ChIPs NextGen Summit is so much more than just a prestigious women’s professional development event. By bringing together colleagues from different office locations, it’s a great opportunity for team building. By including clients and prospects, it’s also a unique business development opportunity for law firms. Please contact Bridget Johnson to create a sponsorship program that optimizes your organization’s presence at the NextGen Summit. bjohnson@chipsnetwork.org.
Sponsorship opportunities: Please contact Bridget Johnson, Director of Partner and Business Development, bjohnson@chipsnetwork.org.
THANK you to our sponsors
Allen & Overy
Allen & Overy is a global law firm that helps the world’s leading businesses to grow, innovate and thrive. For almost a century, we have built a reputation for our commitment to think ahead and bring original solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and commercial challenges.
At a time of significant turbulence in the business world, we are determined to help our clients embrace change, confidently expand into new markets and keep on top of ever-more complicated regulatory frameworks.
To do this, we will harness our global strength and local knowledge. We will drive towards our vision to become the world's most innovative law firm. And we will continue to create an environment where the brightest minds can flourish.
At a time of significant turbulence in the business world, we are determined to help our clients embrace change, confidently expand into new markets and keep on top of ever-more complicated regulatory frameworks.
To do this, we will harness our global strength and local knowledge. We will drive towards our vision to become the world's most innovative law firm. And we will continue to create an environment where the brightest minds can flourish.
Amazon
Our legal team is deeply involved in every aspect of Amazon’s diverse set of businesses and operations, from exploring ground-breaking new products and services to bringing our best ideas to market and operating effectively at global scale. We are integral members of Amazon teams disrupting established ways of doing business for the benefit of our customers. The scope of our work is truly incredible.
To keep up with Amazon’s growing list of exciting business opportunities, our outstanding legal professionals thrive on big challenges, think creatively and analytically to solve hard problems, and consistently deliver great results despite the odds. Our people are excited about working with innovative and disruptive businesses to deliver incredible customer experiences.
We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously – if that sounds interesting, we’d love to meet you!
To keep up with Amazon’s growing list of exciting business opportunities, our outstanding legal professionals thrive on big challenges, think creatively and analytically to solve hard problems, and consistently deliver great results despite the odds. Our people are excited about working with innovative and disruptive businesses to deliver incredible customer experiences.
We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously – if that sounds interesting, we’d love to meet you!
Baker Botts
Baker Botts is an international law firm whose lawyers practice throughout a network of offices around the globe. Based on our experience and knowledge of our clients' industries, we are recognized as a leading firm in the technology, life sciences, and energy sectors. Since 1840, we have provided creative and effective legal solutions for our clients while demonstrating an unrelenting commitment to excellence. For more information, please visit bakerbotts.com.
Desmarais LLP
Desmarais LLP is a leading intellectual property litigation firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Representing some of the largest companies in the world, the firm has tried and won many of the industry’s most important patent cases in recent years. With a team of around 75 trial-focused attorneys, Desmarais LLP handles complex, often technology-focused disputes throughout all stages of the litigation process, trying cases before juries and judges in the district courts, overseeing the appeals process, and representing clients before arbitration panels and administrative bodies (including the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board). The firm has obtained successful trial results – for both plaintiffs and defendants – in dozens of patent infringement cases and other intellectual property disputes across wide array of technologies, including semiconductors, telecommunications, software, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, chemicals, and transportation.
Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Fish offers patent prosecution, litigation, trademark, and copyright counseling and advocacy for a broad range of client needs. Our deep bench of attorneys with first-chair trial experience in every technology makes us the go-to firm for the most technically complex cases. We have an established reputation as a top-tier firm for patent portfolio planning, strategy and prosecution, as well as post-grant proceedings at the PTAB. Fish was established in 1878, and now has more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China. Our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences, and perspectives.
Kirkland & Ellis
With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 19 cities across the United States, Europe and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including high-stakes intellectual property and commercial litigation; private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. To learn more, please visit www.kirkland.com.
Morrison Foerster
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of about 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. The firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important public and private corporations, asset managers and financial institutions, and clients in need of pro bono assistance.
Perkins Coie LLP
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, we provide a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.
White & Case
Established in 1901, White & Case is a global law firm with 44 offices across six continents in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many. By thinking on behalf of our clients every day, we anticipate what they want, provide what they need and build lasting relationships. We do what it takes to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives and ambitions. At White & Case our culture comes to life through three core values: Pioneering: We seize opportunities to innovate and grow. United: We are one firm with a shared sense of purpose. Human: We care about each other and the world around us. These are the concepts that shape our distinctive culture and differentiate us from others. They capture the unique spirit of our Firm, and guide the behaviors that enable us to deliver on the promises we make to our clients and our people.