Caterina Cavallaro | ACC Docket

Caterina Cavallaro

Managing Legal Counsel at VGW Holdings Limited

Caterina Cavallaro is managing legal counsel at VGW.

She combines technical legal skills with practical business understanding and a love of innovation, project management, and legal technology to improve ways of working within the legal industry. She is a member of the ACC's In-House In-Health and Legal Technology and Innovation Special Interest Groups.

In addition to her legal skills she has a Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellness and is a freelance writer. Her “Positively Legal” column for the ACC Docket focuses on the intersection of neuroscience, positive psychology, and in-house practice by interviewing experts and fellow lawyers and curating up to date quality research, podcasts and books to help lawyers learn to take control of their own wellness and support their careers.

Outside of work, Cavallaro loves traveling, snorkeling, meditating and spending time in nature.

My Articles

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Interviews and Profiles

Law Department Management

Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Positive Leadership Practices

Positively Legal columnist Caterina Cavallaro sits down with BearingPoint Group GC Dr. Andreas Schöpperle to discuss positive practices in legal team management — from advocating rest and recharge to leading by example. #ACCDocket #WellnessWednesday

Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: What Spider-Man Can Teach Us About Positivity, Humor, and Teamwork

Taking cues from the recent Marvel blockbuster "Spider-Man No Way Home", Positively Legal columnist Caterina Cavallaro encourages in-house counsel to lead with positivity and humor. #ACCDocket

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Skills and Professional Development

How Positive Practices Help Reduce Burnout

Remote work has increased employee burnout, but there are ways to eliminate everyday stressors.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Crafting Meaning From Our Everyday Lives

If you are doing work that’s not meaningful to you — can you recraft and reframe that work in a way that connects it to a larger, more meaningful purpose?

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Nourish Your Inner Animal

Knowing your chronotype — early bird or night owl — can help you plan your day and boost your productivity.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Healthy Habits for a Positive Mindset

Meaningful change starts with incremental adjustments to daily life.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Leading with a Growth Mindset

Cultivating a growth mindset can improve the well-being of you and your team.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: How Goal Setting Can Help Us Achieve More While Improving Our Health and Happiness

Finding the right goal setting strategy is key to success in our professional and personal lives.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: How Nature Can Reduce Mental Fatigue

Spending time in nature can restore our ability to focus and concentrate.

Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: The Power of Unfocus

In her most recent Positively Legal column, Caterina Cavallaro explains how unfocusing one's mind can help in-house counsel be more resilient and creative and better problem solvers.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Positive Emotions Open the Mind

Lawyers need both focus and creativity to solve problems in their day-to-day roles. A simple way to achieve this is to increase our positive emotions.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Achieving Productivity and Happiness Through Flow

Achieving flow, a state of focus on a particular activity, can help in-house counsel achieve their goals.

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Skills and Professional Development

Positively Legal: Taming the Monkey Mind with Meditation

In her first column Positively Legal, Caterina Cavallaro looks at something most lawyers have experienced — stress and burnout — and offers a useful solution: meditation.