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During its two-day run in New York City, ALM’s 24th annual Corporate Counsel General Counsel Conference presented more than a dozen sessions on topics ranging from law department budgeting and shareholder engagement to the newest challenges posed by class action litigation. Throughout June 12 and 13, our executive editor David Hechler was mingling with the in-house crowd and sending back dispatches with some of the conference’s highlights.