11th Annual Conference: How to learn from Billion Dollar Lessons

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11^th Annual Conference of General Counsel

How to Learn From Billion Dollar Lessons

Friday, November 6, 2009 | San Antonio TX

7:30 – 8:30am | [1.0 Ethics credit]

General Counsel Legal Advice (GC-Only Breakfast | Ballroom DE)

General Counsel give legal advice to their peers and, given the scope of economic crisis, legal decision-making has become more complicated. Attendees will benefit from legal crisis management from General Counsel.

Co-Host:

Jennifer L. Vogel, General Counsel & Secretary, Continental Airlines, Inc.

7:30 – 8:30am | [1.0 Participatory credit]

Outside Counsel Legal Advice (Managing Counsel Breakfast | Ballroom A)

Outside Counsel give legal advice to Managing Counsel and given the scope of economic crisis, legal decision-making has become more complicated. Attendees will benefit from legal crisis management from outside counsel.

Co-Host:

Robert K. Temple, Deputy General Counsel and Associate Secretary

9 – 10:15 | [1.0 Participatory credit]

Lawyers Leading Businesses in Tough Times

The Importance of How – Values Driven Leadership – Dov Seidman

Lawyers have an important role to advise their businesses regardless of the economic circumstances, but certainly with the economy in flux the job of the General Counsel is more challenging. Although we are trained to study the law, advising businesses is the challenge to avoid legal and economic disaster. Lawyer today need to answer the call for transparency and accountability by earning trust; living their values versus just asserting them; being authentic; and inspiring others to join their cause.

10:15 – 11am | [1.0 Participatory credit]

Lawyering at Southwest Airlines – An Example of Success

Every industry has it unique legal and business issues, and this presentation will include examples of how lawyers at Southwest Airlines help guide management through complex regulatory compliance. Also lawyers at Southwest work hard to give management good business advice to avoid adverse economic consequences. The specifics of Southwest’s culture will be discussed including the role of lawyers to help direct overall corporate compliance with state and federal laws while also maintaining a business with thousands of employees that has its own unique culture.

– Debby Ackerman (Former Vice President and General Counsel of Southwest Airlines)

– Dov Seidman

11 – 11:45am | [1.0 Participatory credit]

Mentoring Young Lawyers for the Future

How Effective Are You? Ask the Person in the Mirror – Mark Green

Lawyers have duties to their clients, but also have an obligation to assist young lawyers are part of their professional development. All young lawyers have a common baseline of legal training, but it is imperative that General Counsel and Outside Counsel provide mentoring to these young lawyers. The professional development of young lawyers is essential so that when they are faced with real-world business crises they will be prepared to give sound legal and business advice to their clients.

1 – 2:15pm | [1.0 Participatory credit]

Lawyers Avoiding Billion Dollar Legal Disasters

Billion Dollar Lessons – Chunka Mui

Lawyers have a role to advise their clients and business management about legal and business risks, and this discussion will explain legal concerns for General Counsel and Outside Counsel. The presentation will include a discussion of seven main failure patterns, such as illusions of synergy and faulty financial engineering, and outline the critical analysis and thinking that sits behind many of the strategic clichés we use to justify big deals.

2:15 – 3pm | [.45 Ethics credit]

General Counsel Legal Lessons

General Counsel are confronted with complex legal and business issues every day, and in these complex economic times all lawyers must give legal and business advice to help avoid economic disasters. This discussion will include advice about how General Counsel can learn from real-world stories of successes and failures.

- Corrine Ball, Partner, Jones Day, New York

- Janet Langford Kelly, Senior Vice President, Legal GC and Corporate Secretary, ConocoPhillips

- Arun Mani, Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group

- Wayne Watts, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, AT&T Inc.

- Chunka Mui, Panel Leader

3 – 3:30pm | [.5 Participatory credit]

Advice to Lawyers to Improve the Performance of the Legal Team

Hot Wash – A Lessons-Learned Process

Success of the legal team to advise management of legal issues to avoid disasters if critical. This presentation will summarize legal training techniques to improve the legal team’s performance so that lawyers can help provide the best legal advice when confronted with complex and difficult legal decisions.

- Jeff Carr, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, FMC Technologies, Inc.

- Craig Glidden, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, LyondellBasel

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