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Program

General Event Schedule - Subject to change (see pre-meeting activities schedule below)

Wednesday, January 29

  • 8:00 am PT - Breakfast, Registration and Check-in (Confirm Team/Division Assignments)
  • 9:00 am PT - Welcome and Forum Kick Off!
  • 9:15 am PT - Ice Breakers, Team Development Activities
  • 10:30 am PT - COFFEE BREAK
  • 10:45 am PT - Session 1 - Interactive expert coaching session for lawyers and IP practitioners with author Chris DeSantis on generational diversity and messaging.  The session includes a presentation and affinity exercise for lawyers and IP practitioners based on generational category.
  • 12:30 pm PT - LUNCHEON - Leadership Table Talks
  • 2:00 pm PT - Break
  • 2:15 pm PT - Session 2 - Interactive expert coaching session for lawyers and IP practitioners with author Mary Abbajay on leadership profiles and strategies, skills, and sensibilities needed for success in a legal organization - The session will include an interactive exercise for lawyers and IP practitioners to determine personality profiles, followed by a presentation and break out group-based exercises.
  • 4:00 pm PT - COFFEE BREAK
  • 4:15 pm PT - Team Exercises
  • 5:15 pm PT - Team Presentations by each Division
  • 5:45 pm PT - Sessions conclude
  • 7:00 pm PT - TEAM BUILDING Networking Event and Reception - Join us for Square Dancing and put some of the skills you learned today to use!

Thursday, January 30

  • 7:00 am PT - Rise & Shine:  Morning Wellness Program and AIPLA Fun Run! - Choose from
    • Yoga
    • Tai Chi
    • Meditation
    • 5k Fun Run
  • 8:00 am PT - Breakfast
  • 9:00 am PT - Coffee and Leadership Discussion with AIPLA Past President Mark Whitaker and President-Elect Sal Anastasi
  • 10:00 am PT - Session 1- AIPLA Past President's Panel & Audience Directed Discussion: The panelists will reflect on their long and varied careers, in both private practice and serving various corporate and nonprofit entities. Building off the key elements of Day 1, they will add their perspectives on: Effective Communication, Partnering, Civility, Hard Conversations, Delegation, Active Listening, Appropriate Attribution, Fear, Ego Based Behaviors, and Appropriate Balances between Self and Group. All focused on how these affect working with teams and clients, internal and external, in the legal profession. In a final section, Panelists will invite attendees to formulate their own personal missions, first in a look-back assessment and then creatively directing their professional life forward.
    Panelists: Myra McCormack, Jim Pooley, and Wayne Sobon
  • 12:00 pm PT - LUNCHEON
  • 1:00 pm PT - BREAK
  • 1:15 pm - Honorable John Owens, US District Court for the Ninth Circuit - The Clerk, The Thief, His Life as a Baker: Ashton Embry and the Supreme Court Leak Scandal of 1919
  • 1:45 pm PT - Break
  • 2:00 pm PT - Session 3 - Strategic plan with interactive breakouts
  • 3:15 pm PT - COFFEE BREAK
  • 3:30 pm PT - Session 3 - Part 2 - Strategic plan with interactive breakouts
  • 4:30 pm PT - Reframe Game - Participants will use cues with a "frame" and a goal of "reframing a situation" to get away from zero sum concepts of winning and losing and appreciate the importance of other perspectives.
  • 5:15 pm PT - Committee on the Profession Presentation on Opportunities for Engagement on Professionalism, Civility in the Bar, Ethics, Substance Abuse and Mental Health and Well-Being.
  • 5:30 pm PT - Team Awards and Closing Celebration
  • 6:00 pm PT - DINNER - DINE AROUND (on own) - not included in registration
  • 7:00 pm PT - AIPLA Past President's Dinner (Past Presidents and Board Members Only)
  • 9:30 pm PT - Networking Event and Reception - Game night and Wind down! Join us for some of your favorite Board Games, connect with your colleagues, and wind down from a great FORUM!

*Some events may offer CLE – more details to follow.

Pre-Meeting and AIPLA Board Meeting Schedule

IP Practice in Japan will host their Pre-Meeting beginning Monday, January 27 (full-day) and ending January 28 (half-day). Separate Registration Required.

Executive Committee - Tuesday, January 28 - 10:00 am - 12:00 Noon PT
Board of Directors Meeting- Tuesday, January 28 - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Board of Directors Team Building Event - Tuesday, January 28 - 6:00 - 9:00 pm PT
Past President's Dinner - Thursday, January 30 - 7:00 - 10:00 pm PT
Board of Directors Meeting - Friday, January 31, 9:00 am - 12 Noon PT

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