The website for the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual meeting said the more than 2,500 lawyers in attendance could “earn a year’s worth of CLE/CPD credit in three days, exchange ideas with peers during more than 30 hours of networking events, and gather information from more than 100 law firms and legal service providers,” including ALM Media Properties LLC, publisher of The National Law Journal.
But it didn’t mention the Thomson Reuters prize wheel, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. skee-ball, massages, iPad raffles or many of the after-hours parties that had the in-house counsel buzzing. By the end of each day, the corporate counsel lugged bags brimming with parrot oven mitts from Corporation Service Co., plush lobster toys from Boston-based Sullivan & Worcester and infuser water bottles from Dentons, among other goodies. “The swag every year is a lot of fun,” said Todd Silberman, general counsel for Mesilla Valley Transportation Inc. in Las Cruces, N.M. “It’s always different.” — Andrew Ramonas
