If you think the line-up for the NSW In-house Counsel Day has been great in previous years, then get ready for who’s coming this year!
ACC Australia is proud to share our fantastic line up of speakers for next month’s one day conference. We have keynotes, speakers, and panellists all ready and waiting for Thursday 20th May to arrive, so they can help you reconnect, reimagine and realign as well as reposition yourself as an in-house lawyer of influence!
Cory Davie - Top Five Global Risks in 2021 and How They Impact In-house Lawyers
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Cory Davie is the head of the Control Risks business and the client services team for Australia Pacific. Cory leads the client engagement across Australia Pacific-based clients, supporting Australian companies as they look to enter new markets, strengthen their compliance and resilience and manage critical business issues. Cory will be sharing the top five global risks in 2021 and how they will impact you. |
Paul Garth and Madeleine Shaw - Out of the Quicksand: Thriving for Corporate Counsel
Madeleine Shaw and Paul will discuss a practical action plan on how Corporate Counsel can, get out of the quicksand and thrive.
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Paul heads up Pinsent Masons Vario’s flexible legal services team in Australia. Having previously worked in the legal sector for over ten years as a recruitment and search consultant, Paul has assisted lawyers with critical career moves to and from every continent on earth! |
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Madeleine Shaw is an in-demand executive coach, speaker and facilitator with over two decades of experience working with lawyers. She is sought by people at all stages of their career, from new graduate to transition to retirement and all the range of challenges and successes in between. She is interested in helping people be great leaders and leaders be great people. Madeleine is accredited with the Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership. She is a professional credentialed coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), is an accredited Mental Health First Aider and is board director and secretary of the ICF’s Australasia Chapter. |
Thomas Kaldor - Silo Crashing: Successfully Partnering Across Your Business
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Thomas is a lawyer working at the leading edge of a rapidly-changing legal industry. As LegalVision’s Head of Product and Legal Transformation, Thomas is responsible for identifying and implementing innovative models of legal service delivery for large corporates and startups and SMEs. Thomas will facilitate a discussion between three in-house legal leaders who have successfully partnered with marketing and other departments to sharpen their organisation's competitive edge and step away from silo crashing. |
Melissa Le Clerc and Justin Moses - Sole Legal Officer Round Table – Juggling an Overwhelming Workload when You’re the Only Legal Officer
Melissa Le Clerc and Justin will be sharing ideas on how you can educate your organisation to be more independent and confident in their legal decision; and how to triage and manage competing priorities.
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Melissa Le Clerc has been admitted since 2011 with sound experience in corporate/commercial law, specialising in entertainment, events and sports. Her current role is at Destination NSW, which involves providing a broad range of advice, including compliance, WHS, privacy, intellectual property, licencing and governance. She loves drafting and enjoys the education piece that comes with teaching the law to her colleagues. |
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Justin is a In-house Lawyer at AIME Mentoring. Justin Moses has been an active participant in the evolution of the Australian in-house legal sector since joining it as a graduate lawyer in 1987. Over the ensuing decades, Justin has amassed deep experience in the leadership of legal teams and change management in areas as diverse as team culture, engagement, high-performance, efficiency, innovation, technology and wellbeing. |
Mark Pulvirenti - Eyes on the post-COVID horizon: Foreign bribery changes are headed our way: What are they, why they matter and how do we prepare for them?
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Mark Pulvirenti is the Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. Mark specialises in financial crime advisory and investigation matters, often involving bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, asset misappropriation, financial statement reconstruction and asset tracing. With 27 years of international experience in forensic accounting, expert witness and investigations, he has led multinational teams in several high-profile global matters. He helps clients assess fraud and corruption risks, focusing particularly on anti-bribery and corruption regulatory compliance matters. He also ensures internal controls, as part of wider fraud and corruption compliance programs, are robust and can successfully detect issues and mitigate risks. Mark will be discussing the foreign bribery changes that are headed our way, what they are, why they matter and how we can prepare. |
Michael Selinger - The future of flexible workplace arrangements
Michael will be looking at the future of flexible workplace arrangements; what onus do employers have to make sure their team members switch off and avoid potential burn out?
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Michael Selinger is a Partner at Holding Redlich. Michael acts for a diverse range of clients in construction and manufacturing, agribusiness, media, education, professional services, transport and government. He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in Australia edition for Occupational Health & Safety Law since 2020. In 2021, he was recognised as one of NSW’s leading workplace health and safety lawyers by Doyle’s Guide. Michael has extensive litigation experience in employment disputes and defending work health and safety prosecutions and is a regular presenter of seminars and training on workplace issues, particularly on work health and safety. |
Amy will be leading the roundtable discussion for those new to in-house; on how to be an effective contributor to commercial conversations.
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Amy is a Senior Legal Counsel at Domain. Amy Spira is a passionate in-house corporate and commercial lawyer with practice interests in corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions in the media and technology sectors. In recognition of her law, business, and leadership achievements, Amy was awarded the 2019 ACC Corporate Lawyer of the Year. In her current role as Senior Legal Counsel at Domain, Amy is deeply involved in Domain’s corporate M&A activity, leading a large number of corporate transactions and commercial partnerships. As well as her role at Domain, Amy is Company Secretary of GorillaStack, a technology business that builds tools to automate cost savings and security infrastructure for the cloud. |
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