The General Counsel’s Office andLegal Management

August 23, 2013

Los Angeles 2013 Legal Management Summit presented by Extra Insight Group

Outline

• Introduction

. The Central Bank of Braziland its Legal Department

• Diagnostic

• The Gestão Legal Project

• Strategies Worked

• Goals

• Results

• The future

BRAZIL’S MONETARY AUTHORITY AND FINANCIAL REGULATOR

Central Bank of Brazil - CBB

Legal mandate:

To ensure the stability of the currency and the soundness and efficiency of the financial system

Functions:

• Control of the money supply and credit creation• Banking regulation and supervision• Regulation and supervision of some non-bank financial institutions• Payments system regulation and supervision

THE CENTRAL BANK’S LEGAL DEPARTMENT

General Counsel’s Office - PGBC

• Judicial and administrative representation, including debt collection

• Provision of legal advice

• Legal compliance monitoring

•Legal counseling provided in-house

• Hiring of outside counsel allowed only for foreign law consulting

General Counsel

General Consulting

Financial Regulation

International, Monetary and

Banking Resolution

Financial System Organization

Judicial Litigation and Debt Collection

Judicial Litigation

Relevant Cases

Debt Collection

Administrative and Criminal Law

Administrative Consulting

Criminal Affairs

Legal Management

Legal Studies Center

Strategic Management

Record-keeping and Financial

Control

Vice General Counsel

Chief of Staff

Chambers

Divisions

Consultoria Jurídica ao Poder Executivo

Defesa Judicial da União (3 Poderes)

UniãoPGU Aut/Fund.

PGFFazenda

PGFNBC

PGBC

UniãoCGU

Chambers

Advisory units tasked with reviewing relevant issues with a view to providing guidance and standardizing interpretations, improving defense arguments, and subsidizing the decision

making processes in the General Counsel’s Office.

10 offices

181Attorneys 115

Specialists

• Law degree from an accredited law school• Bar enrolment on exam approval• Two years of practice• Public service exam approval (8,000 applicants for 32 slots in 2005)

9,812Judicial cases in progress

on July 2013

Opinions and filings produced

in 2013:

19,425

PR3SP

PR1DF – COJUD –CODIV (Brasília)PR2RJ

PR4RS

PREPR

PREMG

PRECE

PR5PE

PREBA

PREPA

Lack of :

mapping work processesupdating service handbooksdefinition of responsibilities uniformity of routines and proceduresunderstanding the mission of the department

by the employees

Communication Management

People Management

Operational Management

Leadership Management

Communication

Redesigning the intranet

Course in technique of meeting

Efficiency meetings campaign, with annual agenda

Integration

National meetings attended by 70%

of department’s employees

III Encontro - Brasília

II Encontro - Rio de janeiro

I Encontro - Curitiba

People Management

Workshops to map competences required for each function

Relocation of employees

Revision of promotion regulation

Empowerment of leaders

Empowerment of leaders

• Coaching sessions for all heads of department and managers

• Communication techniques, leadership, feedback, conflict resolutions, etc

Integrating thedocuments reception

Setting up new divisions(Cosec e Cosuc, CC4PG)

Changing the layout

Refurbishments the meetings room

Hiring and training newtrainees

Relocating functions Setting up the virtual

process Revising routines Modeling reports

Operational Actions

Handbooksupdating

Meeting with clientshearing their demandsand perceptions.

• Overseeing policies on:

human resources corporate governance,

communications andorganization

electronic processes corporate projectsplanning, budgeting,

financial managementand accounting

IT and logistics

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Assisting the general counsel in management activities• Representing the General Counsel’s Office in educationalinitiatives in the legal field• Fostering institutional ties with academia as well as nationaland international bodies

Goals

• Reviewing all the judicial processes annually

96% on the last 12 months

• Reviewing all the relevant processes came from the annual review

42% have been revised

Results: changing the focus

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35000

40000

45000

Jan/2004 Mai/2013

Processes involves BC

Reduction of

75%of number

of ongoing

processes

The future

Closed Project Team

disbanded

How to keep the team in the loop

?

Our first approach

Symposium in Legal Administration – Brasilia - April 2013

ALA & BCB

A covenant between ALA x CBB ?

Thank You!

Adriana T. ToledoDeputy General Counsel

Legal Management ChamberAdriana.toledo@bcb.gov.br

+55 (61) 3414-1220