Overview

Many general counsel and corporate secretaries attend virtually all board and committee meetings and so are likely to have a chance to hear (and silently critique) a wide range of presentations by others.

This exposure to a multitude of presentations and presentation styles should give GCs or corporate secretaries confidence that when he or she is scheduled to make a presentation he or she can draw upon this wealth of experience, avoid the mistakes of others, make a crisp, effective and efficient presentation, and receive the desired board or committee approval.

That, at least, is the theory. What it ignores is a series of challenges that GCs or corporate secretaries face when making presentations to the board or a committee.

Unfortunately lawyers add to these challenges by frequently using a number of questionable words and phrases. Reed Smith attempts to identify some of these words and phrases and suggest some alternate approaches.

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