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Events

Fox Rothschild gathered privacy, security, regulatory and compliance professionals and government officials to address the acute cybersecurity issues impacting all businesses at the firm's privacy summit on April 18 at Citizens Bank Park.

Speakers

Lynda Calderone and Kristyne Bullock, shareholders in the intellectual property and litigation practice groups at Flaster Greenberg were presenters at the Association of Corporate Counsel—greater Philadelphia chapter's 10th In-House Counsel Conference.

Calderone and Bullock participated in an intellectual property panel titled “Intellectual Property Fight Club: How to Be an IP Bully and How to Defeat One.”

The panel took a look at current developments impacting certain aspects of aggressively postured intellectual property litigation, focusing on current trends in cases involving a nonpracticing entity.

Calderone chairs Flaster Greenberg's intellectual property department.

Bullock is a shareholder in the firm's intellectual property department.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Christopher S. Connell served as a moderator at the Association for Corporate Growth's M&A dealmakers' panel on April 20 in Gladwyne.

The panelists discussed how the current highly competitive deal environment is impacting their overall strategy on sourcing, negotiating and closing deals.

Connell is the co-chair of Stradley Ronon's corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions practice group.

Announcements

The Philadelphia Bar Foundation and the international law committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association have established a fund to provide stipends to students participating in the Lyon-Philadelphia Bar Association Internship Exchange Program.

In 1997, the Philadelphia Bar Association launched a law student exchange program with the Bar of Lyon, France.

Every year, several French law students visit Philadelphia to undertake six-month internships with law firms, businesses or judges, and often engage in pro bono and/or public interest activities while in Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Bar Association has also sent interns, now usually rising second-year law students, to Lyon during the summers.

This new fund will provide financial support for the exchange program.

In addition, the ILC will arrange for the interns returning to Philadelphia to share their observations in a panel discussion on how the Lyon Bar addresses issues related to access to justice, and the ways in which it supports legal aid for people struggling with poverty, abuse and discrimination.

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Myers Lafferty Law Offices partner William L. Myers Jr.'s third book in the “Philadelphia Legal” series, “A Killer's Alibi,” is set to be released in January 2019.

His first novel, “A Criminal Defense,” debuted at No. 1 on Amazon and went on to become the No. 6 best-selling book for Amazon Kindle in 2017.

His second novel, published this January, was loosely based off of the 2015 Amtrak crash in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.

That book, “An Engineered Injustice,” was a sequel of sorts to the first and is now a best seller.
Myers was offered another two-book deal from his publisher Thomas & Mercer.

The original two books will now become a part the “Philadelphia Legal” series.