Building Your Circle of Trust: The Future of Strategic Risk Management

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CST

Location: Congressional C (3rd Floor)

CLE: 1.5 Credit Hours

Is there an ideal strategy for coming up with your ideal strategy? You bet there is!

This panel of elite litigation specialists and trial lawyers will introduce you to the future of risk management and litigation strategy when defending businesses and industries. In this presentation, you will learn that litigation strategy is more than just what happens in the courtroom when it comes to defending a business. Through early collaboration with creative professionals who can assist in helping to think outside the box, you will discover how business strategies can influence and inform your winning litigation strategy. By inviting new perspectives and harmonizing business and litigation goals, you will be able to optimize your brain trust and minimize wasted time and effort when preparing a comprehensive defense strategy.

Learning Objectives:

Plan and execute a productive, targeted, high-level strategy session.
Build a circle of advisors that can articulate/define issues AND generate the best strategies to address them.
Generate a concrete action plan (with assignments, timelines, and deadlines) that fosters accountability and keep participants engaged.

Bernadette W. Catalana (she/her/hers)

Manning Gross+ Massenburg LLP
New York, New York, United States

CLE Materials
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William G. Childs (he/him/his)

3M Company
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Nancy M. Erfle

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Portland, Oregon, United States
Donald (Fritz) F. Zimmer, Jr.

King & Spalding, LLP
San Francisco, CA, United States