WITH HIGH-STAKES PATENT CASES ON THE RISE CORPORATE LAWYERS TAKE TIPS FROM LITIGATION EXPERTS Contact: Heather Kelly 561/750-9800 x17 E-mail: hkelly@TransMediagroup.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, NY, September 11, 2000 --As patent case verdicts mushroom on the legal landscape, sending shock waves through the stock market and causing jitters in the boardroom, corporate lawyers and executives from across the country are gathering Sept. 21-22, to sharpen their skills for Bickel & Brewer's "Litigating The Patent Case." Greeting them at The Roosevelt Hotel will be The Honorable Denny Chin, U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York, who will deliver the keynote address at the Second Annual Forum for Corporate Counsel sponsored by the Bickel & Brewer law firm. "With the number of bet-your-business patent cases on the rise and billions in the stock market hinging on each outcome, never has the role of corporate counsel been more crucial in shepherding the patent case from complaint through discovery to successful conclusion," said William G. Todd, Partner in the Dallas-based law firm known for litigating high-profile, "bet-the-company" cases. Founded in 1984, Bickel & Brewer has achieved a national reputation as one of the country's most aggressive litigation firms, practicing exclusively in the field of complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Designed for the benefit of corporate counsel and executives, the forum comprises panel discussions featuring litigation experts at Bickel & Brewer as well as senior in-house counsel and intellectual property managers at some of America's leading corporations, including Kraft Foods, Inc.; Corning Incorporated; Cargill, Incorporated, Pfizer Inc; Nortel Networks, Inc.; Texas Instruments Incorporated; SmithKline Beecham; The TransMedia Group; The University of Illinois at Chicago; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Compaq Computer Corporation. "Litigation is an end-oriented process which requires the coordination of talents not typically available to or understood by traditional patent counsel. This conference is designed to introduce corporate counsel and executives to that reality and to promote an exchange of ideas on the talents needed to win the large scale intellectual property dispute," said William A. Brewer III. Among topics to be covered are "Valuation of the Patent Estate," "The 3 L's of a Successful IP Portfolio - Litigation, Licensing and Leverage," "Leveraging the Power of Trial Counsel, " "Leveraging Your Fee Arrangement - Litigation Costs and Billing, " " Managing the Pretrial Process, " "Telling the Story - Developing a Trial Theme, " "Winning the Courtroom Beauty Contest - End Justifying the Means, " and "Public Relations and Spin Control." Registration Contact: Fulcrum Information Services, Inc. 150 Fifth Avenue, Suite 200 New York, NY 10011 Phone: 800.869.4302 (inside USA); 212.647.0808 (outside USA) Fax: 212.367.9444 or 212.647.9511 Website: www.fulcruminfo.com