LOOKING FOR A HOSPITALITY LAWYER? YOU'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE FINDING ONE ON CORNELL'S CAMPUS OCT. 4-6

Contact: Heather Kelly 561/750-9800 x17
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ITHACA, NY, September 11, 2000 -Is there a hospitality lawyer in the house? If you're in Ithaca, New York, you'll have no trouble trying to find one this weekend on the campus of Cornell University.

This week lawyers and executives throughout the hospitality industry will be packing their bags, gathering their pads and pencils and traveling to attend the Bickel & Brewer Legal Strategy Conference, the only hotel law conference in the country sponsored by a major hotel school.

The conference is where lodging industry executives and their counsel brush up each year on the twists and turns in E-Commerce and Internet law, the deal environment brewing for mega hotel mergers and IPOs and other hot legal issues swirling around the hospitality industry. Among the principal speakers are hospitality industry VIP's, G.C.'s, industry consultants and outside counsel.

This year, the law firm of Bickel & Brewer has moved its annual conference to Ithaca where its' co-host will be The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. The prestigious Cornell campus is an ideal venue for Bickel & Brewer's annual Legal Strategy Conference.

Bickel & Brewer is widely known in the hospitality industry for successfully handling cases that have literally redefined the industries' legal landscape. The conference has become one of the most important hospitality industry events of the year.

"We're honored to join with Cornell this year in making possible this extraordinary opportunity for hospitality industry executives and corporate counsel to exchange ideas regarding the legal issues affecting their industry globally," said William A. Brewer III.

According to Thomas J. Kline, Director of Executive Education at Cornell, The Fourth Annual Legal Strategy Conference presented by The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and Bickel & Brewer will illumine strategic legal issues involving franchising, employment disputes, real estate and premises liability, plus other topics presented by distinguished Cornell University professors, faculty from other schools and select industry executives and counsel who will offer a broad range of panel discussion sessions.

The conference is co-sponsored by industry publications, Lodging Hospitality, Hotel Business, Hotel & Motel Management and Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, CPA.

Registration Contact: Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
Office of Executive Education 149 Statler Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: 607.255.4919
Fax: 607.255.8749