Blank Rome partners Daniel R. Saeedi and Rachel L. Schaller will present the Association of Corporate Counsel (“ACC”) Chicago’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lawyer CLE program, being held April 30, 2026, from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m., at Gibsons Italia in Chicago, Illinois. Blank Rome is pleased to sponsor the program.
About the Program
A Discourse on the Outside Counsel Relationship in Key Disputes
This practical program looks at the critical working dynamic between outside counsel and in-house attorneys as they navigate significant litigation and dispute resolution matters. Drawing on several collective decades of first chairing litigation teams, Daniel and Rachel will discuss the four critical skillsets of outside counsel in litigation: technical (experience), directional (vision), organizational (management) and interpersonal (emotional intelligence), and how all four of these skillsets are necessary to be successful in the prosecution/defense and ultimate resolution of a given dispute.
They will also explore what company counsel should expect of their outside counsel—specifically under the four critical skillsets—in several important stages of a key dispute, including initial risk analysis, motion practice, discovery collections and holds, relationships with opposing counsel, deposition and witness preparation, settlement posturing and mediation, hearings and the ultimate endgame.
Finally, the program will flag the key red flags in the outside counsel relationship at each litigation stage, and discuss how in-house counsel can recognize and correct these red flags.
For more information and to register, please visit the event webpage.
