NALP Canadian Section Events

 

December 1 & 2, 2015

 

NALP Canadian Legal Diversity and Inclusion Summit

Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession: Practical Strategies for Retention and Advancement

 

Date and Time: December 1, 2015, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm -Lunch will be provided
Location: McCarthy Tetrault LLP
                 Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Suite 5300, Toronto, ON
Registration: $50 (US)

 

This program will feature three speakers and will include group strategy sessions:

• Women Lawyers: Retention and Advancement Strategies
  Lisa Mattam, Managing Principal, Mattam Group
• Retention and Advancement Strategies for Racialized Lawyers
  Michael F. Charles, Principal, Change DeZign
• The Retention and Advancement of Aboriginal People in the Legal Profession
  Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, Associate Director of Indigenous Legal Studies, University of British Columbia

 

This conference can be purchased in conjunction with the Canadian Section Winter Meeting registration. If you are only attending this Diversity meeting please email Jay Richards, jrichards@nalp.org.

 

NALP End of Year Canadian Section Winter Meeting

Navigating Change

 

Date and Time: December 2, 2015, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Miller Thomson LLP
                 Scotia Plaza, 40 King Street West, Suite 5800, Toronto, ON
Registration: $100 (US)

 

Total Cost of attending both the End of the Year Canadian Section Meeting and the Canadian Legal Diversity Conference is $150 (US).

 

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MEETING AGENDA

(End of Year Canadian Section Winter Meeting)

 

8:00 am - 8:45 am | Registration and Breakfast

 

8:45 am - 9:00 am | Welcome and NALP Update

• Co-chair Kim Bonnar (Manager, Experiential Education and Career Development at Osgoode Hall Law School)
• Co-Chair Jessica Watkins (Assistant Director, Student & Associate Programs, Ontario and Québec at Miller Thomson LLP)
• James G. Leipold (Executive Director, NALP)
• Jean Durling (President, NALP)

 

9:00 am - 10:30 am | The Future of Law Panel

• Colin Lachance, Mitch Kowalski, and Jordan Furlong will join us for a discussion on the future of law. The topics of discussion will include how the practice of law is changing, what capacities are now required from lawyers, and how to develop those capacities in law students and young associates.
• The discussion will be moderated by Osgoode Hall Law School Dean, Lorne Sossin.

 

10:30 am - 10:45 am | Break

 

10:45 am - 11:30 am | Helping Lawyers and Students Prepare for Career Change

• Speaker: Natalie Jenner (Natalie Jenner Consulting)
• The world of hiring has changed significantly in the past ten years. Empowered through online technology, companies are becoming increasingly selective and aggressive at the front end of the hiring process. Law firms, on the other hand, are dealing with leverage models and cost-pressures that may lead to transitioning out solid employees. Amidst this background, lawyers are confronted with having to navigate and negotiate change at often critical junctures in their career: as New Calls with little to sell, as seasoned associates with an escalating price tag for their services, and even as partners facing de-equitization and lateral move challenges.
• This discussion will focus on helping legal HR professionals prepare their lawyers for the inevitable moments of change in their career. From illuminating the current hiring landscape for lawyers and the value proposition of varying career moves and choices, to outlining the tools internal talent teams can provide (including guidance on messaging and how to maximize networks, recruiters, referrals, social media and cold outreach), Natalie is a repository of information and insight based on decades of listening to lawyers' stories and coaching them through career change.

 

11:30 am- 12:00 pm | Section Updates

• OCI Advisory Group
• Directory of Legal Employers
• Diversity

 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch

 

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Navigating Change

• Speaker:
• John Zettler (Director, Talent Strategy & Development, Dale Carnegie Business Group)
• The level of complexity, rate and pace of change continue to increase within the Legal environment. To name a few, trends include; changing customer expectations, downward pressures on pricing, aging partnerships with little to no succession planning, and in many cases excess capacity issues because of the little to low growth many firms are struggling with. Each of these challenges brings new learning about individual and organizational change, the impacts to people and operations and how best to achieve breakthrough results in this turbulent environment.
  
  We have a tremendous responsibility on our shoulders-to run the business day to day - while successfully changing what needs to be changed. Change leadership is really synonymous with leadership.
  
  Perhaps the most difficult task we will face as is managing change…successfully. When the stakes are high in change there is both tremendous potential for ROI, and a huge cost of failure. The bad news: Research shows that most changes fail to return their desired ROI. The good news: Great change management skills will greatly elevate our probability of success.
• In this session we will explore change from two perspectives
     • Those who Lead Change
     • Those who have change imposed on them
• And we’ll also discuss;
     • The fundamentals of change “people and process”,
     • Why people resist change
• What role emotions play in our ability to accept or reject change

 

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Break

 

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Summer and Articling Working Group and National Recruitment Survey Update

 

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Wrap Up

 

5:00 pm | Cocktail Reception at Torys LLP
        79 Wellington Street West, Suite 3000, Toronto, ON