NEW for Corporate Counsel

 

At our successful 2010 Annual Conference and Meeting in Singapore, the IPBA adopted new policies to welcome the increased participation of corporate counsel as IPBA members and as participants in IPBA annual conferences and other events.

Our IPBA annual conferences have been including sessions for corporate counsel for several years and more recently we launched an IPBA Corporate Counsel Committee as part of our active committee structure to focus on the programming and other needs of corporate counsel.

Recognizing the importance of the role of corporate counsel in Asia-Pacific legal affairs, and in light of company budgetary constraints, our new policies include:

  1. a reduction of standard membership rates for corporate counsel to ¥11,800; and
     
  2. a reduction of annual conference fees for corporate counsel - beginning with Kyoto/Osaka in 2011, our annual conference fees for corporate counsel who are IPBA members will be substantially reduced to a rate at or close to that for accompanying persons. This represents a savings of several hundred US dollars as compared with the conference rates for regular IPBA members. Where possible, other IPBA events will also include a preferential corporate counsel rate.

 

Corporate counsel add an important dimension to the IPBA's mission, both as providers and consumers of legal services, and with a distinctive set of legal substance, service delivery and cost priorities. The IPBA's collegiality is an asset in expanding corporate counsel membership, as is our open and collaborative culture that is mindful of business priorities yet not aggressively commercial.

Those with questions about the new corporate counsel policies may contact Suresh Divyanathan (sureshd@drewnapier.com), Chair of our Membership Committee, our Vice-Chair, Mitsuru Claire Chino (chino-m@itochu.co.jp), or David Kreider (david.kreider@vodafone.com), Chair of our Corporate Counsel Committee.

 

We hope to see you at many IPBA events.

Please register to become a member now and advise other corporate counsel of our efforts to welcome their participation!

 

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