APRIL 18 - 19 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - Legal 500 · ... Heads of Legal and their teams can best become part of the business ... Project management and business ... How data can

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WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Catherine McGregor (Editor-in-chief, GC Magazine/Publishing Director In-House, The Legal 500)Alex Novarese (Editor-in-chief, Legal Business, The In-House Lawyer)David Burgess (Publishing Director, The Legal 500 Series)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

‘Are you an innovative GC?’ Karen DillonKaren will use innovation as a way of talking about how in-house teams see their job, their relationships and their deliverables.

Tom SagerIn an interactive question-and-answer session, Tom will consider the interrelationship of process efficiency, project management and talent management in producing a leaner and more effective legal team, whose goals are effectively aligned to that of the C-suite. Tom will draw on his years of experience running a legal team that consistently broke new frontiers in regards to these metrics.

Moderated and summarised by Catherine McGregor

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The board discussion: what I want from my legal team Ellis WatsonEllis Watson has previously served as CEO of Syco Entertainment Group, CEO of Celador and managing director of Mirror Group Newspapers. He has also held board roles at Menzies and First Group.

Ellis will be sharing his perspective on how the in-house lawyers were fundamental to the success of the business, and examples of where they were not. He will highlight ways in which GCs can make an impact with the legal role in their companies from a CEO perspective.

COFFEE BREAK

series

DAY

1 APRIL 18

KAREN DILLON Former Editor,

Harvard Business Review

09:00-09:05

09:05-10:00

10:00-11:00

11:00-11:15

TOM SAGERFormer GC, DuPont Co

ELLIS WATSONCEO,

DC Thomson Publishing

UNITED KINGDOM | APRIL 18 - 19 2016CO N F E R E N C E P RO G R A M M E



ROUNDTABLES & BUSINESS DISCUSSIONS Delegates select one session to attend

1) Influencing business strategy & the C-suite Karen DillonFollowing on from the Chairman and leadership discussions, Karen Dillon will chair a roundtable on how General Counsel, Heads of Legal and their teams can best become part of the business strategy. Dillon will share a case study on best practice and participants can contribute their own experiences.

Topics to consider will include:

• The role of risk management versus legal • Calculating your organisation’s risk appetite• Practical advice on how to encourage members of your legal team to think strategically and

take their seat at the table in strategic discussions• Lessons that can be learned from other departments

Or

2) Innovative pricingRichard BurcherSteph HoggDavid BurgessRichard Burcher, Head of pricing specialists Validatum, and Steph Hogg, a former head of procurement, will lead a discussion on innovation in legal services purchasing and how to best structure legal department and procurement interface.

Topics to consider will include:

• What currently constitutes legal purchasing best practice?• Combative or collaborative – which produces the better result?• Price and value – what is the difference and how do they fit together?• What meaningful metrics should be used to measure law firms?• Dos and don’ts when buying legal services• How best to structure the GC/procurement interface



DAY

1 APRIL 18

11:15-12:15

RICHARD BURCHERManaging Director,

Validatum

STEPH HOGGFormer Head

of Procurement

DAVID BURGESSPublishing Director,

The Legal 500

PAUL GILBERTLBC Wise Counsel



3) Maximising process efficiency and the legal team of the futureCatherine McGregorTom SagerMo Zain AjazFollowing on from Tom Sager’s keynote speech, he will lead a strategically-focused discussion on the changing role of the General Counsel and their legal team, and the need for greater process efficiency. We will also consider developments in the relationship between the legal department and the business, from both a US and a wider global perspective.

Topics to be considered will include:

• Why do legal teams constantly reinvent the wheel?• Where are the key areas for process streamlining and more effective use of project

management skills?• How prepared are General Counsel to cope with these developments?• Has technology changed the way GCs and their teams work together? Has it changed

working processes with outside suppliers?• Are there changes in the skillsets sought for in new hires?• How can redefining the way the GC and their team work transform the relationship with

the business?

Or

4) Crisis, Reputation and Resilience Management Alex NovareseIn the US many general counsel are also taking on responsibility for communications and lobbying functions. In this session we will draw on the expertise of GCs who have lived through crises to discuss what the legal department can add in a reputational disaster and why lawyers need to think more imaginatively.

LUNCH

KEYNOTE ADDRESSIs there an impending ethical crisis for UK in-house lawyers?Richard MoorheadPaul GilbertBased on a customised survey of our attendees profiling their values and responses to ethical dilemmas, Paul Gilbert and Richard Moorhead will lead an interactive workshop on why lawyers might need to take ethics more seriously.

COFFEE BREAK

RICHARD MOORHEADUCL


DAY

1 APRIL 18

13:15-14:15

14:15-15:15

15:15-15:30

CATHERINE McGREGOREditor-in-Chief,

GC Magazine

ALEX NOVARESEEditor-in-Chief, Legal Business


MO ZAIN AJAZ Group Head of Legal

Operational Excellence, National Grid

12:15-13:15




1) Demystifying data to transform your legal departmentAlex Novarese, with Thomson ReutersHow data can enhance decision-making across your enterprise.

Topics to be considered will include: • Understanding the true value of data to your department.• What data should you be reporting on?• Acting on the insight and reporting up.

Or

2) The cyber security challenge David BurgessCyber security is frequently cited by in-house lawyers as one of the biggest challenges currently facing them. Yet all too often there is a willingness to consider it an issue best dealt with by IT. This discussion will consider why GCs in the 21st century will need to become proactive around the cyber security challenge, and how it has wide-ranging implications for all of their business activities.


3) Project management and business process Karen DillonThis workshop will explore the relationship between project and process management for in-house departments, focusing on thinking and acting in ways which have greater synergy with other areas of the business. Topics to be considered will include:• Project management and process challenges for in-house teams• Showing KPIs in legal departments• Speaking the language of the business in multidisciplinary projects• Helping lawyers become project managers

Or

4) Talent, diversity and inclusion Catherine McGregor, with Shilton Sharpe QuarryDiversity and inclusion are increasingly seen as strategically important for all organisations, and key to a more successful team. In this interactive session, we will discuss how to make the strategic case for inclusion and the challenges in successfully implementing meaningful diversity and inclusion initiatives.

END OF DAY 1

KAREN DILLONFormer Editor,


17:30


The Legal 500

CATHERINE McGREGOREditor-in-Chief, GC

Magazine


15:30-16:30

16:30-17:30

DAY

1 APRIL 18


TIM HARFORDAuthor, The Undercover

Economist

18:45

19:45

19:00

MEET AT HOTEL RECEPTION

DRINKS RECEPTION AT SYON HOUSE

DINNER AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT SYON HOUSEOn Adaptation Tim Harford Today’s challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinions; the world has become far too unpredictable and profoundly complex. We must adapt – improvise rather than plan, work from the bottom up rather than the top down, and take baby steps rather than great leaps forward.

DAY

1 APRIL 18



KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSIONTalent management, leadership and career pathRitva SotamaaPatrick RoweMatthew FloodKirsty CooperBarry MatthewsDeveloping an environment of inclusion in your department will fail unless it is built on a deep understanding of why, in the 21st Century, it is strategically essential. We will consider the perspectives of different General Counsel who support inclusion throughout their teams. They will speak on the strategic importance vis-à-vis the wider business for this approach and consider why having a more open and collaborative team makes for a more effective legal team.

COFFEE BREAK


1) Demystifying data to transform your legal departmentAlex Novarese, with Thomson ReutersHow data can enhance decision-making across your enterprise: • Understanding the true value of data to your department.• What data should you be reporting on?• Acting on the insight and reporting up.

Or

2) The cyber security challenge David BurgessCyber security is frequently cited by in-house lawyers as one of the biggest challenges currently facing them. Yet all too often there is a willingness to consider it an issue best dealt with by IT. This discussion will consider why GCs in the 21st century will need to become proactive and assertive around the cyber security challenge, and how it has wide-ranging implications for all of their business activities.

09:15-10:15

10:15-10:30


The Legal 500


10:30-11:30

RITVA SOTAMAACLO, Unilever

PATRICK ROWEDeputy General Counsel, Accenture

MATTHEW FLOODGeneral Counsel, Ingeus

KIRSTY COOPERGroup General Counsel and

Company Secretary, AvivaBARRY MATTHEWS

Director of Legal Affairs & Third Party Sales, ITV

DAY

2 APRIL 19



3) Project management and business process Karen DillonThis workshop will explore the relationship between project and process management for in-house departments, focusing on thinking and acting in ways which have greater synergy with other areas of the business.

Topics to be considered will include:• Project management and process challenges for in-house teams• Showing KPIs in legal departments• Speaking the language of the business in multidisciplinary projects• Helping lawyers become project managers

Or

4) Talent, diversity and inclusion Catherine McGregor, with Shilton Sharpe QuarryDiversity and inclusion are increasingly seen as strategically important for all organisations, and key to a more successful team. In this interactive session, we will discuss how to make the strategic case for inclusion and the challenges in successfully implementing meaningful diversity and inclusion initiatives.

LUNCH

DAY

2 APRIL 19

12:30-13:30


GC Magazine

11.30-12:30KAREN DILLON

Former Editor,Harvard Business Review




1) Influencing business strategy & the C-suite Karen DillonFollowing on from the Chairman and leadership discussions, Karen Dillon will chair a roundtable on how General Counsel, Heads of Legal and their teams can best become part of the business strategy. Dillon will share a case study on best practice and participants can contribute their own experiences.

Topics to consider will include:• The role of risk management versus legal • Calculating your organisation’s risk appetite• Practical advice on how to encourage members of your legal team to think strategically

and take their seat at the table in strategic discussions• Lessons that can be learned from other departments

Or

2) Innovative pricingRichard BurcherSteph HoggDavid BurgessRichard Burcher, head of pricing specialists Validatum, and Steph Hogg, a former head of procurement, will lead a discussion on innovation in legal services purchasing and how to best structure legal department and procurement interface.

Topics to consider will include:• What currently constitutes legal purchasing best practice?• Combative or collaborative – which produces the better result?• Price and value – what is the difference and how do they fit together?• What meaningful metrics should be used to measure law firms?• Dos and don’ts when buying legal services• How best to structure the GC/procurement interface

KAREN DILLONFormer Editor,


13:30-14:30


of Procurement


Validatum


The Legal 500

DAY

2 APRIL 19



3) Maximising process efficiency and the legal team of the future Catherine McGregor Tom Sager Mo Zain AjazFollowing on from Tom Sager’s keynote speech, he will lead a strategically-focused discussion on the changing role of the General Counsel and their legal team, and the need for greater process efficiency. We will also consider developments in the relationship between the legal department and the business, from both a US and a wider global perspective.

Topics to be considered will include:

• Why do legal teams constantly reinvent the wheel?• Where are the key areas for process streamlining and more effective use of project

management skills?• How prepared are General Counsel to cope with these developments?• Has technology changed the way GCs and their teams work together? Has it changed

working processes with outside suppliers?• Are there changes in the skillsets sought for in new hires?• How can redefining the way the GC and their team work redefine the relationship with

the business?

Or

4) Crisis, reputation and resilience management Alex Novarese In the US many general counsel are also taking on responsibility for communications and lobbying functions. In this session we will draw on the expertise of GCs who have lived through crises to discuss what the legal department can add in a reputational disaster and why lawyers need to think more imaginatively.

COFFEE BREAK

KEYNOTE ADDRESSThe General Counsel as lawyer/statesmanBen Heineman Jr Moderated by Catherine McGregorBen Heineman Jr, legendary former General Counsel of GE and pre-eminent thinker on the role of the in-house lawyer in the modern organisation, will present a keynote address which argues that the General Counsel has a new function: that of lawyer/statesman. This shift is one that is needed to keep up with the demands of global corporations and requires a reconfiguration of the role of the lawyer from reactive to proactive.

CONFERENCE ENDS

BEN HEINEMAN JRFormer General

Counsel, GE


GC Magazine


14:30-15:30

17.00

15:30-15:45

15:45-17:00

TOM SAGERFormer GC, DuPont Co D

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UNITED KINGDOM | APRIL 18 - 19 2016S P E A K E R F A C U L T Y


BEN HEINEMAN JRFormer GC,

GE

Tom Sager is the former General Counsel at DuPont Co. Mr. Sager was a strong and early proponent of diversity in the legal profession and helped pioneer the DuPont Convergence and Law Firm Partnering Program, or DuPont Legal Model – an industry benchmark that has received national acclaim for its innovative approach to the business of practising law. The program redefined the way in which law firms measure success, encourage creativity and collaboration, increase efficiency, and retain and promote women and minorities.

Ben W. Heineman Jr. was GE’s senior vice president–general counsel from 1987 to 2003 and then senior vice president for law and public affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. He is currently a senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession and Program on Corporate Governance, a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a lecturer in law at Yale Law School.

Tim Harford is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of the million-selling ‘The Undercover Economist’, a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s ‘More or Less’. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House and is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was Economics Commentator of the Year 2014, winner of the Royal Statistical Society journalistic excellence award 2015, and also won the Society of Business Economists writing prize 2014-15.

TIM HARFORDAuthor, The Undercover

Economist

Ritva Sotamaa, LL.M. has been Chief Legal Officer of Unilever PLC/NV since 2013. Ritva served as General Counsel at Siemens Healthcare, Siemens AG from 2009 to 2013. She also held several General Counsel positions at GE Healthcare, General Electric Company from 2003 to 2009.

Ellis Watson is Chief Executive of DC Thomson Publishing, one of the world’s largest family-owned media groups. He was previously global CEO of Syco Entertainment, the joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony - running the global format and commercial strategies for The X Factor and Got Talent, as well as the recorded music businesses. The Syco appointment followed spells on the board of Menzies and FirstGroup, the huge public transport operator with brands from First Great Western to America’s Greyhound Bus network. Before that he was at the helm of Mirror Group Newspapers, running five national titles.

RITVA SOTAMAACLO,

Unilever

ELLIS WATSONCEO,

DC Thomson Publishing

Karen Dillon is the co-author of New York Times best-seller, ‘How Will You Measure Your Life?’ (HarperCollins, May 2012), which she wrote with Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author Clayton Christensen. Dillon was the editor of Harvard Business Review (HBR), arguably the most influential management magazine in the world, until 2011. Prior to joining HBR, she was deputy editor of Inc., a monthly magazine for entrepreneurs.

Patrick Rowe joined Accenture in 1995. During his time at Accenture he has worked in a variety of different roles in Legal. Currently Patrick is Deputy General Counsel with global responsibility for compliance, operational matters, regulatory and ethics programmes. Prior to joining, he worked in commercial litigation for a law firm in Australia. Patrick has a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Law from the University of Western Australia and is a qualified solicitor in Australia and in the UK.

Barry Matthews is Director of Legal Affairs & Third Party Sales at ITV having joined the broadcaster in 2004. Matthews is one of the pioneers of the Legal Social Mobility Partnership, an alliance of law firms and in-house teams providing enriching legal work insight and skills training to year 11, 12 and 13 students from disadvantaged backgrounds. ITV was also the first company to offer a solicitor apprenticeship under the Trailblazers Apprenticeship in Law initiative. The team will take on one apprentice, who will start in September 2016 and qualify as a solicitor with the company in August 2022.



PATRICK ROWE Deputy General

Counsel, Accenture

BARRY MATTHEWS Director of Legal Affairs &

Third Party Sales, ITV


Kirsty Cooper has been Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Aviva plc since 2010 and serves as its Head of the Office of the Chairman. Kirsty has been a Group Executive at Aviva plc since May 2012. She established the legal and company secretarial function as a global team and is responsible for the provision of legal services to the Group, legal risk management, and compliance with UK and US listing requirements. She also supports the Chairman and the Board in the discharge of their responsibilities. She joined Aviva in 1991.

Matthew Flood is the global General Counsel for Ingeus. Ingeus operates in 12 countries, with its biggest market being the UK. While most of its services are related to workforce development, it has recently become the 2nd largest provider of the UK Government’s National Citizenship Programme, and taken on offender rehabilitation and probation services for the Ministry of Justice as part of the Reducing Reoffending Partnership.

KIRSTY COOPER Group General Counsel and

Company Secretary, Aviva

MATTHEW FLOODGroup General Counsel,

Ingeus

Richard Moorhead took up the first Chair in Law and Professional Ethics at University College London, Faculty of Laws, in 2012. He is also the Director of the Centre for Ethics and Law. His work focuses on lawyers’ ethics, professional competence, the regulation of legal services and access to justice. Often employing empirical methods, he has conducted a wide range of studies, including for the Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Board, Civil Justice Council, and the Law Society.

He has been a member of the Civil Justice Council and the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Ethics, the Legal Services Consultative Panel. He has also served as Specialist Adviser to what is now the Justice Select Committee. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of the Legal Profession and the advisory board of the Journal of Law and Society.

RICHARD MOORHEADUCL

Paul Gilbert leads many of LBC’s significant projects and lectures in the UK, Europe, North America and South Africa. Themes include legal services strategy, skills development and the changing face of the legal profession. Paul qualified as a UK solicitor in 1987 and for much of his career he was an in-house lawyer. Paul was the General Counsel in two major UK financial services companies and held positions as chairman and chief executive of the national in-house lawyers Commerce & Industry Group. For six years Paul was a Council Member of the England & Wales Law Society and was elected to the Society’s Main Management Board.

Richard Burcher has over 35 years’ experience as a New Zealand practising lawyer and managing partner. Following post–graduate study in pricing–related disciplines, Richard established Validatum® in 2008. As Managing Director of Validatum (UK) Limited, he has been based in London since 2012. Legal commentators regularly describe him as the leading law firm pricing consultant in the world.

His pricing consultancy services and speaking engagements take him throughout the UK, Asia, India, Europe, Australasia and North America.

Steph Hogg is an experienced procurement professional who has worked within the financial services sector for the past 15 years, and is one of a handful of Legal sourcing specialists in the UK.

Specialising in legal services procurement, Steph has worked with FTSE 100 company Aviva’s GC team for the last four years to source and manage complex Legal Panels, and is passionate about world-class value propositions and relationship management.



Validatum


of Procurement



A member of the Leadership Team with responsibility for strategy, planning, performance, change and improvement across the Global Legal function. Accountability for National Grid’s Operational Excellence programmes across the function (Risk and Compliance, Assurance, UK/US Legal and Company Secretariat). Previously GC for National Grid Property, director and executive member of National Grid Property (a commercial subsidiary of National Grid) with responsibility for legal, change, compliance, business assurance, process management, communications and legal teams.


UNITED KINGDOM | APRIL 18 - 19 2016S P E A K E R F A C U L T Y

Also in attendance at Enterprise GC UK 2016 will be Catherine McGregor, editor-in-chief of GC Magazine, Alex Novarese, editor-in-chief of Legal Business, and David Burgess, publishing director of The Legal 500 series.

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APRIL 18 - 19 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - Legal 500 · ... Heads of Legal and their teams can best become part of the business ... Project management and business ... How data can