For more than 20 years, Mr. Andrew has practiced corporate law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions of regulated companies. He has represented many Fortune 1000 companies in acquisitions, spin-offs, financings, corporate governance disputes and structuring capital market products to meet their needs. In addition, because of his political and governmental background, Mr. Andrew advises companies on the larger governmental issues involved in each transaction. Best known as a negotiator, Mr. Andrew has led teams that have negotiated major contracts, merged or acquired companies, formed joint ventures and founded new companies. Since joining Sonnenschein in 2004, Mr. Andrew has been involved in negotiating deals worth in excess of $100 billion dollars, including three Fortune 500 mergers in the health care and insurance areas.
Mr. Andrew has counseled companies worldwide on their corporate and government affairs strategies in a variety of industries, ranging from technology-based and regulated companies in the insurance, energy, life science, banking and telecommunications fields to foreign acquirers and heads of state. He advises corporations on Capitol Hill, the White House, administrative agencies, and on government affairs strategies in the 50 states.
In January 1999, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Congress asked Mr. Andrew to become the national chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was elected in February 1999 and served until February 2001. Mr. Andrew was one of the youngest national chairs in the nearly 200-year history of the DNC and one of the most successful. Mr. Andrew brought the party out of debt, raised nearly a quarter-billion dollars, hired and managed the most diverse staff in the history of the party, and successfully served as the CEO of an organization with thousands of employees on Election Day.
Mr. Andrew is an entrepreneur, a published author, a frequent speaker on political and demographic trends, a board member of several nonprofit organizations, and a member of various progressive policy organizations. In addition to his corporate legal background, he is a leader in historic preservation, smart growth and urban planning. He frequently speaks on election law reform and electronic voting. His spy novel, The Disciples, was published by Simon & Schuster.
Dr. Philip K. Anthony has 30 years of experience in trial consulting and has been involved in more than 1,000 civil cases in all 50 states. In addition to his management responsibilities at the firm, Dr. Anthony consults on a wide variety of high-profile disputes including contractual matters, intellectual property, antitrust, insurance, lender liability and toxic tort.
Dr. Anthony is a frequent lecturer on the topic of social science strategy and techniques in litigation for the American College of Trial Lawyers, The American Bar Association, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, The Association of Business Trial Lawyers and other professional organizations. He is a sought-after expert on trial consulting and has been featured on a wide variety of television programs and quoted in numerous magazines and newspapers.
In addition, Dr. Anthony was a director and corporate secretary of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a nonprofit group that helps grant the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses.
Alan Crain has advised Fortune 500 companies in legal and business matters throughout the world for over 30 years. Alan began his career with a private law firm in Washington, D.C. and has been General Counsel of three Fortune 500 multinationals. He is currently Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Baker Hughes Incorporated, a technology and services company with operations in more than 90 countries.
Alan is also a member of the Board of Directors of Mariner Energy, Inc. a NYSE listed company that engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas. He is a frequent speaker on corporate governance matters and the issues facing boards of directors.
Alan has over 20 years experience as an arbitrator in a broad range of cases, involving both domestic and international commercial issues. He was an adjunct Professor of Law at the Law Center of University of Houston for 10 years, teaching courses in international law, including International Business Transactions and a course he developed on Extraterritorial Applications of Law. Alan twice served as Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Houston, has been Chairman of the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations, served as a member of the Executive Board of the Philadelphia Committee on Foreign Relations and on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia World Affairs Council.
Alan is a member of the Executive Board of the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the University of Houston Law Foundation, the Institute of International Education (Southern Region), the Asia Society of Houston, the World Affairs Council of Houston and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He has been admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, the District of Columbia and before numerous Federal Courts. In addition to his law degree, Alan earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering and a M.B.A.
Jeff Crumpler joined ERS Group in 1996 and is currently a Director with the firm. He helped to develop the cross-practice Litigation Management Group which he continues to direct with Matthew Kennedy. Mr. Crumpler has participated in the formation and direction of large-scale litigation management, expert services and litigation support efforts in labor arbitration matters and state and federal court litigation, specializing in employment equity and environmental/toxic tort claims. He has extensive background, training and experience in the development, coordination and operation of all aspects of complex litigation, including: formation of case strategy, identification and coordination of testifying and consulting experts, development and oversight of litigation support strategies and efforts, as well as the selection, development and implementation of necessary litigation technology.
Mr. Crumpler holds degrees in Criminal Justice and Legal Administration. He is also a founding member of and sits on the Board of Directors for the Association of Litigation Support Professionals.
Mr. Dana is the Global Head of Patent Management at Visa Inc. Since joining Visa in 2004, he developed Visa's patent strategy and implemented Visa's process for capturing and protecting innovation through extensive education of and coordination with the business leaders. He has also developed and implemented Visa's policies and procedures for assessing third party patents for potential licensing, acquisition, as well as litigation risks.
At Visa, Mr. Dana regularly advises senior and executive management about the impact of Visa's patent strategy on the business goals and objectives, which includes protection of revenue through a coordinated and planned patent portfolio, determination of a monetary value for Visa's as well as a third party's portfolio, the benefits and costs related to licensing options and an assertion program, and freedom-to-operate opinions and potential litigation risks.
Mr Dana graduated with a J.D. from Oklahoma University and a BSEE from Arizona State University. He is admitted to practice law in Arizona, California, Oklahoma and Texas as well as a registered patent attorney by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mark is Vice President and General Counsel, Europe and European Regulatory Affairs, GE International, based in Brussels. In this position, he reports to Nani Beccalli, President & CEO of GE International and is also responsible for leadership of the legal function and regulatory affairs in Europe, reporting to Brackett Denniston, SVP and General Counsel of GE. Mark joined GE in March 2004 as EVP and General Counsel of GE Insurance Solutions (ERC) based in Kansas City, MO. There he was responsible for legal aspects of the sale of the business to Swiss Re in 2006. Before joining GE, Mark was a senior partner in the Insurance & Reinsurance group at CMS Cameron McKenna in London.
Mark was educated at Eton College, graduated with Honours from Exeter University in 1979 and attended the College of Law in London (1979-81). He qualified as a solicitor at Hewitt Woollacott & Chown (a predecessor firm of Cameron McKenna) in 1983 and was made a partner in 1988. Mark passed, and was admitted, to the Missouri Bar in September 2004.
He is 49, and is married with five children. He lives in Brussels, Belgium and in the UK.
Bob is Vice President, Environment, Health & Safety for Tyco International, where he has global EHS responsibility for policies, compliance, training, transactions, compliance assurance, and site remediation. Bob is currently building comprehensive, consistent program across 5 diverse business segments in this $20 billion company.
Bob has a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School, and a B.S. from Rutgers College of Agriculture and Environmental Science. After graduation from law school in 1977, he joined the US Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, pursuant to its Honor Law Graduate Program. He was a Trial Attorney with the Department for 3 years. Bob also worked as an associate with the Washington, DC law firm of Hamel, Park, McCabe and Saunders. In 1982, he joined the Chemical Manufacturers Association, becoming Assistant General Counsel. Bob joined GE in 1985, as Environmental Counsel at GE’s Corporate Headquarters. In 1987, he went to GE Plastics to be its Environmental and Regulatory Counsel for the global Plastics business. In 1989, he took a position leading the Contaminated Site Cleanup Group at Corporate Headquarters. In 1995, Bob became leader of the Corporate EHS Operations Group. He became General Manager and Counsel in GE Aircraft Engines in February of 1998. Bob joined Tyco International in October 2003.
Gary Friedlander is a vice president and division general counsel for TranUnion. In this role, he is responsible for providing legal and business guidance to all levels of domestic and international management and internal operation units. Mr. Friedlander is a subject matter expert in dealing with a wide variety of legislative, regulatory and business issues including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, data protection and e-commerce issues. He structures strategic business arrangements as well as joint development, contractor and outsourcing agreements for TransUnion. Mr. Friedlander is credited with establishing TransUnion’s patent initiative program, which provides in-house intellectual property guidance and training primarily in the areas of patents, licensing and trademarks.
Mr. Friedlander has more than 20 years of experience in handling legal issues for organizations. Prior to joining TransUnion in 1999, Mr. Friedlander managed the Customer & Supplier Contracts operations for Rockwell Electronic Commerce Corporation. He also was a principal contract manager and attorney for the Gas Research Institute. Mr. Friedlander began his career in 1977 with IBM and, while receiving both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, was promoted to Contract Specialist in 1985 before leaving the company in 1989.
Mr. Friedlander received his Juris Doctorate from John Marshall Law School in 1987 and Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University in 1982. He is the immediate past president of the Board of Education for Aptakisic-Tripp School District 102 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois and has served as a board member on the Lake County Illinois Regional Board of School Trustees. Mr. Friedlander is a member of the Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, and U.S. Supreme Court bars.
Susan Hackett joined ACC in 1989. While she has held a number of roles and responsibilities over the years, she is currently focused on:
Susan lectures regularly before a wide variety of legal audiences, and has authored articles (and has regular columns) on a number of professional and managerial topics for such publications as the ACC Docket, Legal Times, InsideCounsel, Corporate Counsel, National Law Journal, Litigation, Business Law Today, Law Firm, Inc., as well as for various law and business reviews, international legal magazines, and state bar publications. She’s been quoted or featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the National Post (Canada), Business Week, USA Today, NPR’s All Things Considered, Nightly Business Report, Bloomberg News Network, and on Fox News Network, as well as in most every significant legal publication.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Street Law, Inc., and a former member of the board of Equal Justice Works (formerly NAPIL), and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). She has been an appointed liaison to several American Bar Association Presidential Commissions and Task Forces, including: the Commission on the Multijurisdictional Practice of Law, The Commission on Alternatives to the Billable Hour, the Joint Committee on Lawyer Regulation, the ABA Task Force on Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307, The Attorney-Client Privilege Task Force, and the Commission on Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs), and the Minority Counsel Program. She is the ACC liaison to many bar leadership groups, including ABA Commission on Women and the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Standing Committee on Ethics. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Georgetown Law School’s Journal of Legal Ethics. She is licensed in both Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Cary Klafter is Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, and Corporate Secretary at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California. Mr. Klafter is Director of the Corporate Legal Group, which is responsible for the company's corporate-level legal activities, including SEC matters, finance and treasury, mergers & acquisitions, venture investments, investor relations, Board of Directors and other corporate governance matters. Mr. Klafter also serves as co-chair of the company’s Ethics and Compliance Oversight Committee. Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
Mr. Klafter received a BA and an MS from Michigan State University in 1968 and 1971, respectively, and a JD degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972. Before joining Intel in 1996, Mr. Klafter was a partner in the San Francisco office of the Morrison & Foerster law firm. Mr. Klafter is chair of the Public Company Affairs Committee of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and is a speaker at various legal and business programs.
Ms. Lichtenstein’s career has spanned corporate, government, and private law practice. Prior to joining Baxter in March 2005, Ms. Lichtenstein served as general counsel to the governor of Illinois. Previously, Ms. Lichtenstein worked in the telecommunications industry where she served as general counsel and corporate secretary for both Ameritech Corporation and Tellabs, Inc. She also served as deputy corporation counsel for the City of Chicago after having spent a decade with Schiff Hardin & Waite, where she was a partner working on complex litigation, corporate counseling and internal investigations, with particular emphasis on regulated industries.
Ms. Lichtenstein serves on the boards of numerous civic and philanthropic organizations, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ravinia Festival, Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, and Temple Sholom of Chicago. She is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives Club of Chicago, The Chicago Network, and is a steering committee member of the Senior Businesswomen's Forum. A frequent speaker on corporate governance issues, law department management, and women in business, Ms. Lichtenstein was co-founder and co-chair of the Women in Business, Politics and Powers symposium series.
Ms. Lichtenstein received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Northwestern University Law School.
Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, assists healthcare professionals and their patients with treatment of complex medical conditions, including cancer, hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease and trauma. The company applies its expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives.
Eric C. Liebeler is the Chief Litigation Counsel for Honeywell’s Automation & Control Solutions division, which is a $10 billion business providing a variety of process, control, security, building systems, life safety, environmental and combustion solutions around the world. He is responsible for managing ACS litigation across the world, including risk assessment, counsel retention, discovery, disclosure and trial management.
For over ten years, Mr. Liebeler was a partner in the commercial litigation practice of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. During that time, he represented numerous Fortune 100 companies in a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, including M&A, antitrust, copyright, breach of contract, commercial tort, and product liability cases.
Mr. Liebeler received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and his J.D. from Duke University in 1989, where he was an article editor on the Duke Law Journal. He then clerked for the Hon. J.L. Edmonson on the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit. He is an occasional competitor in the World Series of Poker.
Jason Maxwell is Assistant General Counsel—Litigation for Cardinal Health, a Fortune 20 global healthcare company. Jason is lead litigation counsel for Cardinal Health’s Medical Products and Technologies segment, which develops and manufactures over four million medical and surgical products, and provides a wide range of innovative technologies and services to the healthcare industry. In his role, Jason counsels the company on risk avoidance issues, conducts internal investigations, represents the company in all types of litigation matters, disputes, and governmental investigations, formulates litigation strategy and actively manages outside counsel, and secures and manages insurance assets to defray the costs of litigation and settlements.
Before joining Cardinal Health, Jason practiced civil litigation, with an emphasis on business and commercial cases as well as products liability matters. He has represented product manufacturers as national counsel in two mass torts, and has significant jury trial experience, having tried more than three-dozen cases to verdict.
Richard (Dick) Mosher has 35 years of private practice and in-house legal experience. He has worked for multi-billion dollar multinationals, small high tech start-ups, non-profits and governmental agencies, and consulted with law firms and corporations world-wide on inside-outside counsel relationships.
He currently serves as the Chief Legal Officer for Loctronix Corporation, Woodinville, WA. In addition to his responsibilities at Loctronix, he also serves as an employment litigation consultant for United States Postal Service and as a faculty member at the University of Phoenix, Graduate School of Business.
Dick has been a speaker for the ACCA, ABA, HSBA, corporations and law firms on international law-customs, cross-cultural negotiations, business transactions and strategic alliances, litigation management, crises management and law firm marketing. His previous professional roles included serving as the Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Identify Theft Task Force, Assistant General Counsel of the Ball Corporation and Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Maytag-Hoover. Richard Mosher has also served as the Director, Tacoma, WA Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Network and as Chairs for the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Law Department Management Committee, ACC International Legal Affairs Committee and ACC Counsel of Committees, and also as a member of their BOD Selection Committee. He received his JD from Northwestern University Law School and his B.A. from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.
Paul Smith’s responsibilities within the firm are varied. He is an elected member of the firm's Board of Directors and of the firm's Constitutional Committee. He is also head of the Regulatory practice and over the years he has defended a number of multi-national companies in relation to criminal investigations. These have ranged from chemical plant explosions, insider dealing, railway disasters, price-fixing, environmental incidents and other major crises in the UK, Europe and the US.
Paul is also an acknowledged expert on law firm partnering and convergence as a result of his role as client partner for DuPont. Eversheds was the first non-US firm to be added to the DuPont Partner Law Firm Programme and he provides consultancy services to in-house legal departments on external law firm management. He is also a Visiting Professor at Nottingham Law School. He graduated from Warwick University and then trained and practised with Freshfields before joining Eversheds.
Joseph F. Speelman is one of the nation's most experienced and successful legal executives. Mr. Speelman’s litigation philosophy firmly insists that cases be resolved on the basis of principles, as opposed to economics alone.
During his tenure at LyondellBasell, litigation costs for LyondellBasell have been reduced by 80% since he became Chief of Litigation. In the course of his responsibilities, he has successfully presided over claims involving antitrust, complex environmental issues, mass tort litigation (including lead paint, asbestos, benzene and MTBE litigation), internal corporate investigations, and complex international claims involving entities owned by foreign sovereigns.
Mr. Speelman obtained his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1974.
Michael V. Ward recently joined the Kensington Computer Products division of ACCO Brands Corporation as its General Counsel. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary for Targus Group International, Inc., the largest maker of laptop carrying cases in the world. During his tenure at Targus, he handled a well-publicized litigation matter against KPMG, LLP, using several plaintiff law firms which obtained a significant favorable result for Targus.
Prior to joining Targus, Mr. Ward spent nearly a decade with a Fortune 100 company in a variety of executive-level and senior counsel roles handling acquisitions, business development, and capital market transactions. In addition, he also managed the litigation for the company, which included antitrust, business practices, and securities actions. Some of the litigation matters he defended were against several "A-List" plaintiff lawyers and plaintiff law firms.
Mr. Ward is a graduate of Albion College and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and is a frequent speaker at legal seminars.
He earned his MBA from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Syracuse University.
Richard Wingate’s career has primarily been as a Corporate Generalist with extensive in-house experience at international Fortune 500 companies. That experience has focused on Commercial Contracts, Intellectual Property, Logistics, Product Liability, Advertising, Antitrust, e-Commerce, Distribution and Human Resources.
Mr. Wingate led the establishment of the Legal Department policies and procedures for all LGE USA’s American operations, including all U.S. Litigation, Antitrust Training and Regulatory Compliance. Prior to his appointment at LGE, Rick was Senior Counsel at Sony Electronics Inc. from 1985 to 2004. His responsibilities included Litigation Management, Contracts, Licensing and Antitrust counseling and training of the Business & Professional Products Group and the Consumer Sales Division. Rick’s experience extends beyond the electronics industries including not only his tenure as Counsel at Pan Atlantic Group in White Plains, NY (managing insurance & reinsurance treaty & related agreements; for insurance regulatory, litigation and arbitration matters) and also at Chevron USA in New Orleans, LA & Perth Amboy, NJ (1979-1982) where he concentrated on Real Estate & Mineral Leases; Distribution Agreements; Security Agreements; Litigation Supervision; and PMPA Practice.
Education: Tulane University School of Law: JD 1979, Grenoble University Summer Law Program 1977, Rutgers College, Rutgers University: BA 1976
Admissions & Professional Associations: New York & Louisiana State Bars, New Jersey-Corporation Admission, Association of Corporate Counsel, International Association of Corporate Contract Management, Six Sigma
Christopher Wray is a litigation partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Atlanta offices. Mr. Wray chairs the King & Spalding Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group, which represents companies, audit and special committees, and individuals in a variety of white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement matters, parallel civil litigation, and internal corporate investigations.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wray served from 2003 to 2005 as the 33rd Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, having been nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate for that position. Mr. Wray helped lead the Department’s efforts to address the wave of corporate fraud scandals and restore integrity to U.S. financial markets. He served on the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force and oversaw the Enron Task Force and other major fraud investigations, both around the country and internationally.
As the Criminal Division’s head, Mr. Wray led investigations, prosecutions, and policy development in nearly all areas of federal criminal law, including securities fraud, healthcare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and export violations, bank secrecy and money laundering offenses, public corruption, intellectual property piracy, and cybercrime, and racketeering. Mr. Wray was also integral to the DOJ’s response to the 9/11 attacks and played a key role in the oversight of the legal and operational actions in the continuing war on terrorism. At the conclusion of his tenure in 2005, Mr. Wray received one of the Department’s highest honors, the Edmund J. Randolph Award.
