ACC Greater Philadelphia

We are thrilled to annouce that Adam Grant will be our special Keynote Speaker at our In-House Counsel Conference Day 2 lunch session on April 22, 2021! Adam is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author who helps people find meaning and motivation at work. Adam has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years and been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40. Adam is also a chart-topping ho...st of the WorkLife podcast and a frequent TED speaker. As an added bonus: All attendees who sign for our IHCC Swag Box will get a complimentary copy of Adam’s newest book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know along with many other surprise gifts from our chapter and our firm sponsors. Think Again examines the critical skills of keeping an open mind and listening to opinions that challenge our thought processes. Look out for an email before the conference with a sign up for the IHCC Swag Box, which will be conveniently delivered to your home as a thank you for participating in ACCGP’s 2021 In-House Counsel Conference.

More of our members enjoying items from our IHCC 2020 swag box!

Thank you to our 80+ attendees at our Business Skills CLE Institute! We love bringing your premium education virtually, great to see everyone.

Can’t wait to hear tips and advice from our panel of esteemed in-house counsel leaders from across the country at our Tops from the Top event brought to you by Cozen O’Connor! We will also have a cheese tasting from DiBruno Bros. See you soon!

Check out our members (and their families!) enjoying our first-ever swag boxes from the 2020 Virtual In-House Counsel Conference! Can’t wait to grab that Wawa shorti and warm up with the ACCGP pullover. Thank you for joining us, we love bringing valuable and efficient CLE classes and networking activities for our members year after year.

Login is now open for ACC Greater Philadelphia July 28-29 Virtual In-House Counsel Conference! Please look in your email for "Your IHCC Login Credentials are Enclosed." You do not need to register through Thriva this year. Can't wait to see you all virtually next week!

Go to Corporate Counsel at Law.com to read today's article about our 2020 Diversity In-House Summer Internship Program in the age of Covid-19. The internships might look a little different but our committment to D&I stays strong as ever! "This is a program that is meant to foster diversity within legal departments and to give these diverse students an opportunity to experience in-house practice. If we weren’t going to be able to do that, my fear was the impact it was going to have on these students," said Sadeq Khan, chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel at Vertical Screen Inc. in Warminster, Pennsylvania. Read more at https://www.law.com//philadelphia-acc-chapter-continued-d/

Get ready! Our 2 day virtual In-House Counsel Conference will be July 28-29. We are so excited to bring you our CLE programming and networking opportunities in a virtual format. Save the date, our registration will be available soon!

We are so excited to announce our 2020 ACCGP Diversity Corporate Summer Internship Class! This is the 13th year of our program which is aimed at increasing diversity within corporate legal departments. The goal of this diversity pipeline initiative is to provide participating law students with an opportunity to experience in-house practice and an understanding of career paths that can lead to an in-house legal position. Congrats to our class of 2020: Sarina Aghazadeh-Alavi wi...ll be with Vertical Screen, Inc., Patience Brown will be with Venerable, Max Casal will be with Exelon, Sean Craig will be with American Water, John Donahue will be with Wawa, Simone Fair will be with Teleflex, Shyann Gales-Poland will be with TE-Connectivity / Tyco Electronics, Cesar Hernandez will be with Unisys Corp, Vincent Johnson will be with PJM Interconnection Stephanie Oppenheim will be with Cigna, Alex Park will be with Comcast, Alexis Price will be with Fanatics, Andrew Regan will be with ARI, Mariam Sleiman will be with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Careers, and Mario Valdivia will be with Power Home Remodeling. See more

This year's Philadelphia Bar Association Virtual 5k Run/Walk went virtual! Our team was running or walking their 3.10 miles (3,500 steps) anywhere they could treadmill, neighborhood street, trail. Go Team ACC!

Join us for our our first VIRTUAL CLE Institute which will focus on Intellectual Property. We will be joined by McCarter & English Law Firm Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP Flaster Greenberg Akin Gump LLP We will hold this CLE Institute virtually over two mornings May 14 and May 15, sign up on our website https://www.acc.com/chapters-//greater-philadelphia/events

We have rescheduled our 12th Annual In-House Counsel Conference to Tuesday, July 28th at the Pennsylvania Convention Center - Philadelphia, PA (Philly). Please mark your calendars, we can't wait for you to join us! Here are some photos of attendees, CLE presenters and sponsor tables from past years.

We know most of our members are under a stay a home order right now in the fight against spread of COVID-19 and so we wanted to share some photos from the last in person event we had at City Winery in the hopes that it will brighten your day! Here are many of our women in-house lawyers joined by our sponsor Cozen O'Connor. Please stay tuned to our website for the most up-to-date information on web resources and rescheduled events. https://www.acc.com/chapters-networks//greater-philadelphia

Check us out as we gathered over 90 members at the Litigation CLE Institute in King of Prussia. Thank you to Dechert LLP Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP Armstrong Teasdale, LLP Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP Akin Gump LLP

Thank you for joinng us at our 15th Annual Paralegal forum! We love supporting our paralegal and legal professionals from our corporate law departments. They are such a valuable addition to the team.