SPEAKER |
Marjorie M. Shultz
Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
School of Law - Boalt Hall
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THE CONFERENCE |
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Diversity: The Sky's the Limit!
September 13-14, 2006
San Francisco
Founded
in 1989, the California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP) is a membership
organization with a central mission of maximizing opportunities for
attorneys of color. CMCP is the most successful minority counsel
program of its kind in the nation. The Annual Business Development
Conference is CMCP’s signature event and features speakers, MCLE
programs, skill development, and discussion geared toward diversity in
the legal profession—as well as our trademark product—Corporate
Connections, brief matched interviews with a specific aim of generating
leads that may ultimately yield business.
The conference will be held at the Hotel Nikko,
222 Mason Street, San Francisco, California.
 The first day of the conference, September 13, will conclude with a Judges Reception
at The Bubble Lounge in San Francisco. This event will give conference attendees an opportunity to meet
and network with members of the judiciary.
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THE BUZZ |
"I found the CMCP annual conference to be an excellent networking event since it combines formal networking and informal networking opportunities. I have met several diverse attorneys through CMCP who I have recommended to hiring attorneys within the company."
-Hanifa Baporia
Assistant General Counsel, Sun Microsystems
“I cannot express enough the value of CMCP. The CMCP organization provides wonderful opportunities for networking, and I have developed client business from my CMCP contacts. But more importantly, the CMCP family is a place to forge lifelong long friendships with diversity-inspired colleagues in the legal community. For these reasons and so many other reasons, I am proud to say that my firm has financially supported CMCP with title sponsorship of the Annual Business Development Conference for three years in a row.”
-James D. Nguyen
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
“We first attended a CMCP conference two years ago, less than a month after our firm was formed. It proved to be a great experience that yielded significant results -- and two clients -- for our firm. We attended again last year and landed a major bank as a client that had even more work for our firm. We’ve found that the more we put into CMCP, the more we get out of it.”
-Geoffrey Gibbs:
Partner, Gibbs & Oliphant LLP
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PROGRAM |
REGISTRATION CLOSED & SOLD OUT!
2006 Conference Agenda
Day One
September 13, 2006
1:30pm
Registration
2:00-3:30pm
Making it a Two-Way Street: Best Practices for Achieving Mutually Beneficial Partnerships Between In-House & Outside Counse
3:45-5:15pm
So, You Want the Business? Strategies for a Successful Beauty Contest
5:30-7:30pm
Judges' Reception
The Bubble Lounge
Day Two
September 14, 2006
8:00-9:00am Corporate Connections
Check-In
9:00-9:30am Opening Remarks
9:30-12:00pm Corporate Connections
10:00-11:00pm Diversity Recruitment Panel
12:15-1:45pm Awards Luncheon
Presentation of
Diversity Awards
2:00-3:00pm Concurrent Sessions I
3:15-4:15pm Concurrent Sessions II
4:30-6:00pm Session III - Mock Trial
6:00-8:00pm General Counsel
Reception
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CORPORATE CONNECTIONS |
CLOSED
Update 8/28/06: Matches have been sent to all contacts & attendees listed in your Corporate Connections sign up. If you did not receive an email, please contact us.
Registration is still available to attend the conference.
You can't afford to miss this!
Corporate Connections are brief prescheduled interviews between outside counsel and in-house counsel of corporations and public agencies—who are seeking diverse outside counsel for active matters or for consideration for possible future matters. Past years’ corporate and public-agency participants in Corporate Connections have included Century Theaters, The Clorox Company, Del Monte Foods, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, City of Los Angeles, Microsoft, NBC West, City of Oakland, Safeway, City and County of San Francisco, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sun Microsystems, Taco Bell, Toyota Motor Sales, Visa International Service Association, and Wells Fargo.
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AWARDS |
2006 CMCP Awards Winners
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
John Essex & Guy Rounsaville
In-House Counsel Diversity Award Winner
Silicon Counsel
Minority Owned Law Firm
Client Services
Award Winner
Foley & Lardner LLP
The Drucilla Stender Ramey
Law Firm Award winner
The 2006 California Minority Counsel Program’s Annual awards are designed to honor those entities committed to the goals & objectives of CMCP.
There is no restriction on the number of nominations that you can submit. However, a separate form must be completed for each nomination. Any member entity may apply on behalf of itself and we also encourage law firms and in-house law departments to nominate those entities that they have worked with that have demonstrated excellence in the criteria detailed below. One award per category will be presented at the CMCP Awards Luncheon. |
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