Interest Groups

This group is focused on best practices when managing outside counsel, vendors, experts, staff augmentation, contract attorneys, LPOs, consultants and associations/memberships.

Interest Group Chair: Terrene Collins, Director Legal Operations & Chief of Staff to Chief Legal Officer, Panasonic North America (terrene.collins@us.panasonic.com)
Interest Group Co-chair: Shirley Tian, Associate Director, Legal Operations, BeiGene USA (shirley.tian@beigene.com)

Monthly cadence calls are held the 2nd Thursday at 2:00 p.m. (EST). If you wish to participate in these interest group calls, please register for the selected programs HERE.

This group is focused on best practices when managing internal staff resources (from lawyers to admins), including talent development and performance management, communications and department conferences.

Interest Group Chair: Diana Barlow, AVP Legal Operations, Voya Financial (diana.barlow@voya.com)
Interest Group Co-chair: Midori Vasquez, Legal Operations Specialist, Elastic (Midori.Vasquez@elastic.co)

Monthly cadence calls are held the 1st Thursday at 11:00 a.m. (EST).  If you wish to participate in these interest group calls, please register for the selected programs HERE.

This group focuses on advancing practices in information governance, including eDiscovery management.

Interest Group Chair: Julie Heller, Former VP Knowledge Management & Information Governance, AIG (In-transition)
Interest Group Co-chair: Charisma Starr, VP Discovery Technology Strategy and Innovation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (charisma.starr@jpmchase.com)

Monthly cadence calls are held the 3rd Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. (EST). If you wish to participate in these interest group calls, please register for the selected programs HERE.

This group focuses on standardizing metrics related to common areas of legal resource deployment (i.e., in-house resource metrics, outside resource metrics, law firm metrics, metrics related to fixed-fee arrangements, etc.) that will enable each of the companies to make informed decisions and develop justifications about appropriate resource deployment.

Interest Group Chair: Andrea Kirimis, AVP Legal Operations, CNA (andrea.kirimis@cna.com)
Interest Group Co-chair: Lucretia Barrett, General Counsel of Operations, Universal Property & Casualty Ins. Co. (lucretia.barrett.esq@gmail.com)

Monthly cadence calls are held the 3rd Thursday at 1:00 p.m. (EST). If you wish to participate in these interest group calls, please register for the selected programs HERE.

This group focuses on practices and tools used to support team coordination for efficient and effective management and execution of the legal work.

Interest Group Chair: Lorraine Bracy-Ward, Director Global Legal Operations, PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (lbracy@ptcbio.com)
Interest Group Co-Chair: Melissa Bodner, Manager, Legal Support and Operations, AtriCure, Inc. (MBodner@AtriCure.com)

Monthly cadence calls are held the 2nd Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. (EST). If you wish to participate in these interest group calls, please register for the selected programs HERE.

This group – for large law department COOs – is focused on processes to establish and manage strategic plans, while integrating those plans with enterprise strategy and goals.

Interest Group Chair: Daniel Young, Director of Legal Operations SharkNinja (Daniel.Young@sharkninja.com)
Interest Group Co-Chair: Abha Romkey, VP Corporate Legal ServicesEmera (abha.romkey@emera.com)

This group is focused on topical issues related to technology with respect to selection, deployment, driving adoption of legal tools and technology, as well as ongoing management issues, such as negotiating upgrades, keeping viable alternatives available and data security/privacy.

Interest Group Chair: Kelli Brooks, Sr. Solutions Architect, Coinbase (kelli.brooks@coinbase.com)
Interest Group Co-Chair: Liz-Rancourt-Smith, Director Legal Operations, Tilson (erancourt-smith@tilsontech.com)

Monthly cadence calls are held the 4th Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. (EST). If you wish to participate in these interest group calls, please register for the selected programs HERE.