Practicing experience in multiple areas of law brings unique edges to an in-house counsel and substantive value-add to company clients. APABA Silicon Valley’s In-House Counsel Committee invites you to a discussion on how to smoothly transit or expand into new practice areas as an in-house counsel and how a smooth transition can help your legal career reach the next level of success.  

We are delighted to have six prestigious attorneys who have pivoted to new areas/functions of law once or multiple times during critical stages of their careers. They will share their first-hand experience, including the good or the bad, and also discuss the underlying transferable legal skills which helped them succeed. Our goal is to provide practical insights to those interested in pivoting and broadening up their responsibilities. 

This event will be hosted in person at Cooley’s Palo Alto office and will be a great opportunity to network with fellow professionals practicing in areas of interest and understand what it takes to be successful in a previously less familiar practice area. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided by Cooley during a reception after the discussion. Make sure to mark your calendars and join us for a night of engaging discussion and meaningful networking.

If you have any specific questions you would like to hear in the panel discussion, please email Cloris Cui at cui.cloris@gmail.com. Please RSVP here.

Panelists:

• Lisa Chen, Senior Counsel, Axiom

• Victor Feng, Corporate Counsel, AMD

• Leslie Huang, Industrial Contracts Officer, Stanford University

• Irene Liu, Founder & CEO, Hypergrowth GC and Executive in Residence, Berkeley Law

• Vincent Sheu, Former General Counsel, 1047 Games; Current Outside General Counsel to various companies

• Ming Zhu, Senior Counsel, Google