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Symposium: Global Sourcing and the Global Lawyer ruler

For Immediate Release
January 8, 2007

Contact:
Kara Tershel
Elissa Free
(202) 662-9500

Media Advisory

WHAT:

Symposium:
Global Sourcing and the Global Lawyer

WHEN:

Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 12:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 25, 2007, 8:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor

120 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Opening Remarks

David P. Stewart, Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, U. S. Department of State, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center


12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Structuring Global Sourcing Transactions
Moderator:
Kenneth Hansen, Partner, Chadbourne & Park LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Trevor Nagel, Global Sourcing Practice Chair, Alston & Bird LLP
John K. Halvey, Strategic Sourcing and Technology Group Founder, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Bart van Reeken, Information, Communication, and Technology Group Chair, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Global Sourcing's Human Side
Moderator:
Henry C. Eickelberg, Staff Vice President, Human Capital Processes, General Dynamics Corporation, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Carole Silver, Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law
Mary Daly, Dean, St. John's University School of Law
Vladislav Egorov, Senior Labour Law Specialist, International Labour Office
Terry Collingsworth, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Fund

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Practitioners Panel
Moderator:
Timothy Brightbill, Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Robert M. Weiss, Member, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Jody Westby, President & CEO, Global Cyber Risk LLC
Jason Matechak, Partner, Reed Smith LLP

Meg Charles, Deputy General Counsel, Orange Business Services

Michiel van Den Bosch, General Counsel, Europe, Ahold

Thursday, January 25, 2007

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Data Privacy/Protection and Global Sourcing
Moderator:
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Jim Holder, General Counsel, Sykes Enterprises, Inc.
Miriam Wugmeister, Privacy & Data Security Practice Chair, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Jennifer McClennan, Global Sourcing Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP


10:15– 11:45 a.m.
Technology Transfers, Intellectual Property & Global Sourcing
Moderator:
Scott Chambers, Partner, Patton Boggs LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Richard Raysman, Founding Partner, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP
Sonia Baldia, Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Harry Rubin, Intellectual Property Transactions Practice Group Co-Chair, Heller Ehrman LLP
James E. Nelson, Partner, DLA Piper

Gigi Cheah, Partner, DLA Piper

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Government Procurement and Global Sourcing

Moderator: Daniel I. Gordon, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Government Accountability Office, and Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School

Gillian Marks, General Counsel, Australian Defence Materiels Organisation

Steven Schooner, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University Law School

Christopher Yukins, Associate Professor of Government Contracts Law and Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University Law School

Laurence Folliot-Lalliot, Professor, University of Paris

1:45 - 2:15 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Robert C. Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology (Invited)

NOTE:

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of International Law and co-sponsored by the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law, the American Society of International Law Intellectual Property Interest Group, and the Federal Bar Association Government Procurement Committee.

Media interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.