Join Williams Mullen attorneys to gain insights into mitigating the significant risks your businesses face daily:

• Data protection and compliance-liability exposure and costs of mitigation

• Employment issues, including keeping asset protection agreements current

• Commercial Contracts, including the risks lurking in standard indemnities and damages limitation provisions

We'll have breakfast at Mez in Durham from 8:30am to 9am, and we'll have a panel discussion with Williams Mullen's attorneys with over 70 years of combined legal experience from 9am to 10am! You're welcome to ask questions during the event, and if you'd like to submit questions ahead of time anonymously or not, you may submit them here.

Who are the Williams Mullen attorneys who will be on this panel?

Tad vanDusen

Having served as a marketing executive in competitive industries prior to becoming a lawyer, Tad vanDusen understands and appreciates the strategic thinking and up-tempo execution that are needed for companies to prosper. Consequently, he brings an entrepreneurial bent to his interactions with health care, information technology, manufacturing and government contractor clients on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity finance transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, technology agreements and representations of U.S. subsidiaries of foreign parent companies.

Rob Van Arnam

Rob is an experienced intellectual property lawyer who focuses his practice on litigation involving patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He has litigated high-stakes IP cases throughout the country and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), including through trial and appeal.

Mike Lord

For nearly 30 years, Mike Lord has provided solutions to workforce problems for employers of all sizes. Business owners, managers, human resources and safety professionals appreciate Mike’s practical guidance, which is grounded in his experience, legal acumen and controversy skills.

Miles Bruder

Miles Bruder represents clients in significant corporate transactions, principally including mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial contracts, entity formation and capitalization, corporate debt and equity finance and incentive compensation arrangements.