Advising Clients on Sustainable Business Practices

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Friday, April 13, 2007
Lewis & Clark Law School
Portland, Oregon
4 G MCLE Credits

SCHEDULE

12:50 - Welcome and Introduction

1:00 - 2:15 - Planning and Structuring Businesses to Include for Sustainability
The lawyer’s role in helping clients incorporate sustainability into their business – whether it be at the initial incorporation stage or a thriving business that wants to build sustainability into its expansion model, or a family business doing succession planning.
- Moderator, Regina Hauser, Oregon Natural Step Network
- Nik Blosser, Celilo Media Group Inc.
- C. Lane Borg, Greenlick & Borg
- Christopher P. Cline, Holland & Knight LLP

2:15 - 2:30 - Break

2:30 - 3:45 - Incorporating Sustainability into Relationships
Increasingly, demands are made on your business clients to incorporate sustainability into their relationships with vendors, landlords or lessees, and even employees. What can you do to help your clients structure these relationships in ways that make good business sense for your client and still meet the “sustainability demands” of those with whom they do business?
- Moderator, Robert R. Griffith, Garvey Schubert Barer
- Daniel A. Blaufus, Nike, Inc.
- Lonny Knabe, Sustainability Coordinator, Global Facilities, Nike, Inc.
- Jeffrey F. Nudelman, General Counsel, Parr Lumber

3:45 - 5:00 - What Your Client Really Wants from You
Get the inside scoop from today’s successful sustainable businesses on how they want to work with lawyers. Time for questions and interaction with the panel.
- Moderator, William H. Holmes, Stoel Rives LLP
- Laurel Hoyt, Secretary of the Board of Directors, Free Geek
- Richard Seymour, Founding Member, Free Geek
- Renee Worme, Sustainability Manager, LEED AP, Gerding Edlen Development

5:00 - 6:00 - Adjourn to Reception

Tuition

(Tuition includes refreshments and course materials.)