Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith to Address Massachusetts Technology Leaders and Boston's Legal Community; Senior Microsoft Executive to Discuss New Challenges in Law and Technology in the 21st Century

Business Wire, Nov 22, 2005

Mass Technology Leadership Council:

WHAT:     Mass Technology Leadership Council Meeting featuring
          Brad Smith, Microsoft General Counsel

WHEN:     Monday, November 28, 2005 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

WHERE:    Marriott Copley Hotel, Boston

DETAILS:

Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith will discuss the broad
intersection of law and IT in a presentation to Mass Technology
Leadership Council members.

Smith leads Microsoft's Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs,
which is responsible for all legal work and for government, industry
and community affairs activities. He has played a leading role at
Microsoft on intellectual property, competition law, and other
Internet legal and public policy issues. Smith is responsible for the
company's efforts to implement the antitrust consent decree
established in 2001 with the Department of Justice and state Attorneys
General.

Smith was also responsible for the negotiation of agreements in 2002
with the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission covering
privacy and security requirements for the company's Passport
online-authentication service. He also oversaw the company's 2003-2005
negotiations that resolved Microsoft's differences with AOL Time
Warner, Sun Microsystems, Intertrust, Novell and the Computer &
Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and IBM.

In addition, Smith has helped spearhead Microsoft's global campaigns
to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in illegal
spamming, virus creation and software counterfeiting.

The Mass Bar Association is cooperating with the Mass Technology
Leadership Council on this event, which is being sponsored by Holland
  Knight.