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Please send 2023 EDTX Bench Bar Sponsorship inquiries to: info@edtxbenchbar.com
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”(color1)Dear(/color1) Friends of EDTX,” uppercase=”yes” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:32px|text_align:left”][vc_column_text]Greetings from Texas!
This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the EDTX Bench Bar Conference. We will celebrate this important milestone with a host of new programs, activities, celebrations, and special guests, including Taylor Sheridan.
Taylor is an Academy Award-nominated writer behind the hit series “Yellowstone,” its critically acclaimed prequel,“1883,” and the hit series “Mayor of Kingstown.”
Thank you again for your continued support of the EDTX Bench Bar Conference and we look forward to seeing you October 26th – 28th in Plano, Texas.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_column_text]Jennifer Ainsworth,
Conference Co-Chairperson
EDTX Bench Bar Conference[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Melissa Smith,
Conference Co-Chairperson
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2023 SAVE – THE – DATES!
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EDTX Planning Committee
- July 20-21
- Hotel Vin
Grapevine, Texas
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- October 25 – 27
- Dallas/Plano Marriott /Legacy Town Center
Plano, Texas
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EDTX Planning Committee
- July 20-21
- Hotel Vin
Grapevine, Texas
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- October 25 – 27
- Dallas/Plano Marriott /Legacy Town Center
Plano, Texas
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The Eastern District of Texas Bar Association is proud to host one of the nation’s top annual bench bar conferences, drawing judges, lawyers, topic speakers, guests and other participants from across the country and globe. This conference has the well-earned reputation of being the ”go-to annual gathering” for judges and lawyers to discuss a broad range of cutting-edge legal topics.
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The Eastern District of Texas Bar Association is proud to host one the nation’s top annual bench bar conferences, drawing judges, lawyers, topic speakers, guests and other participants from across the country and globe. This conference has the well-earned reputation of being the ”go-to annual gathering” for judges and lawyers to discuss a broad range of cutting-edge legal topics. This year’s conference also features “An Evening at the Ball Park” – A private outing to Texas Ranger Globe Life Stadium that includes dinner, private tours, batting cages, & much more! Sign-up today to reserve your spot!
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Join This Interesting Panel Discussion & Give Judge Barker and Judge Jordan an East Texas Send-Off to Their Phase One Orientation Seminar for Newly Appointed District Judges a/k/a “Baby Judges School.”[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:30 AM” title=”Breakfast Concludes. Social Activities Begin.”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item time=”9:45 AM” title=”Tour of Toyota Headquarters – Limited Availability.”]Rosalyn Mitchell, Managing Counsel, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Facilitator)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:15 AM” title=”Shooting at Frisco Gun Range”]From Marksmen to First Time Shooters – From Handguns to Full-Auto Experience – Darby Doan, Haltom & Doan (Facilitator).
Event Sponsor – Haltom & Doan[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:15 AM” title=”Golf at Gleneagles”]Chip Molster, The Law Offices of Charles B. Molster, III, PLLC (Facilitator).
Event Sponsor – The Law Offices of Charles B. Molster, III, PLLC[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:15 AM” title=”Tour of Toyota Headquarters”]Limited Availability. Rosalyn Mitchell, Managing Counsel, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Facilitator).[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”12:30 PM” title=”WLED Membership Luncheon”]Welcoming Remarks by WLED President Elizabeth Forrest, Siebman Forrest Burg & Smith, LLP; Vice-President Evelyn Chen, Ericsson and Secretary Amanda Abraham, The Roth Law Firm.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”12:30 PM” title=”Developing Relationships with In-House Counsel”]-An Interactive How-To Discussion Including the Ethics of Solicitation. Ophelia Camina, Susman Godfrey (Facilitator); Monica M. Brown, Assistant General Counsel, Lennox International, Inc.; Sarah Decker, Global Head of Litigation, Investigations, Ethics and Compliance, McAfee; Lindsay Hedrick, Jones Day; Laura J. O’Rourke, Managing Counsel, Toyota Legal One, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. and Britnee Reamy, Senior Counsel, Texas Instruments. (.5 Hours Ethics)
Event Sponsor – Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Kirkland & Ellis, LLP; Toyota[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:00 PM” title=”Opening of the Conference”]Clyde Siebman, Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Conference Chairman; Charles Bundren, Eastern District of Texas Bar Association President; Judge Rodney Gilstrap, Chief Judge, E.D. Tex. and James Brookshire, Executive Director, Federal Circuit Bar Association.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:15 PM” title=”Where There’s A Wrong, There’s A Remedy. Looking for Remedies in All the Wrong Places – From Patent Infringement to Trade Secret Misappropriation.”]Yar Chaikovsky, Paul Hastings, LLP (Facilitator); Douglas N. Ellis, ASQ Consulting; Phillip Philbin, Haynes and Boone, LLP; Alan Ratliff, StoneTurn Group, LLP and Shirley Webster, Ocean Tomo.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”3:00 PM” title=”Looking Down from Above. What Mere Mortals Could Do Better as Seen from on High.”]Wesley Hill, Ward, Smith & Hill & Michael Smith, Siebman Forrest Burg & Smith, LLP (Co-Facilitators); Chief Judge Sharon Prost, CAFC; Senior Judge William Bryson, CAFC; Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, E.D. Tex.; Chief Judge Leonard Stark, D. Del. (.5 Ethics)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”4:00 PM” title=”The Judges’ Lawyers. Learning from Law Clerks Squawk Box Style”]Boone Baxter, Heim, Payne & Chorush, L.L.P. (Facilitator); Matthew Wood, Marshall; Christian Chessman, Marshall; Monica Litle, Sherman; Aileen Durrett, Career Law Clerk, Plano; Jenna Gillingham, Tyler; Matt Chiarizio, Tyler; William B. “Wills” Collier, Jr., Texarkana; Ryan Swink, Beaumont and Victoria “Tori” Bliss, N.D. Tex. – Dallas. (.3 Hours Ethics)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”5:00 PM” title=”USPTO/PTAB Agglomeration. From Updated Trial Practice Guides and SOPs to Gender Studies on Female Inventors, A Discussion of An Agency on the Move”]Hope Shimabuku, Regional Director, Texas USPTO (Facilitator); Chief Judge Scott Boalick, Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Sarah Harris, General Counsel, USPTO. (.2 Hours Ethics)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”5:50 PM” title=”CLE Adjourns for the Day. (4.5 Hours of CLE/1.5 Hours Ethics – Day 1)”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”5:50 PM” title=”Opening Reception Sponsored by StoneTurn Group”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:00 PM” title=”Former Law Clerk Association Membership Reception and Dinner”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:00 PM” title=”Buses Depart for Judges and Bar Leaders Dinner (By Invitation)”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:00 PM” title=”Coffee and Cordials with EDTX’s Newest Article III Judges in the Presidential Suite”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:30 PM” title=”Presidential Suite Remains Open Until Midnight”][/om_agenda_item][/om_agenda_day][om_agenda_day title=”Day 2″ date=”24 Sept 2019″][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:30 AM” title=”EDTX Local Rules Advisory Committee Breakfast – Pecos Room”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:30 AM” title=”The Texas Breakfast Opens (Full Hot Breakfast with Texas Cowboy Favorites)”]Event Sponsor – Findlay Craft, P.C.
Main Track Session Chair – Adam Allgood, Fisch Sigler, LLP.
Non-Patent Track Session Chair – L. Kirstine Rogers, Steckler Gresham Cochran PLLC.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”8:45 AM” title=”Exploring Best Practices for SEP/FRAND Litigation. Striking the Balance Between What’s Yours, Mine & Ours”]A Sedona Conference Presentation. Matt Powers, Sedona WG10 Chair and WG09 Vice-Chair, Tensegrity (Facilitator); Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, E.D.Tex.; Senior Judge James Robart, W.D. Wash.; Eric Hutz, Sedona WG 09 Chair, Reed Smith; Steven Geiszler, Huawei and Rick Stark, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”8:45 AM” title=”Non-Patent Track – “Uh. Houston, We’ve Had A Problem” – Criminal Law for Civil Lawyers”]Elvin Smith, III, Law Office of Elvin Smith (Facilitator); Josh Russ, AUSA, Civil Chief, E.D. Tex.; Shamoil Shipchandler, Jones Day, Former Regional Head of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Nathaniel Kummerfeld, AUSA E.D.Tex. (.5 Ethics)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:35 AM” title=”Anti-Trust Implications on the Enforcement of Patents. Rock-Paper-Scissors, When Can a Statutory Prohibition Trump a Constitutionally Granted Monopoly?”]Max Ciccarelli, Thompson & Knight (Facilitator); Brian Pandya, Deputy Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice; Andrew J. Wright, Nelson, Bumgardner Albritton P.C.; Ashley Bass, Covington & Burling, LLP; Jay Jurata, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Gabrielle LaHatte, Latham & Watkins, LLP.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:35 AM” title=”Non-Patent Track – Magic Keys to Representing Your Client in Criminal Cases in E.D. Tex.”]Ernest
Gonzales, AUSA, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. E.D. Tex.
(Facilitator); Denise Benson, Public Defender; Rafael De La Garza, The De La
Garza Law Firm, P.C.; Maureen Smith, AUSA, E.D. Tex. and James Whalen,
Whalen Law Office.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:25 AM” title=”Refreshment Break”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:45 AM” title=”Does Section 101 Need Fixing? Who Should Fix It? What Else Needs Fixed? A Discussion of Change In the Air”]Wes Samples, Quinn Emanuel Uruqhart & Sullivan, LLP (Facilitator); Philip Warrick, Counsel to Senator Chris Coons, Ranking Member on Intellectual Property, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; Judge Richard Linn, CAFC; Judge Roy Payne, E. D. Tex.; James A. Tripp Fussell III, Mayer Brown and Stephen Smith, Cooley LLP.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:45 AM” title=”Non-Patent Track – Qui Tam/False Claims Act: He Who Sues for the King …as Well as For Himself — The Modern-Day Privateers”]Judge Jeremy Kernodle, E.D. Tex. (Facilitator); Judge Marcia Crone, E.D. Tex.; James Gillingham, AUSA, E.D.Tex.; Karen Glassman, Health & Human Services Office of
Inspector General; Lisa Noller, Foley & Lardner; Chad Walker, Winston & Strawn LLP; Sarah Cummings, Reed Smith, and Michael Young, Sanders, Motley, Young & Gallardo.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”11:35 AM” title=”A Fireside Chat with Members of the Federal Circuit”]George Pappas, Covington & Burling LLP (Facilitator); Chief Judge Sharon Prost, CAFC; Judge Richard Linn, CAFC; Judge Richard Taranto, CAFC and Senior Judge William Bryson, CAFC.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”11:35 AM” title=”Non- Patent Track – “Hello. I Think Our Customer’s Bank-Account Records Were Just Stolen” – Cyber-Security and How the Lawyer Should Respond Including Relevant Professional Responsibilities”]Camelia Lopez, AUSA, Senior Legal Counsel and Cyber Chief, E.D.Tex. (Facilitator); Trisha Anderson, Covington & Burling LLP; Bruce Sostek, Thompson & Knight and Steven Williams, Munsch Hardt. (.3 Ethics)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”12:15 PM” title=”Non-Patent Track – Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion. Practical and Ethical Parameters and Priorities for Doing Justice from Cyber Crimes and Trade Secrets to Fraud and Other White-Collar Wrongs”]Joseph Brown, United States Attorney, E.D. Tex. (Facilitator); Heather Rattan, First Assistant United States Attorney E.D. Tex.; Matt Quinn, AUSA, Criminal Chief, E.D. Tex.; Brit Featherston, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, E.D. Tex. and Arnold Spencer, General Counsel, Coinsource. (.2 Ethics)[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”12:45 PM” title=”Lunch Presentation: Social Media. Is There Garbage or Valuable Evidence in Those Posts, Chats and Tweets? Or Something More Sinister?”]Marisa Miller, AUSA, E.D. Tex.
Conference Session Chair – Melissa R. Smith, Gillam & Smith LLP.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”1:45 PM” title=”Special Presentation by the United States Attorney’s Office EDTX”]Event Sponsors – ASQ Consulting; Carter Arnett[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:00 PM” title=”Demonstratives: A Scientific Approach Including Concepts of Visual and Auditory Learning”]Britta Erin Stanton, Focal Point (Facilitator); Chrysta Castaneda, The Castaneda Firm; Jennifer Truelove, McKool Smith; Judge Caroline Craven, E.D. Tex.; Chris Schwegmann, Lynn Pinker Cox and Hurst, LLP; Ranga Sudarshan, Covington & Burling, LLP and Clint Townson, PhD., The Focal Point[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:45 PM” title=”Are Jury Trials Homogeneous? The Practices, Customs and Predilections of Different Venues Including Attitudes Toward Summary Judgment and JMOL.”]Senior District Judge Ron Clark, E.D. Tex. (Facilitator); Judge Richard Andrews, D.Del.; Judge Cathy Bencivengo, S.D.CA.; Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown, E.D.LA.; Chief Judge Barbara Lynn, N.D. Tex.; Judge Amos Mazzant, E.D. Tex. and Judge Lee Yeakel, W.D. Tex.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”3:30 PM” title=”Refreshment Break”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”3:50 PM” title=”Looking Behind the Pine Curtain. Secrets from the Newest Chambers of EDTX, Volume 2.”]Clyde Siebman, Siebman Forrest Burg & Smith, LLP (Facilitator) with Judge Jeremy Kernodle, E.D. Tex. & Judge Michael Truncale, E.D. Tex.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”4:35 PM” title=”Insights of Former E.D. Tex. Jurors. Going to the Horse’s Mouth. Interviews with Actual Jurors from Closed Cases”]Janis Clements, Greenberg Traurig; Elizabeth Forrest, Siebman Forrest Burg & Smith, LLP & Andrea Williams McCoy, Siebman Forrest Burg & Smith, LLP Followed by Interactive Discussion Including Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, E.D. Tex.; Judge Nicole Mitchell, E.D. Tex.; Jeffrey Bragalone, Bragalone Conroy, PC; Elizabeth “Betty” DeRieux, Capshaw DeRieux, LLP and Geoff Culbertson, Patton Tidwell & Culbertson, LLP.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”5:45 PM” title=”CLE Adjourns for the Day. (8 Hours of CLE – Day 2)”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”6:00 PM” title=”Buses Available for Loading for 6:40 PM Sharp Departure to AT&T Cowboy Stadium.”]Registration for Texas` Judicial Dinner Will Occur at Loading of Buses[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”6:40 PM” title=”Buses Promptly Depart Hotel for AT&T Cowboy Stadium.”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:15 PM” title=”The Texas Dinner in Honor of the Judiciary and the Seventh Amendment – AT&T Cowboy Stadium”]Reception and pre-dinner self-guided tours of stadium. Photographs on the Fifty Yard Line Star.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”8:15 PM” title=”Call to Order – Master of Ceremonies”]Scott Murray, Emmy Award-Winning Sportscaster and Broadcast Journalist
National Anthem & Patriotic Cowboy Music
Monte Warden, Lead Vocalist & Song Writer, The Wagoneers[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”8:30 PM” title=”Dinner & Conversation”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:00 PM” title=”Presentation by Special Agent Javier Pena, Retired, DEA & Special Agent Stephen Murphy, Retired, DEA”]Tell Their Real-Life Stories Behind the Netflix Television Series Narcos, Which Chronicles the International Cocaine Trade Inside Colombia and the Taking Down of Pablo Escobar, as We Highlight the Role Being Played by EDTX in Fighting the Colombian Cocaine Trade Today.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:40 PM – 9:55 PM” title=”Keynote Remarks from the Honorable Dr. Nestor Humberto Martinez, Former Attorney General, Republic of Colombia”]Special Presentation by the United States Attorney’s Office EDTX.
Keynote Presentations Facilitated by Brit Featherston, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, E.D. Tex[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:15 PM” title=”Annual Toast in Honor of the 7th Amendment – EDTX Bar President Charles Bundren & Bench Bar Chairman Clyde Siebman”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:30 PM” title=”First Bus Departs for Hotel When Full.”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”11:00 PM” title=”Last Bus Departs for Hotel.”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item time=”11:00 PM” title=”Presidential Suite Opens until Midnight Thirty for Night Caps.”][/om_agenda_item][/om_agenda_day][om_agenda_day title=”Day 3″ date=”25 Sept 2019″][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:00 AM – 8:30 AM” title=”Texas Buffet Breakfast, A Touch of Tex-Mex – All Conferees”]Event Sponsor – Baker Botts[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:30 AM” title=”Judges Only Breakfast”][/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”7:30 AM” title=”EDTX Bar Association Board of Director and Membership Breakfast Meeting”]Non-Patent Track Session Chair – Lisa Flournoy, Flournoy & Flournoy
Main Track Session Chair – E. Glenn Thames, Jr., Potter Minton PC.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”8:30 AM” title=”General Counsel Panel. What Annoys and What Brings Joy?”]Leading General Counsel Address Topics Ranging from Law Firms to Courts. Hilda Galvan, Jones Day (Facilitator); Jason Cohen, General Counsel, Dallas Cowboys; Lanesha Minnix, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Flowserve Corporation, Sandra Phillips Rogers, Group Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Diversity Officer, Toyota North America, Inc. and Hiram Sasser, General Counsel, First Liberty Institute[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”8:30 AM” title=”Non-Patent Track – Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Title 17 U.S.C. 1201 et seq. Civil Remedies to Criminal Penalties. What’s the Worst Thing That Can Happen if You “Crop” the © From an Internet Photo?”]Alexandra McNicholas Bernier, Career Law to Judge Keith Giblin E.D. Tex. (Facilitator); Camelia Lopez, AUSA, Senior Legal Counsel and Cyber Chief, E.D.Tex; Decker Cammack, Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Schwartz LLP and Amanda Abraham, The Roth Law Firm.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:20 AM” title=”E-Discovery from Preservation to Proportionality. How to Keep the Cost from Swallowing the Right to Trial by Jury?”]Rosalyn Mitchell, Managing Counsel, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Facilitator); Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson, E.D. Tex.; Judge Andrew Peck, S.D.N.Y.; Eric Buether, Buether Joe & Carpenter, LLC.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”9:20 AM” title=”Non- Patent Track – A View from the Top. Judges Reflect on Criminal Law Best and Worst Practices.”]Ryan Gertz, The Gertz Law Firm (Facilitator); Judge Marcia Crone, E.D. Tex.; Senior Judge Richard Schell, E.D. Tex., Judge Christine Nowak, E.D. Tex.; Judge Keith Giblin, E.D. Tex. & Judge Zack Hawthorn, E.D. Tex.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:10 AM” title=”The Impact of People, Processes & Technology on E-Discovery. Using Technology to Sort Through the Haystack.”]Joey Seeber, CEO of Level 2 Legal Solutions (Facilitator); Dave Lewis, Chief Data Scientist, Brainspace; David Carns, Attorney and Chief Revenue Officer, Casepoint; Danny Thankachan, Director of Practice Technology, Blank Rome LLP and Jill Bindler, Gray Reed & McGraw.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:10 AM” title=”Non-Patent Track – Fundamentals of Trademark Infringement as Punctuated in Buc-ee’s Litigation. Is That Big Beaver a Bully, or Just Building a Dam Around Its Lawful IP Rights?”]Donean Surratt, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, LLP (Facilitator); H. Tracy Richardson, III, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Litigation, Buc-ee’s Ltd.; Stephanie Barnes, Attorney at Law; Charles Hanor, Hanor Law Firm & Professor of Law, St. Mary’s University School of Law; Jeannie Heffernan, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP and Brian Resler, Assistant Deputy Chief for Litigation, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (“CCIPS”), USDOJ.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”10:55 AM” title=”Refreshment Break”]Joint Track Begins[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”11:10 AM” title=”Best Practices for Getting to Yes. Mediation Strategies and Tactics Through the Eyes of Those Who Know”]Richard “Rocky” Schwartz, Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC (Facilitator); Judge Christine Nowak, E.D. Tex.; Judge David Folsom, Retired, E.D. Tex.; Judge Jose Linares, Retired, D.N.J and Christopher Nolland, Offices of Christopher Nolland
Conference Session Chair Jennifer Ainsworth, Wilson, Robertson & Cornelius, PC[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”11:55 PM” title=”If I Could Put Time in a Bottle & Other Innovative Things.”]A Discussion of Timed Trials, Mini-Openings, Interim Arguments, Striking Through the Panel and Jurors Who Ask Questions. Mike Jones, Potter Minton PC (Facilitator); Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, E.D. Tex.; Judge Amos Mazzant, III, E.D. Tex.; Judge William “Trey” Schroeder, III, E.D. Tex.; Jennifer Doan, Haltom & Doan and Harry “Gil” Gillam, Gillam & Smith.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”12:45 PM” title=”Lunch Program. What Do You Do When You Find Out That The Key Piece of Evidence Used to Win at Trial Was Fabricated—ahh Totally Made Up?”](LBDS Holding Company, LLC v. ISOL Technology, Inc. 6:11-CV-428) The Story and Ethical Practice Pointers as Told by Those Who Actually Lived It. James Walker, Cole Schotz (Facilitator/Narrator/Panelist); Sanford Warren, Warren Rhoades and Chad Everingham, Akin Gump. (1 Hour Ethics)
Event Sponsors – Cole Schotz P.C.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:00 PM” title=”Presentation of the Hannah Award”]Charles Bundren, President of E.D. Tex. Bar Association, William Charles Bundren & Associates; Judge Judith Guthrie, Retired, E.D. Tex.; Judge David Folsom, Retired, E.D. Tex.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:15 PM” title=”International Issues: In-Bound Focus. What Should Foreign Corporations Expect in East Texas Federal Courts?”]Kat Li, McKool Smith (Facilitator); Judge John Love, E.D. Tex., Judge Roy Payne, E.D. Tex.; Evelyn Chen, Senior Counsel, Ericsson; Daniel Papst, Papst Licensing, Germany[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”2:45 PM” title=”International Issues: Out-Bound Focus. What Should U.S. Parties Expect When Effectuating Service, Obtaining Discovery and Collecting Judgments Off Shore?”]Adam Allgood, Fisch Sigler, LLP (Facilitator/Panelist); Otto Licks, Licks Attorneys, Brazil; Lan Li, AnJie Law Firm, Shanghai, China and Kfir B. Levy, Mayer Brown; Judge Hojin Choi, South Korea.[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”3:15 PM” title=”Defining and Protecting Corporate Crown Jewels from Civil Litigation to Criminal Prosecution: A Discussion of Trade Secrets Litigation/Prosecution in E.D. Tex. and Beyond.”]Robert Kantner, Jones Day (Facilitator/Panelist); Judge Robert “Trey” Schroeder, E.D. Tex.; Elizabeth Chiaviello, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP; Joe Cleveland, Brackett & Ellis, P.C.; Michael McCabe, Munck Wilson Mandala, LLP; Brian Nash, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Brian Resler, Assistant Deputy Chief for Litigation, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (“CCIPS”), USDOJ[/om_agenda_item][om_agenda_item speaker_links=”” time=”4:00 PM” title=”Conference Ends (6.75 Hours of CLE/1 Hour Ethics – Day 3)”]Joint Meeting of the Texas’ Linn Inn Alliance (Texas IP Inns of Court) (Separate Registration
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