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Legal Committee
The goal of the Chamber's Legal Committee is to provide some relevant legal education to its members. The Legal Committee organizes a series of quarterly events held at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law brand new campus. These Legal Business Conferences* are designed to help our members and non members gain a better understanding of the main differences between the French and American Legal systems, in various fields, such as tax, employment laws and intellectual property. In addition to these informative quarterly events and regular networking events, webinars will be held to answer specific needs and address specific topics.
We are interested in knowing your feedback on the committee and related events, feel free to contact us to share your inputs or suggest topics to be addressed at info@france-sandiego.org.
* Attorneys are eligible to claim California MCLE.
Chair
Lionel Bochurberg - SDFACC Director
Lionel Bochurberg is an attorney with more than 18 years of experience advising clients about complex business transactions and international law. Having started his legal career in Paris, France, he subsequently moved to the United States under the category of "Alien of Extraordinary Ability,” and is licensed under both the Paris and California bars.
In France, he was the founder of Mandel & Bochurberg, an international law firm with offices in Paris and London. He then built and managed the legal department at Wavecom SA (now Sierra Wireless), a publicly listed international company. Subsequently, he became the vice president of human resources and general counsel at InfoVista SA, an international publicly listed software company Headquartered in both Herndon, Va., and Paris, France. He then joined NextWave Broadband Inc as vice president of international legal operations, managed NextWave’s international legal operations, served as the primary counsel for IPWireless, one of NextWave’s UK-based subsidiaries responsible for all of the company’s legal matters, and ultimately was responsible for all legal efforts associated with several divestitures (including NextWave semiconductor patent portfolio) and M&A initiatives (in Latin America and in Europe) on behalf of NextWave.
While practicing law in the United States, Bochurberg takes active steps to bridge the local community with the technology community in France, playing a role as an adviser to French BioBeach, a San Diego-based networking organization for the U.S. and French biotech communities (http://www.frenchbiobeach.com).
Bochurberg served as a panelist in an MCLE conference entitled, “Anatomy of a License Agreement,” hosted by the San Diego County Bar Association in June 2009, and in an executive roundtable covering corporate governance organized by the Daily Transcript in May 2010.
Bochurberg published several books in French, including a collection of poems in haiku form, “Cent tendres;” “Internet and Right of Privacy at the Workplace;” “Internet and E-Commerce;” and “the Right of Quotation” (doctoral dissertation in comparative law).
Bochurberg received his Ph.D. in comparative copyright law summa cum laude from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
