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7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Judicial Seminar Emerging Issues in Neuroscience
Waldorf=Astoria | Empire Room | Lobby Level
Pre-Registration Required, call (312) 988-5599 for details

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Information Security Committee Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria| Promenade B | Promenade Level

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Information Security Committee Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade B | Promenade Level

8:30 am – 10:00 am
CLE: Diversity in the National and Homeland Security Field
Hilton New York | Nassau Suite B | 2nd Floor
Co-Sponsored with Commission on Women in the Profession

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
ABA Presidential Showcase Program
CLE : The Future of Music:
The Collision of Today’s Tunes and Tomorrow’s Technology
Hilton New York | Trianon Ballroom | 3rd Floor
Sponsored by Fish & Richardson P.C.

11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Book Publishing Board Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade A | Promenade Level

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The SciTech Lawyer Board Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Cole Porter Suite | 4th Floor

2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Section Officers Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Louis XVI Suite West | 4th Floor

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Life Sciences Division
Waldorf=Astoria | Louis XVI Suite Center | 4th Floor

7:30 am – 11:45 am
Council Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Starlight Center/North |18th Floor

11:45 am – 12:00 pm
Annual Business Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Starlight Center/North |18th Floor

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Annual Section Luncheon
Guest Speaker: Harold Burman
Waldorf=Astoria | The Palm Room |18th Floor
Ticketed $65

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Mona Lisa, Jackson Pollock & Notre Dame on the Stand:
The New Science of Connoisseurship in the Courtroom
Waldorf=Astoria | Starlight South Terrace | 18th Floor
Co-Sponsored with The Forum on the Entertainment
and Sports Industries
No ticket necesary to attend this program

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Committee Meetings
Homeland Security
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade A | Promenade Level
Public Health & Environmental Law and Preparedness
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade A | Promenade Level
E-Privacy Law
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade B | Promenade Level
International Policy Coordinating
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade B | Promenade Level
Biotechnology Law
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade C | Promenade Level

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Membership Committee Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria| Gramercy Suite| 18th Floor

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Welcome Reception
Waldorf=Astoria | The Starlight Roof |18th Floor
Co-sponsored with ABA Sections of Intellectual Property Law
and International Law
Ticketed $25

8:30 am – 10:00 am
CLE : Protection of Sensitive Information Is Every Lawyer’s
Business - Practical Solutions to Avoid Data Breaches
Hilton New York | Rendezvous Trianon | 3rd Floor

10:00 am – 11:30 am
Committee Meetings
Telecommunications and Mass Media
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade A | Promenade Level
Voice Over Internet Protocol Committee Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade A | Promenade Level
Virtual Worlds and Multi-User Online Games
Committee Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade B | Promenade Level

10:00 am – 11:30 am
Roundtable: Biotechnology Material Transfer Agreements
Waldorf=Astoria | Cole Porter Suite | 4th Floor
Moderator Andrew T. Hoyne, Partner, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis, MO
This program will discuss biotechnology material transfer agreements and will review a
“standard form” MTA that this working group of the Biotechnology Committee has developed during
2007-2008.
Panelist Keith C. Koford, Corporate Counsel, Regeneration Technologies, Inc., Alachua, FL;
Charlene Kon, Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA; Sean O’Connor,
Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA;
Jason S. Wood, Partner, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh, NC

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Committee Leadership Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Duke of Windsor | 4th Floor

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
E-Commerce and IT Division
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade B | Promenade Level

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
CLE : Beyond Frankenstein: Guiding Genetic Engineering
Companies to Money, Regulatory Aproval and Public Aceptance
Hilton New York | Rendezvous Trianon | 3rd Floor

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
CLE : Clinical Trials, Human Subj ects, and Access to Experimental
Treatments: Legal and Ethical Issues for Counsel
Hilton New York | Rendezvous Trianon | 3rd Floor

8:00 am – 11:00 am
NCLS Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade B | Promenade Level

10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Long Range Planning Committee Meeting
Waldorf=Astoria | Promenade A | Promenade Level

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
CLE: The Future is Now! Blogs, Social Networks,
Second Life and How they are Changing the
Legal Profession
Hilton New York | Rendezvous Trianon | 3rd Floor

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
CLE: Real Concerns When Practicing in Virtual Worlds
Hilton New York | Rendezvous Trianon | 3rd Floor