Choose Programme Date

Pre-event Networking: 18th April 2010
Day One: 19th April 2010
Day Two: 20th April 2010

Programme Day Two: Tuesday 20th April 2010

Leveraging your leadership skills to retain and recruit staff
Building a Compliance Roadmap: Understanding the cost of compliance
Reviewing best practice in Trans-Atlantic Data Transaction
Business Meeting/BrainWeave™ - Weighing up value with successful IP
Business Meeting/BrainWeave™ - Developing a knowledge business model with self-service tools
Business Meeting/BrainWeave™ - Mitigating reputational risks with Business Intelligence Tools
Understanding your position in competition law
Taking control of Legal Spend Management
Risk Factor vs. Cost Factor
Establishing the GC’s role in reducing deal cycles with efficient case management
Learning from recent trends in ADR

7:00 - 8:00

Kevin-Perry Kevin Perry
Head of Litigation
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge UK LLP

Morning Refreshments and Chairman’s recap of Day 1

8:00 - 8:50

Isabel-hacker Isabel Hacker
Chief Legal Officer
Yum! Brands

Dominique-Golsong Dominique Golsong
General Counsel EMEA
Goodyear Dunlop Tires

m_jones Mark Maurice-Jones
General Counsel
Kimberly Clark

Leveraging Your Leadership Skills To Retain And Recruit Staff

Practical Case Reviews

Recruitment and Retention has been a difficult concern for General Counsels as many have had to cut their headcounts over the last 12 months and continue to struggle with asking their staff do more for less. How can you position your legal department to be ready for the upswing in economy? What are the best staffing strategies? By enhancing professional growth opportunities, not only will you develop the legal department’s capabilities and demonstrate value to the organisation but balance costs and improves efficiencies in the long term too. This session invites 3 leading General Counsel’s to put forward their strategies on recruitment and retention and demonstrate how their leadership skills have helped motivate and influence staff through the downturn:

Best practices in continually engaging key members of staff
Retaining talent through effective web-based training and e-university
Implementing regular educational updates
How productive is the use of law firms secondee’s on your time and resources?
Recruitment: Innovative hiring policies

8:50 - 9:30

Case Study

Building A Compliance Roadmap: Understanding The Cost Of Compliance

As the recent high profile cases brought by FCPA are highlighted and Data Protection scandals are brought to light it is no secret among European firms that there are no clear guidelines for them to follow or definite models for them to adhere to. Although it is clear to say the expense of auditing, investigations and training is far out weighed by the financial and corporate cost fines will bring. This session provides key fundamental points that need to be considered when developing an enterprise-wide corporate compliance framework:

Defining and monitoring the level of compliance within your organisation
What are the pro’s and con’s of using ‘value’ based or ‘rules’ based systems?
Getting your message across, training and implementing compliance initiatives.

9:30 - 10:10

Frederic-Blas Frédéric Blas
EMEA Privacy Counsel
IBM

Christian-Zeunert Christian Zeunert
eDiscovery Manager
SwissRe

Martin-Hoskins Martin Hoskins
Head of Data Protection and Disclosure
T-Mobile

Reviewing Best Practice In Trans-Atlantic Data Transaction

Panel Discussion

The limitations imposed by EU Data privacy laws consistently make life for European General Counsels very challenging indeed. Sharing data across multiple jurisdictions can be a compliance nightmare and achieving efficient data management solutions for sensitive information such as HR data and email/internet use and so can be a complex minefield. This session will ask leading Data Privacy Officers for best practice advice and understand how they approach these problems within their organisations.

10:10 - 10:20

Networking Break

10:20 - 10:50

Colin-Loth Colin Loth
Manager
Badenoch & Clark

Business Meeting/ BrainWeave™

How can you recruit and retain the right talent for your in-house counsel?

Led by

10:50 - 11:20

Business Meeting

11:20 - 11:50

Business Meeting/ BrainWeave™

Developing effective Legal Spend Management tools

Led by

11:50 - 12:20

Business Meeting

12:20 - 12:50

Business Meeting/ BrainWeave™

Mitigating Reputational Risks With Business Intelligence Tools

12:50 - 13:20

Business Meeting

13:20 - 14:30

Networking Lunch

14:30 - 15:10

	Case Study
Understanding Your Position In Competition Law Case Reviews Effectively understanding Anti-Trust compliance is a complex task, especially as you need to be aware of competition laws across multiple jurisdictions. Organisations with a global footprint know only too well the importance of monitoring global politics and cultures in an effort to analyse antitrust worldwide. This session will draw on the experience of General Counsel who have worked effectively with competition authorities and can give productive advice on investigations and risk mapping. What impact will reform on the current EU Block Exemption Regulation on Vertical Restraints have on competition? How can you gauge a clear idea on how competition and antitrust authorities view the market place? What can you do internally to mitigate against these risks? Gabriel McGann Senior International Competition Counsel Coca Cola Stefano Fratta Director Competition and Regulatory Affairs Telefonica O2 Czech Republic	Business Intelligence for the Legal Department: Harnessing Data to Drive Results The increasing availability of legal management information greatly expands the ability of corporate legal departments to manage all aspects of the business of law. Business intelligence tools, processes, applications and practices facilitate nearly endless legal management opportunities which legal departments should embrace and effectively utilise. All of those opportunities depend, however, upon the legal department’s ability to leverage business intelligence by analyzing, using and delivering that information. Doing so requires the generation of well structured reports. The wealth of available information and the many ways by which data can be analyzed and packaged makes it imperative that a reporting strategy is carefully considered and crafted. This presentation introduces an intuitive method by which to isolate critical information, prioritize legal management strategies and deliver essential reports. Topics will include: The importance of matter and financial information The power of data segmentation The nine types of reports and their purposes The dissemination of reports Measuring quality, cost and service Bill Sowinski Director of Decision Support Services CT-TyMetrix

Case Study

Understanding Your Position In Competition Law

Case Reviews

Effectively understanding Anti-Trust compliance is a complex task, especially as you need to be aware of competition laws across multiple jurisdictions. Organisations with a global footprint know only too well the importance of monitoring global politics and cultures in an effort to analyse antitrust worldwide.

This session will draw on the experience of General Counsel who have worked effectively with competition authorities and can give productive advice on investigations and risk mapping.

What impact will reform on the current EU Block Exemption Regulation on Vertical Restraints have on competition?
How can you gauge a clear idea on how competition and antitrust authorities view the market place?
What can you do internally to mitigate against these risks?

Gabriel-McGann Gabriel McGann
Senior International Competition Counsel
Coca Cola

Stefano-Fratta Stefano Fratta
Director Competition and Regulatory Affairs
Telefonica O2 Czech Republic

Business Intelligence for the Legal Department: Harnessing Data to Drive Results

The increasing availability of legal management information greatly expands the ability of corporate legal departments to manage all aspects of the business of law. Business intelligence tools, processes, applications and practices facilitate nearly endless legal management opportunities which legal departments should embrace and effectively utilise.

All of those opportunities depend, however, upon the legal department’s ability to leverage business intelligence by analyzing, using and delivering that information. Doing so requires the generation of well structured reports. The wealth of available information and the many ways by which data can be analyzed and packaged makes it imperative that a reporting strategy is carefully considered and crafted.

This presentation introduces an intuitive method by which to isolate critical information, prioritize legal management strategies and deliver essential reports. Topics will include:

The importance of matter and financial information
The power of data segmentation
The nine types of reports and their purposes
The dissemination of reports
Measuring quality, cost and service

Bill Sowinski
Director of Decision Support Services
CT-TyMetrix

ct_tymetrix

15:10 - 15:50

Risk Factor Vs. Cost Factor

Co-Presented Debate

The debate continues over the practicalities of using LPO’s within your legal department, especially as efficiency and productivity remains a high priority for General Counsels today. By outsourcing T&C contracts, drafts and the organisation of litigation documents legal departments can and do cut down on time and costs, allowing for internal resources to be allocated to higher value work. On the flip side it raises some serious questions surrounding quality control and risk. What does using an LPO mean for customer service?

This session invites two different organisations to co-present and debate the benefits and disadvantages of using captive legal services and using offshore legal services.

Abhi-Shah Abhi Shah
CEO
Clutch Group

Robin-Saphra Robin Sephra
General Counsel
Colt Telecomm

Establishing The GC’s Role In Reducing Deal Cycles With Efficient Case Management

Panel Discussion

Emerging post-economic crisis the clear focus is to rein in costs and manage time pressures. It is now overwhelmingly clear that General Counsels are prioritizing the efficiency of processes and costs of operations within their legal departments. Cutting down the time spent dealing with routine contracts is a good starting point to develop automated processes both internally and externally. This session explores the key functions and services that Contract Management solutions brings to in-house legal departments and how GC’s should work with it:

Implement automised processes for customer/ supplier contracts
Save time by distributing documents online instantly Organize and locate contracts and documents: Use a single, categorized repository for the most up-to-date information
Ensure confidentiality by managing individual access on a per document basis

Tim-Cummins Tim Cummins
CEO
IACCM

Johan-Huizing Johan Huizing
International Corporate Counsel
Atmel

15:50 - 16:30

Isabelle-Hautot Isabelle Hautot
General Counsel International Affairs
France Telecom – Orange Group

Learning From Recent Trends In ADR

Practical Case Reviews

The credit crisis has not only sparked an increase in litigation but has caused legal departments to review and reshape their internal capabilities, addressing core skill sets, including key negotiations styles. ADR has increasingly been used over litigation as a more cost effective and time efficient tool. However mini trials, mediation processes, arbitration and direct negotiations have had their negative experiences aswell as good ones and it is often difficult to put into practice without the correct guidance or prior knowledge.

This session will ask leading experts to highlight their own experiences in ADR, revert to recent cases and give practical advice on how to facilitate ADR effectively.

16:30