Drafting arbitration clauses and arbitration agreements subject to Italian Law
Gianluca Buoro, Area Manager Financing and Contracting Dept., Danieli, Italy

Patent Demand - A Simple Path to Patent Reform
Timothy K. Wilson, Senior IP Counsel, SAS Institute Inc., USA

Performing a Preliminary Assessment of Patentability for a New Invention: Guidelines For Non-Patent Lawyers
Rodney L. Sparks, J.D., Ph.D., Senior Biotechnology Patent Counsel, Patent Department, University of Virginia Patent Foundation, USA

Why is there a need for additional EC-guidance on Art 41 of the 8th Directive
Roland de Meulder, Special Advisor to the ECIIA Management Board, European federation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA), Brussels

The Opportunity of Successful Regulatory Engagement in Emerging Markets
Caleb Raywood, Region Counsel, South Asia, Middle East & Africa, MasterCard

Numbing the Expert Pinch: Avoiding Expert Disqualification in Construction Litigation
Stephen Butler, Esq..Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc.

The Real ID Act and the Public Administration of Global Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Policies
Bart Bevers, Chief Legal Counsel, Health & Human Svc Commission, USA

Binding Corporate Rules, the Accenture experience
Anne Wilkes, Senior data privacy counsel EMEA, Accenture, UK

Trademarks in Mergers and Acquisitions
Su-Lin Ang, Head of Legal, Intellectual Property, Group Legal Department, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

Public tenders and public contracts in Italy. The issues that large groups have to face when bidding/contracting with Italian awarding bodies
Giovanni B. Monteverde, General Counsel, Alstom, Italy

"Thank you for your co-operation": A practical perspective on managing dawn raids and regulatory investigations
Frank Govaerts and Paul Van Reesch, General Counsel, Coca Cola, Belgium

Criminal Cartels and Liability of Corporate Managers
Beatrice Roxburgh, Senior Competition Counsel, BT, UK

Approaches to contracting: does the tail sometimes wag the dog?
Frank Sanford, In-House Counsel, Mediterranean Shipping Company, Switzerland

Taking Over a Private Retail Company in Argentina
Eduardo Mariscotti, In-House Counsel, Walmart, Argentina

From Private Practice to In-house - Making the Transition
Alice Chan, General Counsel, Pacific Century Premium Developments, Hong Kong

Managing an Effective Investment Bank Legal Department
Hubert de Vauplane, General Counsel, Calyon, France

From Sellafield to the States and back again: The journey of BNFL and the effect on its in-house legal services
Sue Quint, Group Legal Director, BNFL, UK

Corporate Governance: Situation in India as compared to other countries with specific reference to Corporate Governance in US
Vikas Agarwal, Deputy Manager – Secretarial handling corporate secretarial matters, Persistant Systems, India
Amit Atre, Assistant Officer – Secretarial, Persistant Systems, India
Vivek, Sadhale, Company Secretary and Head - Legal, Persistant Systems, India

The future of the legal advisor - impact of technology
Ian McDougall, Legal Director - ECLA, Lexis Nexis Group, UK

Protection of Trade Marks in Jamaica
Tara Carnegie, Legal Officer, Lascelles deMercado & Co. Limited, Jamaica