Santa Clara Law’s High Tech Law Institute presents
Santa Clara University
March 9, 10 & 11, 2017
Intensive training for experienced lawyers to better serve the in-house legal needs of high tech companies in today’s fast-paced global environment.
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The In-House Counsel Institute offers three full days of in-depth training with opportunities for interactive hands-on practice. The In-House Counsel Institute, directed by the High Tech Law Institute Managing Director, Tom Lavelle, features a faculty of legal thought leaders from several prominent tech companies and law firms to teach the course.
The course is aimed at attorneys transitioning from law firms or public agencies to in-house positions, and to those attorneys wishing to enhance the quality of their service to in-house counsel.
Tom Lavelle, Managing Director, High Tech Law Institute, served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Rambus Inc., VP and General Counsel at Xilinx, Inc., and VP and General Counsel at Next Computer, Inc. for Steve Jobs. He also spent sixteen years in senior legal positions at Intel Corporation. A 1976 graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law, Tom is a member of the law school’s Board of Visitors.
Schedule
| Day 1, Thursday, March 9, 2017 | |
| Time | Topic |
| 8:00am–8:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30am–8:45am | Introduction and Opening Remarks Sandee Magliozzi, Assistant Dean, Santa Clara Law Tom Lavelle, Managing Director, Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute |
| 8:45am–9:00am | Goals and Historical Perspective Ralph Pais, Partner, Fenwick & West |
| 9:00 – 10:00am | Laying the Foundation: What Does it Mean to Have the Mindset of an In-House Lawyer? Dorian Daley, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Oracle Mike Dillon, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Adobe Systems |
| 10:00 – 10:15am | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:15am | Supporting the Operations: Meeting the Company’s Business Goals Stephanie Burns, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, WW Operations, Amazon Stephanie Corey, Co-Founder and General Partner, UpLevel Ops |
| 11:15 – 12:00pm | Communications within a Corporation: How it Differs from Law Firm Practice Ed Medlin, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Maxim Integrated |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30pm | Supporting the Corporate Functions Amin Zoufonoun, VP Corporate Development, Facebook Paul Lippe, Founder Legal OnRamp, Elevate Services |
| 2:30 – 2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:45pm | Support: the Changing Role of the Board and its Committees Aaron Alter, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Hawaiian Airlines Jon Olson, Board Member, Invensence, Inc., former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Xilinx Inc. |
| 3:45 – 4:30pm | Interactive Exercises Tom Lavelle, Managing Director, Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute |
| Day 2, Friday, March 10, 2017 | |
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:15am | Privacy and Data Security Issues Michael Rubin, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
| 10:15 – 10:30am | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:30am |
Compliance as a Key Responsibility |
| 11:30 – 12:15pm | Ethics Issues Jon Hoak, Co-Founder UpLevel Ops, formerly General Counsel Flextronics, formerly VP and Ethics Officer, Hewlett-Packard Tom Lavelle, Managing Director, Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute, formerly St. Vice President and General Counsel, Rambus Inc., and formerly Vice President and General Counsel, Xilinx |
| 12:15 – 1:15pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:15 – 2:30pm | IP and Corporate Strategy Ken Korea, Senior Vice President and Head of IP Center Silicon Valley, Samsung Neal Rubin, Sr. Vice President, RPX, formerly Chief Litigation Officer, Cisco |
| 2:30 – 2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:45pm | Interactive Session Tom Lavelle, Managing Director, Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute |
| Day 3, Saturday, March 11, 2017 | |
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:30am | TBA |
| 10:30 – 10:45am | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:45am | Employment Issues Eric Bellafronto, Partner, Littler Mendelsohn Mike Schroeder, former Senior Vice President of HR, Rambus |
| 11:45 – 1:00pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:15pm | Managing Litigation Greg Stone, Partner, Munger Tolles & Olson Lee-Anne Mulholland, Senior Litigation Counsel, Google |
| 2:15 – 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30 – 4:00pm | Interactive Session: Pulling it all together with creative Problem Solving Sandee Magliozzi, Assistant Dean, Santa ClaraLaw Tom Lavelle, Managing Director, Santa Clara Law High Tech Law Institute |
| 4:00 – 5:00pm | Wine and Cheese Reception |
MCLE Credit
Up to 12 hours of CLE credit is available, including 1.0 hour of Legal Ethics. Santa Clara Law is a California State Bar approved provider.
Fees
The registration fee for this 3-day intensive program, including tuition, course materials and meals, is $950.
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Sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law
Santa Clara Law has one of the nation’s highest-ranked intellectual property and high tech law programs, and has for years placed its alumni in key positions in both law firms and corporate legal departments focused on high tech. Our location in Silicon Valley enables us to be an integral part of one of the most dynamic and innovative economies in the world.
About Our Silicon Valley Location
- South of San Francisco and north of San Jose
- Home to world-class tech companies, such as Apple, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, eBay, Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Genentech, and Facebook
- A hotbed of thousands of start-up companies working to develop disruptive new technologies in the telecommunications, computing, and biotech industries
- Mediterranean climate with sunshine 300 days a year
