Driving Change: The Chief Legal Officer’s View on Innovation and Pro Bono
Recorded On: 10/08/2024
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Chief legal officers are not only business leaders but also innovators, driving change to create value for their company and the community in which they work. Pro bono is one of the ways legal departments can promote value and innovation. From working with nonprofits to developing new social impact initiatives, legal departments are evolving in how they serve their communities through pro bono. Join this session to hear form a panel of in-house legal leaders on how they promote innovation through their pro bono programs and align their efforts to further their companies’ impact
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Bimal Patel
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
PayPal, Inc.
Serve as senior-most legal officer overseeing all legal and corporate secretarial functions across 200+ global markets.
Provide legal and strategic advice on matters including: M&A and venture investments, shareholder activism and litigation, public company and securities law governance, global regulatory compliance, antitrust inquiries, and privacy and cybersecurity events.
Counsel Board of Directors and all Committees on securities law, regulatory, compensation, governance, and litigation matters.
Develop strategy for next-generation payments in both traditional and blockchain ecosystems through evolving legal frameworks.
Guide approach for government and regulatory relations and liaise with senior policymakers leveraging government relationships.
Gayle Littleton
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Exelon Corporation
As Chief Legal Officer, Littleton leads a department of approximately 230 lawyers and legal and claims professionals. She oversees all legal matters, including litigation, regulatory proceedings, commercial transactions, labor and employment, benefits, cyber, privacy, environmental, and claims. She also serves as the Company’s corporate secretary and oversees the corporate-governance function.
Since joining Exelon, Littleton was responsible for obtaining all regulatory approvals and for the transactional work required for the spin-off of Exelon Generation and Constellation from Exelon, and she negotiated the $885 million buy-back of Électricité de France S.A’s interest in Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, which owned interest in several of Exelon’s nuclear plants. Littleton also led the company’s response to Commonwealth Edison’s deferred prosecution agreement, including related DOJ and SEC investigations, regulatory proceedings, and securities, consumer-fraud, and derivative litigation.
Littleton is a member of Exelon’s Executive Committee. She is on the Steering Committee of The Forum for Executive Women and is a member of the Network of Exelon Women.
Littleton also is active in the community. She serves as a member of the Association of General Counsels, as co-chair of the Chicago General Counsel Forum, on the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Illinois Holocaust Museum, as a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, as part of the Edison Electric Institute’s General Counsel Forum, as a member of the Cornell Law School Dean’s Advisory Council, and as a member of the Stetson University College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board. Littleton also is active with Legal Counsel for Legal Diversity.
Eve Runyon
President & CEO
Pro Bono Institute
Eve Runyon is the President and Chief Executive Officer of PBI. Eve first joined PBI in 2005 to lead the Corporate Pro Bono (CPBO) project, PBI’s global project on in-house pro bono. Under Eve’s leadership, the CPBO project designed and implemented innovative initiatives to expand the commitment to pro bono across in-house law departments to include, among other things, the Corporate Pro Bono Challenge® initiative and support for broader multijurisdictional practice pro bono rules applicable to in-house pro bono.
Before joining PBI, Eve worked as a lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C. While at Skadden, she participated in the Skadden Loaned Associate program, an externship program with Legal Aid Society of D.C.
Eve serves on the Advisory Board of New Perimeter, the nonprofit affiliate of DLA Piper that provides long-term pro bono legal assistance in under-served regions around the world, and is a member of the Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services for the D.C. Circuit Court.
Eve graduated from the University of Virginia and Yale Law School.
