It’s no surprise that a young attorney from your company has requested to attend the DRI Young Lawyers Seminar. Before you decide, consider this:
• The seminar will help develop critical skills that in-house counsel need to successfully defend their corporate clients.
• The seminar provides an opportunity to meet and gain insight from other in-house counsel from across the country including several from Fortune 500 Companies. This is an opportunity to exchange ideas and build business relationships with corporate counsel from Ford, Invacare, Lennar, Pfizer, U-Haul, Dell, Wyndham, John Deere and other companies.
• The general session includes many topics particularly relevant to in-house counsel including preparing litigation budgets.
• There is also a corporate counsel breakout session with topics tailored to assist young in-house lawyers more effectively manage their varied job responsibilities, including corporate compliance responsibilities and cost management. This break out will provide your young lawyer a unique opportunity to collaborate with other in-house counsel in a forum open only to in-house counsel.
• Attending the seminar will give a young lawyer at your company the opportunity to build relationships with outside counsel from across the nation.
• The seminar provides excellent CLE from nationally recognized speakers, experienced and successful trial lawyers, a state bar investigator and others. Your in-house counsel will receive training from top litigators and learn the critical skills needed to defend their corporate clients successfully.
• The Young Lawyers community service project at Community Partnership for the Homeless provides a unique opportunity to give back to the community while making meaningful connections with other seminar attendees.
• Seminar registration is free if the lawyer is within their first ten years of practice and has not yet used their DRI Young Lawyer Certificate for a free seminar.
If there is one seminar that someone from your company should attend this year, it’s the DRI Young Lawyers Seminar, Advanced Litigation Techniques For a Successful Defense. For more information, go to www.dri.org.