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Small Legal Teams with Big Impacts: Successful Strategies to Drive Productivity & Innovation


Level: Advanced
Runtime: 62 minutes
Recorded Date: October 03, 2023
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Agenda

  • Challenges
  • Effective and cost-efficient ways to use outside counsel
  • How to utilize non-lawyers in your legal team
  • How to keep up with changing legal and compliance requirements
  • Legal Technology
Runtime: 1 hour
Recorded: October 3, 2023

For NY - Difficulty Level: For experienced attorneys only (nontransitional)
For NY - Difficulty Level: Experienced attorneys only (non-transitional)

Description

As business challenges and responsibilities for in-house grow, learning how to do more with less is even more important than ever. Identifying solutions to set up your small legal team for success requires managing and leveraging your resources effectively. Attend this session to better prepare for the unique challenges small legal departments face, and learn innovative ways to work effectively with a smaller team. Panelists will address how to better leverage the organization and how to best keep up with changing legal and compliance requirements. Leave this session with a better understanding of technology that can help your small legal department prevent potential problems, rather than fighting them after they arise.

This program was recorded as part of ALM & Corporate Counsel's Annual General Counsel Conference East on October 3, 2023.

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Panelists

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Jessica Olich

Head of Governance & Associate General Counsel
Equitable Holdings

Jessica Olich is the Head of Governance & Associate General Counsel at Equitable Holdings. Sge us aksi a an Advisory Board Member of the NY Chapter of the Society for Corporate Governance. Jessica earned her JD from the Fordham University School of Law.

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Inna Barmash

General Counsel
Amplify

Inna Barmash serves as the General Counsel & Chief of Staff at Amplify, a K-12 education technology and publishing company based in New York. As the General Counsel, she oversees legal and compliance matters for the organization, including corporate governance, ethics, intellectual property, privacy and security, and employment matters. Inna also leads the development and support of the company's data privacy and security policies and has played an active role in shaping industry self-regulatory efforts in the area of student data privacy.

Prior to joining Amplify, Inna was a corporate and intellectual property associate at Ropes & Gray, representing clients in technology-driven commercial deals, licensing, patent prosecution and M&A transactions.

Inna holds a cum laude degree in Computer Science from Princeton University and worked as a technology consultant prior to law school. As a student at Cardozo School of Law, Inna was involved in media policy and development work as the Deputy Director of the school’s Squadron Program in Media Law, Society & Technology and served as an editor on the Cardozo Law Review. She also holds an MBA degree from the Quantic School of Business and Technology (f/k/a Smartly), the pioneering global mobile-first higher education platform.

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Chris Correnti

President, CEO & General Counsel
AGC America, Inc.

Chris Correnti started his legal career in 1984 at Moore Stout Waddell & Ledford in Northeast Tennessee. Chris’ primary areas of practice included corporate and business transactions and disputes, banking law, business litigation, and real estate and environmental law. He also represented the Kingsport Industrial Development Board where he was a primary architect of the Phipps Bend Joint Venture owned by the Kingsport and Hawkins County Industrial Development Boards. The Joint Venture was created to market and sell land formerly used as a nuclear power plant.

Chris joined AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. in 1994 as Associate General Counsel. He became General Counsel & Secretary in 2002 and was appointed as Vice President in 2007. In 2013, Chris assumed responsibility for all North America legal and corporate compliance matters for all AGC America businesses. AGC America owns businesses in the auto glass, chemicals, electronics, life science, and electrochemical industries. In April 2019 he was appointed President & CEO of AGC America and continues as General Counsel in North America for AGC as well.

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Heather Nevitt

Editor-in-Chief, Corporate Counsel
ALM

Heather Nevitt is the Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Counsel, Inside Counsel and Global Leaders in Law. Heather brings Valuable content to the various publications sites she manages while building communities and developing new event ideas to engage readers.

Heather joined ALM in 2005 and was the Editor-in-Chief of Texas Lawyer. Before joining ALM, she practiced law and earned her JD from Michigan State University College of Law in East Lansing, Michigan.


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