NASABA CONVENTION 2008

SCHEDULE


Thursday June 26th (pre convention)	Friday June 27th	Saturday June 28th	Sunday June 29th
*Speakers, events and venues are subject to change up to time of the event. Watch this page for the latest updates

JUNE 26th THURSDAY

TIME	SCHEDULE
1:20 P.M.	Optional Event – Chicago Cubs v. Baltimore Orioles Baseball Game • Location: Wrigley Field
3:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.	Registration • Sponsored By: Kumar Pathak, LLP
6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.	Welcome Reception • Sponsored By: Schiff Hardin LLP • Awards Presentations: Cornerstone Awards; Enterprise Award; Public Service Achievement Award • Location: Metropolitan Club - Sears Tower 233 S Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606
8:00 P.M.	After Hours Networking Reception On The Chicago River • Co-Sponsored By: Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago, the Indian American Bar Association of Chicago, and the Pakistani American Bar Association of North America • Location: Flatwater • Entertainment: DJ Aladdin

JUNE 27th FRIDAY

TIME	SCHEDULE
7:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.	Registration • Sponsored By: Kumar Pathak, LLP
8:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.	NASABA Board meeting
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.	Networking / Exhibit Hall
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.	Networking Across Borders: ‘Meet the Canadian Attorneys’ Reception
12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.	Friday Keynote Luncheon: Reaching New Heights: Achieving Change Through Public Service • Sponsored By: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP • Keynote Speaker: Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois • Unveiling of Business Law Section Newsletter
1:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.	Concurrent Panels: Opportunities and Strategies for Entering Legal Academia • Speakers: • Professor Jay P. Kesan - Professor and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law, University of Illinois College of Law • Professor Shobha L. Mahadev - Project Coordinator, Illinois Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University Law School • Ram Padmanabhan - Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP, Adjunct Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law • Asha Rangappa - Associate Dean, Yale Law School • Moderator: Professor Praveen Kosuri - Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Legal and Societal Barriers to Adoption in South Asia • Speakers: • Cherie Jones Das - International Adoption Coordinator, Lutheran Child and Family Services • Nidhi Desai - Partner, Law Office of Ballard, Desai, Bush-Joseph & Horwich • Margaret H. ("Peggy") McCormick - Principal, Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C. • Moderator: Sacha M. Coupet - Assistant Professor, Loyola University Law School in Chicago; Director of Research, Civitas ChildLaw Center Non-Billable Hour – The World of Non-profit Boards and Alternative Civic Involvement • Sponsored By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP • Speakers: • Mazen Asbahi - Senior Associate, Schiff Hardin LLP • Karina Ayala-Bermejo - Director of Community Services, Chicago Bar Association • Aarathi Deshmukh - Staff Attorney, Asian American Justice Center • Shirish Gupta - Principal, Flashpoint Law • Jesse H. Ruiz - Partner and Diversity Chair, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP • Moderator: Jasmine S. Patel - Associate, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Ventures In and Out: Barriers to Foreign Investments into the United States and Fiduciary Duties Associated with Joint Ventures in South Asia • Co-Sponsored By: Hogan & Hartson LLP and Jones Day • Speakers: • Jeanne S. Archibald - Partner and Director of the International Trade Group, Hogan & Hartson LLP • Sanjiv K. Kapur - Partner, Jones Day • Moderator: Amit Mehta - Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
3:00 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.	BREAK • Sponsored by: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
3:15 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.	Concurrent Panels: Making the Jump from Private Practice to Politics, Government or The Judiciary • Sponsored By: Greenberg Traurig, LLP • Speakers: • Asheesh Agarwal - Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Civil Rights Division • Paul Chadha - In-House Counsel, Accenture • Harmeet K. Dhillon - Partner, Dhillon & Smith LLP • S. Raja Krishnamoorthi - Deputy Treasurer for Policy and Programs, State of Illinois • Honorable Amul R. Thapar - U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky • Moderator: Shyam K. Reddy - Corporate Attorney, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Franchising in the South Asian Community • Sponsored By: Reed Smith LLP • Speakers: • Salman Azam - Managing Partner, Lakeshore Law Group LLP • Gregory J. Ellis - Greg J. Ellis & Associates, Ltd. • Michael J. (Mike) Lockerby - Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP • Moderator: Tarun Chandran - Associate, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Surviving the “First Years” • Sponsored By: Mayer Brown LLP • Speakers: • Sarah E. Abraham - Associate, McGuireWoods LLP • Abhishek Mathur – Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP • Ami Scott - Partner of Associate Career Development, Mayer Brown LLP • Ritu Vig - Senior Counsel - Securities, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company • Bilal Zaheer – Associate, Jenner & Block LLP • Moderator: Archis A. Parasharami - Mayer Brown LLP South Asians in the Workplace: Emerging Trends in Employment Discrimination Law • Speakers: • Sarita Gupta - Executive Director, Jobs with Justice • Saket Soni - Lead Organizer, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice • Javaid Tariq - Co-Founder, NY Taxi Workers Alliance • Moderator: Neha Misra - Senior Program Officer, Africa Regional Office, The American Center for International Labor Solidarity
4:30 P.M. - 4:45 P.M.	BREAK • Sponsored by: Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP
4:45 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.	Concurrent Practice Group Receptions: Litigation • Sponsored By: Latham & Watkins LLP Intellectual Property • Sponsored By: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Public Interest • Sponsored By: Bingham McCutchen LLP Business Law • Sponsored By: Nishith Desai Associates
4:45 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.	Judge’s Reception (Judges Only)
6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.	Corporate Counsel Dinner (Corporate Counsel Only) - for details contact Reena Bajowala at rbajowala@jenner.com or (312) 840-7277 • Sponsored by: The General Electric Company, Honeywell International Inc and Pfizer, Inc.
6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.	Chapter Presidents’ Dinner with the NASABA Foundation Board (Chapter Presidents and Foundation Board Only)
8:30 P.M. - 12:00 A.M.	Cocktail / Hors D’oeuvres Reception & NASABA Foundation Benefit • Co-Sponsored By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Pfizer, Inc. • Location: Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60611 • Entertainment: DJ Banti

JUNE 28th SATURDAY

TIME	SCHEDULE
7:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.	Registration • Sponsored By: Kumar Pathak, LLP
8:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.	Networking/ Visiting Sponsor & Vendor Booths
8:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M.	Breakfast With The Superstars of Microfinance: Taking Microfinance to New Heights • Featuring: • Vikram Akula - CEO & Founder, SKS Microfinance • Alex Counts - President & CEO, Grameen Foundation • Premal Shah - President & Founder, Kiva.org • Urmi Sengupta, Vice President, Knowledge Exchange at ShoreCap Exchange • Co-Moderators: • Ajay K. Mago - Associate, Mayer Brown LLP • Ashish S. Prasad - Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
9:30 A.M. - 10:45 A.M.	Concurrent Panels: Estate and /Retirement Planning 101 - Assisting Ourselves and Our Elderly • Co-Sponsored By: Hewitt Associates and Seyfarth Shaw LLP • Speakers: • Rajiv K. Goel - Partner, Offit Kurman, P.A. • Steven R. Lifson - Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP • Rahul P. Ranadive - Principal, Ranadive & Associates, P.A. • Moderator: Sameer Chhabria - Law Offices of Sameer Chhabria Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in South Asia • Sponsored By: Kirkland & Ellis LLP • Speakers: • Anjali Chaturvedi - Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP • Asheesh Goel - Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP • Jagdesh B. (“Bob”) Kirpalani - Partner, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC • Moderator: Ashok Ramani - Partner, Keker Van Nest LLP Patent Plaintiffs: Hot or Not? • Co- Sponsored By: Banner & Witcoff Ltd and McAndrews Held & Malloy Ltd • Speakers: • Shahan Islam - Senior Corporate Counsel, IP Enforcement Group, Pfizer, Inc. • Binal J. Patel - Partner, Banner & Witcoff Ltd • Nirav Patel - Counsel-Intellectual Property Practice Group, Chevron Corporation • Sanjay Prasad - Head of Enterprise Software Licensing, Intellectual Ventures • Charan J. Sandhu - Partner, Weil Gotschal & Manges • Moderator: Mirut Dalal - Shareholder, McAndrews Held & Malloy, Ltd. The Future of the Subprime Lending Crisis • Sponsored By: Jenner & Block LLP • Speakers: • Sumit Agarwal - Financial Economist, Federal Reserve Board of Chicago • Vivek Bhatt - Shareholder, Vedder Price P.C. • Vinita M. Juneja, Ph. D. - Senior Vice President and Chair Global Securities, and Finance Practice, NERA Economic Consulting • Rohit Kirpalani - General Counsel, CompuCredit Corporation • Douglas M. Rutherford - Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP • Moderator: Farhad K. Patel - Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
10:45 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.	BREAK • Sponsored By: Bryan Cave LLP
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.	Concurrent Panels: Hot Issues for In-House Counsel - Privilege, Ethics, and Document Retention • Sponsored By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP • Speakers: • Talat Ansari - Partner, Kelly Drye & Warren LLP • Suchitra Narayen - Senior Legal Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc. • Jon A. Geier - Partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP • Moderator: Asker A. Saeed, Assistant Counsel, Large Commercial Engines Section of Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation The Past, Present and Future of Islamic Finance • Co-Sponsored By: Allen & Overy LLP and King & Spalding, LLP • Speakers: • Karen Hunt-Ahmed - Assistant Professor of Finance and Management DePaul University • Andrew M. Metcalf - Partner, King & Spalding, LLP • Nasser Nubani - Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Zayan Finance • Moderator: Venu V. Talanki - Associate, Vedder Price P.C. The Shifting Balance Between National Security and Civil Liberties • Sponsored By: Pepper Hamilton • Speakers: • Ahilan T. Arulanantham - Staff Attorney, ACLU - Southern California • Neal Katyal - Professor, Georgetown University Law School • A. John Radsan - Associate Professor, Director of the National Security Forum, William Mitchell College of Law • Moderator: Charles H. Carpenter, Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP Effective Strategies in Managing Mass Torts Litigation • Co-Sponsored By: Arnold & Porter LLP and Sidley Austin LLP • Speakers: • Sara J. Gourley - Partner, Sidley Austin LLP • David Mendelson - Senior Counsel-Commercial Litigation, Abbot Laboratories • Malini Moorthy - Senior Corporate Counsel-Litigation, Pfizer Inc. • Moderator: Anand Agneshwar - Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
12:00 P.M. - 12:15 P.M.	BREAK • Sponsored By: Dykema Gossett PLLC
12:15 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.	Saturday Keynote Luncheon: Reaching New Heights: Achieving Change Through International Advocacy and the Rule of Law • Co-Sponsored by: Davis Polk & Wardwell and Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP • Keynote Speaker: • Hina Jilani, Advocate for Human Rights • Awards Presentations: Outstanding Chapter Award; Outstanding Program Award; Outstanding Board Member Award • Unveiling of Intellectual Property Section Newsletter
1:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.	Concurrent Panels: Anatomy of the Closing Argument • Sponsored By: Winston & Strawn LLP • Speakers: • Ahmed A. Patel - Former Cook County Assistant Public Defender • Pradeep Roy-Singh - Former Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, Law Office of Pradeep Roy-Singh • Honorable Judge Sabita Singh - Associate Judge, District Circuit Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts • Moderator: Vineeta R. Gajwani - Associate, Foley & Lardner LLP The Business Case for Business Visas • Sponsored By: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP • Speakers: • Henry (“Buzz”) Burwell - Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP • Sunny Choi - Associate Counsel, Adjudications Law Division of the Office of Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services • Ravi Jain - Partner, Green & Spiegel LLP • Moderator: Inderpreet Sawhney - Managing Partner, The Chugh Firm (Santa Clara) Domestic Violence in the South Asia Community – Mock Trial & Discussion • Sponsored By: The Allstate Foundation • Speaker: • Alison Dundes Renteln - Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, University of Southern California • Jennifer A. Kuhn - Program Manager, Allstate Foundation Domestic Violence Program • Moderator: Ketki Shroff Steffen - Assistant States Attorney, Cook County Domestic Violence Courts • Mock Trial Participants: • Role of Judge - Honorable Sanjay Tailor - Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Domestic Relations Division • Role of Lawyer - T. Paul S. Chawla - The Chawla Group, Ltd. • Role of Lawyer - Neha Lall - Staff Attorney, Life Span Center for Legal Services • Role of Client - Manisha H. Bhatt - Staff Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services
3:00 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.	BREAK • Sponsored By: Troutman Sanders LLP
3:15 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.	Concurrent Panels: Prosecuting and Defending White Collar Criminal Cases: From Start to Finish • Sponsored By: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP • Speakers: • David L. Douglass - Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP • Gurbir S. Grewal - Vice-President and General Counsel, ADPP Enterprises, Inc. • Samidh J. Guha -Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • Habib F. Ilahi - Counsel, Schertler & Onorato, LLP • Pravin B. Rao - Partner, Perkins Coie LLP • Moderator: Anil Mujumdar - Associate, Whatley Drake & Kallas LLC Legal Issues in Private Equity Transactions in Emerging Markets • Sponsored By: Foley & Lardner LLP • Speakers: • Paul B. Edelberg - Counsel, Murtha Cullina LLP • Srinivas S. Kaushik - Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP • Vaibhav Parikh - Nishith Desai Associates • Moderator: Daljit S. Doogal - Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP Red Light on Grey: Combating Counterfeiting and Grey Market Goods in the U.S. and Asia • Sponsored By: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP • Speakers: • Sanjana Chopra - Associate, Winston & Strawn LLP • Gowree Gokhale - Nishith Desai Associates • Cecelia X. Y. Lou - Partner, King & Wood (Shanghai, China) • Murali K. Pasupulati - Intellectual Property Associate, Thompson & Knight LLP (former In-House Trademark Counsel, John Deere & Co.) • Moderator: Rupen R. Fofaria - Associate, Swanson, Martin & Bell LLP
3:15 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.	A Career By Design: Career Planning for South Asian Women Attorneys • Sponsored by: Kenesis Corporate & Information Consulting, LLC • Featuring: • Arin R. Reeves - Founder, The Athens Group
4:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.	Law Student Session: Using Your Legal Degree in Non-Traditional Roles • Sponsored by: Alston & Bird LLP • Speakers: • Hitesh S. Barot - Counsel-Corporate Affairs Group, Intel Corporation • Venu Gupta - Executive Director, Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms • Tania Shah - Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP • Mini Timmaraju - District Director, Office of U.S. House Representative Nicholas Lampson (D-Tex) • Co-Moderators: • Sandra S. Yamate - Director, ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity • and Aminah Bhatti - American Bar Association, Student at John Marshall School of Law
7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.	Cocktail Hour • Location: Navy Pier Lakeview Terrace
8:00 P.M. - 12:00 A.M.	Keynote Awards Banquet: Reaching New Heights: Past, Present, Future • Emcee: Alpana Singh, Master Sommolier • Keynote Speaker: • Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Former Under-Secretary General to the U.N. “Freedom of Expression: A South Asian Human Right?” • Awards Presentations: Corporate Counsel Achievement Award; Law Firm Achievement Award; Pioneer Award; Public Interest Achievement Award; Vanguard Award • Location: Navy Pier Grand Ballroom • Featuring a Musical Performance By: • Funkadesi, African-Caribbean-Bhangra Fusion Band

JUNE 29th SUNDAY

TIME	SCHEDULE
8:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.	Continental Breakfast Networking Visiting Sponsor / Vendor Booths
11:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.	Optional Event: Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise • Location: Chicago River
12:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.	Optional Event: Taste of Chicago • Location: Grant Park