The Canadian Legal Innovation Forum and LawyersInHouse.com are launching a free virtual series focused on legal departments’ innovation and operations strategies.

Our recent legal department innovation report (July, 2021) highlighted many common challenges faced by legal departments.

To expand on these learnings from the report, our series will outline key challenges legal departments face when it comes to their operations and innovation strategies. And review concrete ways legal department leaders are addressing them to deliver change and add value to their organizations.

Another goal of the series is to create a platform for innovative in-house practitioners to connect with their peers, share information and experiences and to collaborate to solve common challenges.

To ensure that the content is focused on specific audiences, the virtual series will be in two parts. Part 1 will focus on larger legal departments (above 5 lawyers) and Part 2 on smaller legal departments (5 lawyers or fewer). 

* Note: the legal department summit is free to attend and is limited to in-house lawyers.

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FORMAT

  • 2 x 1.5 hour sessions (October 28th + November 4th)

  • Sessions will include panel discussions from legal department leaders addressing key challenges they are facing. Then, the panels will be followed by smaller working groups from the audience to have collaborative discussions on how best to approach these challenges.

Speakers Include

Larger Legal Departments (> 5 lawyers) - October 28th @ 12pm ET

 
 

Speakers:

Marianne​ Bolhuis, General Counsel + Corporate Secretary, Canadian Olympic Committee

Alice Davidson, Chief Legal Officer, Mogo

Lorne O’Reilly, Lead Counsel, The Dow Chemical Company

Catherine Lau, General Counsel, MEC

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CONTENT

The content of the discussions will focus on the following areas:

  • Managing budgets and demonstrating ROI to other parts of the organization

  • How to move from a lawyer mindset to an executive mindset to add value to the organization

  • How can in-house lawyers be agents for change in their organization and the legal profession?

  • Identifying the right technology to solve the right problem

  • Partnering effectively with external service providers and how to deliver value with fewer resources. 

Accreditation:

Law Society of Ontario: This program contains 3 hours of Professionalism Content.
Law Society of BC: This program is accredited for 3 hours of CPD. 

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Presenting Sponsors:

 

Access to justice partner:

Cambodian Legal Education for Women (CLEW) is a registered charity which has been organized and funded by the Canadian law firm of Bennett Gastle PC. CLEW’s mission is education. CLEW supports young women in Cambodia each year through a four year university law degree.