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Creating Win-Win Outside Counsel Relationships


Level: Advanced
Runtime: 61 minutes
Recorded Date: October 19, 2023
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Agenda

• Retaining outside counsel
• Managing litigation cost and resources
        - What can you do in-house?
        - Reducing discovery spend
• Managing case strategy and development
• Key takeaways

Runtime: 1 hour
Recorded: October 19, 2023

For NY - Difficulty level: For experienced attorneys only (nontransitional)
For NY - Difficulty Level: Experienced attorneys only (non-transitional)

Description

While outside legal spend remains a top concern for most GCs, one thing remains clear the relationship between in-house and outside Outside counsel - how to actually listen to your inside counsel and help you figure out what clients want and how to deliver (and visa versa for in house - both sides) Getting the most out of that relationship Ruthlessly managing outside counsel budgets - how to propose alt fee arrangements - setting expectations properly, how to review bills - open conversations developing relationships with outside counsel without feeling like everything will be a bill - a chilling effect Meaningful ways of developing relationships Balance How to help them create the comfort level, relationships aren't billed for Controlling costs How to teach outside counsel how to give advice to in house - saves money, trust them, benefits - gap of outside counsel to be trained to do that so there's less back and forth Interactions with outside counsel/managing relationships

This program was recorded as part of Corporate Counsel's Women, Influence, and Power in Law Conference held on October 18, 2023.

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Women, Influence & Power in Law Conference
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Panelists

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Denise Plunkett

Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Denise Plunkett is a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience handling an impressive array of high-profile antitrust cases and other high-stakes commercial disputes. Denise has served as lead trial counsel in well over a dozen jury trials of varying types. She has successfully represented MasterCard in some of its most significant antitrust cases, including challenges to its currency conversion and chargeback practices, and recently won a federal jury trial concerning the termination of a Mastercard membership. Her diverse litigation and counseling practice includes trials and appearances in numerous federal and state courts, international and AAA arbitrations, advocacy before the FTC Bureau of Competition, and appellate and other post-judgment representations.

Denise has significant experience and longstanding relationships with leading companies in the payments, financial services, and pharmaceutical industries. She is a trusted advisor to her clients, aggressively representing them in litigation, providing antitrust and regulatory guidance, and helping them to navigate issues related to legal and conduct risk.

Denise Co-Chairs the New York State Bar Association’s Heath Care and Pharmaceuticals Committee and previously served as Co-Chair of the Unilateral Conduct Committee. She is also a member of the New York City Bar Antitrust Committee. She is recognized for her antitrust work by The Legal 500, and regularly speaks and writes in a wide variety of areas, including antitrust developments, litigation practice, gender diversity in the profession, and ethics.

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Roxana Mondragon-Motta

Senior Investigations Counsel
Ericsson

Roxana Mondrag?n-Motta has over ten years of experience counseling clients on corruption, fraud, and other legal and ethical risks, with particular expertise in conducting comprehensive internal and government investigations.

As Senior Investigations Counsel at Ericsson, Roxana oversees some of Ericsson’s most pressing investigations, while managing multiple stakeholder equities. Prior to joining Ericsson, she worked at various global law firms where she conducted government-facing and internal investigations, advised on M&A and cross-border transactions, and counseled clients regarding corruption risks and compliance strategies. Roxana received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

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Rebecca Fisk

Associate General Counsel - Real Estate
Flynn Restaurant Group

Rebecca Fisk is the Associate General Counsel, Real Estate, Commercial & Franchise at Flynn Restaurant Group.

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Virginia "Ginny" Johnson

Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Aspen Aerogels, Inc.

Ginny Johnson joined Aspen Aerogels in May 2022 and serves as Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. Ms. Johnson has 20 years of legal experience spanning both private practice and in-house executive leadership roles in the financial services and energy industries. Prior to joining Aspen, Ms. Johnson was General Counsel of Schneider Electric North America, and before that, she served as Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Legal, Associate General Counsel & Secretary of Global Atlantic Financial Group (f/k/a Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group).

Prior to moving in-house as corporate counsel, Ms. Johnson was a partner in the Litigation Department of Prince Lobel Tye LLP in Boston, and before that, she was an Associate in the Litigation/Regulatory Department, Securities/Corporate Governance Group, in the New York and Boston offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Ms. Johnson holds a Juris Doctor from the Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Boston University.

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