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Presentations and Speaking
Engagements
Helen Leah Conroy is a popular speaker
at business and professional organizations’ chapter
meetings and national conferences.
Current programs that have recently been
presented to business, bar association and in-house legal
groups (for continuing legal education credit) include:
Ten Ways E-Mail Can Sabotage
Your Business Negotiations – Presented
to the San Francisco Bar Association, the Intellectual Property
Society, the Santa Clara County Bar Association, the CPA
Forum (San Francisco), various in-house legal and business
groups, Women in Technology International Summit, the Rotary
Club of Marin County and the National Association of Women
Business Owners (Silicon Valley Chapter).
The Fine Art of Business
Negotiations: How to Make Every Deal More Successful –
Presented to the Financial Women’s Association (San
Francisco), Independent Management Consultants (two Northern
California chapters), American Women in Science, Golden
Rule Training Resources, Women in Technology International
and other business and professional organizations.
Ten Ways Transaction Lawyers
Can Make Litigators Rich – Presented
to the Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting (focus
on joint development agreements), the Santa Clara County
Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee, the Association
of Corporate Counsel of America, and various in-house legal
and business groups.
Other programs include:
Contracts
and Negotiations
The Ins and Outs of Training
and Development Consulting Agreements –
Presentation to the American Society for Training and Development
Silicon Valley Chapter Consultants’ Specific Interest
Group (January 2003)
Consulting Agreements: How
to Make Them Work for You – Presentation
to the SBA•Cisco Systems•San Jose Entrepreneur
Center (February and May 2003)
Proposals and Contracts:
Tips to Make Your Practice More Successful –
Presentation to Women in Consulting, Silicon Valley (September
2003)
The Fine Art of Negotiations:
Lessons Learned in the Trenches – Presented
at the annual national conference of the American Physical
Therapy Association, Cincinnati, Ohio (June 2002)
Strategies and Tactics to
Make Every Negotiation More Successful –
Presentation at the annual national conference of the American
Physical Therapy Association, Washington, D.C. (June 2003)
Negotiating in the Real World:
Tactics and Techniques for Women Who Do Deals
– A three-hour workshop conducted for the San Francisco
Chapter of the Women Presidents Organization (May 2002)
Success in Negotiations for
Women in Technology – Presented at Comdex,
Las Vegas (November 2001)
The Art of Negotiation: Lessons
Learned the Hard Way – A panel discussion
at the Women in Technology, International Summit in Silicon
Valley, on negotiation strategies for women (June 2001)
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Software
Licensing
Understanding the Software
License: What Every Developer Needs to Know
– Presented to the Software Development Forum, San
Jose (February 2001)
The Ins and Outs of Web Site
Development and Hosting Agreements –
Presented to the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, San Francisco
(September 2000)
Copyright
Law
Copyright Law 101: What Every
Trainer Should Know – Mt. Diablo CA
chapter of the American Society for Training and Development
(October 2002) and TechKnowledge 2003, a national conference
of the American Society for Training and Development, Orlando,
Florida (January 2003)
Copyright Ownership and Permission
for Training Materials – A private presentation
to managers, lawyers and division directors of the Judicial
Counsel of California (the California State court system)
San Francisco (January 2003)
Copyright Basics: What Every
Consultant Should Know –
Presented to the Consultant Specific Interest Group of the
Silicon Valley chapter of the American Society for Training
and Development (October 2002) and at the SBA•Cisco
Systems•San Jose Entrepreneur Center (March 2003)
Copyright Protection for Materials
Prepared by Employees and Contractors for Performance Improvement
Programs – Presented to a national conference
of the International Society for Performance Improvement,
as part of a panel entitled “Getting Training on the
Balance Sheet: Asset Management for Learning Objective Approaches
to ISD” Chicago, Illinois (September 2002)
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E-Commerce
Doing Business Online: An
Update on Privacy Law Developments –
Presented to the Internet Billing Week 2001 conference,
Las Vegas (February 2001)
New Technologies and E-Marketing
Privacy and Intellectual Property Issues in E-Commerce –
presented to the Women Presidents Organization’s national
conference, New York City (March 2001)
eRisk: Legal Challenges of
the ”Paperless” Office –
Presented to the Ass’n for Women in Computing, San
Francisco (Feb. 2000)
Doing Business Online: New
Rules for the New Economy – Presented
to an internal business and legal issues conference on e-commerce
at Lucent Technologies, Basking Ridge, New Jersey (June
2000)
Advising the e-Company: A
Checklist for Internal Corporate Policies
– Presented to the National Forum for Women Corporate
Counsel (July 2000)
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Intellectual
Property
Intellectual Property Fundamentals
– Presented to GraceNet, a network of women in technology
(January 2001)
Intellectual Property: What
It is, and How to Protect It – Presented
to the Silicon Valley chapter of Women in Technology, Int’l
(November 2001)
I.P. 101 for Entrepreneurs
– Presented to the Women’s Technology
Cluster, San Francisco (May 2000)
Protecting Your Intellectual
Property in the Age of Electronic Communications
– Presented to a legal conference in New York City,
“Internet Privacy and Security,” hosted by Fulcrum
Information Services (June 2000)
Intellectual Property 101
– Presented to the Software Development Forum, San
Jose (November 2000)
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General
Business Topics
How to Launch a Successful
Independent Law Practice – Presented
to Queens Bench, San Francisco (July 2004) as part of its
“Glass Ceiling Breakers” series.
Choosing & Using a Lawyer:
What Every Business Should Know – Presented
to a CEO Forum at the Stanford University Graduate School
of Business (January 2002)
Early Stage Hiring in a Competitive
Market – A presentation on the intellectual
property issues involved in hiring technical workers. Center
for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stanford Graduate School of
Business and Software Development Forum (October 2000)
Privacy in the New Economy
– Presented to an Institute for the Future National
Corporate Associates Program, New Orleans (October 2000)
Top Ten HR Mistakes Made
By Startups: and How to Avoid Them –
Presented to the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, San Francisco
(August 2000)
New Legal Risks in the New
Economy – Presented to Women in Technology
International, San Francisco (March 2000)
For more information on any of these programs, or to request
Ms. Conroy’s availability for other programs, please
click here to contact her.
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