The ACC Foundation’s Cybersecurity Summit, the PREMIER gathering of cyber in-house attorneys and professionals, offers two days of in-person educational sessions and networking, designed to equip professionals with the tools and insights needed to address today’s most critical cybersecurity challenges. These learning and connecting opportunities will complement your broad understanding of cybersecurity strategies and principles, enabling you to become a more well-rounded, focused, and effective practitioner.
Highlights
DEI Under Scrutiny - The Impact of Recent Legislation, Court Decisions, and Preparing for a New Administration
December 12 | Virtual
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts are facing scrutiny from all sides, including high-profile challenges to employment policies. In this session, the speakers will provide an update on state laws, legislation, judicial activity, and a forecast of how the new administration may impact DEI programming for employers. Topics will include risk assessment and mitigation, the status of reverse discrimination claims, and best practices for maintaining a commitment to inclusion and belonging.
Global Women in Law and Leadership Symposium and Honors Dinner
June 18 | New York, NY
This event, held in the Delegates Dining Room at the United Nation’s headquarters takes a deep dive into the issues confronting women in the workplace, primarily in the corporate legal profession. The Symposium will highlight our Women in the House (WITH) initiative, and our On Ramp In-House program, helping women lawyers who are returning to law following an extended hiatus. We explore balance, wellness, health and strategy as well.
Registration Opening Soon!
A Data-Driven Look at DEI in Legal Departments
This ACC Foundation report explores the current landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within legal departments. We analyze data from hundreds of legal departments globally, revealing both progress made and areas for improvement.
This report also highlights the ACC Foundation's DEI Maturity Model which can help departments benchmark against DEI best practices and help develop a roadmap for progress.
ACC Foundation Offerings
ACC Foundation DEI Maturity Model
The ACC Foundation DEI Maturity Model has been designed for use by legal departments to benchmark the maturity of their efforts regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across 13 functional business areas that have been proven relevant for optimization of DEI impact and results. The best part is that this tool is offered for free to entire legal and business communities!
Care & Feeding of In-house Counsel and EmpowHERment Dinner Series
The Care and Feeding of In-House Counsel are private dinners featuring candid, small group discussions between chief legal officers (CLOs) and outside counsel. We will focus on diversity and inclusion and ways to strengthen in-house and outside counsel relationships.
Contact foundation@acc.com to register or for more information.
Women in the House Network
The ACC Women In The House (WITH) Network seeks to foster the professional development of women as in-house counsel, support and engage women in their professional roles, and champion full and equal recognition of women in the legal profession all over the globe. The network features monthly educational programming, timely resources, and an online forum designed to foster and cultivate connections with women in law around the globe.
This event far exceeded my expectations. It was really well done, and incredibly uplifting.
S. Hill
Lockheed Martin
2019 Global Women in Law & Leadership Guest
