Maximizing The Moment:

Value Through Connection

DLA Piper's 6th Global Women's Leadership Summit

  • September 19-20, 2022 Chicago
  • Chicago

About the Summit

DLA Piper’s Leadership Alliance for Women is excited to announce that our sixth Global Women’s Leadership Summit returns to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chicago on September 19- 20, 2022. Centered around this year’s theme of “Maximizing the Moment: Value Through Connection,” this exclusive networking event is tailored specifically to the professional experiences and concerns of women chief legal officers, general counsel, deputy general counsel and other high-level in-house women lawyers.

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Sam Zell

Sam Zell

Chairman

Equity Group Investments

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Sam Zell is the Chairman of Equity Group Investments (EGI), the private investment firm he founded more than 40 years ago. The firm's investments span industries and continents and include interests in finance, energy, transportation, communications, health care and real estate. Mr. Zell is recognized as a founding father of today's public real estate industry after creating three of the largest REITs in history.

He is also Founder and Chairman of Equity International, a private investment firm focused on building real estate-related businesses in international emerging markets. Mr. Zell has been particularly active in bringing Equity International's companies to the public markets.

Three of these investments are listed on the New York Stock Exchange: Gafisa, a leading homebuilder in Brazil; Xinyuan, a fast-growing regional homebuilder in China; and Homex, Mexico's leading homebuilder. A fourth, BR Malls, Brazil's largest retail property owner and operator, is listed on the Bovespa.

Monday, September 19, 2022

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2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Bringing Excellence in Client Service to a New Level and Improving the Overall Health of Our Justice System with Collaboration, Creativity, and Innovation
CLE - Ethics
Michele DeStefano

Today’s focus is changing from what services and expertise professionals in the law marketplace provide to how they provide them. Clients’ call for innovation is in large part a call for a new type and level of excellence in client service – one that is focused on proactive collaboration, creativity, client-centricity, and innovation. Society demands that the law leverage all available tools to increase access to justice, diversity, and inclusion. Critical to moving the needle on meeting these demands is to persuade lawyers to view their use of technology and innovation differently – from thinking of it as an option or privilege to seeing it as a duty. Leveraging hundreds of interviews with in-house and law firm lawyers from around the world, this session explores new expectations and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to persuade lawyers that in the process of learning how to innovate, we can transform the relationship between clients and firms while improving the overall health of our justice system. Putting theory to practice, attendees will participate in a dynamic collaboration exercise to try their hands ideating, creative problem solving, and innovating. This exercise is designed to open attendees’ minds to learn how to innovate and provide a tool to enhance their creativity and innovation.

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Michele DeStefano

Michele DeStefano

Professor of Law
The Larry Hoffman Greenberg Traurig Business of Law Chair

University of Miami

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6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Dinner and Keynote Presentation
Joann Lublin

Opening Remarks from Jackie K. Park, Gina Durham, Ilana H. Eisenstein, and Frank Ryan

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Joann Lublin

Joann Lublin

Career Columnist
Editor

The Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

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7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Check in and Continental Breakfast
8:40 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Opening Remarks and Keynote Presentation
Kim Scott

Welcome from Jackie K. Park and Opening Remarks from Ilana H. Einstein.

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Kim Scott

Kim Scott

Author
Co-Founder

Just Work and Radical Candor

9:40 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
Networking Break
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Crisis Management in Unprecedented Times: ESG Considerations in a Brand Crisis
CLE
Moderator: Angela Agrusa
Tammy Albarrán, Elizabeth Lampert, Ama Romaine and Effie D. Silva

Welcome to the brave new world of crisis management, where legal issues are inexorably intertwined with the actual physical event at the heart of what is typically considered a “crisis.” Both short-term strategic decisions and longer-term strategic planning must account for critical ESG factors, including human capital issues, business model resilience, and supply chain resilience. Every organization is likely to encounter reputational issues with differing degrees of seriousness. When bad things happen, companies need the right legal counsel and strategy for working their way out of a mess and avoiding risk. Our panelists will address the preventative measures companies can take before crisis occurs and the importance of proper communication when companies face risk created by adversity and accusation. They will share insights around pitfalls to avoid in the stages of crisis management during compromising times.

Moderator
Angela Agrusa

Angela Agrusa

Managing Partner, Los Angeles
Co-Chair, Food and Beverage Subsector
Member, DLA Piper’s Executive Committee

DLA Piper

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Tammy Albarrán

Tammy Albarrán

Vice President
Chief Deputy General Counsel
Deputy Corporate Secretary

Uber

Elizabeth Lampert

Elizabeth Lampert

President

Elizabeth Lampert PR

Ama Romaine

Ama Romaine

Global General Counsel of Real Estate Asset Management

Blackstone

Effie D. Silva

Effie D. Silva

Senior Vice President
General Counsel
Corporate Secretary
Chief Ethics
Compliance Officer

Fresh Del Monte Produce Company

CLE Downloads
12:25 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Lunch, Keynote Presentation and Inaugural DLA Piper Pro Bono LeadHer Award Presentation
Kathleen Ruhland
Speakers
Kathleen Ruhland

Kathleen Ruhland

Global Co-Chair Leadership Alliance for Women
Co-Chair, Food and Beverage Sector
Managing Partner, Minneapolis Office
Partner, Corporate

DLA Piper

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Becoming Board-Ready: Leadership and Connections
Moderator: Hillary Sale
Suzanne Rich Folsom, Maria Green, Eileen Kamerick and Stasia Kelly

Empirical studies indicate that lawyer-directors’ professional judgment, legal expertise, and familiarity with regulation and risk management improve the value and operation of the company. Our distinguished panelists will explore how, over the course of a legal career, women lawyers can prepare to obtain a corporate board seat. Panelists will also share how they laid the groundwork for board service early in their own careers, discuss how to best position oneself to serve on a corporate board, and approaches to expanding professional networks to build board-ready connections.

Moderator
Hillary  Sale

Hillary Sale

Associate Dean for Strategy
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law
Professor of Management

Georgetown University

Speakers
Suzanne Rich Folsom

Suzanne Rich Folsom

Senior Vice President
General Counsel

Phillip Morris International

Maria  Green

Maria Green

Senior Vice President
General Counsel (Retired)

Ingersoll Rand

Eileen  Kamerick

Eileen Kamerick

Non-Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

The Governance Partners

Stasia Kelly

Stasia Kelly

Senior Advisor to the Chair
Executive Director – Client Relations

DLA Piper

3:05 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.
Transformative Leadership: Shaping the Future of Work for Legal Professionals
Moderator: Nicole Brennig
Robyn Alexander, Maria DiLorenzo, Marlene Gordon and Beth Henderson

Rapidly evolving and interrelated changes in technology, societal norms, and talent acquisition are redefining work, workforces, and workplaces. Businesses of every size and in every sector are rethinking how work is allocated between people and machines, reconstructing the terms on which labor is engaged and compensated in arrangements that range from traditional full[1]time employees to gig workers and crowdsourcing, and reimagining work environments that now include fully distributed and virtual spaces. The corporate legal department inevitably plays a central role in the effort to anticipate and navigate the legal impact of such changes, as the what, the who and the where of work shift in ways that current laws do not readily address. This session looks at how this central role presents general counsel with a unique opportunity to not simply react, but to drive transformative changes in the future of work within their organizations.

Moderator
Nicole  Brennig

Nicole Brennig

Managing Partner, Austin

DLA Piper

Speakers
Robyn Alexander

Robyn Alexander

Senior Vice President
Deputy General Counsel

Revantage

Maria  DiLorenzo

Maria DiLorenzo

Former Senior Vice President
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

J. Crew Group

Marlene Gordon

Marlene Gordon

Senior Vice President
Chief Legal Officer

Panera

Beth Henderson

Beth Henderson

Assistant General Counsel
Pro Bono Director

Microsoft

2022 hotel accomodations

The Ritz-Carlton Chicago
160 East Pearson Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
T: +1 312 266 1000

*The DLA Piper Global Women’s Leadership Summit room block is full.

What past delegates say

"There was a depth of experience in the presenters – as well as guests – and excellent speakers that made it very special."

2018 Summit Attendee