What defines the CLO’s role and distinguishes the general counsel from other senior in-house legal executives on the team? What is the larger purpose of the legal department as a business function within the corporate enterprise? Whether you are visioning your path to your first role as the department’s top leader, or you’ve just been awarded your first CLO seat and are thinking about how to establish a distinguishing and highly valued service strategy, this event is designed to share insights, tips and lessons learned about how to move beyond lawyering to assume the mantle of leadership as a corporate executive.
General Counsel,
Google
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary,
Square
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary,
Agilent Technologies
Chief Executive Officer,
Legal Executive Leadership
Chief Legal Officer,
Uber
Founder,
In-House Focus
General Counsel,
Ironclad
General Counsel,
Flynn Restaurant Group
General Counsel,
Everlaw
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary,
Rothy’s
Managing Director, Consulting,
Elevate Services
VP, Global Legal Operations,
Equinix
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
CLOs from Google, Square and Agilent will share insights, tips and lessons learned about how to develop the leadership and executive skillset you’ll need to get the job and succeed in the role and move beyond lawyering to assume the mantle of leadership as a corporate executive.
Halimah DeLaine Prado, General Counsel,
Google
Sivan Whiteley, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary,
Square
Michael Tang, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary,
Agilent Technologies
Susan Hackett (moderator), CEO, Legal Executive Leadership
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
In this exclusive interview, Andrew Dick, the founder of In-House Focus will sit down with Tony West, Chief Legal Officer of Uber, to explore the evolving role of the Chief Legal Officer and to understand the type of skillset that this new role may require. Mr. West will share his insights on how the CLO can and should play an integral leadership role when it comes to managing a corporate crisis. We will also discuss how the CLO should think about and quantify risk and how to effectively communicate risk to the board or management.
Tony West, Chief Legal Officer, Uber
Andrew Dick, Founder, In-House Focus
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Attendees will have the option to choose between these two dynamic sessions:
In this GC roundtable discussion, four esteemed general counsel who oversee small(ish) legal departments will share their insights on how to effectively scale a small legal department. The panel will explore a range of topics including (i) how to get budget for headcount, (ii) hiring strategies, (iii) how to approach legal tech and legal operations solutions and (iv) mistakes made and lessons learned along the way.
Speakers
Chris Young, General Counsel, Ironclad
Jacqueline Lee, General Counsel, Flynn Restaurant Group
Shana Simmons, General Counsel, Everlaw
Marie Satterfield, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Rothy’s
Advances in technology and thinking have radically remade how lawyers “do” law and how law firms and law departments operate. Succeeding as a modern lawyer now requires being able to “do” change. Succeeding at change requires a mind-set and a method. During this thought leadership session, Kimberly DeVico, Managing Director, Consulting at Elevate and Monica Andrews, VP, Global Legal Operations at Equinix highlight the change management and influencing skills of being a leaders within their organizations, along with real examples and the concepts and best practices behind them.
Speakers
Kimberly DeVico, Managing Director, Consulting, Elevate Services
Monica Andrews, VP, Global Legal Operations, Equinix
The companies below are valued partners of In-House Focus. We have carefully selected this curated group of companies in order to present a range of innovative solutions that offer a unique value proposition to corporate legal departments. Please take a moment to visit each of the companies below.
Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies.
Helping to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of legal work.
SimpleLegal provides a modern legal operations management solution that streamlines the way corporate legal departments manage their matters, track and interpret spend, and collaborate with vendors and law firms.
Tonkean is the Operating System for Business Operations, a no-code platform that enables legal and other operations teams to rapidly increase efficiency of their processes while minimizing change management.
Onna is a Knowledge Integration Platform on a mission to make enterprise information accessible, useful, and private.
NetDocuments is the leading cloud-based document management platform for legal professionals to create, edit, store, locate, and collaborate.
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This event is approved for 2 hours of CLE credit in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, MN, MS, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV and WI. |
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