IPTLA will be holding a meeting on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 5:00pm in room W-210. The presenter will be Professor Bob Kahrl. Professor Kahrl will be speaking on Life in a Large Firm and How to Make it in a Large Firm Setting. Professor Kahrl currently teaches Complex Commercial Litigation and Patent Claim Construction. Professor Kahrl practiced law at Jones Day in Cleveland from September 1976 until Dec. 31, 2009, when he retired from the partnership. From 1991 to 2008 he served as practice leader of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Area. During that period the IP Practice expanded from 45 lawyers in five domestic offices to 260 lawyers in thirteen domestic offices and ten overseas offices. He specialized in litigation of cases involving issues of technological complexity. The principal technologies in which he worked were in the fields of semiconductors, electronic systems, and medical devices. Cases in which his appearances have been a matter of public record include the largest patent-related litigation ever conducted before the International Trade Commission involving ten patents for various aspects of DRAM chips (In re Certain Dynamic Random Access Memories). All are welcome and encouraged to come. Food will be provided.