Managing Generations Y and Z: Motivating, Recruiting and Retaining Tomorrow's Workforce

Attorney Jeff Landes is a trusted partner to employers as they navigate the rapidly changing laws impacting their workforce decisions. He counsels a wide range of employers, including international luxury retailers, global financial services companies, foreign banks, startup organizations, nonprofit organizations, and independent schools on all aspects of employment compliance and risk avoidance by carefully considering the legal issues, industry trends, and business objectives unique to their organization. A long-term resource to boards, in-house counsel, and HR teams, Jeff is a natural extension of their leadership team, whether they need a quick gut check or a tough negotiator. When designing cohesive policies and procedures, he outlines complex legal and compliance requirements in business terms his clients can understand. Jeff regularly leads workplace training programs on sexual harassment, workplace conduct, performance management, the hiring process, and wage/hour issues. His combination of humor and real-world examples engages audiences at all levels of the organization.

Iris Lichtman is Deputy General Counsel at Compass - a leading publicly-traded real estate technology company. At Compass, Iris manages the legal teams supporting business growth, including the M&A, Product, Commercial, Real Estate and New Business teams, and counsels senior leaders on strategic transactions and other key business decisions. Prior to joining Compass, Iris was a corporate associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

Iris earned a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.Sc. from Cornell University. She and her husband reside in Westchester, NY where they are raising their three daughters.

Lori Landew has spent three decades charting her own course, trusting her passions and priorities to forge a career that has spanned film and television, music, publishing, sports and fashion. Along the way she’s represented artists, athletes, and personalities like Ludacris, Martina Navratilova, and Ashley Graham, as well as independent and major entertainment companies like Jive Records, Sony Music, QVC, and the Sixers. Landew joined us in 2019 as Vice President of Legal for our content teams and moved into her current role as General Counsel in 2021. She lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she would host, apparently, one of the most fascinating dinner parties of all time

Megan Filoon joined Molecular Templates in May 2018 as Corporate Counsel and most recently served as Vice President, Legal. During her time at Molecular Templates, Ms. Filoon has managed the day-to-day operations of the legal and human resources groups and served as corporate secretary. She has been responsible for advising the senior management team on all legal activities, including corporate governance, securities, real estate and employment matters.

Prior to joining Molecular Templates, Ms. Filoon was a Corporate Associate at Blank Rome LLP from 2013 to 2018, where she represented public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, securities offerings, business formation and corporate governance matters.

Ms. Filoon earned her Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law, where she was the Business Editor of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, and received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from Boston University.