CRUSHCONTRACTS ACADEMY 2024
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
Friday, June 21, 2024
In- Person & Virtual
Deloitte's Chicago Offices
111 S Wacker Drive, Floor 29, Chicago, IL 60606
CrushContracts Academy is a premier learning event in Chicago for lawyers, contracts professionals, corporate leaders, and decision makers. Hosted at the prestigious Deloitte offices, this event offers a unique blend of professional development and networking, culminating in an evening of fine dining and entertainment. Conquer your contracts at CrushContracts Academy.
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CrushContracts Academy 2024 is a one day, fast-paced academic conference focusing on contracts and technology, following Legal Geek North America Conference.
Maximize on high energy classes on tough negotiations, contracts redlining, CLM use cases, technology implementation, contract data, and legal operations, with a special session on stakeholder relations from highly qualified speakers. It’s a comprehensive experience, bringing together legal professionals and business leaders for a day of insightful training, followed by a vibrant networking happy hour and exciting dinner events.
All courses are facilitated by experienced and high profile experts through Ted Talk style presentations, engaging Q&A, and a quiz at the end.
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Decision Makers
Contracts Professionals
Lawyers and Paralegals
In-house Legal Professionals
Legal Operations Professionals
Procurement,Finance, and IT Professionals
Contracts and CLM Experts and Enthusiasts
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
LEARN
CLE COURSES
Hands on lectures and workshops on contracts, CLM, and stakeholder relations.
CONNECT
NETWORKING
Socialize and after classes with fellow attendees and enjoy CLM Jeopardy.
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PLAY
DINNER EVENTS
Dinner Excursions and sight seeing with colleagues or family. Explore Chicago.
Attend CrushContracts Academy in the beautiful offices of Deloitte in downtown Chicago, or virtually for a unique learning experience.
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See agenda and full list of speakers below.
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TICKETS
Buy your tickets for CrushContracts Academy 2024 Technically Speaking.
25% OFF for Legal Geek Attendees.
AGENDA
Enjoy a day of fast-paced learning and fun socializing from
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CLE Classes
CLE classes on substantive and practical legal, contracts, and business issues taught by industry experts.
There will be 10 minute breaks in between sessions. Lunch will be provided in class rooms. Yes, there will be grades.
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The agenda is designed to maximize the day, and end the conference at a reasonable time for the attendees to enjoy the afternoon and evening in Chicago.
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08:00 AM - 08:25 AM - Light Breakfast
08:25 AM - 08:30 - Guided Chant
08:30 AM - 08:50 AM - Keynote Speaker
09:00 AM - 9:50 AM - Crushing Negotiations
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM - Contract Data in Mergers and Acquisitions
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM - CLM Maximizer Workshops - Ironclad and Lexion
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM - CLM Maximizer Workshops with lunch - SpotDraft and Malbek
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM - Stakeholder Relations - People Ops/HR
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM - Legal Operations - Role of IT in Implementation
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3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
IRL Social Networking
In person networking, and first ever CLM Jeopardy played by experts.
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Recover from a day of learning with refreshing drinks, snacks, and conversations. Watch expert contestants play a game of CLM jeopardy showing off their expertise in CLM prep, implementation, onboarding, training, and more.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
VIP Drinks and Bites at Cindy's (Ticket Add On)
Post event social fun for VIP Add on holders at Cindy's. Enjoy all the energy and good vibes with your fellow attendees with sweeping views of Lake Michigan. Continue the fun beyond.
INSTRUCTORS
CLIFF STEIN
Keynote Speaker
Founder at Negotiation Whisperer
Former General Counsel at Chicago Bears
Brittany Leonard
General Counsel - Civix
Founder - Brittany Leonard Consulting
Legal Inspirer and Influencer
Janelle Carter Anderson
General Counsel - Applied Solutions Group & Assistant Corporate Secretary at The Heico Companies LLC
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Pepe Toriello
Head of Legal Services and Partnerships at Koho Consulting
Chair of the Mexican Chapter - CLOC
Josh Lazar
Founder and CEO at TechThinkTank
Instructor at University of Central Florida
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Catherine Choe
Director, Legal at Everlaw
Founder at TFL Compass
CLM Adoption Advocate
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Maria Yiannitsarakos
Principal, Counselor at law at Maria Yiannitsarakos PC
Negotitions Expert
Curator of Positivity
Andrew Hohenstein
Head of Commercial Transactions & Legal Operations at SimpliSafe
JT Sweeney
Director, Solutions Engineering at Lexion
Tom Jaynes
Site Manager at Polynt Group
Leadership and Team Empowerment Expert
KAMI PAULSEN
Managing Director at Deloitte
Host of The CLM Rx Podcast
Author of The CLM Rx
Rhonda Coleman
Commercial Manager, Global Business Practices at Google Cloud
Host of Rhonda Coleman Wandel Podcast
Foster Sayers
Vice President of Legal Operations at Symplr
Founder at Mastering Commercial Contracts
Ex General Counsel and Chief Evangelist at Pramata
Amanda Turbeville
Corporate Human Resources Manager at
Blue River PetCare
Ex Global Head of HR at Montway
David Edgar
Partner (M&A, Securities, and Governance) at K&L Gates LLP
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Sean Kenealy
Customer Success Manager at Ironclad
Ex Sr Project Manager at Hunter College
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Lily Schurra
Founder & Chief Strategist at LOLI Legal
Head of DocAI Marketing (Consultant) at Zuva
Legal Operations Expert
Irfan Khan
Legal Counsel at Beatstars
Luis Tovar
Legal Operations Manager at FloQast
Sr. Corporate Counsel Franklin Templeton
Author of Contract Redlining Etiquette
Founder at Contract Nerds
Colin Levy
Director of Legal at Malbek
Author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem
Co-author of CLM for Dummies
Rachel Olchowka
Ex Chief People Officer
and General Counsel at Fetch
Top 100 HR Professional Winner
Ashley Schiff
Vice President at Strategex
Ex Global New Business Development Leader at Veritiv
Krysta Johnson
Head of Legal Operations at Lexion
Ex Contracts Manager at AWS
Sr Manager, Private Pricing Programs & Experience at AWS
Ex Legal and Business Operations Manager at Uber
Navin Mahavijiyan
Dark Lord of Contracts
Founder at Mahavijian Group
Ex Sr Director of Legal Operations
at ModMed​
Punit Batra
Strategic Accounts at SpotDraft
Teju Deshpande
Principal at Deloitte
Legal Business Services Contract Management Solutions
PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
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LEGAL GEEK
NORTH AMERICA
Legal Geek North America is back in Chicago and bigger than ever before! Attend two great conferences in one week.
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Thursday, June 20, 2024 - Legal Geek
Friday, June 21, 2024 - CrushContracts Academy
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Two full days of back to back education, networking, and Chicago fun!
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25% OFF for CrushContracts Academy Attendees.
Promo Code in CrushContracts Academy Tickets.
ORGANIZERS
Roma Khan
CEO
Sara McCormick
COO
Jeanine Saleh
Intern
ADVISORS
AMBASSADORS
Samridhi Jain
Asia Ambassador
CrushContracts Academy is not just an event; it’s a movement towards empowering legal professionals with the latest in contracts management and legal technology. We believe this experience will greatly enhance our legal and contracts community creating a long lasting positive impact.