Leading up to DLA Piper's Global Women's Leadership Summit on October 16 – 17, 2018, Caroline Krass, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, General Insurance, and Deputy General Counsel at AIG, spoke about the importance of innovation in today's business environment, the role of the GC in facilitating innovation while simultaneously managing risk, and her experiences working in government before joining the private sector.

Victoria Lee, global co-chair of DLA Piper's Technology sector, will moderate a panel at the Summit that will discuss the implementation of new technology in global legal platforms and the challenges general counsel face when considering how they can best support their business clients through the use of technology.

When DLA Piper launched its first Global Women's Leadership Summit seven years ago, it was largely in response to a growing demand among in-house lawyers for an all-woman conference focused not on women's issues but rather on the broader business concerns that all general counsel were facing.

Top female GCs shared insights at DLA Piper's Women's Summit

By Lisa Haile, Ph.D., partner at DLA Piper and Chairperson of the 2016 summit

Protecting the company from increasingly sophisticated hackers. Managing a government raid in a foreign office. Responding to a potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation. Protecting a company's reputation in the face of labor violations. Dealing with a whistleblower leaking privileged information.