Enhancing Your Effectiveness as a General Counsel

Presented on Wednesday, June 5, 2019

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    Enhancing Your Effectiveness as a General Counsel

    • Speakers:
    • Bindu Cudjoe, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Canadian Western Bank
    • Jeffrey (Jeff) Ellis, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Canadian Pacific Railway
    • Anita Dusevic Olivia, Vice President, Legal at Inter Pipeline Ltd.
    • Judith McKay, Chief Client and Innovation Officer, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • About this program:
  • The role of General Counsel (GC) is becoming increasingly challenging as GCs’ budgets tighten and business environments become more complex than ever before. Joins us for session that will help address your top issues.

    We will conduct a survey of your peers and during the session we will share the results. You will hear from Senior GCs on how they manage their multi-faceted positions and their approaches to dealing with pain points you indicated – from innovation to staffing. The experts will also focus on the role of law firms in supporting GCs and way that in-house and outside counsel can work together to build trusted partnerships to more effectively serve their business.


    This program qualifies for up to 1 hour of CPD credit under the mandatory education regimes in British Columbia and Ontario and specifically counts towards the Ethics/Professionalism requirement in British Columbia and Ontario. McCarthy Tétrault LLP has been approved as an Accredited Provider of Professionalism Content by the Law Society of Ontario.