Innovation Award

The Innovation Award recognizes an individual or group who is doing new things or doing things differently to create value on behalf of or for the benefit of a law department or organization.

In-house teams are asking for lower costs and certainty; clearer information about the process and the use of familiar technology and processes; results; involvement; and respect. Innovation can be driven by a number of factors including new:

  • structures for delivering legal services;
  • ways of lawyers working together and with non-lawyers;
  • forms of organization management;
  • ways of integrating diversity;
  • client centered services;
  • ways of bundling or disaggregating services;
  • technologies;
  • business processes;
  • billing arrangements;
  • legal curricula and training;
  • career development;
  • ways for providing access to legal services; and
  • attitudes and perspectives.

ELIGIBILITY

Submissions must nominate an individual in-house counsel or a legal department. Self-nominations accepted.

NOTE: The winner accepts that their improvement will be described and/or shared with CCCA membership through various media channels

Deadline 

Nominations for the 2021 Award are closed.

Nominate someone by providing the following:

  1. Nominee's name, address, phone and email address.
  2. Nominator's name, address, phone and email address.
  3. A summary of the reasons for the nomination (maximum 500 words).
  4. Nominee's CV (mandatory) and supporting letters (recommended, no more than two).

NOTE: Nomination packages are limited to a maximum of 20 pages. Staff will remove any pages over the 20-page limit. Nominators must advise nominees of their nomination prior to submitting a nomination policy.

Please email completed Nomination Submission to:

The Awards Committee
c/o: olyag@ccca-cba.org 

The Award will be presented annually as chosen by the CCCA Awards Committee in its sole discretion. The Committee reserves the right to not present the Award in a given year.