2019 Corporate Counsel Institute Program and Schedule:
The 2019 Corporate Counsel Institute will take place on Friday, August 9 from 1:30pm to 5:00pm, immediately following the Corporate Counsel Luncheon Program (12:30 – 1:30pm). The luncheon and Institute is open to all in-house counsel and details are listed below. If you are interested in attending, please contact our Director of Development, Seth Rosen.
Please note that this programming is open to in-house counsel only.
| 12:30 - 1:30pm [Lunch Provided] | [Corporate Counsel Luncheon Program] ACC Presents: Building a Diverse Leadership Pipeline and Disrupting General Counsel Demographics Simply put, general counsel of Fortune 500 companies are sorely lacking in diversity and fail to reflect society. Empowering diverse, rising stars in legal departments to become general counsel has never been more important. It is imperative that legal departments, in cooperation with external organizations, develop succession plans and talent management initiatives with diversity in mind. Join this panel of in-house counsel dedicated to increasing diversity among Fortune 500 general counsel to explore not only the importance of diversity at the general counsel level, but how we can achieve a more balanced representation. Moderator: Ramsey Robert Saleeby, Association of Corporate Counsel |
| 1:30 - 1:35pm | Break |
| 1:35 - 2:35pm | Artificial Intelligence Law for In-House Counsel Moderator: Joann Mazur Kielblock, Vice President and Corporate Counsel, The Prudential Insurance Company of America Speakers: Huu Nguyen, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP Sandra Kirsch, formerly of KPMG Madiha Jafri, PhD, Lockheed Martin Adam Nguyen, eBrevia, Inc. |
| 2:35 - 2:40pm | Break |
| 2:40 - 3:40pm | Transcending Gender: Helping Your Organization Prepare for an Increasingly Non-Binary World Is your company collecting gender information for its employees or even your customers? If so, is the collection binary (male/female)? If you answered yes to either of these questions, your company may need to do some rethinking. While federal laws are stuck in the male/female paradigm, the ground is shifting at the state and local level. This session will cover the following key areas, in addition to your questions: How did we get here? We’ll discuss why organizations capture gender information in the first place and whether they need to keep doing so; Where do we go from here? We’ll cover the increasing tension between federal reporting requirements and progressive state and local reforms, and discuss what options are available to organizations that want to move beyond binary data collection. We’ll also cover practical, every-day concerns like best practices regarding gender non-binary staff, preferred pronouns, facilities usage, privacy, and communications strategy. Moderator: Jason Prussman, ADP, LLC Speakers: Michelle E. Phillips, Jackson Lewis P.C. Cameron Cloar-Zavaleta, Alaska Airlines Megan Morey, ADP, LLC |
| 3:40 - 3:45pm | Break |
| 3:45 - 4:45pm | How to Build (or Optimize) a Legal Operations Function Speakers: Laura Maechtlen, Seyfarth Shaw LLP Jen Warner, Columbia Sportswear Company Lisa Damon, Seyfarth Shaw LLP Kunor Chopra, Elevate |
| 4:45 - 5:00pm | Wrap Up |