In-House Paralegal Webinar:

Informational Session with Wendy L. Hufford, Senior Vice President, General Council, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer - Chico's FAS, Inc.

Presented by: Wendy L. Hubbard

Friday, August 18, 2023 l 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET

Please join the NFPA In-House Paralegal Committee as Wendy L. Hufford, Senior Vice President – General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Chico’s FAS, Inc., hosts an informal interview. 

The informal interview will begin with Wendy’s background, range of diverse industries, work-life integration tips, career lifelong learning, and leadership philosophy. A brief overview of the work paralegals do at Chico's, and the importance of Paralegals are to Wendy. Q&A's to follow.

Meet your Presenter:

Wendy L. Hufford is Senior Vice President – General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Chico’s FAS, Inc., having joined the Company in September 2021. Ms. Hufford was previously the Founder and President of Effective Dispute Management, LLC, a consulting firm that specialized in process improvement, cost optimization, and dispute resolution, where she had been since 2020. Prior to that, from October 2018 to April 2020, she served as Senior Vice President – General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Ascena Retail Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 multi-brand retail company, where she was responsible for leading legal, compliance, risk, and government affairs of the company. Ms. Hufford previously was Chief Legal Operating Officer and Vice President – US, Litigation, Risk & Human Resources at Boehringer Ingelheim, the largest private pharmaceutical company in the world, where she was responsible for law department operations and all litigation, government investigations, information governance, risk management, and human resources counseling functions from 2015-2018. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hufford also worked at ITT Corporation, Cardinal Health, GE Capital, Credit Suisse and Davis Polk & Wardwell, a N.Y. law firm. Ms. Hufford is a graduate of Colgate University and The Yale Law School.

Zoom Webinar Information:

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Webinar ID: 870 2532 1135
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