[Acct-Legal] Heads-up on legal sub-team reorganization

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Dear Co-Chairs,

I do not agree with *ANY* Sub-Team making decisions what to assign
to counsel.  That is an issue for the plenum, and if necessary by
Consensus Call.  Hence I object.  For the record, since you will
ignore me as usual.

I do not have issues with a) and in particular not with c).

greetings, el



On 2015-05-19 06:47 , Sabine.Meyer at bmwi.bund.de wrote:
> Dear León,
>
> thank you for this information.  I have no issues with the
> proposed way forward.  I would just like to say that so far I have
> enjoyed the function of the legal sub-team mailing list as a one
> stop shop of sorts for being up-to-date on all legal advice.  I
> would be glad if that function could be preserved somehow.
>
> Aside from that I'm happy to hear that Counsel will be attending
> our Buenos Aires meeting and am looking forward to that.
>
> Best regards
> Sabine
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: León Felipe Sánchez Ambía [mailto:leonfelipe at sanchez.mx]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Mai 2015 05:12
> An:
> Betreff: Heads-up on legal sub-team reorganization
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to give you a heads-up on the announcement we will be doing
> on our call later today with regards to the reorganization of the
> legal sub-team.
>
> As you well know, the legal sub-team was established in the first
> place so that we could:
>
> a) Interview candidate law firms to provide advice to the CCWG;
> b) Provide a scoping document that could initiate our interaction
> with our independent counsel;
> c) Gather questions from the CCWG and assign to the lawyers.
>
> With the release of the first draft document on our work for
> public comment, the need for a more agile interaction with counsel
> has become evident so we thought that a reorganization of the
> legal sub-team would be convenient for our work forward.
>
> First I would like to thank all of the legal sub-team participants
> as well as the legal sub-team executive group for your hard work
> and help in fulfilling our initial mission.  It has been a great
> and rewarding experience to work with you all in this task and as
> we go through our first public comment period the way we work
> needs to change a bit in order to be able to meet the needs of the
> different working parties towards incorporating the different
> feedback received from the community.
>
> For this reason, we will be reorganizing the legal sub-team and
> the way it will work from now on like this:
>
> a) Working parties will be interacting directly with counsel so
> communications can be more agile and there’s less room for
> getting lost in translation;
> b) Questions from the larger CCWG will continue to be handled the
> way they are handled today.  This means that whenever a question
> or concern is raised either on the list or on our calls, the legal
> sub-team will look into it and assign to counsel if feasible.
> c) Legal sub-team calls will happen less frequently as they will
> be scheduled only when needed and in order to be able to follow up
> with the work being done by counsel and WPs.
>
> We will be having Counsel attending our meeting in Buenos Aires.
> We will request that Holly Gregory from Sidley and Rosemary Fei
> from Adler, attend our meetings in Buenos Aires in order to have
> agile interaction with counsel.
>
> Again I thank you all for all your work in this first phase and
> welcome any comments or thoughts on this reorganization proposal.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> León
>

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