Consero is honored to announce that Robin Smith has joined the faculty for Consero's Corporate Counsel Forum 2012.
Robin Smith is General Counsel at LEGO Systems, Inc. (LSI), in Enfield, Connecticut, which is the American subsidiary of the Danish LEGO toy company. Ms. Smith handles all of the general corporate legal affairs for the LEGO Group in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America, and assists with matters in Australia and New Zealand. She is also on the Board of numerous LEGO companies in all of those countries. Ms. Smith was previously Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Counsel at LSI, handling all of the trademark, copyright, and patent law issues in the Americas, and all of the Internet law issues for the company worldwide.
Prior to her employment at the LEGO Group, Ms. Smith worked as an associate at the Connecticut law firm of Day, Berry & Howard LLP (now Day, Pitney LLP) in the firm’s general commercial litigation, technology, and intellectual property law practice areas, where she litigated a variety of matters at the trial and appellate levels. She earned her Juris Doctor with honors in 1993 from the Syracuse University College of Law, and her Bachelor of Arts with honors in Psychology and Theatre from Wesleyan University in 1989.
Ms. Smith is a former member of the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Board of Directors and their Internet Committee, and a former Board Member of the Connecticut chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA). She is currently on the Board of the Hartford County Bar Association. Ms. Smith grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, and also currently resides there with her thirteen year old son, who is, of course, a huge fan of LEGO® toys!
