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Thursday, April 17, 2008
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Ted Burke, Chief Executive, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Panel I: Dynamics of Global Competition
Peter Sherer, Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
Stephen Mayson, Professor, Legal Services Policy Institute, College of Law of England and Wales
Nicholas Coward, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Mark Kirsch, Chair, Global Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Clifford Chance
Stephen Denyer, International Development Partner, Allen & Overy
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Panel II: Ownership and Capital Structure
Bruce MacEwen, Adam Smith, Esq.
Laurel Terry, Professor, Dickinson College of Law, Pennsylvania State University
Andrew Grech, Managing Director, Slater & Gordon
Steven Mark, Legal Services Commissioner, New South Wales, Australia
Osama Rahman, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Panel III: Ethics and Professional Values
Christine Parker, Professor, University of Melbourne Law School
Elizabeth Chambliss, Professor, New York Law School
John Flood, Professor, University of Westminster School of Law
Anthony Davis, Lawyers for the Profession Practice Group, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Steven Krane, Chair, Law Firm Practice Group, Proskauer Rose; Chair, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Panel IV: Perspectives from Corporate Law and Finance
Larry Ribstein, Professor, University of Illinois School of Law
Gordon Smith, Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Larry Mitchell, Professor, George Washington University Law School
Laura Empson, Professor, Cass Business School, City of London
Jeffrey Haidet, Chairman, McKenna Long & Aldridge
Friday, April 18, 2008
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Panel V: Organizational and Cultural Dynamics
Timothy Morris, Professor and Director, Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms, Said Business School, University of Oxford
William Henderson, Professor, Indiana University School of Law
William Perlstein, Co-Managing Partner, WilmerHale
Lee Miller, Joint Chief Executive Officer, DLA Piper
James Jones, Senior Vice President, Hildebrandt International
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Panel VI: Lessons from Other Professional Service Firms
Andrew von Nordenflycht, Professor, Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Roy Suddaby, Professor, University of Alberta, School of Business
Christopher Simmons, Managing Partner, Washington Metro Market, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ward Bower, Principal, Altman Weil, Inc.
Christopher McKenna, Professor, Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms, Said Business School, University of Oxford
12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Panel -The Globalization of Routine Legal Work: Emerging Trends and Issues
Carole Silver, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law (moderator)
Terry Conner, Managing Partner, Haynes and Boone, LLP
Berjis Desai, Managing Partner, J Sagar and Associates
Sachin Gupta, President and CEO, Inventurus Knowledge Solutions
Ray Bayley, Novus Law LLP
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