Jackson Walker is once again sponsoring the Women’s Business Conference, which will be held on September 19, 2002.

In its seventh year, the conference has attracted national recognition and has grown in attendance to over 1,000. The conference offers professional development topics by national speakers on the latest issues in areas such as leadership, work/life balance, communication, client management and conflict resolution. In addition, the Women’s Business Conference provides an opportunity to network and build strategic alliances with clients.

This year’s keynote speakers will be Erin Brockovich and renowned journalist, Linda Ellerbee.

JW’s very own Joan Sostek is serving as program chair.

Jackson Walker is one of the oldest and largest Texas-based law firms, with more than 100 years of experience in providing legal counsel to clients in Texas, throughout the United States, and internationally. The firm provides a strong regional base of 300 attorneys statewide in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Richardson, San Angelo, and San Antonio. The firm’s practice areas include litigation, finance, securities and corporate, intellectual property, technology, administrative, employee benefits and executive compensation, energy, environmental, estate planning and administration, governmental, health care, labor and employment, real estate, tax, transportation, bankruptcy, agricultural, and international law. In 1994, Jackson Walker was one of the founding members of Globalaw, a worldwide network of law firms with offices throughout the U.S. and in over 70 foreign countries.