DRI’s Counsel Meeting Program

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Share insights and strategies with your outside counsel in a supportive environment through DRI’s Counsel Meeting Program. Through this program, corporate legal professionals will be granted seminar registration, travel and lodging reimbursements, complimentary meeting space, and more! Help strengthen the defense bar today.

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Why Should You Have a Counsel Meeting?

Companies host Counsel Meetings with DRI for various reasons, but the following topic areas are among the most popular:

  • Updated counsel guidelines
  • New billing requirements
  • Up and coming litigation strategies (both plaintiff and defense)
  • Status of on-going, threatened or recently concluded litigation matters
  • Discussion of new products or claims
  • Expert witness discussions
  • Changes within the business structure of the client
  • Trends seen by the company regionally, nationally or internationally
  • E-Discovery or general discovery issues/trends
  • Changes to strategies in motion practice
  • Discussion of efforts to streamline communications between counsel and client

All questions concerning the Counsel Meeting program should be directed to counselmeetings@dri.org.

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How Does the Program Work?

Throughout the year, DRI brings together in-house counsel, insurance carriers/claims examiners and outside counsel for educational programs across different practice areas. DRI’s seminars attract a broad audience for best-in-class education and networking events that are second to none. Bringing clients, counsel and carriers together makes sense – and this program helps you do just that.

The goal of DRI’s Counsel Meeting Program is to meet your needs. DRI collaborates with the host to estimate the number of attendees and determine which Counsel Meeting package is the best fit. If anticipated attendance at the Counsel Meeting is not met, planning can be reevaluated for the next planned Counsel Meeting. DRI provides a draft invitation to the host that can be adapted, plus regular updates on meeting registration and a final registrant list at the conclusion of the meeting.

Counsel Meeting Packages

Corporate Member Packages

Collaborate Package

  • Registered Attendees: 10-19
  • Meeting Time: Up to 90 minutes
  • A/V (screen, projector, connection cables)
  • Coffee break
  • Complimentary seminar registration: 1
  • Travel for one company representative (up to $500 per person): 1
  • Lodging for company representative (up to two nights per person at host hotel): 1

Connect Package

  • Registered Attendees: 20-29
  • Meeting Time: Up to 90 minutes
  • A/V (screen, projector, connection cables)
  • Coffee break
  • Complimentary seminar registration: 3
  • Travel for one company representative (up to $500 per person): 2
  • Lodging for company representative (up to two nights per person at host hotel): 3

Cultivate Package

  • Registered Attendees: 30-39
  • Meeting Time: Up to 90 minutes
  • Podium, podium microphone, and one table microphone
  • In-room coffee and tea
  • Complimentary seminar registration: 5
  • Travel for one company representative (up to $500 per person): 3
  • Lodging for company representative (up to two nights per person at host hotel): 5

Non-Corporate Member Packages

Collaborate Package

  • Registered Attendees: 15-24
  • Meeting Time: Up to 60 minutes
  • A/V (screen, projector, connection cables)
  • Coffee break
  • Complimentary seminar registration: 1
  • Travel for one company representative (up to $400 per person): 1
  • Lodging for company representative (one night per person at host hotel): 1

Connect Package

  • Registered Attendees: 25-34
  • Meeting Time: Up to 60 minutes
  • A/V (screen, projector, connection cables)
  • Coffee break
  • Complimentary seminar registration: 2
  • Travel for one company representative (up to $400 per person): 2
  • Lodging for company representative (one night per person at host hotel): 2

Cultivate Package

  • Registered Attendees: 35-44
  • Meeting Time: Up to 60 minutes
  • Podium, podium microphone, and one table microphone
  • In-room coffee and tea
  • Complimentary seminar registration: 3
  • Travel for one company representative (up to $400 per person): 3
  • Lodging for company representative (one night per person at host hotel): 3

Responsibilities of the Meeting Host

The Counsel Meeting host agrees to hold its meeting at the DRI seminar hotel in the meeting space secured by DRI and at a time approved by DRI. Customarily, Counsel Meetings are scheduled in the afternoon before the opening reception at the seminar or in the mornings before seminar programming begins.

The host of the Counsel Meeting will provide DRI with a list of all invitees to its meeting. The invitation list must include the invitee’s name and email address (or physical address of the invitation if it will be mailed). This list should include all invitees from a law firm. This allows for DRI to secure a meeting space that will accommodate all attendees, allow for meeting security, and ensure the host gets full credit for each attendee to maximize the benefits available for hosting the meeting.

At least 60 days before the seminar, either the Counsel Meeting host or DRI (at the host’s discretion) will send the meeting invitation to all invitees encouraging them to attend the Counsel Meeting and register for the DRI seminar. If the host sends the invitation, DRI will be copied on communication at counselmeetings@dri.org. If DRI sends the invitation, the Counsel Meeting host will be copied on communication.

By holding a Counsel Meeting at a DRI seminar, the host agrees that DRI may promote that the host is holding a meeting of its counsel at the DRI seminar. All host meeting participants shall be registered attendees for the related on-site seminar. Any exceptions to this policy must be pre-approved by DRI.

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