Legal advice is now only one part of the value-add legal teams provide.
Written by: William Kenny, Counselwell member and Assistant General Counsel at Compassion International Incorporated
Working in-house, I’ve learned that there are some essential non-legal skills you don’t learn in...
Now that the dust has settled from Summit 2023, we wanted to share some of the insights and fun facts we learned. These insights are based on 75 responses from the survey we circulated after the event. Summit 2023 took place in Toronto on September 13, 2023, and was attended by approximately 170...
On May 11-12, we ran our first conference for in-house lawyers, entitled Counselwell Summit 2022 (we're working on the name still). After collecting feedback from 30+ people, we have 9 take-aways:
1. People really, really liked this event.
Here are some testimonials:
"The Counselwell Summit...
Today we’re chatting with Michael Paris who serves as the Vice President, Legal & Chief Privacy Officer at Cineplex.
Counselwell: Tell us about your background and what led you to your role at Cineplex?
Paris: I started my career in the Commercial Litigation group at Bennett Jones LLP...
Lorena Mance has joined the AudienceView portfolio of companies as Corporate Counsel. Lorena will be supporting all departments, in particular the portfolio's global B2B ticketing SaaS products and B2C platforms, which all service the Live Events Industry. Prior to this role, Lorena worked as...
Jessica Moldaver has joined EY in the role of Employment Counsel. In this role, Jessica will be providing strategic employment law advice to EY across Canada. Jessica will also be using her experience to conduct more complex workplace investigations and providing guidance on conflict resolution....
Senka Grahovac has joined Kuehne+Nagel Canada in the newly created role of National Legal Counsel to service the organization's Canadian operations within the global legal and compliance framework. Senka will be advising the Canadian management team in two primary areas -...
Rebecca will support the public markets institutional asset management business for Manulife Investment Management in Canada. Previously Rebecca served as Corporate Secretary and VP, Head of Legal for Canada at State Street Global Advisors, Ltd., and as VP, Senior Counsel at State Street Trust...
We started this blog in order to share profiles and insights of top in-house lawyers, and over time, it grew evident that each General Counsel has their own unique perspective, experience and insights about the in-house life. For this post we decided to illustrate just how unique...
Jonathan Cullen is the Vice President & General Counsel Canada & France Cluster Lead at Pfizer Canada. Jonathan has over 17 years of experience in healthcare managing talented teams in Canada and Europe to bring breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, notably Pfizer’s...
Erin Zipes is currently Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Shopify, where she originated, built and scaled the corporate legal function from pre-IPO (NYSE and TSX) to present. In addition to leading the corporate legal team at Shopify, she currently leads the commercial/product counsel...
Alexa Abiscott is the General Counsel and Secretary of ApplyBoard, a technology company headquartered in Kitchener that connects international students and recruitment partners to educational opportunities at institutions around the world. ApplyBoard is the world’s largest online platform...
