Schedule

Transition from The Lobby Bar and Kitchen to the InterContinental Boston

NASABA New Board Member Orientation
Location: Greenberg Traurig, One International Way, Boston
(Chapter Presidents & Section Chairs are welcome to attend.)

Transition Time for Chapter Presidents to move to Breakfast

Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Pamela Harris, Executive Director, Supreme Court Institute, Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law
Sponsored by: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP & LexisNexis
Speakers:

• Kannon K. Shanmugam, Partner, Williams & Connolly, LLP
• Pratik Shah, Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice
• Sri Srinivasan, Partner at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP

Networking Break

Breakout Panel 1a

Topic: Healthcare Reform: Challenges and Opportunities
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Neera Tanden, COO, Center for American Progress
Speakers:

• Andrew Zebrak, Director, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Harry Greenspun, Chief Medical Officer, Dell Perot Systems
• Howard Shapiro, Director, Public Policy, Alliance of Community Health Plans
• Raja M.G. Sekaran, J.D., LLM, Associate General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Catholic Healthcare West (CHW)

Breakout Panel 1b

Topic: Masters Class on Islamic Finance: Doing Business in the GCC and MENA Regions
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Umar F. Moghul, Partner, Murtha Cullina
Speakers:

• Aamir Rehman, Managing Director at Fajr Capital Limited
• Karen Hunt Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance DePaul University College of Commerce
• Sh. Taha Abdul-Basser, Principal and Co-Founder of Straightway Advisory LLC

Breakout Panel 1c

Topic: Uncovering the Unwritten Rules - South Asian Women in Leadership Roles Share The Secrets to Success
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Charan J. Sandhu, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Speakers:

• Hanishi Ali, Partner, Mithras Law Group
• Ramona Advani, Senior Litigation Counsel, United Health Group
• Sunila Thomas George, Commissioner, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
• Sunita Subramanian, General Counsel, United Way of New York City

Breakout Panel 2a

Topic: Private Equity and Other Investments in South Asia
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Shahana Basu Kanodia, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Speakers:

• Gaurav Dani, Partner, IndusLaw, New Delhi, India
• Kiran Rao, Principal, Grove Street Advisors
• Sarojit Malik, Founding Managing Director, Access International Capital
• Vyapak Desai, Head of the Capital Markets Group, Nishith Desai

Breakout Panel 2b

Topic: Women and Minorities Under Islamic Law
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Pnina Lahav, Professor, Boston University School of Law
Speakers:

• Dr. Amina Wadud, Islamic Feminist & Scholar
• Dr. Roja Fazaeli, Professor, Trinity College Dublin

Breakout Panel 2c

Topic: NASABA Idol-Interactive Workshop Focusing on Negotiation Strategies in Mediation
Room Name: TBD
Mediator: David A. Hoffman, Esq., Mediator, Arbitrator and Collaborative Lawyer, Boston Law Collaborative, LLC
Speakers:

• Rajib Chanda, Partner, Ropes & Gray, LLP
• Shirish Gupta, Founder, Flashpoint Law
  

Plenary Lunch with Programming

Topic: Running for National Office
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Judge R.K. Sandill, 127th District Court, Harris County, Texas
Speakers:

• Manan Trivedi, Candidate for U.S. Representative, Pensylvania's 6th District
• Reshma Saujani, Candidate for U.S. Representative, New York's 14th District

Breakout Panel 3a

Topic: Strategic Considerations for Markman, Including a Mock Markman Presentation
Room Name: TBD
Sponsored by: McCarter & English
Presiding Judge: Honorable Rya W. Zobel, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Speakers:

• Lee Bromberg, Partner, McCarter & English
• Nagendra "Nick" Setty, Managing Principal, Fish & Richardson

Breakout Panel 3b

Topic: Strategies and Case Studies: How to Make Your Solo/Small Firm Practice Grow
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Abraham Mathew, Partner, Mathew and George
Speakers:

• Devendra “Dave” Kumar, Partner, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright
• Neil Sherring, Partner, Dakoyannis & Sherring, LLC
• Sadhana Narayan, Chief Litigator and Managing Owner, The Narayan Law Firm
• Trupti Patel, Attorney and Owner, Trupti N. Patel & Associates

Breakout Panel 3c

Topic: Prosecuting & Defending Terrorism Cases: Challenges & Solutions to Trying Terrorism Cases in Federal Courts
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Samidh Guha, Partner, Akin Gump
Speakers:

• Michael J. Mullaney, Chief, Counterterrorism Section, National Security Division, US Department of Justice
• Anjan Sahni, Co-chief of the Terrorism Unit, US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
• James Benjamin, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
• Nusrat Choudhury, Attorney, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation

Breakout Panel 3d

Topic: Beyond Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Coming to a Town Near You
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Aarti Kohli, Director of Immigration Policy Warren Institute, University of California, Berkeley Law
Speakers:

• Anjana Malhotra, Practitioner-in-Residence, Seton Hall Law, Director of the Human Rights/Rule of Law Project within the Center for Social Justice
• Shankar Narayan, Legislative Director of the ACLU of Washington
• Vivek Malhotra, Advocacy and Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union

Breakout Panel 4a

Topic: The American Law Firm: Evolution or Revolution?
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Kathy Weinman, Partner, Dwyer & Collora, LLP
Speakers:

• Bijal Shah, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Avery Dennison
• Peter Zeughauser, Chairman of Zeughauser Group, a law firm consultancy
• Steven Wright, Executive Partner, Holland & Knight

Breakout Panel 4b

Topic: South Asians and Public Service
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Captain Susrut Carpenter, US Army. Trial Counsel
Speakers:

• Judge R.K. Sandill, 127th District Court, Harris County, Texas
• Shyam Reddy, Regional Administrator, Sunbelt Region, U.S. General Services Administration
• Phil Telfeyan, Trial attorney with the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
• An Attorney from the Central Intelligence Agency
  

Breakout Panel 4c

Topic: Banning Foreign Law Firms in India – Protecting Justice or Just Protectionism?
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Robert E. Lutz, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Speakers:

• Jaipat Jain, Partner, Lazare Potter & Giacovas, LLP
• Matthew Banks, Senior VP, Legal KPO, Integron
• Shreevardhan Sinha, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
• Vivek Kathpalia, Partner, Nishith Desai & Associates

Breakout Panel 4d

Topic: A Discussion by Massachusetts Trailblazers on Seminal Decisions and Events in the Massachusetts Legal Community
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: The Honorable Sabita Singh, Circuit Justice, District Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Speakers:

• The Honorable Ralph D. Gants, Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court
• Janson Wu, Esq., Staff Attorney, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
• Richard Soden, Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP

Plenary Breakfast with Programming

Topic An Insider’s View of the White House
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Hari Sreenivasan, PBS Online/On-Air Correspondent,The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Speakers:

• Kiran Ahuja, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
• Nicholas Rathod, Director, White House Office of Inter-Governmental Affairs

Breakout Panel 5a

Topic: Making IP Work For Your Company
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Sanjana Chopra, Associate, Winston & Strawn LLP
Speakers:

• Goutam Patnaik, Partner, Bingham
• Jason Buratti, Partner, Christopher & Weisberg, P.A
• Nikhil A. Heble, In-House Patent Counsel, Colgate Palmolive
• Rafael Rosado, Patent Attorney, United Technologies Corporation

Breakout Panel 5b

Topic: Lessons Learned from Joint Ventures
Room Name: TBD
Sponsored by: Jones Day
Moderator: Sanjiv K. Kapur, Partner, Jones Day
Speakers:

• Asker Saeed, Assistant Counsel, Pratt & Whitney
• Rajesh Zala, Deputy General Counsel, The Monier Group
• Susan Guzzo, Attorney, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals

Breakout Panel 5c

Topic: What In-House Counsel Wish Every Law Firm Lawyer Really Knew: What Works And What Doesn't!
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Samia Kirmani, Partner, Jackson Lewis, LLP
Speakers:

• Anil K. Chaddha, Executive Counsel, GE Transportation
• Javade Chaudri, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Sempra Energy
• Lon F. Povich, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
• Talha A. Zobair, Senior Tax Counsel, Raytheon Company

Breakout Panel 6a

Topic: How To Advance & Make An Impact As An In-House Lawyer
Room Name: TBD
Sponsored by: General Electric
Moderator: TBD
Speakers:

• Anne Gwal, Assistant General Counsel, Pepco Holdings
• Bobby Sharma, VP and General Counsel, NBA Development League
• Ping Hsieh, Associate General Counsel of United Technologies Corporation

Breakout Panel 6b

Topic: Doing Well by Doing Good - Using Pro-Bono Opportunities to Develop Your Legal Skills and Professional Network
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Kiran Jain, Office of the City Attorney, Oakland, CA
Speakers:

• Atif Khawaja, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
• Carolyn D. Rosenthal, Pro Bono Manager, Goodwin Procter
• Mehrin Masud-Elias, Associate, Duane Morris, LLP
• Navjeet K. Bal, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Revenue

Breakout Panel 6c

Topic: Grading the Obama Administration on Civil Liberties & Terrorism
Room Name: TBD
Moderator: Sahil Kapur, Washington journalist, correspondent for Raw Story, and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and The Guardian
Speakers:

• Amardeep Singh, Co-founder & Legal Director of The Sikh Coalition
• Azadeh Shahshahani, Director of the National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project, ACLU of Georgia
• Nadia Batcha, Policy Advisor in the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Shahid Buttar, Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Breakout Panel 6d

Topic: Strategic Xenophobia: Fighting Litigation Techniques Which Vilify Origin and Ethnicity
An Interview with P. Anthony Sammi, Partner, Skadden, Arps

Aloke Chakravarty, Assistant U.S. Attorney, will interview Mr. Sammi on Fighting Litigation Techniques Which Vilify Origin and Ethnicity

Reconsideration of U.S. vs. Bhagat Singh Thind

Location: Faneuil Hall
Speakers:

Introduction
• Rajini Srikanth, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Associate Professor of English, Director of University Honors Program, University of Massachusettes at Boston, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Associate Professor of English,Director of University Honors Program, University of Massachusettes at Boston

Judges
• The Honorable Amul R Thapar, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Kentucky
• The Honorable Douglas P. Woodlock, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts
• The Honorable Vijay “Jay” Chand Gandhi, United States Magistrate Judge, Central District of California

Appellate Teams

• Alamdar Hamdani, Trial Attorney, Counterterrorism Section, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice
• Kalpana Srinivasan, Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP
• Rita Gunasekaran, Partner, Haight Brown & Bonesteel
• Seema Patel, Attorney in the Division of Fair Labor Standards, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor

• The Honorable Amul R Thapar, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Kentucky
• The Honorable Vijay “Jay” Chand Gandhi, United States Magistrate Judge, Central District of California

• University of Connecticut School of Law
• Boston University School of Law

Gala

• The Honorable Sabita Singh, Circuit Justice, District Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sponsored by: Greenberg Traurig & MassMutual

Keynote Speaker

• Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

• Rajiv Satyal, Comedian