crises and will discuss how they’ve taken practical responsibility for remediating the fail, rebuilding the company’s brand, infrastructure, and trustworthiness.

Speakers

• Beong-Soo Kim, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, University of Southern California
• Stasia Kelly, Senior Advisor to the Chair and Executive Director – Client Relations, DLA Piper
• Kristin Campbell, General Counsel & Chief ESG Officer, Hilton
• Susan Hackett, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Executive Leadership

GC Roundtable: The General Counsel as Risk Advisor

Conversations about corporate compliance – long deemed to be one of the primary values of an in-house team – have largely focused on implementing preventive best practices, training and systems; but the trending conversation and skill set in recent years places an increasing focus on the legal department’s ability to engage in risk assessment and enterprise risk management (ERM) initiatives.

Today, breakthrough discussions on risk issues are increasingly likely to dominate the general counsel’s agenda, elevated above the daily compliance routines. These conversations engage the general counsel in their role as an advisor and influencer with the leadership team, often with greater impact than many other forms of legal counsel a GC provides.

This conversation brings together leading general counsel from Prudential Financial, HP Inc. and Mars Incorporated to explore this evolving role of the GC as risk advisor.

Speakers

• Stefanie Straub, Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Mars Incorporated
• Harvey Anderson, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, HP Inc.
• Ann Kappler, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Prudential Financial
• Susan Hackett, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Executive Leadership