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Using Business Skills: A Necessary Tool to Advance Your In-House Career (Checklist)
Association of Corporate Counsel
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Do you know how crucial business skills are to your career as in-house counsel? Consider the key issues below in planning your career. The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), prepared this checklist utilizing information presented in the webcast titled “The Necessity of Business Skills for Advancing In-Housel Legal Professionals” (October 6, 2021). The webcast, presented by King’s Business School in partnership with ACC, highlights how the skills and language of business can elevate your skillset and position you for future success.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Career Development, Law Department Management
Region: Global
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
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Join Michael Schmidt, vice chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Labor & Employment Department and co-office managing partner of the firm’s New York office, and Dr. Christina Carson-Sacco, a clinical psychologist and a partner with The Center for Neuropsychology and Counseling, P.C., for a discussion on occupational and intellectual well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include the importance of keeping a routine to achieve better work-life balance; recognizing rational and irrational fears from the media; and why sleep is so important for your well-being.

FREE for ACC NYC Members and non-members (must be in-house counsel).



ADVANCE REGISTRATION NOTICE- Please note that advance registration is required for ACC NYC Webinars. Unless otherwise noted, registration will end three hours prior to the event start time. This enables us to administrate best practices for our virtual events. Thank you for your cooperation!

AGENDA:

  • Session I – 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Dechert)

  • BREAK – 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

  • Session II – 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Cozen)

  • BREAK – 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

  • Session III – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Faegre Drinker)

Session I — Tackling Carve-Out M&A Transactions

With asset values soaring, companies are selling off business lines or parts of their business as a way to unlock value while retaining other parts of their business.  In this session, a panel of knowledgeable in-house and law firm practitioners will share insights gleaned from executing these carve-out transactions, which often present complications not encountered when selling a business as a whole.  The panelists will review key issues that arise during the planning, negotiation and implementation phases, including:  1) preparation and documentation; 2) investigation/due diligence areas of focus; 3) allocation of assets and liabilities; and 4) separation and transition matters.

Session II — Successful & Meaningful Partnerships: Developing Bonds With Your Outside Counsel

The demands on your time, your short- and long-term business goals, and much of your day-to-day responsibilities are vastly different when you practice law as an in-house lawyer.  This program will suggest best practices to employ when partnering with outside counsel so that you can address the needs of your internal clients as a cohesive team.  The panel will also discuss the latest diversity, equity, and inclusion developments impacting the legal industry and corporate America, exploring how outside counsel and in-house counsel can work together to support the movement toward a more equitable future.

Session III — Pre-litigation and Litigation Risk Management: Preparing Company Witnesses for Effective Deposition Testimony

This program will help guide companies through the pre-litigation and litigation risk management of preparing company witnesses for effective deposition testimony.  From the earliest stages of litigation, companies must be preparing their key company witnesses for effective testimony, including the process of testifying, the substance of their testimony, handling aggressive cross-examination (including the “Reptile Theory”) and preparing an effective direct examination.  Don't let your unprepared witness become your opponent's best witness.

Click on the registration button to RSVP for this event.  Use the Zoom credentials below to join in the webinar.

 

https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/93933779659?pwd=ZmNkdngvQlBmMnhFZVl3NlZvR3dnQT09
Passcode: 620286

Understand Your Organization’s Risk Tolerance: Practical Tips for In-house Counsel
the Association of Corporate Counsel
1 pages

Check out a practical checklist with tips to for in-house counsel to better understand and align with their company's risk tolerance.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts, Career Development, Compliance and Ethics
Collection: Contract Negotiation Skills
Region: Global
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Contract Negotiation Checklist: Practical Tips for In-house Counsel
the Association of Corporate Counsel
1 pages

Check out a list of practical negotiation tips for in-house counsel.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts, Career Development
Collection: Contract Negotiation Skills
Region: Global
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Finding Your Seat at the Table as a Woman in the Middle East Checklist
Association of Corporate Counsel
1 pages

This checklist includes key issues to consider for the in-house legal career journey of women in the Middle East. This checklist was prepared by the Association of Corporate Counsel, based mainly on the ACC Webcast titled Finding Your Seat at the Table as a Woman in the Middle East (March 23, 2021) - a webcast delivered by leading GCs in the region along with ACC Women In the House (WITH) and ACC Middle East & North Africa about their career journeys and their recommendations for creating the environment to support more women in finding their seat at the table.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Diversity and Inclusion, Career Development
Region: Middle East
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House
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We’d love for you to join us at Shutters on the Beach for an engaging discussion on the relationship between well-being and success.

Our diverse panel of experts includes celebrity fitness trainer Lacey Stone, licensed clinical psychologist and mental health expert Dr. Lauren Cook, and Jill Kalliomaa, Senior Legal Counsel for the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research and Co-Creator and Co-Chair of the ACC Southern California Chapter's Attorney Well-Being Committee. Each panelist will share her story and offer advice on how you can incorporate well-being into your career and personal life.
 
As we continue to navigate through these unprecedented times, nurturing well-being is more important than ever. Well-being is not only linked to productivity and profitability but also higher life satisfaction. Themes to be covered at this event will include lawyer burnout, self-care, physical activity, and mental health. Attendees will walk away with a better insight on well-being in practice, including tips they can use in their busy lives.

Enjoy an interactive panel discussion and mingle with our guest speakers and other professionals over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!

In order to ensure our community’s safety, we require that all guests be fully vaccinated, absent a medical reason making vaccination inadvisable or a sincerely held religious belief. 

We are monitoring CDC, state, and local guidance and will notify you of any changes to our safety procedures as we approach the event date.

Tips for Dealing with Adversity, Crises, and Failure
Association of Corporate Counsel

Learn how to deal with adversity and negative feelings that can lead a person to question their self-worth.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Career Development
Region: Global
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC, Legal Operations, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments

Babst Calland’s Managing Shareholder Don Bluedorn will moderate a panel of local in-house counsel who have successfully transitioned in their organizations from legal positions to business positions.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Ohio Ethics Laws applicable to in house counsel and will include relevant and timely examples to help polish your skillset and refresh your knowledge on ethical dilemmas and issues that may arise in your day to day practice.

AGENDA
1:45pm – 2:00pm Zoom waiting room opens
2:00pm – 3:30pm Program
[Total credit 1.5 hours]

CREDITS
1.5 CLE (This course has been submitted for approval by the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 total ethics/conduct CLE hours).

SPEAKERS
Jazmyn Stover, Partner, Fisher Phillips LLP, jstover@fisherphillips.com                            
Lauren Tompkins, Associate, Fisher Phillips LLP, ltompkins@fisherphillips.com 
Chris Klasa, Assistant Bar Counsel, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

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