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FINAL TOP-NOTCH SPEAKERS

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TICKETED EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED!

Tickets are not refundable within the 72 hours preceding the event or after it has taken place. Tickets are limited and may not be available on site – advance registrants will receive priority for tickets. Transportation will not be available to any of these events.  Attendees can either walk of take a short cab ride to all off-site venues.

4/1/08
CIT Swearing-In Ceremony
(Staff will be contacting you regarding your registration for this event.)

4/1/08
5:30 – 7:00 PM.
Pre-Meeting WIN/WING Program:Helping Poor Women Around the World: What Private Lawyers Can Do for the Public Good”
FEATURED SPEAKER: Cherie Booth Blair QC


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Pre-Meeting WIN/WING Reception – FREE Ticketed Event
Open to all registered attendees.
Sponsoring Committee:
Women’s Interest Network (WIN)  and The Women’s Interest Networking Group (WING)
Sponsored by: Steptoe & Johnson LLP and Thompson Hine LLP

4/2/08
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Luncheon with Louis Henkin - $110.00 per person, Ticketed Event
Chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University will be awarded the Louis B. Sohn Award.


Sponsored by: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

4/2/08
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Law Student, Young Lawyer, and First Time Attendee Reception at The Grand Hyatt Hotel - FREE
Feel like you don’t know anyone at the Spring Meeting?  A little intimidated by those who seem to have been coming for years?  Join other Spring Meeting novices and make new Section friends at this Caribbean Reception primer!   All law student, young lawyer, and first time attendees are encouraged to attend this event.

4/2/08 
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Wednesday Chair’s Latin American/Caribbean Sunset Reception at The Grand Hyatt Hotel - $95.00 per person, Ticketed Event
Primary Sponsor:  Allen & Overy
Additional Sponsor: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Wine Sponsors: Brons & Salas; Estudio Beccar Varela; Gonzalez & Ferraro Mila; Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal; M&M Bomchil; Negri & Teijeiro; and Vitale, Manoff & Feilbogen

4/2/08 
9:30 pm
AIJA Cocktail Event at Butterfield 8 Restaurant

4/3/08
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Luncheon Speaker with Richard C. Breeden - During his professional career he has been a law school instructor, a practicing lawyer at Cravath and Willkie, an economics advisor to Vice President George H.W. Bush (and later President George H.W. Bush), Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a senior partner of an accounting firm, and CEO of a public company and head of his own turnaround and workouts firm. - $110.00 per person, Ticketed Event
Sponsored by: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

4/3/08
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Dinner/Dance Reception at The Rainbow Room (Black-tie Optional) - $145.00 per person, Ticketed Event Sponsored by: Fragomen, De Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

4/4/08
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm

Luncheon with Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. - $110.00 per person, Ticketed Event
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Visiting Lecturer, Yale University School of Law Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Law


Sponsored by: Arnold & Porter LLP and Proskauer LLP

4/4/08
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Celebrity and Social Responsibility Panel, Guest Speaker: Richard Jay Belzer, an American stand up comedian, writer, and actor, perhaps best known for his work as Det. John Munch, on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

4/4/08                      
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Closing Reception at the Bloomberg Tower Hosted by Bloomberg LP – FREE Ticketed Event
Sponsored by: Bloomberg LP

4/4/08                       
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Specialized Committee Dinners

4/4/08        
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
After-Hours Reception at AZZA Lounge - FREE Ticketed Event
Not ready to say goodbye?  Join Section members new and old at this after-hours event following the Bloomberg Reception.  All Spring Meeting attendees are invited!  Stop by to unwind and raise a glass to celebrate another exciting and successful Spring Meeting! Hosted by: The Young Lawyers Interest Network -Take it easy... it's YIN !!!

Sponsored by: Salmen Navarro & Associates


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