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Photography by Paul Lawrence In-house world summit
CHERYL FOY, university
secretary and general
counsel for Ottawa’s
Carleton University,
speaking at the opening
reception of the 2010
Corporate Counsel
World Summit in
Exhibition Hall at the
Hilton Toronto on the
night of Sept. 26. The
three-day summit,
hosted by the Canadian
Corporate Counsel
Association (CCCA),
featured networking
opportunities, workshops
and receptions with
in-house counsel
who came from far-
flung destinations
such as Paris to São
Paulo, Brazil.
The CCCA recently hosted the 2010 Corporate Counsel World Summit at the Hilton Toronto. We caught up
with some attendees of the opening night reception in the glitzy downtown Toronto hotel and asked them:
What do you like about attending conferences?
Johnson Inc. (Canada)
SAP AG from (Germany)
The best part…is the
opportunity to network with
people in…similar roles.
Donald Sword
Vice president, legal
and regulatory
[This conference] is very,
very interesting, not only
from a Canadian [and] an
international point of view.
Michael Junge
Group general counsel,
global legal
LS Canada Inc.
(Canada)
It’s the opportunity to meet a lot
of in-house counsel worldwide,
and also to debate on a lot of
topics that [are] important for
in-house counsel.
Olivier Fischer
Managing director
Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association (Hong Kong)
It’s a great opportunity
to network.
Jasmine Karimi
President