November 19 & 20, 2015 La Cantera Hill Country Resort San Antonio, Tx

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1 November 19 & 20, 2015 La Cantera Hill Country Resort San Antonio, Tx 3 Hours CLE (2.25 Ethics 0.75 Participatory)

2 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF GENERAL COUNSEL IS SPONSORED IN PART BY

3 PRE-CONFERENCE Thursday, Nov 19 Annual Golf Tournament 9:45am-11:45am Registration, Luncheon & Practice Golf Club House 11:45am-5pm Shotgun Start The Resort Course La Cantera Hill Country Resort, a San Antonio golf resort, offers 36 holes of championship golf designed to challenge your skill from tee to green. Each course offers some of the most scenic vistas in the Texas Hill Country. The Resort Course at La Cantera, a PGA Tour stop for 15 years, was designed by noted golf course architect Jay Morrish and PGA Tour professional Tom Weiskopf. Women s Caucus Brunch & Tea 10:30am-12:30pm Brunch, Networking & Program San Jose & Terrace Tickets available 1-4pm Individual Spa Sessions Castle Rock Spa Spa Packages are sold out The Women s Caucus is open to women general counsel and managing counsel, as well as women Directors of the Forum s Boards. It provides an opportunity for women in-house leaders to network and further develop relationships forged at local chapter Forum Women Events. This year s luncheon speaker will be Crystal Ashby, a former member of the BP America leadership team and an officer of BP America, Inc. For more than 21 years, Crystal served as a leader at BP, one of the world s largest integrated oil and gas companies, with executive responsibilities in the Government and Public Affairs, Legal and Ethics & Compliance functions. She is a dynamic and innovative executive with a broad record of success in leading government and public affairs, legal and ethics and compliance organizations and initiatives. Challenges in Leadership: Ms. Ashby will focus on the challenges of meshing our professional and personal lives: exercising choice, taking the chance and embracing change. Magna Stella Awards 6-7:30pm Reception - San Antonio Foyer 7:30-9:30pm Dinner - San Antonio Ballroom 9:30pm Dessert - San Antonio Foyer Attire: Black-tie optional $150 Individual ticket Tables available by contacting the Forum Office at This is the in-house networking event of the year in Texas. Join 500 legal celebrities for the 10th Annual Magna Stella Awards Dinner, which will honor in-house finalists, and 9 winners (announced that evening). This is an Academy Awards style evening black-tie optional that begins with a cocktail reception, followed by the awards dinner, and closes with a dessert and coffee buffet. Don t miss this opportunity to meet GCs from across the state, conference speakers, and partners from the most prestigious law firms. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Betty E. Ungerman VP & Deputy General Counsel Lennox International Inc. Susan Pye President & Founder Pye Legal Group

4 CONFERENCE AGENDA & SPEAKERS Friday, Nov 20 7:15am 8:15am 8:45am 9:00am GC-Only Breakfast Roundtable Discussion Managing Counsel Breakfast How to Get Your Boss s Job? Tim Hill, SVP-Legal, Public Affairs & General Counsel, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP Jeff Kaplan, EVP & General Counsel, LyondellBasell Industries SAN ANTONIO BALLROOM OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES FOR BREAKFAST WELCOME U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Bryan Garner Founder LawProse, Inc. Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts Scalia and Garner explain the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style. Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you using a gun in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled, lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. What, exactly, is textualism? Why is strict construction a bad thing? What is the true doctrine of originalism? And which is more important: the spirit of the law, or the letter? 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am Q & A SESSION BREAK, NETWORKING & BOOK SIGNING LUNCH 12:15pm Dr. Larry Richard Founder Improving Lawyer Performance Through Personality Science Practicing Law at the Speed of Light The rapid pace of change we are facing today has well documented psychological consequences. Moreover, lawyers are at greater risk of harm from these changes than the general public, and are less equipped to deal with the harm. Fortunately, important scientific breakthroughs in the psychology of resilience can give us the tools we need to thrive despite the uncertainty around us. In this presentation, Dr. Larry Richard, recognized as the leading expert on the psychology of lawyers, will explain the principles behind these new tools.

5 1:00pm Dana O Brien SVP & General Counsel CenterPoint Energy, Inc. Stacey Doré EVP & General Counsel Energy Future Holdings Corp. Keith McDole Shareholder McDole & Williams PC Fielding an A Team: Attracting, Developing and Motivating Corporate Legal Staff Corporate legal teams often include highly-motivated and highly-skilled lawyers vying for a finite number of senior legal positions in an often flat legal organization. Improved economic conditions have prompted in-house lawyers to seek new positions in other companies to advance their careers. Assembling, developing, motivating and retaining a great, not just good, legal team is an imperative of every general counsel intent on having the right lawyers in place when the company confronts its next major crisis or challenge. General Counsels Stacey Doré and Dana O Brien will discuss the problems general counsel face in creating and motivating a top-notch legal team, how they have addressed these issues within their companies and the approaches they have found to be both successful and unsuccessful in creating and maintaining a skilled, experienced and motivated legal team. 1:45pm Bill Bock Partner Kroger Gardis & Regas, LLP Jeff Tillotson Partner Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, LLP Mark Curriden Senior Legal Affairs Writer The Texas Lawbook The Trials & Ethical Tribulations of Lance Armstrong: Two Lawyers Behind the Scenes Stories Lawyer and Texas Lawbook editor Mark Curriden interviews two lawyers who had front row seats and back stage passes for the Lance Armstrong investigation and litigation. Jeff Tillotson represents Dallas sports insurance firm SCA Productions in its bid to get Armstrong to repay millions of dollars paid to him. Bill Bock is the general counsel of the US Anti-doping Agency and a key player in putting the case against Armstrong together. Together, Tillotson and Armstrong will tell the inside story about the fall of Armstrong from their view.

6 2:30pm Robb Voyles EVP, Secretary & General Counsel Halliburton Kelly Rose Partner Baker Botts L.L.P. Managing Compounding Change in the Large Law Department Lessons from Halliburton During a Time of Low Commodity Prices and a Major Transaction Corporate law departments have no immunity to the macroeconomic forces confronting business and those forces are compounded when the corporate law department faces a massive merger transaction that could change the future of the enterprise and all against the backdrop of a fall in commodity prices. Learn from Robb Voyles, General Counsel of Halliburton, and Kelly Rose, the senior partner leading the Halliburton and Baker Hughes merger as they discuss managing the people and processes of a major law department during times of substantial change. 3:15pm ADJOURNMENT 3 Hours CLE (2.25 Ethics 0.75 Participatory) Media Sponsor La Cantera Hill Country Resort La Cantera Pkwy San Antonio, TX The General Counsel Forum 1700 Pacific Avenue, Suite 4400 Dallas, TX