Practice Management

General Counsel Summit: SuperConference, Chicago, May 5-6.

By Dan Hull

By GCs for GCs. Major conferences for corporate lawyers often come with this breakdown: hundreds of fine firm practitioners--but a handful of in-house lawyers. A glaring exception next month is InsideCounsel magazine's 9th 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, Robert Bauer, Fred Barlit and Dick Thornburgh. But top in-house lawyers at SuperConference so far include GCs for Cisco Systems, Chevron Philips, LG Electronics, Ingram Industries, WESCO International, 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.

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