SOLID East - September 22, 2022

                                                       SOLID East - 2022

SOLID is a TED Talk style summit focused on innovation and the business of law. Did you ever listen to a great SOLID Talk or panel and wish you had time to engage and brainstorm in real time on how to apply those ideas to your business? 14 speakers will give TED-style talks around the intersection of innovation, advanced technology and the business of law. They share what they are doing, how they are doing it, and the business impact it has.

Our talks are followed by facilitated table talks, sprint panels, and town hall discussions, whereby participants discuss what they know now that they did not know before the session started and how to apply these lessons to their own organizations. SOLID provides participants with maximum interaction with peers and colleagues in a round table, workshop environment to assess current challenges and design concrete solutions.

*Complimentary registration is for corporate guests only. Corporate guests are defined as counsel and executives from corporate legal departments that are not from consultancies, service or software providers. We reserve the right to refuse admission and cancel your registration if you don't qualify.

**If you are with a corporate legal department or an executive of a company that is in the legal services, software or consulting space, you must attend as a sponsor.

Agenda

Morgan King - Takeda Susan Packal - Snyk

The Evolving Role of the Legal Chief of Staff

The Legal Chief of Staff is one of the 3 fastest growing evolving roles in the legal space right now. ​Morgan and the panel of Chiefs will take a deep dive into this important and evolving role:

1. What are the various backgrounds that are prevalent for this position?

2. What skills, competencies, and experiences are needed?

3. Why was this position created?

4. What does the General Counsel expect from his/her Legal Chief of Staff?

5. What are the career paths after this role?

Lisa Kammert - Yale School of Management

Board Readiness

Women (and men) who want join corporate boards need to know how to prepare and network. What it takes to be ready. Lisa develops custom and open enrollment executive education programs to help clients to learn mission critical skills to lead in their strategic business responsibilities including Women on Boards.

Mike Kasdan - Wiggin and Dana

Wellness in the Legal Community - Lawyering While Human

Mental Wellness is a growing problem in all industries, but in law firms and corporate legal departments depression and other issues of mental wellness are sometimes seen as a weakness. How do we change the stigma? How do we change the model of work first and always? Data supports that recognizing this as a problem and coming up with solutions to protect the well being of your team gives you less turnover, higher output and a more collaborative environment. In addition to being a partner at a firm and an adjunct professor at NYU Law, Mike is CEO of Lawyering While Human - and changing the mindset of law firms and legal departments.

Maureen Holland - AstraZeneca

The benefits and freedom of eDiscovery and legal operations reporting to finance and not legal.

Several major corporations have redesigned the reporting structure for eDiscovery and legal operations.This has numerous benefits and has accelerated innovation and productivity.

Maureen will share the benefits and how you can advocate for this power and freedom.

Bruce Kasanoff

Using Social Media to Uplift Both Your Career and Life

​Here are the secrets of professional success on social media as explained by one of the leading ghostwriters and coaches in the industry.

Michael Avalos - AIG

How to Hire recent Law School Grads and Accelerate their Value.

AIG has a trend setting approach to hiring talent. First- develop an internship program for 1L’s & 2L’s. And then offer the best students full time in-house opportunities upon graduation.

This is a fast growing trend within the Fortune 1000. 25 major corporations are hiring recent law school grads and another 25 have this initiative on the drawing board.

Gone are the days of hiring all in house talent from outside counsel.

This is the future normal. Are you ready?

Bill Shafton - Grindr

Fostering Diversity, Talent and Results

Everybody talks about diversity and inclusion but getting started and finding success is a challenge for many. Bill shafton – General Counsel of Grindr understands the challenges and has had great success at Grindr and helping others.

Seth Eichenholtz - Mastercard

Transform your career beyond eDiscovery

Working with other departments is a way to gain recognition across the company and elevate your career. Seth took the opportunity to pull together Legal, HR, Risk and other departments to create a work -flow for internal investigations without redundancies.