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| The Agenda System Overview > Advisory Board |
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| Richard Weise |
| Former SVP, General Counsel and Secretary of Motorola |
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| Richard Weise is the Chair of CLS’s Advisory Board. Mr. Weise formerly served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Motorola, Inc., where he created and led what is now a 300 member law department. He has been a member of Motorola’s Management Board, and served Motorola’s eighteen-member Board of Directors. He founded and chaired the Manufacturer’s Alliance general counsels group, was on the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a member of The Association of General Counsel, has served as Chairman of The Executive Committee of CPR Institute and is active with the American Bar Association. |
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| Mr. Weise was on the visiting board of DePaul University Law School, and serves on the boards of Northwestern University Dispute Resolution Research Center and Arizona State University Law School and regularly lectured on alternative dispute resolution and corporate ethics at Stanford University School of Law and, more recently, Harvard Law School. |
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| Mr. Weise’s most recent book is a two-volume set, Representing the Corporation: Strategies for Legal Counsel, that offers strategies, systems, processes and formulas to help organizations improve their integrity, efficiency, productivity and cost-effectiveness while integrating better and more efficiently with their clients and business organizations. |
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Debra H. Snider |
| Former EVP, General Counsel and CAO of Heller Financial, Inc. |
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| Debra H. Snider is a Member of CLS’s Advisory Board. From 1995-2000, she served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Heller Financial, Inc. in Chicago (formerly NYSE:HF, the company was acquired by General Electric Capital Corporation in October 2001). In her combined functions, Ms. Snider had management responsibility for approximately 100 people and $100 million in annual expenditures. Under her leadership, Heller’s aggregate internal and external legal costs boasted a negative compound annual growth rate, despite substantial increases in overall corporate size, complexity and costs over the same period. |
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| Since leaving Heller in 2000, Ms. Snider has been an author and speaker. Her debut novel, A Merger of Equals, was published in 2006. Described as the thinking woman’s dream, the novel is about smart, funny characters on their way to the top who deal with overloaded schedules, corporate inanity, sexism, power games, romance, and the never-ending conflict between the zeal to achieve and the desire for a full life (not to mention a little peace and quiet). |
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| Ms. Snider is also the author of two business books –
The Productive Culture Blueprint (American Bar Association Career Resource Center, 2003) and
Working Easier (Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation, 2005) – and numerous articles and essays. She has been a featured speaker in the United States and Europe on topics including strategic productivity, client development, change facilitation, leadership, law department management, time management, and success strategies for professional and business women. She has also consulted on these topics for corporate, legal services and nonprofit clients. |
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| From 1989-1995, Ms. Snider was a partner at Katten Muchin & Zavis (now Katten Muchin Rosenman) in Chicago, where she practiced primarily in the securities, securitization and mergers & acquisitions areas. In addition to her law practice, at KMZ she chaired the Securities Department, was Co-Hiring Partner and co-founded the KMZ Women's Forum, a network of over 750 professional and business women in the Chicago area. Before that, she was First Vice President and Associate General Counsel at The Balcor Company, and an associate at Hopkins & Sutter, another large Chicago law firm. |
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| Ms. Snider, who is admitted to practice law in Illinois, serves on the Executive Council for Reading In Motion, a nonprofit organization committed to improving literacy in Chicago’s at-risk children, and is a member of The Chicago Network, Chicago’s premier organization of professional women. She is a 1976 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1979 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. |
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