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Leading Through Minefields, Disruption & Risk:
The GC as The Board's Futurist
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 4:00pm – 8pm MST
Approved for three (3) Colorado CLE Credits!
4:00pm Registration & Networking: Apps, Drinks, Desserts
5:00pm Welcome and Introductions
5:15pm Panel Discussion: The Expanding Department of Legal and Business Affairs and the Role of the General Counsel
6:00pm Breakout A: Minefields in Fiduciary Obligations
6:30pm Breakout B: External Constituencies Partnership Between the Board and GC
7:00pm Panel Discussion Breakdown and Q & A
7:45pm Closing Remarks
8:00pm Conclusion
Heavy Appetizers, Drinks, and Dessert will be served before and between sessions.
We are seeing a world in which the pace of change and disruption is causing the evolution of the role of the General Counsel and law departments. General Counsel are in a distinct position to anticipate change and guide their companies through the minefields of new technology, regulation, and social change from both a business and legal perspective. These challenges affect not only today’s companies but also a broad multitude of stakeholders and constituents. The Association of Corporate Counsel of Colorado (ACC) and NACD Colorado invite you to discover how the most proactive legal officers and departments are evolving beyond traditional practices, leading partnerships across the enterprise that identify and address expanded business risks and complex challenges arising in this new world.
In a combination of panel discussions and rotating breakout sessions, this fast-paced, extended program format will offer the opportunity for board members, ACC members, and NACD sponsors to engage in conversations on very topical governance issues facing boards from the headlines, emerging technologies, regulation and social issues. Panels and breakouts will include the following topics:
- Why today’s General Counsel and law departments are evolving to the roles of strategist, oracle, operator and compass, and the impact and benefits
- Recognizing, analyzing and responding to surprising minefields in fiduciary obligations to a wide group of stakeholders, e.g., conflicts in law governing interstate business law; your duty as a director to know – or not; examples from the headlines
- The pressure points in the relationship between the board and the GC: who does the GC represent and when; in-house and external counsel in the boardroom; conflicts, use of confidential information, privilege; relations with former directors
- Artificial Intelligence in the boardroom: challenges and questions you never thought to ask. AI’s impact past and present in the board room; why Generative AI is different; regulatory, privilege and other boardroom issues
Join us for a fast-moving, fun, and information packed evening.
PANELISTS
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Sondra Barbour, VP & General Counsel, United Launch Alliance, LLC
Rasmani Bhattacharya, EVP, General Counsel, CSG Systems International
Sherin Sakr, General Counsel, WellBiz Brands
Lee Reichert, Colorado Deputy Attorney General and Former GC, Molson Coors
Lisa Zúñiga Ramirez, NACD.DC
John Elofson, Partner, Davis Graham & Stubbs
Jonathan Bush, Senior VP/General Counsel/Corporate Secretary, ModivCare
Damon Barry, Managing Partner, Ballard Spahr
Mashenka Lundberg, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, COBank
Marwan Fawaz, Former Executive Advisor, Google, and Alphabet, Nest CEO
Ryan Arney, Partner, Nodal Law
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James is a Partner in Shook’s Houston office and is highly experienced corporate services lawyer with a broad range of complex corporate transactional experience in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, corporate governance and other commercial matters.