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Duane Morris LLP, a full-service law firm of more than 650 attorneys, offers innovative solutions across diverse industries in the U.S and internationally to address the legal and business challenges of today's evolving global markets. Our Information Technologies & Telecom Practice Group lawyers have experience in transactions and litigation regarding the development, operation and licensing of IT systems, software and hardware, and the management of outsourcing projects. Sandra Jeskie, a partner in the Information Technologies & Telecom practice is Treasurer of the International Technology Law Association.
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DLA Piper is a global legal services organisation with offices across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US. Over 3,700 lawyers in more than 60 cities worldwide provide a broad range of legal services to businesses that operate on a local, regional and global level.
DLA Piper's global outsourcing team has unrivalled experience of helping clients navigate the complexities of outsourcing projects. Our service is distinguished by substantial and directly applicable experience of leading complex, large-scale projects in both the private and public sectors globally.
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Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP is a premier, full service law firm headquartered in London. We have a global reach with 'best of breed' lawyers in over 60 countries worldwide and a strong focus on India. We have one of the largest IT and outsourcing practices in the UK and were named UK Law Firm of the Year 2008 at the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence.
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Established in 1972, Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services that focus on global technology industries and issues. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environments and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers. More than 275 attorneys offer corporate, intellectual property, litigation and tax services from our offices in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.
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Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin is a national law firm located in San Francisco, California. The firm provides exceptional legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas and industries to clients who are among the most sophisticated consumers of legal services. Our clients include leading local, national and international companies and entities, both public and private, engaged in industries as diverse as technology, life sciences, media and entertainment, consumer, retail, finance, securities, leasing and publishing. While maintaining one of the industry’s highest ratios of directors (partners) to associates, we provide depth where it is needed and, at all times, the expertise, creativity and responsiveness that only the direct involvement of senior attorneys can ensure. The firm is widely recognized for its excellence in advising public and private companies on a wide variety of corporate and business law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financing, securities, financial services, tax, employment, antitrust, intellectual property and regulatory enforcement matters and for its leading litigation practice, where we particularly excel at complex cases and special proceedings where the stakes are highest. At Howard Rice, we strive to earn the respect of our clients in every matter every day. We are proud of the quality and value we consistently deliver, and the trust and loyalty our clients show us in return is the best measure of our success.
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BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is one of the largest legal practices in Germany, specialized in intellectual property including IT-Law, and one of the few practices where patent attorneys and attorneys at law work together and complement each other.
Patent attorneys at BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT are active in the fields of classical natural and engineering sciences but also in the increasingly important fields such as biochemistry and nano technology as well as semi-conductor and software technology. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT's attorneys at law represent and advise our clients in numerous fields of law, such as German and international trademark law, competition law, copyright law, anti trust law as well as IT-Law.
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Osborne Clarke is one of Europe's most respected and dynamic law firms. The firm's success is the result of delivering excellent business-focused legal advice in an energetic, straightforward and efficient way. Osborne Clarke has a strong history of bringing technology companies to Europe and advising market leading and high performing organisations on their needs from its UK, European and US offices.
Osborne Clarke represents a number of India's leading companies in respect of their European operations. Our clients include TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Hinduja Group, Satyam, Larsen & Toubro and MindTree. To keep up to date with the dynamic and fast growing Indian market our experts make regular visits to the sub-continent. Our clients benefit from the knowledge gained during these visits and our awareness of the cultural aspects of doing business in India.
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FoxMandal Little (FML), established in 1856, is India's oldest law firm. FML has a pan India presence with 12 offices in all major cities in India. FML is now in London too. It's ageneral practise law firm advising clients in various fields including Corporate & Commercial, Employment, Franchising, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Taxation, Telecom, Media & Technology. FML comprises of 400 lawyers, 50 partners, 250 para-legal staff, making it India's largest law firm.
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Herbert Smith's India practice brings an accumulation of experience from years of acting on significant India related matters, both advising India's leading businesses on their global expansion and assisting our international clients on building up their operational presence in India.
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Established in 1972, Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services that focus on global technology industries and issues. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environments and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers. More than 275 attorneys offer corporate, intellectual property, litigation and tax services from our offices in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.
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Lovells is a fully integrated international business law firm that possesses expert capability in each area which is of importance to international businesses. With more than 1,600 lawyers and 3,100 staff operating from a network of 25 offices across Europe, North America and Asia, Lovells is the fifth largest law firm in Europe and the sixth largest international law firm in the world.
Lovells offers a broad range of expertise spearheaded by the corporate, banking, capital markets and related finance practices, but has always put emphasize on maintaining and expanding its strong international reputation in technology and media law, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration.
Lovells' ambition is to offer the highest quality domestic and cross-border legal services in the leading financial and commercial centres whilst acting together as a team and building a close relationship with its clients.
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The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world's leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness using outsourcing as a management tool. IAOP Members are outsourcing leaders and industry experts representing Fortune 500 companies, as well as top companies of all size, industry and academia from around the globe.
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Society of India Law Firms (SILF) is the apex body of law firms in India. SILF was established in the year 2000 with the aim of protecting, safeguarding and promoting the interests of Law firms in India.
The Bar Associations of the different courts in India represent the individual members of the legal profession in India. Law firms have not been historically represented in an organized and streamlined manner. A dire need was felt to form an association of this kind in view of various aspects of the practice of law that are peculiar to law firms in contradistinction to the role of individual practicing lawyers.
The members of SILF include the top most law firms in India. SILF strives to create an atmosphere that has enabled Indian law firms to match the technology, manpower skill and the infrastructure that most of the foreign law firms possesses. SILF serves as a forum for exchange of ideas and information as also a medium for interaction with the government, the judiciary and the bureaucracy. In a short period of eight years, SILF has achieved many laurels amongst them being recognized by IBA (International Bar Association), the UIA (Union International des Avocats) as well as by LAWASIA. Mr. Lalit Bhasin, Managing Partner, Bhasin & Co., is the President of SILF.
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The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a not-for-profit membership association of more than 5,900 trademark owners and professionals, from more than 190 countries, dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective national and international commerce. For over 130 years, INTA continues its mission to represent the trademark community, shape public policy and advance professional knowledge and development.
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The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently over 12,000 members and more than 1,800 charter members in 49 chapters across 11 countries. TiE's mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education.
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The Center for International Legal Studies is a non-profit research, training, and law publications institute, established and operating under Austrian law with its headquarters in Salzburg, Austria. The Center has operated since 1976. The Center has a close cooperation with various universities and educational organizations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Nearly 5,000 lawyers worldwide have been designated as Fellows of the Center for International Legal Studies in recognition of their contributions to the Center's publications and conferences. The Center provides observers on a regular basis at meetings of UNCITRAL and its Working Groups in Vienna and New York. In cooperation with Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, the Center administers an LLM program designed for non-American lawyers, completed over three summer sessions in Budapest. Information is available at
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National Law School of India University (NLSIU), established as a University for professional education in law and related subjects is now recognised as the premier law teaching institution in the country with the potential to achieve academic excellence in every branch of legal scholarship. It has already evolved an innovative curriculum, multi-disciplinary strategies, diversified teaching methods, approaches and integrated co-curricular activities and a scientific examination system.
Besides offering instruction for an integrated five-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) Programme, the University offers a two-year LL.M. Degree, a one-year research-oriented M.Phil Degree and research based LL.D. and Ph.D. (In Social Science subjects) Degrees. The University has also successfully embarked on a series of Continuing Education Programmes for Lawyers, Judges, Administrators and Executives of Corporate establishments on identified subject-areas. Besides, a variety of para-legal and public legal education programmes are part of the teaching and research agenda of National Law School of India University. Apart from this, the NLSIU is also organising four courses under the Distance Education Programme; One is a two-year Post-graduate Degree called Master of Business Laws (MBL) and three one-year Post-graduate Diploma courses in Human Rights Law; Law and Medicine and Environmental Law.
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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry in India, partnering industry and government alike through advisory and consultative processes.
CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and industry managed organisation, playing a proactive role in India's development process. Founded over 113 years ago, it is India's premier business association, with a direct membership of over 7500 organisations from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 83,000 companies from around 380 national and regional sectoral associations.
CII catalyses change by working closely with government on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for industry through a range of specialised services and global linkages. It also provides a platform for sectoral consensus building and networking. Major emphasis is laid on projecting a positive image of business, assisting industry to identify and execute corporate citizenship programmes. Partnerships with over 120 NGOs across the country carry forward our initiatives in integrated and inclusive development, which include health, education, livelihood, diversity management, skill development and water, to name a few.
Complementing this vision, CII's theme "India@75: The Emerging Agenda", reflects its aspirational role to facilitate the acceleration in India's transformation into an economically vital, technologically innovative, socially and ethically vibrant global leader by year 2022.
With 64 offices in India, 8 overseas in Australia, Austria, China, France, Japan, Singapore, UK, USA and institutional partnerships with 271 counterpart organisations in 100 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.
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The North American South Asian Bar Association (NASABA) provides a vital link between South Asian lawyers and the South Asian community across North America. As a bar association, NASABA affords North American South Asian lawyers a recognized forum for professional growth and advancement. By promoting the South Asian bar and focusing on the legal needs of the South Asian community, NASABA is the fastest growing organization of South Asian lawyers in the world. A strong South Asian bar in North America is essential to protecting the rights and liberties of South Asians across the continent. As the South Asian business community in North America continues to prosper, NASABA provides them with a access to qualified legal professionals that not only have the sophistication to provide creative business solutions, but also understand their motivations and goals.
The mission, goals and objectives of NASABA are:
- To support, guide, mentor, and foster all the South Asian Bar Associations in the nation
- To be a resource tool for all the local SABAs, allow the leaders of the local SABAs a platform to communicate with each other, and share the best practices of local SABAs with other chapters
- To assist in the formation of new SABA chapters around the country
- To provide a nationwide networking forum for all South Asian attorneys
- To provide a referral network/service to the entire South Asian community
- To promote professional development for South Asians, attorneys and law students
- To coordinate activities and thoughts with other national bar associations
- To coordinate activities and thoughts with national bar associations in the South Asia
- To educate and disseminate information to the South Asian community about the law, legal access, and relevant legal issues
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