Getting the Best Deal: Best Practices for Negotiations

Teresia L. Bost is Senior Corporate Counsel at Celgene Corporation in Summit, New Jersey, where she focuses on broad based commercial contracts in North America. Celgene is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to improving the lives of patients worldwide. Teresia has been at Celgene for 11 years, and during her time there has provided a broad level of counsel and support on general business transactions and other corporate matters, globally.

Prior to joining Celgene, Teresia was an associate at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold (now Sedgwick) in Newark, NJ, where her practice focused on providing counsel and support on general business transactions and other corporate legal matters. Prior to moving to New Jersey, Ms. Bost worked in Connecticut, with the United Technologies Corporation at Pratt & Whitney Group, IAE International Aero Engines AG and Otis Elevator Company. Ms. Bost has served as a mentor to law students and others; a Girls on the Run coach; and on the Board of Trustees for the Good News Home for Women, in Flemington, NJ, she founded a Breast Cancer Awareness “Pink and Black” fashion show, with the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey (ABWL-NJ), created to educate women of color about the risks of developing breast cancer and serves as a panelist at conferences on topics of EU Compliance and International Clinical Trials.

She is an honors graduate of Fisk University, holds a JD from Touro Law Center, and has completed course work towards an LL.M. in European Business Law from the University of Amsterdam, School of International Relations.

Lisa Anastos is the General Counsel at Payfone. She is a graduate of New York University Law School.

Nadira Clarke is a formidable litigator with first-chair trial experience, she focuses her practice on technically complex, high-stakes matters. She is sought after for her aggressive defense of corporations and executives facing large-scale, multi-faceted governmental investigations. Calm and decisive by nature, she provides leadership and valuable counsel in a crisis.

Nadira previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Well versed in the area of corporate compliance and business ethics, she works with two separate corporate monitor teams appointed by the court to oversee compliance of companies in the wake of criminal prosecution. She previously served as counsel to the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, where she led internal professional ethics investigations involving federal prosecutors and high-ranking Department of Justice officials.

Early in her career, Nadira served in the highly selective U.S. Attorney General's Honor Program for the Department of Justice, and worked as a trial attorney with the Environment and Natural Resources Division, including the Environmental Crimes Section and the Natural Resource Section. She was also selected to serve as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice.

Nadira is a frequent industry speaker, and has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (2013). Her pro bono work includes mentoring and litigating sex-discrimination and political asylum cases.