The Career Panel for attorneys and law students with Chinese background (basically those who grew up in China thus have to overcome language and cultural barrier here) is finally happening. About 20 different panelists from big firms, small firms, in house, and in alternative career tracks will speak at this event. These are lawyers with Chinese background who have succeeded in the U.S. It is a great opportunity to learn and to network. As of noon on 3/12/2010, approximately 100 persons have registered for the event.

Time:  Saturday, 3/13/2011, 11:30am - 5:00 pm.  Lunch and soft drinks will be provided.
Location:  Fenwick & West, Mountain View office, 801 California St., corner of Castro and California in Mountain View downtown, First Floor.
Registration: Email event@caloba.org   Please provide your full name in your registration email.

Active CALOBA members (members who paid membership fee after 1/1/2009): as long as you register before 3/11 Thursday at 12 noon, this event is FREE.   If you drop in, it is $5.00.

Non-members, pre-registration is $5 and drop in is $10.

Please note that we encourage pre-registration so that we can have the right amount of food and drinks prepared.  We will waive fees for students or those who are in between jobs upon request.

Please use admin@caloba.org  for pre-registration payment via PayPal.

Due to the number of the panelists speaking at this event, we plan to introduce them quickly so there will be more time for questions and answers.  To save paper and protect the environment, CALOBA will only print a limited number of biographies and pass them around at the event, but that will not be sufficient if each attendees read them for the first time on site.  Please review the biography information of the panelist of your interest before the program. In addition, not all panelist will be present for the entire duration of the event.  We strongly encourage that the attendees formulate the questions and email them to Zheng (Jen) Liu atjenliu44@yahoo.com ahead of time so that we can cover as many common questions as possible during the program.

Panel topic & time	Primary speakers	Practice	Moderator
11:30-12:00 Registration
12:00-12:45  US Big Firm	James Li, Partner, Greenberg Traurig	IP litigation & business litigation	Zheng Liu (Orrick)
	Yabo Lin, Partner, Sonnenschein	corporate practice, venture capital, Asia Pacific practice
	Limin Zheng, Associate, Fish & Richardson	IP litigation
	Xiao Jian, Associate, Morrison & Forrester	patent prosecution
12:45 -1:30In-House	Jessica Zhou, General Counsel, Canadian Solar	capital market, M & A, venture capital, corporate governance	Ben Wang (Celera)
	Steven Cui, Of Counsel, Jones Day, formerly Genentech	patent procurement, technology transfer, portfolio management
	Wei Chen, Senior Corporate Counsel, SalesForce.com	M & A, strategic investments & public securities
Break 1:30-1:45
1:45-2:30Small Firm/Solo	Weiqun E, Owner, formerly Law Office of Weiqun E	corporate, immigration	Weiqun E
	Dezhan Li, Owner, Law Office of Dezhan Li	real estate, bankruptcy
	Bing Rui, Owner, US-China Law Group	corporate, international, commercial litigation
	Ashley Jiang, Owner, Law Offices of Danning Jiang	commercial & IP litigation
2:30-3:15China	Weiqun E, BYD Ltd.	corporate	Ben Wang (Celera)
	Steven Cui, Of counsel, Jones Day - Beijing	patent procurement, technology transfer, portfolio management
	Ju Deng, Associate, Pillsbury, formerly Hogan & Hartson - Shanghai	corporate, securities
	Alex Wei Zhang, King & Wood	patent preparation, prosecution, counseling & litigation
3:15-4:00Alternative Career Track	RoseAnn Rotandaro, Virtual Law Partners	corporate, SEC compliance, M & A, venture capital	Zheng Liu (Orrick)
	Adam Lin, Virtual Law Partners	corporate, securities and Asia
	Christina Jiang, VP, U.S. China IP Agency	IP
	Lin Sun-Hoffman, Chief Advisor for Asia, BIO, formerly USPTO	patent
4:00- 5:00 Networking