In Person

Cooley at The Lawyer’s General Counsel Strategy Summit

May 14 – 16, 2025
Meliá Villaitana
Event details
May 14 – 16, 2025
Meliá Villaitana
Avenida Alcalde Eduardo Zaplana, 7
03502 Benidorm, Alicante
Spain

Event summary

The Lawyer’s General Counsel Strategy Summit focused on enabling excellence in governance, leadership and ethics. Sessions focused on how general counsels (GCs) can lead their organisations through a time of transformation and turbulence – responding to the challenges and opportunities posed by generative artificial intelligence, geopolitical instability and a complex regulatory landscape – while continuing their professional development.

Featured agenda item

Getting your house in order: whistleblowing, investigations and the Worker Protection Act

With the recent implementation of the UK’s Worker Protection Act, employers have a new duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. New regulations, however, prompt new questions. This roundtable discussion – featuring Cooley partners Tom Epps and Chris Stack – covered the following:

  • What is the role of the GC in helping to navigate the new sexual harassment duty?
  • To what extent should different functions be responsible for whistleblowing, employee relations and grievances?
  • How can you ensure the correct routes are used when encouraging a speaking-up culture and whistleblowing?
  • How can GCs help to encourage and build cultures which are more accepting of speaking up and whistleblowing?
  • Which function is responsible for investigations?

For more information, please email Georgia Grisaffe.

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