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22nd Annual In-House Counsel Conference: In-House Counsel as Strategic and Legal Advisor

Date:

Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Runtime: 3:00h

Program Code:

BLA25

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The Massachusetts Bar Association is excited to present its 22nd Annual In-House Counsel Conference. This year's highly anticipated event will focus on the evolving role of in-house counsel as both strategic and legal advisors.

We are pleased to announce that our keynote address will be delivered by Demeka Fields, Counsel-Global Sports Marketing for New Balance. In her current role, Fields supports the Global Sports Marketing and Team Sports departments, plus additional brands Warrior and Brine, and negotiates and drafts sponsorship and partnership deals with individual athletes and teams across various sports, including international football, basketball, track and field, and hockey. She has served as lead attorney during negotiations of deals with athletes, including tennis star Coco Gauff, baseball star Shohei Ohtani and New Balance’s first women’s basketball player WNBA rookie Cameron Brink, and teams, including European Football club AS Roma. Fields also helps lead various diversity initiatives at New Balance, including the New Balance-UMass Boston Sports Leadership Internship Program and a partnership with Divine 9 organizations that features shoes, apparel and other avenues for the company to give back. Before joining New Balance, Fields served as associate counsel for the Minnesota Vikings.

This year’s program will focus on topics of current importance to in-house counsel. Topics that will be addressed include:

  • Evolving AI Risks for Organizations 
  • Protection of Attorney-Client Privilege by In-House Counsel 
  • Employment Law Developments 

This virtual conference was held live via Zoom to allow for interactive discussions and audience questions. . 

This conference is co-sponsored by The New England Corporate Counsel Association, Inc.

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Faculty:

Amanda Baer, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Mirick, Westborough
James C. Donnelly, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Mirick, Worcester
Nancy M. Hanley, Esq., Conference Co-chair
NECCA, Newton Highlands
Robert Kerwin, Esq., Conference Co-chair
General Counsel, IAMERS, West Newton
Peter D. McDermott, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Law Office of Peter D. McDermott, Hopkinton
David Parke, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas LLP, Springfield
Matthew Sample, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Demeka Fields, Esq., Keynote Speaker
New Balance Athletics Shoe, Inc., Brighton
Victoria Santoro, Esq., Opening Remarks
Santoro & Gray, LLC, Boston
Hayley M. Cotter, Esq., Panelist
Mirick, Westborough
Armineh Peshkam, Esq., Panelist
InterSystems Corporation, Boston
Jocelyn D. Ram, Esq., Panelist
Intellectual Property Counsel at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge
R. Matthew Rickman, Esq., Panelist
Mirick, Worcester
Jared Rinehimer, Esq., Panelist
Chief of the Data Privacy and Security Division, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
Maggie Weir Westby, Esq., Panelist
Boston University School of Law, Boston

Sponsoring Sections:

Business Law Section
Labor & Employment Section
Solo/Small Firm Law Practice Management Section
Young Lawyers Division

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