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Progress and Prospects for Women General Counsel on Canadian Public Company Boards

By Stacy McLean, Partner; Kathleen Keilty, Partner; and Alison Jeffrey, Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives & Client Development Coaching at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Boards increasingly recognize the value proposition of corporate directors who come from an in-house counsel background. The role of the general counsel (GC) today extends well beyond legal and requires an array of skills — notably business acumen and leadership. This Quick Overview discusses optimization of Board performance.

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2021 Value Champion Change Healthcare Targeted Role-Based Training

Sample of 2021 ACC Value Champion Change Healthcare’s novel targeted training methods to make complex topics understandable. Leveraging social media and broadcast television techniques, sessions on Code of Conduct, integrity, and compliance have generated widespread employee engagement and empowerment. Training is being completed 15 percent faster and with 40 percent less seat time, yet learning objectives are not sacrificed: Post-intervention surveys show that 94 percent of learners will use the training information in making decisions.

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2021 Value Champion James Hardie Industries and PwC NewLaw Strategic Transformation Playbook

An excerpt of the playbook used by James Hardie Industries and PwC NewLaw for strategic transformation. Includes an organization chart showing a new structure along global practice lines with flexible resource pools; a roadmap for the year-long project, with overviews of sprints; schematics of the legal project management process and their approach to continuous improvement; a description of their Innovation Team structure; and a strategic blueprint featuring the vision, goals, pillars, statements of what success looks like and a schematic showing how goals are aligned to workstreams and initiatives.

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2021 Value Champion NetApp Contract Approval Workflow

2021 Value Champion NetApp and its Legal Service Provider Ecosystem streamlined Contract Approval Workflow augmented by AI-enabled risk assessment. Compares old and new process. Includes table of objectives and associated metrics, baselines, goals and results.

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New Laws, Agile Teams

By Arsalan Tariq, Partner, BSA, Oman

The legal and regulatory landscape of the Middle East, specifically in Oman, is constantly evolving, meaning businesses have to remain agile in order to continue to progress. In this article, learn how these changes impact your legal team.

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Savings is Not a Strategy

By Stephanie Corey, Co-founder and CEO, UpLevel Ops and Casey Flaherty Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, LexFusion

Savings is not a strategy. Imagine a CEO opening an earnings call by celebrating the money the company “saved” on deal counsel and due diligence by not moving forward with an otherwise strategically vital acquisition. The stock would crater because leadership would rightly be judged as majoring in the minors.

As a line item, legal spend is a minor consideration. Rather, legal spend is better characterized as a relatively small investment that enables the business to execute on what matters.

Legal spend should be dictated by business needs. Those business needs are only escalating with the explosion in legal complexity. The increasingly law-thick environment in which businesses operate is having a profound impact on corporate top lines, bottom lines, valuations, and strategic opportunities. Trying to save money on legal is myopic—and excruciatingly common.

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