Perkins Coie partner and DNC Chairman Robert Bauer
By General Counsel for General Counsel. Major conferences for corporate lawyers are usually attended by hundreds of fine practitioners from outside firms–but a just handful of in-house lawyers. In ten days, Chicago hosts a glaring exception, and, so far (the organizers tell WAC?), one with the opposite breakdown: InsideCounsel magazine’s 9th annual SuperConference at the Chicago Fairmont May 5-6.
It’s different: GC-heavy.
We won’t, of course, look down our nose at InsideCounsel for having a few registrants from law firms like David Boies, Fred Bartlit, former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, and DNC Chairman Robert Bauer. But top in-house lawyers at SuperConference so far include GCs for Cisco Systems, Chevron Philips, LG Electronics, Ingram Industries, WESCO International, Xerox, Microsoft, Whirlpool, Office Depot, Union Pacific, TV One, C-SPAN, FMC Technologies, the DNC, the Milwaukee Brewers, and many more “majors” you’d recognize. Chief in-house litigation counsel for DuPont, IBM and Cardinal Health are also participating.
The two-day meeting is “re-designed for 2009”. So topics at the SuperConference won’t be much of a surprise. If you can think of it, it will be covered. More details are here.
