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Maximizing Your Career Success and Satisfaction Thursday, November 17, 2011 Dinner Program DESCRIPTION Are you purposefully planning your career? Take some time to hear from our panel of experts and consider strategic ideas about creating gravitas inside and outside your organization. Do you ever wonder if you accurately understand how you are perceived within your organization? How do you know whether to stay in your current position or to cut and run? What are the signs you should be looking for?

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Practical steps you can take to manage your career and raise your profile. What are the essential skills for moving ahead in-house? How can you position yourself for your next opportunity now? How can you increase your influence and show your value in your current position? How do recruiters identify candidates for top in-house positions? Do’s  and  Don’ts,  practical  tips.

MODERATOR Scott Thayer, Senior Counsel, ConAgra Foods, Inc., Naperville, IL Mr. Thayer has been a member of the Board of Directors of ACC Chicago for several years and will offer an in-house perspective as Moderator. Currently responsible for providing legal services to the Snacks and International business units at ConAgra Foods, Mr. Thayer has 25 years of hands-on commercial, supply chain, operational and manufacturing legal experience, including serving as General Counsel-North America for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. In addition to providing legal support and strategic business advice to the business units he supports at ConAgra Foods, while at Wrigley, Mr. Thayer served as a member of the North American Leadership Team, while overseeing the growth and development of the North American Legal Team.

SPEAKERS Alyse Lasser – President, Insight Executive Search Partners, Oak Brook, IL Ms. Lasser is President of Insight Executive Search Partners, Inc., a generalist boutique executive search firm, with specialties in legal, financial services,  human  resources,  and  sales  and  marketing.  Insight’s  principals  have  over  20   years experience in retained executive search in a variety of industries, and across a broad range of functional areas. Prior to forming Insight, Ms. Lasser was a Senior Vice President at a leading Chicago boutique retained executive search firm. Ms. Lasser is a 1984 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law. She spent her first three years in private litigation practice, and the next eleven at Waste Management, Inc., where she was Assistant General Counsel,  heading  up  Waste  Management’s  Commercial  Practice  Group.  Ms. Lasser has served as Co-Chair of the Alliance for Women, the largest and most active subcommittee of the Chicago Bar Association. Ms. Lasser has an active consulting practice, consulting with companies on a broad range of career issues. She is frequent speaker on career management and satisfaction issues.

Jane DiRenzo Pigott - Managing Director, R3 Group LLC, Chicago, Illinois Ms. Pigott specializes in providing leadership, change and diversity/inclusion consulting to organizations. Her services enhance  an  organization’s  competitive  edge  by  allowing  the  organization  to  utilize,  retain  and  promote  more  fully  its   key human resource assets. She approaches leadership, change and inclusion strategically and produces measurable results  towards  her  clients’  goals  and  objectives.    Her  clients  include  professional  service  firms,  corporations  and   universities. Before starting her own business, Ms. Pigott practiced law for over twenty years, most recently at Winston & Strawn where she served on the firm's Executive and Compensation Committees and as the Chair of the Global Environmental Law practice group. Jane received a BA from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School. Michael Roche-Kelly - President and Founder, MRK Legal Search Consultants, Chicago, Illinois Mr. Roche-Kelly has been a legal recruiter since 1997 and refined his skills at the largest and best well-known legal search firms in the world. Prior to launching MRK Legal Search Consultants, he was the US Managing Partner for a Global Legal Search Firm headquartered in London. Originally from Dublin, Ireland Michael earned his law degree (with Honors) from Trinity College Dublin in 1992 and qualified to practice law in New York State in 1996. Although he consults often on law firm placements, Michael says that his passion is recruiting attorneys for Corporate Law Departments. His in house clients and assignments cover the entire continental United States. Michael also frequently assists his clients on search assignments in Europe and Asia.

TIMES 5:00 pm: 5:45 pm: 6:00 pm: 7:15 pm:

Networking Dinner Presentation Q&A

LOCATION The East Bank Club, 500 North Kingsbury Street, Chicago. Phone: 312-527-5800 COST Attendance is complimentary, but limited to ACC members and prospective ACC members.

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COUNTING THE COST A NEW FILM ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A COMPLIANCE CRISIS FROM THE CREATOR OF “RISKING IT ALL” DLA Piper and the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel invite you to join us for a private viewing of Counting the Cost, a highly commended, cinema quality film written and produced by Duncan Wiggetts, a partner in DLA Piper’s London office, that offers viewers a window into meetings of directors and senior officers of a fictitious company during a crisis of compliance. The story follows these executives as they identify and manage fraud risks and whistleblower allegations arising over a two year period, and the advice given to them and the board by the “It is a pleasure to have General Counsel, graphically illustrating the adverse watched Counting The Cost. consequences of failure. To say that it is a powerful teaching tool would be an The highly informative film will be shown in three understatement” parts, punctuated by commentary provided by a panel Vince Castaglione of speakers including in-house counsel, a regulator, General Counsel, Coby Electronics Corporation an accountant and lawyers from DLA Piper’s Board Member, ACC New York Chapter insurance and financial crime teams. Since its launch, Counting The Cost has been shown all around the world at large events and in workshops run in the boardrooms of many leading companies and for national and global legal and compliance teams. The film was “Highly Commended” in the 2010 Financial Times UK Legal Innovation Awards and has been hailed by both senior management and senior corporate counsel for the quality of the insights it provides. To view a 90-second trailer of the film or to read a growing list of testimonials, please visit www.dlapiperrapidresponse.com.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND In-house lawyers and VP/C-suite executives. This program is valuable for lawyers at all levels, as well as corporate executives from public and privately held companies. Chapter members are also welcome to invite senior business executives from their companies who address board-level issues. PANEL MEMBERS Jim Conway, Chief Financial Crimes and Special Prosecutions, US Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois Samuel Isaacson, Partner, DLA Piper Jonathan King, Partner, DLA Piper Robert Kueppers, Partner, Deloitte Lawrence Oliver, Chief Counsel, Investigations, The Boeing Company Duncan Wiggetts, Partner, DLA Piper WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011 3:30 p.m. Registration and networking 4:00 p.m. Presentation, discussion and Q&A 6:00 p.m. Cocktails and conversation

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MCLE Information Attendees will receive two hours of Illinois MCLE general credit (ethics credit pending approval). ACC Chicago is an Approved Illinois CLE Provider. Participants seeking MCLE credit need to sign-in and provide their Illinois Bar number.

ACC Chicago / Street Law Pipeline Program May 16, 2011 9:30 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 10:30

Opening Session – Auditorium

10:30 – 10:35

Move to the first set of concurrent workshops

10:35 – 11:35

First set of concurrent workshops Conference Room C – IP – Green Group Conference Room F – Contracts – Red Group Main Room – Torts – Blue Group Conference Room O - Employment - Yellow Group

11:35 – 12:35

Lunch and Career Fair – Auditorium

12:35 – 1:35

Second set of concurrent workshops Conference Room C – IP – Yellow Group Conference Room F – Contracts – Green Group Main Room – Torts – Red Group Conference Room O – Employment – Blue Group

1:35 – 1:40

Move to the third set of concurrent workshops

1:40 – 2:40

Third set of concurrent workshops Conference Room C – IP – Blue Group Conference Room F – Contracts – Yellow Group Main Room – Torts – Green Group Conference Room O – Employment – Red Group

2:40 – 2:45

Move to the closing session

2:45 – 3:00

Closing Session – Auditorium