WELCOME AND OPENING OF THE 42ND CUSLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

• Date: 01 January 2019
• Author: Petras, Stephen J., Jr.

Speaker: Stephen J. Petras Jr.

PROFESSOR PETRAS: All right, everyone. Welcome to the 42nd Canada-US Law Institute Annual Conference. I am Steve Petras. I am the U.S. National Director, and it is a pleasure to welcome everyone here for "Back to the Future," a look at US-Canada trade relations. So this is going to be an outstanding conference. I think everybody is going to have a great time. And I will just go through a couple of preliminary things before we start.

First of all, I would like to thank our sponsors for the conference. The Canada-US Law Institute depends on our sponsors so that we can afford to do programs like this.

Our Platinum sponsors are DLA Piper and Cleveland Cliffs;

Silver sponsors: Parker Hannifin Corporation, Formica Corporation, the Office of the Consul General of Canada in Detroit, Steptoe & Johnson, Dickinson Wright, Baker McKenzie, and Baker Hostetler, my law firm.

Bronze sponsors, all new this year, are Barudan America, which is an automatic embroidery machine company, the largest such company in the world; Biodynamics, a pile drive and foundation testing company; GRL Engineering, its sister company; and The Noramar Corporation, which makes specialty testing equipment.

So I would also like to congratulate today our winners of yesterday's Niagara Business Negotiation competition. It was a very complicated problem. Two law schools competed: University of Windsor Law School and University of...