Events

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Campus Speaker Series

• A Conversation with James Parker '08
  March 15, 2023
  James Parker '08, General Counsel, Boston Celtics
  (No recording available)
• Jeff Marks '95 - Lawyer and Entrepreneur
  February 13, 2023
  Jeff Marks '95, Alliance Legal Partners
  
  
• Nailing the Interview
  February 10, 2023
  Dawn Haghighi, General Counsel, PCV Murcor Real Estate Services
  
  
• A Conversation with Andy Beal '12
  February 1, 2023
  Andy Beal '12, Forta
  
  
• Going Public Via a SPAC Merger
  November 10, 2022
  Tammy Brandt, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business & Legal Affairs, FaZe Clan
  
  
• Business Law Panel
  November 2, 2022
  Serineh Baghdasarian of Sklar Kirsh, Nick Feldman '15 of Gunderson Dettmer, Alice Yuan of Massumi+Consoli
  Sponsored by TLI, the Corporations Committee of the California Lawyers Association's Business Law Section, and various student organizations
  
  
• Transactional Lawyering Institute Information Session
  October 25, 2022
  Professor Trevino
   
• A Day in the Life of a Silicon Valley Lawyer
  March 17, 2022
  Katherine Duncan '09, partner, Fenwick & West LLP and Jennifer Pesce, associate, Fenwick & West LLP
  
  
• The Business of Entertainment and Dealmaking
  October 26, 2021
  Robert Haymer '87, retired partner, Latham & Watkins LLP, previously a partner at O’Melveny & Myers

• How to Polish Your Resume and Nail the Interview
  February 17, 2021
  Kat Duncan ’09, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP
  
  
• The Entrepreneurial JD: Part 2
  November 5, 2020
  Ron Miller, Co-Founder & Chairman of StartEngine and Basha Rubin, CEO & Co-Founder of Priori Legal

• Orchestrating a Deal in the Public's Interest: Rescuing the Johnson Publishing Company Photography Archive
  October 20, 2020
  George Fatheree '07, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
  
  
• The Entrepreneurial JD: Part 1
  September 24, 2020
  Jeff Marks '95, Managing Partner, Alliance Legal Partners; Chairman and General Counsel, Titan Brands
  
  
• The Modern Corporation and the Role of General Counsel
  February 25, 2020
  Arnie Pinkston, Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, Edwards Lifesciences

• From Loyola Law School to Winery Owner
  February 11, 2020
  John Dragonette '93, Founder of Dragonette Cellars

• Going In-House - What does that Mean?
  October 22, 2019
  Tiffany Lee '12, Senior Corporate Counsel, Thrive Market

• Networking for Transactional Lawyers: It’s About the Connections
  March 19, 2019
  Justin Gaynor ’10, Founding Partner, Gaynor Page LLP
  
  
• Advising Cannabis Businesses: The Practitioners' Perspective
  November 13, 2018
  Richard Ormond and Oren Bitan '07, Buchalter LLP
  
  Reprise on September 24, 2019 featuring Richard Ormond, Buchalter LLP

• From JD to CEO: Featuring Reza Jahangiri '04, CEO, American Advisors Group
  March 21, 2018
  
  
• View from the Inside: So You Want to be a General Counsel?
  February 21, 2018
  Christopher Wilson ’93, Vice President and General Counsel, General Finance Corporation (NASDAQ) and Linda Barker, ’82, Managing Director and General Counsel, Los Angeles Capital Management
  
  
• Specialized Transactional & In-House Practice Panel
  October 25, 2017
  Phil Gharabegian '99, Fox Sports Media Group, Amy Lerner Hill '01, City National Bank, and Timothy Oppelt '07, Styskal, Wiese & Melchione LLP
  
  
• A Day in the Life of a Business Lawyer
  September 26, 2017
  Sean Wainwright ’06 of Nossaman LLP, Kathryn McCann ’06 of Brown, George & Ross LLP and Hannah Kim of OpenX. Co-hosted by the Business Law Society.
  
  
• Career Perspectives: Doing Deals
  October 5, 2016
  Joseph Salamunovich ’86, Strategic Law Partners LLP, Ara Babaian ’01, Encore Law Group, Sean Wainwright ’06, Nossaman LLP, Mark Sonefeldt ’12, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  
  
• Perspectives of an Emerging Company Lawyer
  October 22, 2015
  Bob O’Connor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  
  
• Fireside Chat with Afshin Pishevar, Chief Legal Officer, Hyperloop Technologies
  October 14, 2015
  
  
• Career Advice for 3Ls
  September 30, 2015
  Sean Montgomery ’13, Foley & Lardner LLP, and Sujata Wiese ‘13, Fox Rothschild LLP

General Counsel and Other Perspectives

• Enforcement Trends and Other Developments Impacting California’s Corporations:
  How Today’s Companies are Navigating Emerging Trends
  May 15, 2019 at Edwards Lifesciences Corp.
  
  

Fear and Hope in Enforcement Trends for Businesses: From the College Admissions Fraud Case to Lessons Learned
from the Successful Referral of Criminal Cases to the AGs and US DOJ
John Hueston, Founding Partner, Hueston Hennigan, LLP
Vicki Chou, Of Counsel, Hueston Hennigan LLP

General Counsel’s Perspective on Current Topics
David Flattum, Managing Director and General Counsel, PIMCO
Arnold Pinkston, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Corelogic, Inc.
Michael Ray, EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, Western Digital Corp.
Aimee Weisner ’94, Corporate VP and General Counsel, Edwards Lifesciences Corp.

• Trends in General Counsel Compensation
  March 7, 2018 at Loyola Law School
  Marty Willhite, former Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Legendary Entertainment, Sam Greenberg ’10 LLM ‘12,
  Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Susan Schroeder & Bertha Masuda, Vivient Consulting LLC

Related Symposia

• 1st Annual Cannabis Business Law Conference
  October 25, 2019

The purpose of the Conference was to address the myriad legal and regulatory issues that lawyers and financial advisors must be prepared to deal with when representing businesses operating within the cannabis industry in California.  The Conference featured keynote lunch speaker, former California State Treasurer John Chiang, and several afternoon sessions.  The three afternoon panels featured speakers who are experts in the financing, banking, tax, accounting, corporate governance and valuation issues that lawyers must grapple with in this heavily regulated industry.

• Symposium on Corporations, the Constitution, and Democracy
  November 20, 2015

The Future of Corporate Constitutional Rights Litigation and Theory
Margaret M. Blair, Vanderbilt Law School; Erwin Cherminsky, UC Irvine School of Law; Sarah Haan, University of Idaho College of Law; James D. Nelson, University of Houston Law Center; Anne Tucker, Georgia State University College of Law; and Adam Winkler, UCLA School of Law

Democracy, Corporations and Money in Politics
Jeff Clements, Free Speech for People; Richard L. Hasen, UC Irvine School of Law; Michael S. Kang, Emory University School of Law; Jessica Levinson, Loyola Law School; Michele Sutter, Money Out Voters In; and Abby Wood, USC Gould School of Law

Keynote Address - Corporate Power Ratchet: The Courts’ Role in Eroding ‘We the People’s’ Ability to Constrain Our Corporate Creations
The Hon. Leo E. Strine, Jr., chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court

Closing Remarks
John Bonifaz, Free Speech for People, and Elizabeth Pollman, Loyola Law School