GRUR - News

INTA The Next Level Forum, Brussels, September 23-24

INTA's Comprehensive Two-Day Total Immersion Forum for Up and Coming Trademark Lawyers with 3 to 8 years Experience takes place in Brussels, September 23rd to 24th 2010.

Are you looking to gain tools to help you better serve clients? Are you interested in building your business development skills and enhancing your professional and personal leadership skills?

Attend INTA's The Next Level Forum and hear advice and perspectives on how to frame your personal career decisions, while networking with some of the trademark profession's top leaders.

From budgeting to building and maintaining relationships, to successfully working with foreign associates and resolving trademark conflicts, throughout the forum faculty leaders will discuss the qualities that have helped shape their careers. The emphasis of the forum will be to offer practical tips and share instructive examples so participants will walk away with improved leadership skills to enhance their client service, while learning essentials on the following areas:

Professional development:

Learn how to develop from a lawyer to a leader in the field
Learn the value of critical thinking and its importance for the legal profession
Hear from seasoned practitioners about how their careers took them on diverse career paths
Understand the impact of changing jobs within the profession
Find out how to measure your optimal job setting in terms of work substance and your personal power track
Become aware of changes in the legal profession taking place right now, how they will affect the way in which you will practice law in the future and how these changes may affect your career

Lawyering skills:

Enhance your legal skill sets as a trademark lawyer with respect to prosecution, negotiating skills and litigation
Experience first-hand what it takes to be a truly well-versed European trademark practitioner
Understand the application of diverse knowledge and skills as applied to the practice of trademark law
Learn about pan-European ethical considerations in trademark practice

Certificates of Attendance for continuing legal education purposes are available upon request.
Please note there is an early-bird discount rate until Friday, August 6.

For more information, including costs and detailed program, please visit www.inta.org/go/thenextlevel2010 or contact Milesh S Gordhandas, INTA Assistant Europe Representative, at mgordhandas@inta.org or on +32 2 517 6109.

_{added by: Sebastian Nebel}