⚖️ ECLA reappoints President, elects new Vice-President 🙋‍♀️ and welcomes new association from Germany at 53rd General Assembly in Warsaw 🇵🇱 …

Last Friday, 20 March 2026, ECLA held its 53rd General Assembly at the impressive offices of Krajowa Izba Radców Prawnych (KIRP), the National Bar Council of Attorneys-At-Law in Warsaw, Poland. In an extensive and fruitful workshop the representatives of the 24 member associations focused on the:
💡 Evolution of our profession as in-house counsel,
💡 Current challenges for legal professionals in their daily business,
💡 Adoption of AI in legal tasks

🙌 Together, we created a strategic roadmap for ECLA until the year 2030 🚀. Many thanks to our constant Grazia Ravelli for preparing and managing the strategy workshop and the working packages.

Furthermore, the representatives of the general assembly
👏 Reappointed Stephanie Fougou as President
👏 Appointed Teresa Minguez Diaz as new Vice-President
👏 Reappointed Laure Lavorel as Vice-President

We also welcome our newest member to the ECLA family:
📍 Bundesverband der Unternehmensjuristinnen und Unternehmensjuristen e.V. (BUJ) from Germany 🇩🇪

We thank our fantastic hosts KIRP for welcoming us with open arms, the perfect organization and the generous dinner invitation, especially Włodzimierz Chróścik, Alicja Jagielska-Burduk, Tomasz Scheffler and Waldemar Koper. Many thanks also to our board and representatives Marcus M. Schmitt, Richard Bacek, Eric Lennerth, Silvia Bonacossa, Laure Lavorel, Pieter de Waal, Max Gröning, Caroline Dee-Brown, Róisín Magee, Simon Vander Putten, Julie Dutordoir, Jonathan Marsh, Alexis Kendall Aranda, Carsten Hornecker, Heidi Aasheim, Hanne Heide-Krüger, Andréas Vidmar, Tuomas Rytkönen, Tiina Sepa, Marie Brejchova, Lucia Čabová, Cindy Frances Svihalek, Ana Hadzieva Angelovska, Dr Yannis Tzortzis, Dr. Patrick Otto, Stefanie Thuiner, Michael Stanek, Simon Schuetzeneder, Karine Tollemer, Marija Boskovic Batarelo, Domenica Lista and many more…

See you in Paris on 30 September and 1 October for the ECLA Annual Conference and the 54th General Assembly.

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