Two Holland & Knight Partners Participate in Risk, Compliance and Crisis Management Best Practice Summit
September 12, 2006
Randal Robert Craft - New York
Colin P. Smith- Chicago
CHICAGO – On September 13, 2006, Holland & Knight partners Randal
Craft and Colin Smith will participate in Martindale-Hubbell's Counsel to
Counsel Best Practice Summit at The Gleacher Center in Chicago, Ill. The summit
brings senior in-house counsel and law firm partners together for a facilitated,
off-the-record discussion to share their ideas and best practices for the legal
challenges they face.
As panelists on the corporate crisis management forum, Damage Control:
Corporate Counsel's Role in Containing/Resolving Corporate Crises, Craft and
Smith will discuss best practices in controlling fallout from high profile
disputes and litigation; controlling damage through coordination with public
affairs and other corporate functions; threat management: proactive steps to
safeguard the corporate reputation; advising executive management on image and
crisis issues; and the role and value of outside lawyers in crisis management.
Craft is the senior litigation partner in the Litigation Practice Group in
Holland & Knight's New York office. His practice is devoted primarily to
providing advice on handling government investigations of major accidents and
conducting litigation involving mass disasters, product liability, aircraft
accidents and insurance matters. He is a frequent speaker on these topics.
Smith is a member of the Litigation Practice Group in Holland & Knight's
Chicago office, and he is the leader of the firm's National Product Liability
Team. He practices in the areas of product liability, general tort, and
commercial litigation and has extensive experience counseling clients on a broad
spectrum of loss prevention and litigation management issues.
About Martindale-Hubbell's Counsel to Counsel Best Practice Summit:
Martindale-Hubbell has hosted hundreds of forums among thousands of corporate
counsel worldwide from leading companies. C2C forums bring corporate counsel
together with law firm partners to share best practices and develop innovative
solutions to managing corporate legal departments.
Contact: Kristin Ricca, (813) 769-4335