12:00 pm - 12:50 pm Registration + Lunch

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12:50 pm - 1:00 pm Opening Remarks

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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: TALENT: The people puzzle - how are law firms, legal departments and sector service providers attracting, developing and retaining talent in an era of change

The legal market is witnessing an unprecedented shift when it comes to talent. Lawyers are changing firms, moving in-house, to alternative legal service providers and in some cases moving out of the profession entirely. This is having a significant impact on the shape of the sector and promises to continue to do so for years to come.

On this panel, we’ll review the following:

• What are the key drivers and trends shaping the battle for talent in the legal sector?

• What are law firms, legal departments and sector service providers doing to attract, develop and retain talent in a dynamic marketplace?

• Portfolio careers. What types of new career paths are available to lawyers versus traditional ones?

• Passion, purpose and generational change. A new generation of lawyers is taking the reins in the legal sector. Purpose driven, portfolio careers must be matched with authentic organizational values (flexibility, diversity and inclusion, collaboration). What does this mean for the legal profession moving forward?

Speakers:

Shauna Fulbright-Paxton, Division Counsel - Labour + Employment, Abbott Laboratories

Brooke Loucks, Director, Brand and Communications, McDermott Will & Emery

Beth Solomon, SVP & Deputy General Counsel, Pathward, N.A.

Amol Bargaje, Global Chief Innovation Officer, Mayer Brown

Neil Araujo, Co-Founder + CEO, iManage

Chair: Kevin Clem, Chief Growth Officer, HBR Consulting

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2:05 pm - 3:05 pm: LEADERSHIP: Leading at the intersection of business and law - how are leading lawyers driving value in their organizations?

In a complex operating environment, legal leadership plays a critical role in helping guide organizations’ approaches to risk management as well as growth.

Areas such as corporate governance and ESG, privacy, compliance and flexible organizational strategy are all at the top of the corporate agenda. And for organizations and law firms, having an effective and empowered legal team coupled with an optimized and innovative approaches to address these and other areas is key.

On this panel, our speakers - legal leaders from the Midwest - will look at how their roles are evolving in terms of the challenges they are facing, how they are aligning their teams with their broader organizations and how they are acting as agents of change.

Topics covered will include:

• Drivers and trends for legal leaders in a complex operating environment.

• Examples of how lawyers’ roles and legal departments are evolving to meet mission critical needs of their organizations and what these challenges are.

• How are legal departments evolving their strategies and engaging with the wider legal ecosystem to better align with the business to both manage risk and drive growth?

Speakers:

Douglas Barnard, General Counsel and Secretary, CF Industries

Kruti Trivedi, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Dennis Garcia, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft

Vania Montero Wit, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, United Airlines

Trisha Cole, General Counsel + COO, Medtelligent

Chair: Stuart Douglass, Vice President, iManage

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3:05 pm - 3:25 pm Networking Break

3:25 pm - 4:25 pm: RISK: Mastering Digital Risk - how to define, develop and implement a strategy to navigate emerging digital risks

Managing digital risk is at the top of many corporate agendas. The explosion of use of collaborative technologies and the attendant data trails left by them, managing complex entity structures, evolving privacy rules and breaches are all examples of the critical importance of having a robust digital risk mitigation strategy in place.

For legal departments and their advisors - increased digital risk equals increased legal risk - especially as they relate to accelerating regulatory scrutiny and compliance.

On this panel, our speakers will look at how they are assessing and addressing present and emerging digital risks.

Topics covered will include:

• Key drivers + trends when it comes to digital risk - data breaches, know your customer (KYC), ultimate beneficial owner (UBO), privacy rules and complex entity management

• How to develop and define an organization wide strategy to address digital risk and the role that legal departments play in supporting them

• Delivering a digital risk mitigation strategy across the organization. Best practices in leveraging people, process and technology to manage risks? How to work cross departmentally and with 3rd parties to support these strategies.

Speakers:

Daniel Farris, Partner-in-Charge, Chicago, Norton Rose Fulbright

David R. Cohen, Partner (Chair Records + E-Discovery Group), Reed Smith

Ashley S.A. Jackson, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Olive AI, Inc

Adrian Camara, Chief Executive Officer, Athennian

Chair: Stephanie Curcio, CEO + Co-Founder, NLPatent

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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: LEGAL OPERATIONS: Mastering change management - how to deliver change in your legal department

In order to effect change in organizations, effective execution is key. On this panel our speakers - legal operations leaders - will review how to define, develop and implement a change management strategy in legal departments..

Topics covered will include:

• Foundations of change management in legal departments. What fundamentals need to be in place for successful change management initiatives to succeed in legal departments and their wider organizations?

• Frameworks to approach change management initiatives in your legal department to drive change in your wider organization. Including how to build consensus, put the right teams in place, enhance processes, apply metrics to change management and choose the right technology.

• How is legal operations acting as a catalyst for change in the legal ecosystem?

Speakers:

Curtis Batterton, Director of Global Legal Technology + Innovation, McDonald’s

Adina Newman, Associate Counsel, Legal Innovation & Operations, Con Edison (Former)

Adam Rouse, Sr. Counsel and Director of eDiscovery Operations, Walgreens

Jonathan Johnson-Swagel, Senior Legal and Business Operations Manager, Uber

Tiffany Epps Brown, Senior Consultant, Legal Operations, Aecom

Chair: Kim Craig, Co-founder, Bold Duck Studio

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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Closing Remarks + Networking Reception