Upcoming Seminars & Speaking Events:

"Trade-Marks 101"

A basic understanding of trade-mark issues is critical when seeking to protect an organization's intellectual property rights. Neil Melliship and Larry Munn, both members of our firm's Technology & Intellectual Property Practice Group, are providing a seminar for a major client addressing basic trade-mark fundamentals. If you feel your organization would benefit from a similar seminar, please contact Larry Munn at 604.643.3160 or lm@cwilson.com.

October 22, 2008

"2nd Annual Conference: Women in Law Facing the Challenges"

• Find out what can and must be done to proactively address the challenges facing women in law
• Hear the update on the work of the new Retention of Women in Law Task Force
• Examine how the work environment can help or hinder dealing with stress
• Get to know the changing role of the General Counsel
• Understand the importance of flexibility, intention and vision in work/life balance
• Hear the strategies for retaining talented young women in the legal profession
• Find out whether mentoring can increase job satisfaction and career success
• Understand why volunteering is a ‘win-win’ situation
• Learn how to create a more feminine culture in law
• Network! Network! Network!

Presented by: Career Women Interaction (CWI)

Clark Wilson LLP Lawyer: Nicole Byres

When: October 22, 2008

Where: Terminal City Club
Vancouver, BC

Program and Registration: See the conference brochure.

November 13–14, 2008

"Internet Law: Latest Developments and Strategies"

The quickly evolving legal challenges of Internet activity require that you stay current. This conference will address:

• The status of Copyright Reform and trade-marks on the internet

• Privacy in an internet age – update on extraterritorial conduct and jurisdiction from the Privacy Commissioners

• Social networking – can there be privacy in a "Facebook" world?

• Developments in internet privacy and security obligations – Canada, US & Europe

• Net neutrality – the legal issues and jurisdictional consequences

• Online counterfeiting and fraud – is the current law working?

• Investigating user activity on a computer

• Spamming, abuse, intermediary liability and litigation

• Jurisdiction issues – current trends and standards

• Online reputation management

• Electronic mail – effective corporate policies and best practices

• SPAM – Canadian legal approaches to discourage unsolicited email

• Open source software – recent legal developments

• The future of file sharing – approaches to disintermediation in other industries

• Information and communication technology – a standards quality case study

• and much more…

Presented by: Insight

Clark Wilson LLP Lawyer: Neil Melliship

When: November 13–14, 2008

Where: Four Seasons Hotel
Vancouver, BC

Program and Registration:
See the conference brochure.
*Register by September 12 to receive the Special Early Bird rate