As well as the editorial agenda, the GC Futures Summit offered a series of breakout sessions for delegates to choose from.
The sessions included:
Morning Sessions
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STRATEGIES TO MOVE YOUR LAW DEPARTMENT UP THE VALUE CHAIN In-house legal departments must manage ever-increasing risk and compliance challenges and increasing litigation costs, evolving from a company cost centre into a strategic business partner. Law departments are forced to do more with less, while they must also increase visibility, predictability, and responsiveness. Delegates aedttend this session to learn how leading legal departments have invested in building the skills, processes, and tools to support these changes, move up the value chain, and drive business value.Chair: Jason Parkman, CEO, Mitratech Reza Ghadiri-Zare, Group Legal Advisor, Standard Chartered Tony Moss, Head of Investigations, British American Tobacco |
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THE CONTRACT FOLDER: HIDDEN VALUE OR TICKING BOMB?Managing contracts is becoming more complex and the risks of failure more severe. Value creation opportunities exist throughout the contract lifecycle. In order to discover and capture this hidden value, GCs need to extract and aggregate unstructured data from legacy systems and use advanced technology to enforce obligations, manage contractual risk, compliance and performance.
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Afternoon Sessions
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Running the legal department with business disciplineRunning a successful business is difficult – ask any CEO. You must assess your current state, envision the future, then chart and navigate a course to get there. This session examined how leading legal departments are adopting business disciplines from other corporate functions, including:
Jack Diggle, Director, Legal Business Solutions, Elevate Services |
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Investigations – combining analytics technology and lawyers to stay ahead of the gameThe phone rings. A voice at the other end tells you your company is subject to a regulatory investigation. Worse perhaps, a suspect in a criminal investigation If you’re ‘lucky’ may be your compliance team just told you that they received a whistleblowing report about alleged violations of regulations and allegation of bribery or fraud by your company. You want to get to the bottom of it quickly working with experts in the field. The challenge? You don’t have a complete understanding of the problem. What do you do…
Chair: Simon Price, CEO, Recommind Barry Vitou, Partner and Head of the Global Corporate Crime Team, Pinsent Masons |