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2024 ACC Corporate Counsel University® Session Recordings

2024 ACC Corporate Counsel University® Session Recordings

2024 ACC Corporate Counsel University® Session Recordings

Due to their format, roundtables and workshops were not recorded. Access is valid for one calendar year. CLE/CPD eligibility of on-demand recordings will vary by topic and jurisdiction. On-demand credit will not be available in Virginia. CLE-CPD@acc.com will be happy to answer your eligibility questions.

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 06/26/2024

    Aaron Thompson, General Counsel for Denver Public Schools, discusses the distinct perspective from inside a major school district's legal department.

    Join Aaron Thompson, General Counsel for Denver Public Schools, as he discusses the distinct perspective from inside a major school district's legal department. Hear about how Aaron and his team manage nearly 90,000 students, 14,000 employees, and 207 schools worth of real estate under the scrutiny of an ever-changing school board and the constant shifts of federal education rules. From school law to labor and employment to contracts and beyond, Aaron's story will shed a new light on the in-house legal profession and its unique joys and challenges.

    Aaron Thompson

    General Counsel

    Denver Public Schools

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 06/27/2024

    This session will discuss how the role of in-house counsel differs from other legal careers and how the position is expanding.

    An in-house legal career may not have a clearly defined path forward. This session will discuss how the role of in-house counsel differs from other legal careers and how the position is expanding. Learn key skills necessary to develop an in-house career, such as how to prioritize business needs with legal needs, how to define your areas of responsibility, and how to look for growth opportunities - both for yourself and your department.

    Jeremiah Allison

    Legal Counsel - Mergers and Acquisitions

    Medtronic

    Dawn Eyerly

    Partner, Litigation

    Saul Ewing LLP

    Demeka Fields

    Counsel, Global Sports Marketing and Data Privacy

    New Balance

    Yngrid Palmer

    Corporate Counsel

    Chiquita

  • Contains 9 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/27/2024

    This session will help attendees improve their ability to analyze important contract provisions for risk while discussing the important role of the business in contract discussions.

    In-house counsel need to hone their contracting skills with unique nuance and business considerations. This session will help attendees improve their ability to analyze important contract provisions for risk while discussing the important role of the business in contract discussions.

    Denis Demblowski

    Principal Legal Analyst

    Bloomberg Law

    Jeremy Gordon

    Head of Legal, North America

    ThoughtWorks, Inc.

    Jennifer Jaskolka

    Chief Legal and Safety Officer

    Wells Concrete

    Theo Kapodistrias

    General Counsel

    Evergen

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

      

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 9 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/27/2024

    This session prepares in-house counsel on the key aspects of litigation including the financial impact of a lawsuit, how to leverage and manage outside counsel, and mitigating and resolving disputes as early as appropriate.

    Knowing when to pursue litigation (or not) and the implications of a lawsuit are often lessons hard learned by in-house counsel. This session will prepare in-house counsel on the key aspects of litigation including the financial impact of a lawsuit, how to leverage and manage outside counsel, and mitigating and resolving disputes as early as appropriate.

    Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe Seymour

    Vice President Litigation

    Albertsons Companies, Inc.

    A senior legal executive and former AmLaw 100 partner, Adwoa thrives on solving complex business problems. While in private practice, she counseled Fortune 1000 companies and household brands across multiple industries through unprecedented major economic cycles, from the aftermath of the dot com bubble burst to the Great Recession and recovery. She has an innate ability to know when a problem requires her to dive deep to unravel systemic challenges or to pivot with agility to provide clear and decisive advice to executive leadership.She currently serves as Vice President of Litigation for Albertsons Companies, Inc. (NYSE: ACI), the second-largest grocery retailer in the US. Prior to joining Albertsons, she was Assistant General Counsel for Cox Enterprises, Inc., a privately-held global conglomerate where she helped to develop standardized litigation processes and risk mitigation strategies for Cox’s 20+ businesses. She is in her element when she partners across divisions to improve business practices, streamline operations, and resolve disputes and regulatory enforcement actions. Through her collaborative approach, she gains a deep understanding of business objectives, enabling her to accurately assess and mitigate legal risks to assist executives in making informed business decisions.Adwoa is also a servant leader who strives to identify the unique strengths and qualities of each individual to empower them to bring their best and whole selves to work. She also believes strongly in building deep professional relationships based on trust and confidence. She has been a speaker for 20+ national and local bar associations on a variety of topics including business decision-making, commercial disputes, corporate litigation, investigations, global arbitration, analytics, legal operations, leadership challenges, and talent development. Dedicated to her community, she has served as a strategic partner and board member to multiple associations and non-profits that are committed to child advocacy, economic empowerment, and the legal profession, including the Truancy Intervention Project, Urban League of Greater Atlanta, and as a Georgia Supreme Court appointee to the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/adwoaseymour/

    Jennifer Henderson

    General Counsel

    Road Commission For Oakland County

    Michael Mather

    General Counsel

    HealthEZ

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

      

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 9 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/27/2024

    This session examines the different types of intellectual property, the steps necessary to protect them, and how to prevent and remedy the misappropriation of them.

    The assets of your organization are key to the function of the business, and it is the role of in-house counsel to keep them safe. This session will examine the different types of intellectual property, the steps necessary to protect them, and how to prevent and remedy the misappropriation of them. From copyright to nondisclosure agreements, from state to global jurisdictions, learn the ins and outs of addressing key IP risks in-house counsel should watch out for.

    David Chan

    Director, Senior Patent Counsel

    Western Digital Technologies

    Brittany Leonard

    General Counsel & Assistant Secretary of the Board

    Civix

    Hi I’m Brittany! Nice to meet you! I’m a General Counsel and I currently manage a multinational company and its subsidiaries. I am a strategic partner in a global private equity backed company. I manage a dedicated legal team that continues to thrive year over year.

    My passion is seeing businesses thrive and helping facilitate those successes. Providing a unique approach by strategically reviewing documents from both a business and legal perspective to protect the legal interests of the company, while also knowing that business deals need these documents to continue moving forward.

    I thrive in building collaborate relationships across departments and strategically expanding in global markets to maximize business opportunity while minimizing risk.

    I provide legal advice and strategic leadership on all things related to the company from tech deployment, SaaS negotiations, community planning, employment relations, data privacy, M&A transactions and everything in between. I also have experience with litigation, managing outside counsel, and IP protection.

    Can I just say if it’s legally related it’s probably slid across my desk?!

    I am also considered a legal influencer (that still makes me chuckle, but yes I am super proud of it) where I post daily content on LinkedIn. I am on a mission to disrupt the legal industry by creating change content on GC life, career happiness, positivity, and showing how you go from feeling stuck and buttoned up to success and happiness.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-leonard-b3a7b2a4/

    Chris Smith

    Shareholder

    Brooks Kushman P.C.

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

      

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 9 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/27/2024

    This session helps prepare in-house counsel for managing the law in the cyber world, including how to identify data privacy issues, how global privacy laws impact even US-based companies, and practical next steps to building a technology compliance program.

    Every day technology becomes a bigger part of daily life, and every technology comes with its own legal risks. This session will help prepare in-house counsel for managing the law in the cyber world, including how to identify data privacy issues, how global privacy laws impact even US-based companies, and practical next steps to building a technology compliance program.

    Emir Crowne

    General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer & Corporate Secretary

    Brock Solutions

    Cassandra Porter

    VP, Sr. Managing Counsel

    Mastercard

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

      

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 9 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/27/2024

    This session teaches in-house counsel how to provide risk management advice in line with their business’s goals.

    Not all risk should be avoided, and it’s the job of in-house counsel to know when to mitigate risk and when to manage it. This session will teach in-house counsel how to provide risk management advice in line with their business’s goals and how to build and maintain effective risk management programs, compliance reporting practices, and monitoring mechanisms.

    Michael Dillinger

    AVP of Environmental, Social and Governance and Strategic Programs

    USAA

    Julie Gresham

    Vice President and Chief Counsel

    Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of HII, Huntington Ingalls Industries

    Cheryl Maddox

    Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

    PFM Financial Advisors LLC

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

      

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 06/28/2024

    This session will help equip you to effectively manage DEI in your current role and throughout your career.

    *CLE will be abvailable for this session after August 16, 2024

    How do I represent and protect my organization and its people in the dynamic and sometimes challenging landscape of DEI? How do I help foster a diverse environment that emanates inclusivity and belonging in my legal department, and beyond? How can I be an agent of change within my legal department, across my organization, and in its external relationships? This session will tackle these questions and more. Using data from the ACC Foundation DEI Maturity Assessment (powered by Ethisphere) and the expertise, stories, and best practices of our panel of experts, this session will help equip you to effectively manage DEI in your current role and throughout your career.

    Jennifer Chen

    Executive Director

    ACC Foundation

    Christine Garrison

    General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

    Farmland Partners, Inc.

    Nikki Lewis Simon

    Senior Vice President, Shareholder and Chief DEI Officer

    Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

    Shalini Sharma

    Chief Legal Officer

    Ping Identity

  • Contains 9 Component(s), Includes Credits Recorded On: 06/28/2024

    This session discusses the main employment issues in-house counsel should know including hiring practices, salary dos and don'ts, accommodation laws, diversity, independent contractors, and more.

    The biggest investment of any company is its staff. Employees bring their own needs to every job, and it’s the role of in-house counsel to balance those with the needs of the company. Join this session to discuss the main employment issues in-house counsel should know including hiring practices, salary dos and don'ts, accommodation laws, diversity, independent contractors, and more.

    Olesja Cormney

    Managing Counsel

    Toyota Motor North America

    Lisa Marsh

    Principal

    Jackson Lewis P.C.

    Shawn McGruder

    Sr. Associate General Counsel, EEO Office

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    For over 25 years, Ms. Shawn McGruder has applied her finance and legal background to analyzing and mitigating business and litigation risks. Ms. McGruder has offered strategic business advice for agency heads, chief executive officers, C-Suite executives, and senior leaders in large, geographically dispersed private and federal government entities with 8,000 to 100,000 staff and $3 Billion to $1 Trillion budgets. She has advised on strategy, risk management, legal compliance, human resources, and government affairs across industries: Service Delivery, Agriculture, Aerospace & Defense, and STEM research. Ms. McGruder brings experience as a thought leader and regional director on non-profit boards. She would be delighted to join a corporate or private board and lead any committee. Ms. McGruder serves as Senior Associate General Counsel and Principal Equal Employment Opportunity Officer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), a university-affiliated research center. She drives results with Thorough, Energetic, and Authentic servant leadership.

    Ms. McGruder began her multi-disciplinary legal career in federal government service--starting with internships in legal offices for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Social Security Administration (SSA), where she began her legal career in earnest after graduating from law school and simultaneously passing two bar examinations. She began working on ethics, fraud, and account churning issues during her internships. She became a litigator of complex individual and class action cases, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and proceeded through increasingly responsible leadership roles. Ultimately, her last government positions were senior executive service (SES) leadership positions with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

    Agriculture runs through her blood. She is the product of a marriage between 1) a mother who was the first in her immediate family from Anderson, SC, to attend college (paid for with the earnings of her sharecropper parents and siblings); and 2) a father whose proud McGruder family had amassed over 300 acres of land in rural Hale County, AL, which was no easy feat for Black men in the late 1800s.

    A native of Columbia, Maryland, she enjoys spa vacations, yoga, and dance. She has been certified as a cardio kickboxing instructor. She brings strong interpersonal skills & a unique combination of experience and youthful energy to each undertaking.

     Due Diligence
     Civil Litigation Support
     Legal Writing


    https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnmcgruder/

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

      

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 06/28/2024

    This session teaches in-house counsel how to examine the factors that affect your organization’s profitability, understand certain financial documents, and identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.

    Understanding key accounting principles and financial statements is a key asset for in-house counsel to spot red flags, assess strategic options more effectively, and provide better informed legal and business advice to the organization. This session will teach in-house counsel how to examine the factors that affect your organization’s profitability, understand certain financial documents, and identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.

    Michael Smith

    Associate Professor of Accounting

    Boston University Questrom School of Business

    Professor Michael Smith is an associate professor of accounting at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Professor Smith’s teaching interests include financial and managerial accounting, especially financial reporting and analysis of financial statements. He has taught in several full-time, executive, and weekend executive MBA programs. Professor Smith has broad research interests including multinational transfer pricing, executive compensation, financial disclosure and accounting microstructure. His research has been published in several academic journals, including The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; and Journal of Management Accounting Research. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston University, he was a member of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was the winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Cross-Continent MBA. Previously, he worked in the mortgage banking industry and as a futures trader. Mr. Smith received a PhD from Stanford University.


    https://www.bu.edu/questrom/profile/michael-smith/