In addition to being a sponsor of the 2025 Masters of Advertising Law Conference in Chicago, IL on November 3-5, 2025, GALA members will be speaking throughout the conference.
The GALA panel "Preparing for the World Cup" will be held on on Tuesday, November 4th at 4:40pm. Jeffrey Greenbaum (USA) will be the moderator and Geraint Lloyd-Taylor (UK), Aakriti Vadehra (India) and Jose Antonio Arochi (Mexico) will sit on the panel.
Other GALA speakers at the event will include:
- Allison Fitzpatrick (USA - D + G) will participate in a panel "Tiny Targets, Big Risks: Navigating The Evolving Children's Advertising and Privacy Landscape"
- Søren Pietzcker (Germany) will host a roundtable AI, Advertising, and the Future of Creativity: What's Legal, What's Risky, and What's Next"
- Paavana Kumar (USA - D + G) will lead a roundtable "Direct-to-Consumer Promotions, Influencers and Conversion Tactics Handled Right: An Interactive Compliance Workshop"
- Dorian Slater Thomas & his colleague Matthew Vittone (USA - FK) will lead a roundtable "Talent Agreements"
- Ron Urbach (USA - D + G) will lead a main session "Not All Superheroes Wear Capes: Advertising & Marketing Law Counsel in Action"
- Hannah Taylor (USA - FK) will lead a main session "Taming Chaos with Contracts (And Conviction): A Clause For Every Crisis"
- Melissa Steinman (USA - V) will host a main session with her Venable colleague Shahin Rothermel "#Ad or Not? Avoiding Legal Issues With Influencers in an Increasingly Litigious Environment"
In addition to these GALA members there will be sessions with other members of GALA firms:
- Len Gordon & Jay Prapaisilp, Venable (USA) will lead a breakout session "When the Price Isn’t Right: Legal Risks of Reference Pricing, Fees, and Surcharges, Dynamic and Algorithmic Pricing, and Other Deceptive Practices"
- Jason Howell, Frankfurt Kurnit (USA) will moderate a panel "E-Tailers and Retailers: Hot Topics in Ad Law"
- Michael Signorelli, Venable (USA) will be part of a panel "Protecting Consumer Privacy While Building Your Brand: How the DAA Built the Model for Industry Self-Regulation"