Lunch time Lectures


LUNCH TIME LECTURE with
Thomas Hickey, Assistant General Counsel, Hess Corporation
 

  • DATE: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
  • TIME: 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
  • LOCATION: W-402
  • LUNCH: A free lunch will be provided
  • RSVP: Michael.Rhee@nyls.edu


Hess Corporation is a Fortune 100 global energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, and also the refining and marketing of petroleum products, electricity, and natural gas. Among a wide array of complex legal, compliance, and business issues, Hess must address corruption, which is damaging to civil society, the rule of law, and economic growth. Thomas Hickey will discuss how companies such as Hess work to develop policies and procedures to eradicate bribery and corruption, and to ensure compliance with anti-corruption legislation, protocols, and conventions.

Mr. Hickey is admitted to practice in the state of California and in England and Wales. He received a biochemistry degree from the University of Manchester and an M.B.A. from the University of Strathclyde Business School. He has worked in London, Houston, and Kuala Lumpur in support of Hess’s oil and gas production business. He is currently based in the corporate headquarters in New York.
 

LUNCH in the BOARDROOM with
Jordan Kanfer '97, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, T-Systems North America

  • DATE: Monday, March 26, 2012
  • TIME: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
  • LOCATION: W204 (Boardroom)
  • LUNCH: A free lunch will be provided.
  • RSVP: Michael.Rhee@nyls.edu


Jordan Kanfer '97 will speak to students in an informal setting about his work at T-Systems (a division of Deutsche Telekom) which provides information and communication technology solutions to corporations and industry sectors in over 20 countries. He manages the legal department for T-Systems North America and also runs its regulatory and compliance functions. Before joining T-Systems in 2005, Kanfer held senior in-house legal positions at Telerate (Reuters) and Global Crossing where he managed and organized large-scale business and legal initiatives, as well as negotiated and facilitated complex outsourcing, technology, telecom and finance transactions.

 

LUNCH TIME LECTURE with
Peter Damiano, Senior Director, J.Crew 

  • DATE: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
  • TIME: 12:45 p.m.–1:45 p.m.
  • LOCATION: Room W302
  • LUNCH: A free lunch will be provided.
  • RSVP: Michael.Rhee@nyls.edu


One of the most well-known retail brands in the United States, J.Crew has now begun expanding its business internationally. It already has online retail channels in Europe and Asia, and, last year, it opened its first foreign retail store in Toronto, Canada. Peter Damiano, Senior Director at J.Crew, will speak more about his work and the issues which arise when American companies go abroad.

An honors graduate of Tulane Law School, Mr. Damiano has spent his career specializing in cross-border employment, corporate, and tax matters. His focus has included entity formation abroad, foreign business compliance, and labor matters such as employment agreements, benefits and compensation, downsizings, labor relations, and expatriate and “secondment” arrangements, among other areas. He was previously Global Senior Counsel of the Target Corporation.
 

 Legislation by Stealth: Negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

There is NO CLE credit for this program.
 

  • DATE: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
  • TIME: 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
  • LOCATION: 185 West Broadway (W-302, 3rd floor)
  • LUNCH: Will be provided for free.
  • CONTACT: Michael Rhee at (212) 431-2865 or Michael.Rhee@nyls.edu
  • Click here is register: There is no charge for this lecture. But registration is required.


On October 1, 2011, eight nations, including the United States, signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) whose negotiations were carried out under unusual secrecy and requires them to create much stronger domestic standards for enforcing intellectual property rights. (Unlike other agreements, the ACTA will be implemented through a presidential executive order.) In his lecture, Michael Blakeney will discuss, among other issues, whether a perceived link between the trade of counterfeit goods and organized crime/terrorist groups had contributed to the secretive nature of the talks.

Michael Blakeney is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia, and Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London. He has held academic positions at a number of Universities in Australia and the UK and formerly worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is an arbitrator with the International Court of Arbitration. Professor Blakeney has advised the Asian Development Bank, Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research, European Commission (EC), European Patent Office, Food and Agricultural Organization, World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization and a number of university and public research institutes on technology transfer and management of intellectual property.