When thinking about innovation, it’s tempting to think about mobile phones, electronics, and gadgets of various shapes and sizes. In other words: products. The primary focus of the discussion with Richard Brait and Dan Dagan of Siemens Canada’s corporate legal department, David Kruse, partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), and yours truly, Brian …
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ACCAM17 Panel – What Technology Should Your Legal Department Deploy Now?
What is your problem? Maybe the question should be what “are” your problems? At the 2017 Association of Corporation Counsel (ACC) annual meeting, a session focused on helping smaller legal departments look at what, where, when and how to deploy existing technologies to address their pain points. A survey of the attendees prior to …
ACCAM17 – How much and where does AI fit within compliance and litigation?
“I am not in the business of predicting the future, but in the business of making the future,” said Khalid Al-Kofahi, vice president, Research and Development at Thomson Reuters, as part of a panel at the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual meeting discussing artificial intelligence (AI) and its influence in the legal profession. …
ACCAM17 Panel – The Emerging Law and Public Policy of Self-Driving Cars
Most of us have seen and maybe even envied the use of self-driving cars in movies or television shows ranging from the Batmobile in Batman, Herbie, I, Robot and K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. At the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, one panel took a look the emerging laws and public policy surrounding …
ACCAM17 Keynote – Blockchain: More Opportunity Than Digital Payments
As traditional models of success are evolving in nearly every sector of industry, Don Tapsoctt, CEO of the Tapscott Group, opened the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting with a discussion centered on blockchain. Tapscott has authored more than 15 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Paradigm Shift and his most …
Law Department as a Profit Center: Strategies for Going from Cost Center to Revenue Generator – ACC 2016 Session
The legal department has evolved from the traditional view that it is a cost center or “the department of no.” A panel at last week’s Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting discussed how legal departments can become stronger partners with their business clients and become a revenue generator – or even a profit center. The …
ACC 2017 Recap
In the early months of 1848, when news broke of found gold at Sutter Mill in Northern California, a rush of fortune-seekers from across the United States and abroad converged onto a boomtown called San Francisco. Fast forward to this past week where more than 2,600 corporate counsel flocked to San Francisco in search of …
Themes from the Annual Meeting – ACC 2016
The exhibit floor and sessions at any conference provide an opportunity to truly hear what is top of mind, and the 2016 Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting offered just that. Through networking conversations with key clients, colleagues and attending sessions, Susan Feingold, head of Law Department Service at Practical Law, part of Thomson Reuters, …
ACCAM15 – Similarities and Differences: In-house Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
There are many differences between the roles of in-house counsel and chief compliance officer, but for the majority of in-house counsel, you can almost guarantee some lost sleep from worrying about compliance. At the Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting, a session titled “Role and Responsibility of the Chief Compliance Officer” discussed many of the …
ACCAM 15 – Reputation or Regulatory Compliance? Structuring an Ethical Supply Chain
Numerous high-profile examples of supply chain mismanagement continue to keep the issue front of mind for businesses, regulators and consumers. As countries and government organizations introduce regulations to mitigate unacceptable practices, should the focus from companies be on complying with regulations or reputation management? Steve McDonald, head of Market Development for Thomson Reuters Risk Management …