WASHINGTON (August 5, 2019) — Over 3,500 in-house lawyers, legal services providers, and business thought leaders flew into Phoenix, Arizona at the end of October for the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)’s 2019 Annual Meeting. Some 25 countries, including India, were represented. Trevor Faure, CEO of Smarter Law Solutions and ACC’s benchmarking partner, gave the opening plenary, “Smarter Law: From emotional to artificial intelligence, transforming busy lawyers into business leaders.”
Other faculty included leaders from Capital One, Motorola, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters, Western Union. They covered topics as far-ranging as law department performance, in-house law and geopolitics, new technology, legal operations, corporate culture, and compliance and ethics.
Born in Australia, Reinhold leads the legal and regulatory functions at du. She has won “Legal Department of the Year” Awards several times, been profiled in The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Middle East, and led the only team from a non-UK company recognized with the prestigious Lexcel practice management accreditation by the Law Society of England and Wales. The Legal 500 has described her as a “bastion for diversity,” and CommsMEA magazine listed her as one of the Middle East and Africa’s 20 leading women in the information and communications technology sector.
“ACC is moving in an exciting direction, embracing the ‘Age of the CLO’ and helping integrate in-house counsel all over the world in the new digital, international legal space,” she said. “I look forward to working with the ACC board and leadership to continue building our global presence.”
ACC’s 45,000 global members also received some well-deserved recognition of their own. Following long tradition, ACC announced its service awards at the Annual Meeting, celebrating the outstanding contributions of individual members, chapters (organized by geography), and networks (organized by focus or discipline). Richardson and Reinhold gave the following awards at a ceremony on Sunday, 27 October:
As business and Francisco Bay Area technology change, the in-house role is changing with it. The 2019 ACC Annual Meeting will give attendees a unique look into the forces reshaping the law departments of the 21st century, like artificial intelligence and recent international regulations, as well as the best practices and perspectives of the best known and most innovative in-house leaders.
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is a global legal association that promotes the common professional and business interests of in-house counsel who work for corporations, associations and other organizations through information, education, networking, and advocacy. With more than 45,000 members in 85 countries employed by over 10,000 organizations, ACC connects its members to the people and resources necessary for both personal and professional growth. By in-house counsel, for in-house counsel.® For more information, visit www.acc.com and follow ACC on Twitter: @ACCinhouse.
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