13th Annual Business Lawyers' Institute

The 13th Annual Business Lawyers' Institute will offer a choice of 44 workshops and exposure to many of the state's top business law professionals. The Institute will be held on Wednesday, October 17 and Thursday, October 18 at the CLE Conference Center in the Wanamaker Building on Juniper Street in Center City Philadelphia.Sessions will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on both days, with registration at 8 a.m.

The Institute is cosponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Business Law Section and the In-House Counsel Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.Course planners are Eric L. Brossman, a partner in the Harrisburg office of Saul Ewing LLP; the Hon. Joy Flowers Conti, federal district judge for the Western District; Alice P.L. Schwartz, Senior Counsel at Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia, and John B. Wright, II, vice president, general counsel and secretary of Triumph Group, Inc., a NYSE-traded company.

Among law firm attorneys conducting workshops are: Martin G. Belisario, David L. Comerford and Jeffrey A. Dailey of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Emily Carolan Berkley, Roberta Jacobs-Meadway, David G. Mandelbaum, Richard E. Peirce and Lynn E. Rzonca of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP; Michael S. Burkhardt and Edward S. Mazurek of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; William H. Clark and Lawrence J. Fox of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; Cathleen M. Devlin, Timothy E. Hoeffner, Paul Hummer and Catherine E. Walters of Saul Ewing; Kim R. Jessum and Andrew Levine of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP; Craig R. Tractenberg of Nixon Peabody LLP, and Jonathan D. Wetchler of WolfBlock, LLP.

For details on registration fees and CLE credits, see the Bulletin Board on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.

For more information or to register, telephone PBI at (800) 247-4724 or register online at www.pbi.org.