Peter Kalis, chairman and global managing partner of K&L Gates LLP, a global firm that includes nearly 2,000 lawyers who practice in offices around the world, will describe some of the latest trends in consolidation and globalization in a talk titled, “Law Practice in the Era of Globalization: The More Things Change,” at West Virginia University’s College of Law Wednesday, Jan. 19.

Kalis, a Rhodes Scholar who graduated from WVU in 1972 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, will lecture at noon in the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom. The presentation will be webcast live at http://law.wvu.edu/globalization. The public is invited to attend.

Kalis’ talk will explore some of the implications of globalization on the practice of law—lawyers, law firms, law schools and the profession at large.
K&L Gates, which has offices in the U.S and abroad, represents leading global corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals. Its 2009 revenues exceeded $1 billion.

Kalis earned a Ph.D. from Oxford and a law degree from Yale, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. In his current role, he provides strategic advice to many of the nation’s largest corporations. He has worked extensively with chief executive officers, boards of directors, and general counsel to develop litigation and other strategies to preserve and access corporate insurance programs in response to novel and substantial claims. Kalis has also served on arbitration panels in the U.S., United Kingdom and Bermuda.

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01/14/11

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