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In this edition of TerraLex’s INSight we talk with Catherine MacDonagh, CEO and Founder of Legal Lean Sigma Institute. Catherine is a true trailblazer in the legal industry. She’s an award-winning lawyer-entrepreneur and innovator who’s known for consistently launching first to market offerings to the legal industry for nearly 30 years. One of those offerings is the Legal Lean Sigma Institute, which provides expert consulting, project facilitation and support, and certification courses, virtual certificate programs, workshops, programs, retreats, and presentations specifically for legal and business professionals. Catherine is also a co-founder of the Legal Sales &Service Organization and its renowned Raindance Conference, now in its 21st year.

Welcome to the TerraLex INSights podcast, where our goal is to present multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and businesspeople work better together.

In this episode, we speak with Leila Rafi, who was recognized as TerraLex Trailblazer during International Women's Month 2023. With almost 20 years of experience in the securities field, Leila practices capital markets and securities law. Leila is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2022) as a leading lawyer in corporate law.

One of Leila's goals is to have more women in senior roles, specifically in the Securities Capital Markets Group. In addition, she's involved in training and working with younger lawyers while ensuring their exposure to meaningful work. Leila also works with the McMillan team on raising money for and supporting cancer research. Leila has taught at multiple universities in the last five years, including Windsor, Western, and Queens.

Welcome to the TerraLex INSights podcast, where our goal is to present multicultural perspectives by leading professionals.  These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and businesspeople work better together. In this episode, we speak with Fayruz Adan, Senior Fundraising Associate at Food4Education in Kenya. Food4Education is a locally founded nonprofit in Kenya that delivers school feeding programs across the country. Wawira Njiru established the organization in 2012, starting with a modest makeshift kitchen that catered to 25 children daily. Presently, Food4Education provides meals to 140,000 children throughout Kenya.

Welcome to the TerraLex INSights podcast, where our goal is to present multicultural perspectives by leading professionals.  These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and businesspeople work better together. In this episode we speak with New York Times best-selling author, James Grippando, a Harper Collins award-winning author who has 30 books published.  He is a prior winner of the Harper Lee Prize, an award created by Harper Lee in collaboration with the American Bar Association and the University of Alabama and awarded to a published work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change. Many, but not only of Jim’s books are legal thrillers – he also writes novels with themes of contemporary interest such as financial crimes and in his most recent book, Code 6, on a theme of Big Data and its darkest secrets.  Jim is also a trial lawyer, and practices to this day with a major law firm, when he’s not trotting the globe researching his next novel.

Welcome to the TerraLex INSights podcast, where our goal is to present multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and businesspeople work better together.

Join us for a conversation with Jeff Carr - Race Car Driver, Raconteur, Rebel and Revolutionary in the legal industry. Before his current and third retirement in October of 2021, Jeff spent his long and illustrious legal career in nearly every neighborhood of LawLand: as a federal law clerk; an associate in Big Law; a solo practitioner; as a GC; and then with ALSP law company.

Tune in to learn more!

Erika Royal is the current CEO of the Life Coach School, best known for setting the standard for the life coaching industry by inspiring people to invest in and care for their mental health and training the best coaches in the world by serving as an example of what’s possible with a well- managed mind. The Life Coach School (LCS) consists of a self-coaching and scholars program, a standard and online coach certification program, and more. Erika is a graduate of Harvard Law and before joining The Life Coach School she worked as an employment lawyer at a large multinational law firm for 22 years and 12 years as a partner.

Listen to Erika open up about her career journey as she shares her insights with us on imposter syndrome, mentorship, resilience, and being courageous.

Interview with Deborah McMurray, Founder, CEO and Strategy Architect of Content Pilot LLC

This episode may include discussion around topics such as sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, physical violence, and identity-based discrimination and harassment. We acknowledge that this content may be difficult and encourage you to care for your safety and well-being.

Deborah is the founder, CEO and Strategy Architect of Content Pilot LLC, a marketing strategy, design, content and technology company that serves law firms and other professional services firms across the U.S. and abroad. She has often been called a "lawyer whisperer" by clients, because of her talent for listening, distilling what she hears and packaging it into bold new, differentiating go-to-market strategy for law firms, but also accounting and advisory firms, non-profits and other successful for-profits.

In this powerful episode Deborah shares her personal story to demonstrate how secret keeping can hold us back in painful shame patterns. Listen to her as she talks to us about her take on "The Sunny Side of Shame."

Interview with Lisa Smith, Principal at Fairfax Associates

Join us for a conversation on law firm mergers with Lisa Smith of Fairfax Associates. Lisa heads the Washington, DC office of Fairfax and consults to leading professional firms worldwide. She advises law firms domestically and internationally on strategy development, mergers, management and governance, partner compensation and structure issues, and financial and operational performance and management. She has been advising firms for more than 30 years.

Interview with Daniela Alzuru, Director, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Envision Healthcare

Join us for a special conversation on inequalities in healthcare with Daniela Alzuru, Director, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Envision Healthcare. Listen to Daniela share her expertise with us on issues like healthcare disparities and some of the root causes (racism, stigmas, etc.); social determinants of healthcare, such as geography, access, heredity, etc.; and food and nutrition availability and inequities facing the LBGTQ+ community. Hear her also share examples about how companies are working towards solutions.

TerraLex INsights - Interview with Barbara Riekse and Marty Festenstein of NELSON Worldwide

Join us along with our guests, Barbara Riekse, Workplace Practice Leader and Marty Festenstein, Principal, Chair, Legal Workplace Practice at NELSON Worldwide. NELSON Worldwide is an award-winning firm delivering architecture, interior design, graphic design, and brand strategy services that transform all dimensions of the human experience, providing our clients with strategic and creative solutions that positively impact their lives and the environments where they work, serve, play, and thrive.

This discussion focuses on one of TerraLex’s favorite topics – collaboration. Listen to Barbara and Marty talk about how different industry sectors can learn from one another, how the pandemic helped push collaboration forward, and how attaching employees to a brand is important for an organization’s success.

Interview with Richard R. Shapiro, Founder and President of The Center For Client Retention

Richard R. Shapiro is Founder and President of The Center for Client Retention (TCFCR) and a leading authority in the areas of customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer retention.  For over 25 years, Richard has spearheaded research conducted with millions of customers from Fortune 1000 companies, compiling the ingredients of customer loyalty and what drives repeat business.  He authored two best-selling books: The Welcomer Edge: Unlocking the Secrets to Repeat Business and The Endangered Customer: Eight Steps to Guarantee Repeat Business.

Interview with Akhil Prasad, Director Country Counsel India and Company Secretary at Boeing

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Akhil Prasad, Director, Country Counsel India and Company Secretary at Boeing. Akhil has over 20 years’ experience as an In-House Counsel and has worked with legal teams spread across different countries. Listen to him discuss his origin story and the power of resilience and perseverance. In this episode Akhil shares his accumulated wisdom and offers inspiring insight that any professional can gain value from – especially during these trying times.

Charlie Steele is a Partner in Forensic Risk Alliance’s Washington, DC office. Charlie is a former senior U.S. Treasury Department and Department of Justice official with more than 30 years of government and private-sector experience in civil and criminal compliance, investigations, enforcement, and litigation matters, in a variety of industries and sectors. For the past several years he has specialized primarily in Economic Sanctions and Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) matters.

Charlie’s most recent government service was as Chief Counsel for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In that role, he led the team of lawyers providing legal advice and support to OFAC and other Treasury Department personnel in the formulation, implementation, and enforcement of economic sanctions, in furtherance of U.S. national security and foreign policy goals.

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Charlene Wandrisco, Director and Senior Attorney and Jana Friedman, Managing Director and Senior Attorney of American Airlines. Listen as they discuss their roles and the pivot the airline industry took throughout the Coronavirus pandemic over 2020.

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Rodolfo (Rudy) Rivera, Chief International Counsel at Fidelity National Financial Inc, and Board Member of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Rivera is a well-known figure in the US in-house legal market. He manages all of Fidelity’s corporate and litigation matters outside of the US, and has had a particular focus on Latin America in recent years. Rivera was ultimately responsible for the successful opening of a Fidelity National Title office in Mexico, opening an extremely significant new market for the company.

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Pedro Villa, General Counsel at Platinum Companies. Listen to Pedro discuss the process and transition from working in Private Practice to working In House – from lifestyle changes to learning to navigate business issues, Pedro offers a firsthand account on the differences between these two worlds.

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Ignacio Abella, Editor - Benchmarking (Latin Lawyer). Ignacio is responsible for expanding the two leading benchmarking publications of Latin Lawyer: Latin Lawyer 250 and Latin Lawyer National, which are based on over 20 years of research into the Latin American legal market. His prior experience includes setting up The Latin American Lawyer, a publication by Iberian Lawyer solely focusing on the legal market in Latin America; as well as devising, editing and launching Chambers Latin America, a directory based on client-led intelligence about the Latin American legal market.

Attending to all domains of well being is more important than ever. Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is leading an interdisciplinary team developing assessments and online interventions to promote interpersonal, community, occupational, psychological, physical, and economic (I COPPE) well-being. Listen to him discuss strategies and benefits of using the I COPPE model in the workplace.

Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky was born in Argentina and has lived and worked in Israel, Canada, Australia, and the United States. He is Dean of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami, the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being, and the Vice Provost for Institutional Culture. He has published eight books and over 120 articles and chapters. His interests are in the promotion of well-being in individuals, organizations, and communities; and in the integration of wellness and fairness.

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Stephen Rudner, President of Online Vacation Center Holdings Corp. Listen to Stephen discuss his role and how his industry is coping with the Coronavirus pandemic.  

*Note that this episode was recorded in August of 2020

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Jarred Leibner, Senior Legal Counsel at Dufry Group. Listen to Jarred discuss his role in leveraging internal knowledge and connections within the company and how he partners with the business units and aligns stakeholders.  He will also touch on the impact of current events on his industry (e.g., sharing risk with suppliers and landlords, etc.).

Ambassador Patricia N. Moller has served as the US Ambassador to Guinea since October 9, 2009. Patricia Newton Moller is a retired investment banker and American diplomat who became a business consultant. Her company, Moller Global Advisory LLC, helps companies that want to do business in developing countries. Listen to Ambassador Moller discuss business opportunities and growing interest in investing in Africa. 

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This episode features Tommy Knapp, a veteran of traditional sports, with more than a decade of experience in the NFL, MLB, NHL and NASL. Tommy made the transition to Esports in 2017. With the Miami Marlins he designed a corporate engagement program that was widely recognized as the leading business program in professional sports.

He currently holds the title of Chief Esports Strategist for the City of Fort Lauderdale and works with city officials to plan and develop the cities initiatives and programs in Esports. In addition, Tommy is Founder of the Next Level Gaming Clubs and Esports Academies as well as Director of the E2E: Esports Business Conference.

Listen to a dynamic and lively discussion led by the Women’s Global Connection, an affinity group within the TerraLex network created for the purpose of encouraging participation by women lawyers within TerraLex by offering programming of particular interest to women and fostering supportive relationships among women of different cultures, generations and experiences.

Leading attorneys from Europe, Asia, and the United States discuss an array of issues faced by women lawyers today.

Speakers: Geraldine Elliot, RPC; Dorothy Siron, Zhong Lun; Catharine Arrowood, Parker Poe; Ana Viladas, Roca Junyent; Tina Grovier, Stoel Rives

TerraLex is presenting multicultural perspectives by leading professionals. These perspectives on contemporary issues will help lawyers and business people work better together.

This presentation will discuss how to approach client centricity and the importance of delivering business oriented legal support.

Speakers: Darryl Cross (Intapp), Kian Poon (Intapp), Ambika Kapur (Intapp), and Nicole Rudner (TerraLex)

This presentation will discuss the effects of COVID-19 on current data security and privacy laws, including GDPR, HIPAA, etc., and what potential modifications in light of the pandemic may be long lasting.

Speakers: Markus von Fuchs (SKW Schwarz), Benjamin Jacob (PDGB), and Mary Hildebrand (Lowenstein - cc Karen Maxwell), Michael Liu (Hylands)

This presentation would discuss issues related to increasing demands for content, but challenges in production; changes to revenue streams; and practical next steps for clients.

Speakers: Mark Owens (Barnes & Thornburg), Amelia Lynch (Lander), and Marion Lingot (Lamy)

This program will involve discussion of the various potential scenarios which may unfold in the healthcare industry following the impact of COVID-19.

Speakers: Peter Egan (Nixon Peabody), Julie Kass (Baker Donelson)

How and when will schools re-open campus, and how will they keep students, faculty and staff safe when they do? The legal rules and guidelines have changed in this time of pandemic.  Some of what you couldn’t do before, like taking an employee’s temperature and asking medical questions, are now allowed and even recommended.   Learn what schools should know about social distancing in a school environment and how the school’s practices may need to be reshaped to accommodate those restrictions.  Get the answers to questions such as: (1) can you and should you screen employees and students for illness or vulnerability, (2) how do you support the vulnerable and prevent employment practice liability, (3) should you adopt Return to School waiver forms, and (4) how do you communicate to the school community about the school’s expectations and new practices.

Speakers: Linda Johnson (McLane Middleton), Aaron Bayer (Wiggin and Dana)