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Business of Law: In-House Counsel Awards, Trends, Updates and Visionaries

Publish Year:  2023

In consideration of the opportunity for me to participate in and/or of my participation in the Business of Law: In-House Counsel Awards, Trends, Updates and Visionaries produced by Los Angeles Times Communications LLC (“The Times”) and  The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC (“Union-Tribune”), I, the undersigned, hereby irrevocably grant to The Times or the Union-Tribune and to their successors, assigns, affiliates, parents, agents, and licensees right and license to publish, distribute, display, broadcast, reproduce, edit, modify, prepare derivative works of, sublicense, and otherwise commercially exploit my name, photograph, image, likeness, voice, information provided, and presentation and to record the same through visual and sound recordings and still photographs (“collectively the “Works”) in any and all media or form of communication whether now existing or hereafter developed, including in the Los Angeles Times or The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper and in social media, digital platforms, television, audio, streaming, or other distribution networks affiliated with or commissioned by the Times or the Union-Tribune.

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