The Corporate Counsel Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section is presenting a CLE Program at the Business Law Section’s Hybrid Spring Meeting. The program is co-sponsored by 45 additional Committees of the Business Law Section. The program is entitled “How to Maximize the Value and Reduce the Cost of Post-Pandemic Corporate Legal Services” and it is scheduled for Friday, April 1, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
At the program, eight General Counsel of major corporations will provide practical advice and strategies. This program is designed to help business lawyers do their jobs better and faster. The program will focus on improving the quality and maximizing the value of legal services for corporate clients. The panelists will engage in a candid discussion about how in-house counsel and law firms can build strong client relationships while enhancing their corporate clients’ bottom line. The program will identify significant challenges which delivery of corporate legal services presents and will show business lawyers how to select and implement value maximizing strategies which address those challenges as effectively as possible. The format for the program will be a 90 minute interactive panel discussion in which the panelists will respond to questions from the moderator. This format is intended to encourage a lively give and take among the panelists, the moderator, and the audience.
The program will address the following three topics:
- How law firms and in-house counsel can work together to improve the quality of corporate legal services in the post-pandemic world.
- How in-house and outside counsel can assist their corporate client in minimizing financial liability, regulatory risk, and reputational harm arising from legal matters in the post-pandemic era.
- How in-house and outside counsel can assist their corporate client in managing and staffing post-pandemic legal matters cost-effectively.
The Chair of this program is Robert L. Haig of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in New York. The panelists include Norman M. Brothers, Jr., Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary, United Parcel Service, Inc.; Dorian E. Daley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Oracle Corporation; Lucy Fato, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Global Head of Communications and Government Affairs, American International Group, Inc.; D. Cameron Findlay, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company; Mary Beth Gustafsson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, ITT Inc.; Sandra Leung, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Deborah P. Majoras, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, The Procter & Gamble Company; and Amy Tu, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, Global Governance and Corporate Affairs, Tyson Foods, Inc.