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Video: Is your D&I plan legal?
Thank you to our panelists and attendees at our webinar! The complete video is above. If you missed the panel, feel free to watch it here!
ATTORNEY CLE INFORMATION
If you are an attorney seeking continuing legal education credit from New York or a state with New York reciprocity, you have the opportunity to receive CLE credit by watching this panel from our 10th annual symposium, Silver Linings, on demand. Simply email us for the CLE materials link/password, registration link to complete the $65 payment, and the official form to complete. At various points during the session special codes are announced for you to note on the form.
Date: October 9, 2020
Time: 8:45-10:00am
Venue: Zoom
NYS CLE: 1.0 diversity, inclusion, and elimination of bias; 0.5 ethics
Sterling Intentions: Is your diversity & inclusion plan legal?
SPEAKERS:
- Nancy Bishai, General Counsel, APP Group
- Fiona W. Ong, Partner, Shawe Rosenthal LLP
- Dana Sussman, Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs, New York City Commission on Human Rights
- MODERATOR: Kenya Wiley, Founder and Policy Counsel, Fashion Innovation Alliance
Additional resources suggested by Nancy Bishai:
Diversity and Inclusion in Canada: The Current State
Navigating race in Canadian workplaces A toolkit for diversity and inclusion practitioners
Video: Heirloom Silver: The afterlife of brands
Thank you to our panelists and attendees at our webinar! The complete video is above. If you missed the panel, feel free to watch it here!
ATTORNEY CLE INFORMATION
If you are an attorney seeking continuing legal education credit from New York or a state with New York reciprocity, you have the opportunity to receive CLE credit by watching this panel from our 10th annual symposium, Silver Linings, on demand. Simply email us for the CLE materials link/password, registration link to complete the $65 payment, and the official form to complete. At various points during the session special codes are announced for you to note on the form.
Date: October 2, 2020
Time: 8:45-10:00am
Venue: Zoom
NYS CLE: 1.5 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional
Heirloom Silver: The afterlife of brands
SPEAKERS:
- Angela Byun, Principal, AB WORLD
- Jeffrey Hellman, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, PVH Corp.
- Colette Stanford, SVP-General Counsel, SPARC Group
- MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
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Protected: Heirloom Silver CLE Material
Protected: Heirloom Silver CLE Materials
10th Annual Symposium
So, 2020. Every year our annual symposium is the highlight of the fashion law calendar, but as the coronavirus spread last spring, we postponed it and instead offered you the first online panel on fashion and the pandemic – and realized that hundreds more participants were able to join us simultaneously from all over the world.
We now bring you our 10th Annual Symposium, Silver Linings, running for four consecutive Fridays during fashion month and beyond. The pandemic may keep us working from home in loungewear for the moment, but we can still come together as a fashion law community to celebrate, interrogate, and advance the substance of style. YOU are the silver lining of 2020, and we look forward to seeing you online soon!
DATE: September 25 and October 2, 9, and 16, 2020
TIME: 8:45-10:00am New York time
NYS CLE: 6 hours total (see individual panels for details)
PLACE: Zoom webinar
SCHEDULE:
Quicksilver Deals: Tiffany v. LVMH and M&A in a pandemic
September 25, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.5 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional
SPEAKERS
Avery S. Fischer, EVP, GC, & Secretary, Ralph Lauren
Mark Fischer, EVP, GC, & Secretary, PVH
Vincent Fuller II, Associate, Fried Frank
Brien M. Wassner, Partner, Sidley Austin
MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
Heirloom Silver: The afterlife of brands
October 2, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.5 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional
SPEAKERS
Angela Byun, Principal, AB WORLD
Jeffrey Hellman, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, PVH Corp.
Colette Stanford, SVP-General Counsel, SPARC Group
MODERATOR: Professor Susan Scafidi, Founder & Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
If you missed the panel, watch it here on demand.
Sterling Intentions: Is your diversity & inclusion plan legal?
October 9, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.0 diversity, inclusion, and elimination of bias; .5 ethics
SPEAKERS
Nancy Bishai, General Counsel, APP Group
Fiona W. Ong, Partner, Shawe Rosenthal LLP
Dana Sussman, Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs, New York City Commission on Human Rights
MODERATOR: Kenya Wiley, Founder and Policy Counsel, Fashion Innovation Alliance
If you missed the panel, watch it here on demand.
Silver Bullet? Mask policies, problems, and solutions
October 16, 2020
NYS CLE: 1.0 professional practice, transitional & non-transitional; .5 ethics
SPEAKERS
Ashley Brown, General Counsel, ONE Management
Abrima Erwiah, Co-Founder and President, Studio One Eighty Nine
Elisheva Hirshman, Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Employment & Litigation, PVH Corp.
John Maltbie, Director of Intellectual Property, Civil Enforcement, Louis Vuitton Americas
MODERATOR: Ariele Elia, Assistant Director, Fashion Law Institute at Fordham
If you registered previously for our 10th Annual Symposium, you will receive a separate email. And thank you!

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Thursday 6/25 event: CSM x FLI
In a world challenged by COVID-19 lockdowns and other political struggles and ethical concerns, the fashion industry is united in our search for new business strategies. How can fashion designers and businesses protect themselves amidst a global recession? What does the revision of the fashion calendar mean for sales cycles, and should the industry be setting a common calendar at all? What are the best ways for fashion brands and media outlets to address diversity and inclusion? Is sustainability sustainable when companies are struggling to survive? This special event co-hosted with Central Saint Martins will explore how fashion professionals and companies can adapt to these and other emerging challenges, with speakers including Professors Susan Scafidi and Jeff Trexler along with other industry guests.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
- Abisade Adenubi, Heritage Apparels
- John Maltbie, Louis Vuitton
- Don M. Obert, The Obert Law Firm
- Stephen Sidkin, Fox Williams
- Jeff Trexler, Moda Legal
- Gary Wassner, Hilldun
- Moderator: Professor Susan Scafidi, Fashion Law Institute