SECTION CLE PROGRAMS
ALL PROGRAMS WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE
MOSCONE CONVENTION CENTER, UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.
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2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Life Sciences and the Law-Hit Fast Forward: Think You Won't Be Able to Enhance Your Intellect as You Age, and Have a Law Partner Who's a Humanoid Robot? Think Again!
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator: Christine M. Grant, CEO, InfecDetect, Princeton, NJ
This mind expanding session features internationally acclaimed scientists discussing the legal implications of scientific breakthroughs in robotics and neuroscience. Imagine introducing sentient, empathetic android robots into the world to perform a range of tasks from serving as companions for humans to knowledge workers. Imagine utilizing medical interventions for mind control as well as brain and intellect performance enhancement. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro from the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University and the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems will present the capabilities of his "android " twin, and Repliee the female robot who mimics, and vocalizes. Professor Hank Greely, Stanford's Professor of Law and Genetics, will opine on the ethical and legal implications of medical research which may offer neuroassistive relief to Alzheimers sufferers and those paralyzed, while also creating the tantalizing prospect of cognitive function enhancement and mind control for the rest of us
Panelists: Professor Henry “Hank” T. Greely, Department of Genetics, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA; Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Adaptive Machine Systems and Group Leader ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Suita, Osaka, Japan;Gilbert Whittemore, Rath, Young & Pignatelli, Boston, MA.
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8:30 am – 10:00 am
CLE: Hot Topics in Online Marketing and Advertising
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator: Ian Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP,
San Francisco, CA
This year has seen a rise in creative ways to market and advertise online. New companies are sprouting up, and then being sold for billions of dollars. Users are drawn to these websites, which third party advertising support. Is the rise of online advertising hype or real? What rules should a company know, either about email blasts it generates on its own or about advertising on thirdparty sites? This program will cover the hot topics, including: blogs and wikis; SEO (Search Engine Optimization), social networking websites and word of mouth marketing. The panel will explore, among other issues, clearance issues arising from websites with user-generated content, the risks and rewards of giving up creative control to consumers, situations in which disclosures are required, issues pertaining to hiring bloggers to “endorse” your product, and enforcement priorities of the FTC and other regulators.
Online advertising is a topic that impacts every company from the brick and mortar companies to the hottest start-up. Come to this program and understand this ever-evolving area of the law.
Panelists: Reggie Davis, Associate General Counsel, Yahoo, Burbank, CA; Brian G. Murphy, Partner Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC, New York, NY; Alan Sutin, Shareholder, Greenburg Traurig, New York, NY; Rose Hagan, Senior Trademark Counsel, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Ethical Issues in Deployment of VoIP Systems:
Client Record Gathering and Voice & Data Storage
Concordia | 2nd Floor
Moderator: Kristie Prinz, The Prinz Law Office, Los Gatos, CA
This panel will provide legal advice concerning the ethical issues clients face when installing or deploying a VoIP communications system. These "sensitive issues" include wire tapping/eavesdropping, data gathering, and record retention.
Panelists: Cece Gassner, Of Counsel, Holland & Hart, Boise, Idaho; Tim Koster, President and CEO, Search Systems, Newbury Park, California; Konrad Trope, Managing Shareholder, Novo Law Group, P.C., Irvine CA
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2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
CLE: What They Think About: Inside the Minds of Today’s
High Tech General Counsel
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator: Heather Dembert Rafter, General Counsel, Digidesign, Daly City, CA
General Counsels of public and private high technology companies find themselves in the center of attention, both in their own companies and among the press. With the new cases about standard settings, the new rules on executive compensation disclosure, and a barrage of articles about back dating of options, what are the key issues for high tech GCs? How can they be innovative, yet also be mindful of the potential pitfalls regarding tomorrow’s legal issues?
This panel of GCs will cover the topics that keep them awake at night: from managing multi-billion dollar IP portfolios, to complying with Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC rules, and advising their companies on emerging areas at the intersection of technology and the law. Come to this program and learn what it’s like to be at the legal epicenter of today’s high tech companies!
Panelists: Tonik Barber, Senior Vice President-Business Affairs and General Counsel, VIZ Media, Inc., San Francisco, CA; John Danforth, Senior Legal Adviser, Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA; Mary E. Doyle, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Palm, INC., Sunnyvale, CA; Ivan Fong, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, CardinalHealth, Dublin, OH; Kent Walker, Vice President & General
Counsel, Google, Mountain View, CA
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
CLE: Virtual Law: How Online Games are Shaping Legal Rules
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator: Jorge Contreras, Partner, WilmerHale, Washington, DC
Video games are changing the face of society and the rules that govern it. Multiplayer games and multidimensional virtual environments enable players to interact through avatars, to effect transactions using “real” money, and to function in borderless societies.
Concurrently, the government seeks to impose rules to govern online behavior, from gambling to graphic violence. How do these worlds intersect and what is their future? In this session, experts will explore ways in which the law has attempted to respond to the surge in online gaming activity, assess the effectiveness of these efforts, and speculate about what may come next.
Panelists: Don McGowan, Attorney, LCA Entertainment & Devices, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA; Keith Fentonmiller, Senior Attorney, US Federal Trade Commission, Division of Advertising Practices, Washington, DC; Sean Kane, Attorney/Consultant, Drakeford & Kane LLC, New York, NY; Samir Jain, WilmerHale Co-Chair, Internet, E-Commerce & New Media Group, WilmerHale, Washington, DC
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8:00 am – 9:30 am
CLE: Critical Issues in Homeland Security View from the 110th Congress
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator: Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan, House Committee on Homeland Security
Members of the Committee on Homeland Security in the US House of Representatives, will present a rare insider’s view of critical issues in homeland security. Mr. Perlmutter, a member of the Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorist Risk Assessment and X Subcommittees, was one of the original sponsors of H.R. 1, implementing the 9/11 recommendations, which passed the House in January. Mr. Lungren was the primary sponsor of the Safe Ports Act last Congress. He currently serves as the Ranking Member of the Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee. They will discuss the Homeland Security Agenda for the 110th Congress, and provide their perspective on the accomplishments and future direction of the Department of Homeland Security four years after it was established.
Panelists: Representative Daniel Lungren, U.S. House of
Representatives, Gold River, CA; Representative; Ed Perlmutter,
U.S. House of Representatives, Lakewood, CO; Michael Russlle, House Committee on Homeland Security, Washington, DC
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
CLE: The Future of Evidence
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator: George Paul, Partner, Lewis and Roca, Phoenix, AZ
New technologies are changing the nature of evidence on which the courts will have to admit—or not—in trials. The challenges to authentication of biometric evidence, digital evidence, DNA and other forms of biological and chemical evidence, scent identification evidence (human scent, plants and drugs), and nanotechnological evidence will test already overworked courts and counsel.
Moreover, even after authenticating such evidence, the question of admissibility and probative value will bedevil courts and counsel for years to come. There are undoubtedly other new technologies just around the corner that will raise similar challenging issues and worse, unimaginable new technologies which we cannot even foresee. Join us and a panel of scientists and lawyers for a trip to the future of evidence.
PANELISTS: Professor Kenneth G. Furton, Ph.D., Florida International University, Miami, FL; Carol Henderson, Professor & Director, National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law, St. Petersburg, FL; Richard Vorder Bruegge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, VA
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
CLE: The Future is Now...or Maybe Tomorrow Technology, Communications, and Content Convergence, and the Infrastructure and Public Policy Needed to Get There
The Moscone Convention Center
Room 2024 | 2nd Floor
Moderator Jose E. Guzman, Jr., Partner, Nossaman Guthner Knox
& Elliott LLP, San Francisco, CA
This program will provide an overview of the hottest trends in available high tech services and content, the infrastructure required to make the delivery of such services and content available to both “average” and the tech-savvy consumers, and the legislative and regulatory policies that will impact that availability.
Current technology makes available a bevy of slick, high-tech services and applications – mobile broadband, mobile video and interactive video, just to name a few – and the ability to employ and enjoy them almost anywhere, any time. Is the infrastructure to make these services and applications available? What legislative and regulatory policies need to be established for the ubiquity of those services and applications to become a reality? Net neutrality? Universal Service? Regulatory forbearance? A panel of high-tech communications industry representatives, and regulators discuss the convergence of technology, communications and content in the 21st Century.
Panelists: Jeffrey Campbell, Cisco, Inc., Washington, D.C;
Larry Magid, Syndicated Technology Columnist and Broadcaster for CBS News, the New York Times and the LA Times, Midtown, CA
