8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 9:05am

Opening Remarks

9:05am – 9:35am

“The Real Value Proposition: Understanding and overcoming barriers to effective dispute resolution (on your side of the fence as well as the other)”

Session Description:
With the bulk of most companies’ legal spend devoted to litigation, the ongoing debate over hourly rates, discounts and alternative billing arrangements often misses the mark. Effective resolution of lawsuits and other disputes often has as much to do with identifying the barriers to early resolution within your own company and with your own counsel as it does with your company’s adversaries. This discussion will explore recurring impediments to early and effective dispute resolution, and how to overcome them. As you’ll see, the biggest problems are often in your own backyard, as are the solutions.

Mark LeHocky
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
ROSS STORES, INC.

9:40am – 10:20am

Panel Discussion

"Post Federal Rules eDiscovery: Defensibility & Cost Containment"

Session Description:

With the changes to the federal rules came an increasing burden on practitioners. The complexity, potential costs and significant risks associated with “doing it wrong” are now so great that we must focus not only on cost and efficiency but also overall defensibility of the process. Our panel will address the variables of electronic document production as well as the options that are now being employed to reduce the risks, increase defensibility and lower overall costs.

Moderator:

Laura Kibbe

Senior Vice President, eDiscovery Solutions

Epiq Systems

Panelists:

Hanifa Baporia

Assistant General Counsel

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Antone Johnson

Vice President Legal Affairs

eHarmony, Inc.

Daniel Solomon
Director of Intellectual Property and Litigation
Virgin Mobile USA

10:20am – 10:50am

Coffee Break

10:50am – 11:30am

Panel Discussion

"Recession Period Class Actions & Best Practices"

Moderator:
Charles S. Birenbaum
Labor and Employment Relations Partner and San Francisco Managing Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP

Panelists:
Matthew Fawcett
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
JDS Uniphase Corporation

Joy Jaeger

Corporate Counsel/Director, Employment Law

ROSS STORES, INC.

Sarah McConnell
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
ABM Industries Inc

11:35am – 12:05pm

“Privacy, patents and protection: the three Ps that are everyone’s IP challenge”

Session Description:

In today’s world, where being online isn’t an option, it’s a necessity, in-house counsel face a raft of issues they didn’t have to consider five or ten years ago. Privacy has taken on new meanings.  Trademark protection has become harder to track.  Protecting your company from nefarious third parties, who have access to resources that can span the globe in seconds requires the type of vigilance most companies have no experience with.  In sharing her perspectives, Karen Cottle, SVP and General Counsel at Adobe Systems Inc, will articulate her thoughts on some of the key IP issues that every company should focus on, how to deal with them, and how to keep one step ahead in this ever-changing world.

Karen Cottle
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Adobe Systems Incorporated

*This session is off the record

12:10pm – 12:40pm

Peter Lurie
General Counsel & Co-Founder
Virgin Mobile USA

12:40pm – 1:40pm

Lunch

1:40pm – 2:20pm

Panel Discussion

"Legal Outsourcing- A New Paradigm or Logical Extension of the Outside Counsel Relationship?"

Moderator:

Michael Ford

Executive Vice President

American Discovery

Panelists:

Jennifer W. Chaloemtiarana

Global Finance and Governance Counsel

Levi Strauss & Co.

David Hickey

Partner

Winston & Strawn LLP

Ike Krasniewicz
Senior Corporate Counsel, Real Estate Law
Gap Inc.

Joseph Ramirez

Vice President & Associate General Counsel

Adobe Systems Incorporated

2:25pm – 2:55pm

Brian Martin
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
KLA-Tencor Corporation

2:55pm - 3:00pm

Introducing Michelle Banks:

Diane Domeyer

District Director

Robert Half Legal

3:00pm – 3:30pm

"Contributing to our Communities (Legal Department Pipeline and Pro Bono Initiatives)"

Michelle Banks
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer
Gap Inc.

3:30pm – 3:35pm

Closing Remarks

3:35pm – 4:35pm

Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Pinsent Masons LLP

*Please note agenda is subject to change