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:
- Nominee's name, address, phone and email address.
- Nominator's name, address, phone and email address.
- A summary of the reasons for the nomination (maximum 500 words).
- 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.