Career Development

AGENDA

5:30pm – 6:00pm Registration, networking, sign up for headshots

6:00pm – 6:20pm Brief chapter meeting

6:30pm – 7:00pm Professional development presentation

7:00pm - 8:00pm   Headshots, networking

OVERVIEW
After attendees vote on the 2025-2026 ACC NEO Board of Directors slate, please enjoy a short professional development presentation: Three speakers in the talent placement industry will discuss hiring trends among corporate legal departments, national trends, and observations from the NEO region. Insights from both the employer and employee perspectives will also be provided. There will be time for Q+A and personal conversations with the presenter afterwards.

The Chapter will also offer free professional headshots to attendees.

Attendees must abide by ACC NEO's Event Code of Conduct.

Questions? Contact
ACC NEO Executive Director
neoh@accglobal.com

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At the Northeast Ohio (ACC NEO) chapter level, event sponsors/hosts are provided the name, title, and company of all attendees. ACC NEO never provides or sells member emails, phone numbers, or addresses to sponsors or any other external audiences.

Stop defining yourself by your accomplishments, your positions / titles, the companies you’ve worked for or the things you’re good at but don’t enjoy.  Too often we want to talk about our hardest, most onerous work like a badge of honor.  What if, instead, we could talk about where we have thrived the most, where we were on our game, having fun!   What if we could define our personal brand as who we are when we are on fire vs. who we are in our mediocrity!  Learn how to put words around your strengths, values and gifts and what’s meaningful about your work. Your eyes will sparkle when you do!  You’ll show up more confident, more authentic and clearer on the value you bring!  When you know what makes you thrive and the conditions that allow you to thrive, it’s easier to find the RIGHT job for you!!   

The Legal Innovation Forum is bringing its flagship forum to Atlanta in September 2025.

This half-day forum is centered on its unifying theme: Navigating disruption in a risk-on era.

The legal ecosystem and the broader business world are undergoing a profound transformation driven by a wealth of factors including the rapid rise of generative AI, financial pressure, political unrest, globalization, shifting client expectations, and increasing risk and regulatory complexity.

Generational shifts, evolving workplace dynamics, and conflicting perspectives between legal professionals and their third party partners are creating further challenges, while also presenting new opportunities for collaboration and innovation within the legal ecosystem. 

This year’s forum will shine a light on the dynamics at play at the intersection of business, innovation and law, and will reveal the skills needed to be successful in the evolving legal profession. By combining legal acumen with business awareness, tech expertise and emotional intelligence, legal professionals will redefine the industry and deliver more innovative, client-centered solutions.

This program originally aired on July 31, 2025. Please note that the on-demand format of this program is not eligible for CLE/CPD credit.

In-house legal professionals are more than advisors—they’re strategic leaders. This dynamic webinar will explore how personal branding and influence can elevate your impact, visibility, and career. Hear from seasoned legal leaders as they share real-world strategies, lessons learned, and tools for building your brand authentically—both inside your organization and across your network. Whether you're climbing the ladder or looking to lead from where you are, this session will help you position yourself for influence and opportunity.

Topics

1. Why Influence Matters
   • Why personal brand and internal influence are strategic assets
2. Personal Brand in Practice: How We Built Ours
   • Tactics used to define and project their brand (internally and externally)
   • Mistakes made and lessons learned along the way
3. Making Yourself Visible Without Being Self-Promotional
   • Strategies for subtle self-advocacy and internal visibility
   • Communicating your value to non-legal stakeholders
   • Leveraging internal wins to grow reputation
4. LinkedIn, Leadership, and Leverage: Career Opportunities Through Branding
   • Using LinkedIn and networking to create inbound opportunities
   • How branding helped panelists navigate job transitions or promotions
   • Advice for in-house lawyers at different stages of their careers

Presented by:

Are you curious about how your compensation stacks up against your peers in the in-house legal world? Do you wonder what truly drives job satisfaction for legal professionals today? 

Join us to gain exclusive insights into the key findings from a comprehensive compensation survey focused on in-house counsel and legal operations professionals. 

In this webinar, you'll gain insights into: 

• Current Compensation Benchmarks: Get the latest data on base salaries, short-term incentives (STI), and long-term incentives (LTI) for in-house legal roles. 

• Merit Increase Trends: Understand typical merit increase percentages and they have varied over time. 

• Job Satisfaction Drivers: Learn what aspects of their roles contribute most to overall satisfaction (and dissatisfaction!). 

• Remote Work Realities: Explore prevailing remote working arrangements and how they have changed year-over-year. 

Whether you're an in-house legal professional looking to benchmark your career, a legal ops leader strategizing your team's compensation, or simply interested in the evolving landscape of corporate legal departments, this Webcast will invaluable data and actionable insights. 

Generously sponsored by Empsight

In-house legal professionals are more than advisors—they’re strategic leaders. This dynamic webinar will explore how personal branding and influence can elevate your impact, visibility, and career. Hear from seasoned legal leaders as they share real-world strategies, lessons learned, and tools for building your brand authentically—both inside your organization and across your network. Whether you're climbing the ladder or looking to lead from where you are, this session will help you position yourself for influence and opportunity.

Topics

1. Why Influence Matters
   • Why personal brand and internal influence are strategic assets
2. Personal Brand in Practice: How We Built Ours
   • Tactics used to define and project their brand (internally and externally)
   • Mistakes made and lessons learned along the way
3. Making Yourself Visible Without Being Self-Promotional
   • Strategies for subtle self-advocacy and internal visibility
   • Communicating your value to non-legal stakeholders
   • Leveraging internal wins to grow reputation
4. LinkedIn, Leadership, and Leverage: Career Opportunities Through Branding
   • Using LinkedIn and networking to create inbound opportunities
   • How branding helped panelists navigate job transitions or promotions
   • Advice for in-house lawyers at different stages of their careers

Presented by: