LG Mobile’s Alan Tse and Microsoft’s Lisa Tanzi Keynote Speakers at 2010 Masters Conference

April 13, 2010 - PRLog -- Orlando, FL - The Masters Conference, an advanced legal educational experience, announced today that Alan K. Tse, Vice President and General Counsel of LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. and Lisa Tanzi, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for the Business Division at Microsoft Corporation, will be the keynote speakers at this year’s conference. The conference will be held October 4-6, 2010, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. The Masters Conference will bring together experts and leading professionals from law firms, corporations, government entities and the bench to discuss Cloud Computing, and its effect on litigation, discovery and data protection.

Day one keynote speaker, Alan K. Tse, is Vice President and General Counsel of LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc., the nation’s #2 mobile phone manufacturer with annual US sales of over $6 Billion. He is responsible for all legal and regulatory matters for LG's mobile phone business in North America and sits on the company’s six member senior management committee.  Prior to joining LG, Mr. Tse was the Vice President and General Counsel of Ligos Corporation, a venture capital backed software company based in Silicon Valley and prior to Ligos, Mr. Tse was the Vice President of Strategic Development and General Counsel of Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc., a Silicon Valley telecommunication equipment company where he helped raised over $200 million dollars of venture capital financing. Mr. Tse started his career as a business and technology attorney at Brobeck Phleger and Harrison LLP in their Silicon Valley office representing technology companies and venture capitalists.  Mr. Tse is the co-founder and serves on the Board of the Asian American Legal Foundation and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel, San Diego Chapter.  Mr. Tse is a frequent speaker at national legal conferences on the roles and responsibilities of the General Counsel and was named one of the best lawyers under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association in 2005.  Mr. Tse holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley where he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Day two keynote speaker, Lisa J. Tanzi, is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for the Business Division at Microsoft Corporation.  She manages the team that provides primary legal support for the Office, SharePoint, Business Solutions and Unified Communications teams.  She previously managed the business and legal team responsible for launching Microsoft’s broad IP licensing practice, as well as the legal teams supporting the Windows product development and marketing efforts and Microsoft’s standards activities.  

Ms. Tanzi’s legal practice has focused on supporting a wide variety of commercial and IP-related transactions, and counseling on a broad range of issues (including antitrust, standards, open source, copyright, trade secret, privacy and telecommunications) related to product development and marketing activities.  She is also a member of the executive leadership team for Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs department, and frequently serves as the executive sponsor for a variety of internal technology and information management initiatives.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 1995, Ms. Tanzi practiced at Perkins Coie in Washington and Dorsey & Whitney in New York, where she represented multiple high-tech companies, as both licensees and licensors, in software licensing, development and distribution transactions. Ms. Tanzi is a graduate of Harvard Law School (1990, magna cum laude), where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review.

In addition to the keynote addresses, there will be educational tracks each day of this year’s conference. Each track will delve into the critical, up-to-the-minute issues facing legal departments and their outside counsel.

Track Themes Will Include:

•   Cloud Computing
•   Project Management
•   Long Term E-Discovery Education

To register online for the Masters Conference, visit www.themastersconference.com. For sponsorship information, contact Marilyn.gladden@themastersconference.com.

About The Masters Conference
Since 2006, the Masters Conference has brought together experts and leading professionals from law firms, corporations and the bench to discuss strategies, practices and resources for managing the information lifecycle. The Masters Conference is an intimate forum where legal industry professionals can share, collaborate and obtain master knowledge of the most relevant topics in the legal industry today. By limiting attendance to 450 delegates, the Masters Conference is meant to be an exclusive opportunity to learn and network with the top legal professionals in the industry without battling large crowds and an overwhelming vendor hall. For additional information on the 2010 Masters Conference, please visit www.themastersconference.com.

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Since 2006, the Masters Conference has brought together experts and leading professionals from law firms, corporations and the bench to discuss strategies, practices and resources for managing the information life cycle.