You Don’t Want To Miss This!!!!

First Women in the Profession Summit
June 18, 2008
PBI CLE Conference Center, Wanamaker Building, Suite 1010, 100 Penn Square East

11:30 – 12:00 Registration and Lunch

12:00 – 12:15 Welcoming Remarks
A. Michal Pratt, Chancellor, Philadelphia Bar Association
Maria Feeley, Chair, 1st WIP Summit

12:15 -12:35 Key Note Address by Charisse Lillie, Vice President of Human Resources for Comcast Corporation and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Comcast Cable

12:35 – 12:45 Break

12:45 – 1:45 Women in the Courtroom – Communication Across the Gender Gap
Moderator: Lynn Marks, Executive Director, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts
Faculty: The Honorable Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson, Philadelphia
County Court of Common Pleas
The Honorable Norma L. Shapiro, EDPA
The Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit
The Honorable Petrese B. Tucker, EDPA
The Honorable Diane M. Welsh (ret.), JAMS

1:45 – 2:45 Hot Topics for Women
Moderators: Kimberly Ruch-Alegant, Brett, Tessler & Associates, P.C.
Kelly Dobbs Bunting, Greenberg Traurig
Faculty: Danielle Banks, Stradley Ronan Stevens & Young, LLP
Nancy O’Mara Ezold, Nancy O’Mara Ezold, P.C.
Natalie Klyashtorny, Nochumson P.C.

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00 – 4:00 Best Practices for the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers
LAW FIRM EXECUTIVE PARTNERS
Moderator: Maria Feeley, Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP
Faculty: J. Gordon Cooney, Jr., Philadelphia Managing Partner, Morgan
Lewis
Thomas A. (Tad) Decker, President and CEO, Cozen O’Connor
Patrick Dunican, Chairman and Managing Director, Gibbons P.C.
Nina Gussak, Chairwoman, Pepper Hamilton LLP
John J. Soroko, Chairman and CEO, Duane Morris

4:00 – 5:00 Best Practices for the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers
CORPORATE COUNSEL
Moderator: Roberta D. Liebenberg, Partner, Fine, Kaplan & Black, R.P.C.
Faculty: Kamil Ali-Jackson, General Counsel, Ception Therapeutics
Teresa Ciccotelli, Divisional Counsel, Saint Gobain Corp.
Wanda Flowers, Chief Counsel, Sunoco, Inc.
Lorraine Koc, General Counsel, Deb Shops, Inc.

5:00 – 6:30 Cocktail reception