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Your first 90 days as General Counsel can be daunting, but there are tools to make your transition successful and create lasting impact. This episode digs into those crucial strategies, including how to assess the organization, build key relationships with stakeholders, evaluate your team, and set impactful strategic goals.


Generously sponsored by Robert Half

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The Chief Legal Officer plays a crucial role in any organization, but it is often up to the CLO to prove as much. This video will teach you how to assert your presence and influence effectively, allowing you to confidently integrate yourself into the executive team. Gain essential insights for participating in high-level discussions, building credibility with senior leaders, and contributing valuable legal perspectives.


Generously sponsored by Robert Half

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A legal department’s efficiency and productivity is just as critical as their legal advice. This video offers actionable insights to transform your legal operations procedures and drive success. Learn strategies and best practices for streamlining processes, leveraging technology, and enhancing performance to deliver better results.


Generously sponsored by Robert Half

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You landed the job, but now the real work begins. This session equips in-house counsel with essential tools to navigate the transition, adapt to a new organizational culture, and develop leadership competencies crucial for success in the first crucial months. Gain insights on tailoring your onboarding approach, balancing learning and assertiveness, and overcoming common sticking points to hit the ground running.

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Boost your career and develop important legal and business skills with this ACC toolkit. Find practical tips and information on building essential skills, getting noticed, developing business acumen and executive presence, taking the next step in your career, transitioning to a new role, and growing into a general counsel position.

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Interest Area: Career Development
Region: Global

Join us for a CLE focused on the principals of professionalism, collegiality, and mentorship as they relate to local involvement in the legal community. Hear from local members who will discuss the legal rules and requirements relating to each of their North Carolina organizations. We will also debut a new Charlotte-based Inn of the American Inns of Court sponsored by The Honorable Kara Fernandez Stoll, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  We will have several distinguished panelists speaking in addition to The Honorable Kara Fernandez Stoll listed below.  

 

Thank you to Alston & Bird for sponsoring this CLE. 

Questions: Kathleen Smits at charlotteAED@accglobal.com

All registration links are located in our weekly email.

Join us for an evening panel for senior in-house counsel on the path to the C-suite. This event features a dynamic one-hour panel discussion with industry leaders sharing insights and strategies for career advancement, followed by a one-hour networking reception with appetizers.

The C-suite, short for "chief suite" or "executive suite," refers to the group of top senior executives in an organization.  For in-house lawyers, the C-suite typically includes positions like, Chief Legal Officer (CLO), Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), and General Counsel (GC)  In-house lawyers aspiring to the C-suite aim to take on these top executive roles where they can influence the company's strategic direction and ensure legal and regulatory compliance at the highest level.

Register below to join us at this program and gain valuable knowledge to propel your career forward!

Whether you are new to an in-house counsel role, or the Chief Legal Officer of your organization, ACC has events and resources available for every stage of your career.

Come learn more about ACC's various in-person meetings for in-house counsel including:

  • ACC Annual Meeting
  • Corporate Counsel University
  • Executive Leadership Institute

...and more!

Join ACC for a fireside chat with Joe Pierce, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of AMB Sports & Entertainment, leading legal affairs for the businesses of the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the PGA Superstore.  Hear him talk about his prior experience as General Counsel of the Charlotte Hornets where he worked with owner Michael Jordan. Learn about Joe's commitment to advancing diversity in the legal profession and how his experience with sports has helped him to create a "winning mindset" which guides his leadership of his legal team.  

This session will explore how GCs are striking a balance between how their departments operate efficiently, provide effective advice, enable business growth, and protect the business from risk, particularly in the midst of macroeconomic factors which continue to shift the ground under general counsel, such as a changing regulatory environment, the uncertainty of generative AI (and pressure from CEOs and Boards of Directors to use it), and continued increases in costs for outside counsel.
As a group, we will explore key questions as well as metrics to consider.

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