Each year, the Center on the Legal Profession brings together members of the legal community to honor those whose achievements have contributed to building a stronger legal profession.  The Center's empirical research forms the heart of our dinners - research that underpins the event's content and is central to the lives of the honorees.

At this year's dinner, we will offer an introduction to the Center on the Legal Profession and release results from our path-breaking research into how law firms and in-house legal departments operationalize innovation.

We will also present awards to pioneering innovators in the legal profession:

Award for Global Leadership

Katherine Adams, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Apple Inc.

Award for Professional Excellence

Mark Harris, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Axiom Global, Inc.

Kim Rivera, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, HP Inc.

We hope to see you there!

Rochael Soper Adranly, General Counsel and Legal Design Lead, IDEO Inc.

Alison Brunner, Chief Executive Officer, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley

Anna-Lisa Corrales, General Counsel, Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC

Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Matthew Fawcett, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, NetApp Inc.

Sam Fried, Executive Vice President of Law, Policy, and Governance, L Brands, Inc.

Julie Gruber, EVP, Global General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer, Gap Inc.

Seth Jaffe, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Levi Strauss & Co.

John Schultz, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Bart Volkmer, General Counsel, Dropbox, Inc.

• Two branded tables of 10 seats with VIP dinner seating
• Corporate logo featured throughout the event
• Invitation for a designee to attend a VIP Research Briefing with the Host Committee before the Annual Dinner
• Signature Sponsor of Operationalizing Innovation Colloquium*
• Institutional Subscription to The Practice digital magazine
• Recognition as a Center on the Legal Profession Benefactor

*The Operationalizing Innovation Colloquium will be an intensive day and a half workshop in which the Center will bring together approximately 50 innovation leaders from law firms and in-house legal departments to design tools and solutions to operationalize innovation within and between their organizations. The colloquium will be held on Friday, June 15th and Saturday, June 16th in the Bay Area.

**The amount of your contribution, which is deductible for income tax purposes, is limited to the excess of your contribution over the value of any goods received.  The approximate value which is nondeductible is $125 per person.

• One branded table of 10 seats with VIP dinner seating
• Corporate logo featured throughout the event
• Invitation for a designee to attend a VIP Research Briefing with the Host Committee before the Annual Dinner
• Sponsor of Operationalizing Innovation Colloquium*
• Institutional Subscription to The Practice digital magazine
• Recognition as a Center on the Legal Profession Benefactor

• One table of 10 seats with reserved dinner seating
• Corporate logo featured throughout the event
• Institutional Subscription to The Practice digital magazine
• Recognition as a Center on the Legal Profession Patron

**The amount of your contribution, which is deductible for income tax purposes, is limited to the excess of your contribution over the value of any goods received.  The approximate value which is nondeductible is $125 per person.

• Five invitations with reserved dinner seating
• Corporate logo featured throughout the event
• Recognition as a Center on the Legal Profession Supporter

Award for Global Leadership

Samantha Power - U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Awards for Professional Excellence

Mary Ann Hynes - First Female General Counsel of a Fortune 500 Company

Regina Pisa - First Woman Elected Managing Partner of an Am Law 100 Firm

Roberta Cooper Ramo - First Woman to Lead the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute

Award for Global Leadership

Brad Smith - President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Corporation

Awards for Professional Excellence

Brackett Denniston- Former SVP and General Counsel, General Electric

Bharat Vasani - Chief Legal and Group General Counsel, Tata Group

Sabine Chalmers- Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Award for Global Leadership

Vernon Jordan - Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

Awards for Professional Excellence

Kenneth I. Chennault - CEO & Chairman, American Express

Sherrilyn Ifill - President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Hon. Robert Wilkins - U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit