Clarity

In our new podcast, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and content strategist for the Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative sat down with Paula Edgar and Wendy Amengual Wark, partners from Inclusion Strategy Solutions.

Both Edgar and Amengual Wark have deep expertise in how to build inclusive organizations that promote workplaces where everyone, including under-represented groups, can thrive and reach their full potential. In this podcast, we explore the reasons why representation of women, professionals of color, and members of the LGBT+ and disability communities as so under-resented at the corporate executive ranks and why their progress is advancing so slowly.

We also debunk the myth that increasing diversity results in compromising on quality, citing the fact that research study after research study going back to the 1990s say the exact opposite.

In addition, we also examine the definition of inclusion, as well as the approach of Edgar and Amengual Wark to partnering with straight white men to craft their "distance travelled" story and allow them to open up about fears of working with women in the post #MeToo era.

Next, we discuss how to interrupt common norms that continue to promote gender-specific social structures that hurt both men and women. Finally, we close out our conversation by investigating the role of allies and how to activate their commitment and advocacy.

In a new podcast, we feature industry experts Amanda DuPont, an investigative research specialist and speaker with Thomson Reuters, and Catherine Banks, a compliance, risk, and audit specialist for the Risk Team at Refinitiv.

Amanda and Catherine are going to discuss the concept of risk scoring of customer accounts by financial institutions, how it works, and how the practice can help protect a financial firm's reputation and its balance sheet.

They will also discuss how new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are impacting the fight against financial fraud and the role regulators play in the concept of risk scoring.

This podcast features a conversation about the duties of a general counsel within a midsize law firm with David Wollin, general counsel of Hinckley Allen. The interview will focus on areas of the duties of midsize law firm GC, how to tell when a firm needs one, and the impact on the firm itself. The interview is conducted by James Jones of Georgetown Law and the GC Roundtable.

In a new podcast, we're featuring a conversation about how financial institutions can hire, train, and retain key staff in the areas of anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory compliance.

Gina Jurva, Attorney and Manager of the Risk & Compliance Platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Michael Schidlow, Head of Financial Crime Risk Training for HSBC Bank's Global Internal Audit Function. Michael designs and delivers customized training courses on anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, and financial crime compliance best practices.

This podcast features a conversation about fraud investigations in financial institutions and how to enhance them with real-time data. Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of the Risk & Compliance platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Rick Wells, director of the Global Financial Crimes Compliance group at Bank of America.

The podcast will examine Weil's Upstander Action Guide. Meredith Moore, the head of D&I and Social Responsibility, will provide an overview of what an Upstander is and what behaviors an Upstander exhibits. She also will discuss the launch session that involved an interactive theatre group acting out scenarios of an Upstander intervention and the impact and outcomes from the Upstander program.

As part of the Legal Executive Institute's Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative's ongoing coverage, we are featuring a podcast to discuss the goals of the Black GC 2025 Initiative concerning hiring, training and retention of GCs of color, with Ernest Tuckett, former General Counsel for the Americas at AkzoNobel and co-founder of the Black GC 2025 Initiative.

In this series of podcasts, we will feature the insights of Nancey Watson, of NL Watson Consulting in Toronto, around issues concerning the pricing and procurement of legal services, including how to keep the human touch amid the metrics, what clients want and don't want, how to avoid pricing pitfalls, and when to walk away from an RFP.

In this podcast, we're talking about legal ramifications of sexual harassment in the medical profession and how attorneys can best advise clients about the issues involved with Andrew Zwerling, a partner at the law firm of Garfunkel Wild, a full-service law firm with more than 30 years of experience in the health care industry, advising on both industry-specific matters as well as the business and legal needs of its clients in the health care industry.