Rick Borden
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

Richard M. Borden has been employed by The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Hartford, CT since April 2002. He is currently Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. His responsibilities include management of the Technology & Intellectual Property Law Unit of the Law Department. The Unit is responsible for all information technology transactions and outsourcing activities at the enterprise. In addition, The Unit is also responsible for intellectual property matters, including trademarks and copyrights.

Prior to joining The Hartford, Mr. Borden served as Counsel at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP in Hartford, CT from October 2000 to April 2002. His experience included handling information technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities, venture capital and general corporate matters.

Mr. Borden was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Paradigm4, Inc. in Hartford, CT from August 1997 to July 2000. He was responsible for all legal affairs of wireless data communications services and systems integration company.

Mr. Borden began his legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York.

Mr. Borden attended New York University School of Law. Mr. Borden received a B.A. in Psychology from Amherst College.

 

Eric I. Cohen
Senior Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel
Terex Corporation

Eric I Cohen joined the Company on January 1, 1998 as Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, he was a partner with the New York City law firm of Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP (now Bryan Cave LLP) since January 1992 and was an associate attorney with that firm from 1983 to 1992.

Eric is a member of the senior executive leadership team and his responsibilities include the management of all global legal affairs, SEC matters, product safety, ethics and compliance, as well as participation in the general management, strategy, and administrative aspects of Terex’s business.

Terex Corporation is a diversified global manufacturer with 2008 net sales of $9.9 billion. Terex operates in four business segments: Terex Aerial Work Platforms, Terex Construction, Terex Cranes, and Terex Materials Processing & Mining. Terex manufactures a broad range of equipment for use in various industries, including the construction, infrastructure, quarrying, surface mining, shipping, transportation, refining, and utility industries.

 

Brandon Daniels
Vice President, Legal Services Outsourcing 
CPA Global

As Vice President of Legal Services Outsourcing at CPA Global, Brandon manages US legal services delivery for Fortune 1000 corporations. With over 200 attorneys across the US and teams in Europe and Asia he works with clients to coordinate regulatory matters and disputes globally. He has extensive experience managing large matters, including multi-million and billion dollar investigatory matters responding to the SEC, FTC and DOJ.

Brandon organizes legal onshore and offshore operations for clients and advises them 
on legal operations strategy. He has extensive knowledge and experience in class action and multi-district litigation, e-discovery, and responding to government investigations.

Prior to working with CPA Global, Brandon managed matters for in-house and outside counsel and has developed expertise in a wide range of case types including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Off-Label Promotion, Qui Tam, Securities, Patent Infringement, Licensing Dispute, and Antitrust matters.

Brandon’s representative matters include:

• Advised on the management, collection, and presentation of evidence in a major pharmaceutical patent infringement suit.
• Advised in the defense of a large SEC investigation into stock option grant practices
• While working with in-house counsel, managed a large HSR second request process for the sale of a subsidiary business with over 2 terabytes of data collected, searched, and reviewed.
• Managed a team responding to the FTC’s investigation of a merger in the mining industry

 

William L. Deckelman, Jr.
Vice President & General Counsel 
CSC

Bill Deckelman is Vice President and General Counsel of CSC, a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With revenues of $17 billion and over 92,000 employees, CSC is a global provider of IT-enabled solutions and services to government and commercial clients in over 100 countries. Mr. Deckelman is responsible for CSC’s global legal, contracts and compliance organizations. The CSC legal department includes 110 attorneys located in the United States and sixteen other countries and the contracts organization includes over 400 global contract professionals.

Mr. Deckelman joined CSC in 2008. Previously he served as General Counsel of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., Dallas, Texas. Throughout his legal career he has practiced both as outside and in-house counsel, specializing in corporate, securities and information technology law. He received his J.D., with Honors, from the University of Arkansas School of Law where he was a member of the Arkansas Law Review. Mr. Deckelman is currently enrolled in the L.L.M. program in International Business and Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

 

Tanuja Dehne
Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
NRG Energy

Ms. Dehne is Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), an S&P 500, competitive power generator headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Ms. Dehne is responsible for corporate governance; corporate transactions, including financings, mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings; as well as securities and stock exchange matters. Ms. Dehne is the primary executive liaison to the Board of Directors and each of its six standing committees.

NRG’s Corporate Secretary Team with Ms. Dehne at the helm was awarded Corporate Governance Team of the Year (small-mid cap) by Corporate Secretary Magazine in November 2009 based on an outstanding governance program that underpinned the successful defense of the unsolicited exchange offer and proxy contest for control of NRG by Exelon Corporation while advancing overall governance practices.

In 2009, Ms. Dehne also served as project and legal lead on the acquisition, financing and integration of Reliant Energy, a retail electricity provider in Houston, Texas, including the intellectual property, marketing and branding of “Reliant Energy” and naming rights of Reliant Stadium. She also led a cross-functional team that negotiated and structured the approximately $1.7 billion Merrill Lynch Credit Sleeve to support the retail business.

Prior to joining NRG, Ms. Dehne was a member of Saul Ewing’s Business Department in the firm’s Philadelphia and Princeton offices where she represented public and private companies in a variety of industries, including biotechnology, telecommunications and emerging businesses in a range of complex securities and commercial transactions.

Ms. Dehne is a Member of the Board of Trustees of HomeFront of New Jersey and the United Way of Greater Mercer County. She received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Lafayette College.

 

Anthony D'Iorio
Assistant General Counsel & Assistant Secretary
Crane Co.

Anthony D’Iorio joined Crane Co. (NYSE: CR) in 2005 as Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. Crane Co. is a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products with a substantial presence in a number of focused niche markets. Prior to joining Crane Co., Mr. D’Iorio served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of ALSTOM Inc., the US subsidiary of French based ALSTOM SA, serving the energy and transportation markets (1998-2004), and practiced law in New York City at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP (1995-1998), and Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon (1988-1995).

Education:

Pace University, B.A. Literature and Communications
New York Law School, J.D. cum laude
INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France – Exec. Management Program

Admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut

 

Jeffrey H. Greene
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP

Jeffrey H. Greene is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is chair of the firm’s Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practice and the New York office Intellectual Property Department. Mr. Greene counsels foreign and domestic clients on all aspects of intellectual property including trademarks, copyrights, licensing, enforcement, litigation, advertising, software, technology, e-commerce, the Internet, unfair competition and trade dress. He provides intellectual property counseling on issues relating to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and other business transactions, including due diligence, agreement/contract drafting, licensing and negotiation, opinions and transfer issues and regularly provides strategic advice relating to foreign and domestic trademark selection, clearance, prosecution and global portfolio management. He has experience in addressing all of these issues in a variety of industries, including financial services, beverages, consumer products, computer software, pharmaceuticals, media, publishing, medical devices, building materials, telecommunications and clothing.

Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Greene was a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Mr. Greene received his J.D. from Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1996, where he was an articles editor for the Journal of International and Comparative Law, and received his B.A. from Cornell University, 1992.

Mr. Greene is an active member of the International Trademark Association, where he currently serves on the U.S. Programs Committee for the 2010 annual meeting and the U.S. Roundtables Project Team. He previously served on the U.S. Programs Committee for INTA's 2008 annual meeting and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, as well as the Trademarks and Unfair Competition Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Greene is admitted to practice in New York.

Presentations and Publications:
• Co-author, "IP Protection Menu for Medical Devices," Legal News: Medical Devices, November 2008 
• Moderator/Panelist, ALM’s 20th Annual General Counsel Conference: IP Defense and Brand Protection, June 2008
• Moderator, International Trademark Association's (INTA) 130th Annual Meeting, Topic: Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights: Understanding the Interplay, May 2008
• Speaker, annual ALI-ABA Conference: Fundamentals of Trademarks, Copyrights & Unfair Competition: Protection and Enforcement in the Digital Age for the General Practitioner and Corporate Counsel, Topic: Selecting Strong and Enforceable Marks, 1999 – present
• Speaker, Eastern Region Meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers, Topic: What’s in a Name: A Trademark Law Primer, June 2000
• Co-author, "Is the FTDA Diluting Trademark Law," New York Law Journal, May 2001
• Co-author, "Email and Ethics: Safeguarding Client Confidences," Corporate Business and Banking Law Journal, Summer 1998

 

Lawrence M. Harnett
General Counsel
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation

Larry was born and raised in Rockville Centre, New York. He attended the State University of New York at Albany and graduated in 1978 with a B.A. Degree magna cum laude in Political Science and Economics. He then went on to the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles where he received a Juris Doctorate in 1981. From 1981 to 1996, Larry practiced law in New York City with the international law firms of Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens and Marks & Murase, becoming a partner at Marks & Murase in 1989.

Larry joined the Plastics division of General Electric in September 1996 as Senior Counsel – Americas. After progressing through a series of roles with increasing responsibilities, in May 2007, Larry was appointed the General Counsel of GE Plastics. Upon the sale of GE Plastics to SABIC in September 2007, he became the General Counsel of SABIC Innovative Plastics. On November 1, 2009, Larry was appointed to his current role as General Counsel of SABIC, the ultimate parent company of SABIC Innovative Plastics.

Larry and his wife Rosemary have three children, Kerry (age 22), Kevin (age 19) and Laura (age 15). They live in Dalton, Massachusetts.

 

John Jessen
Founder and Board Member
Daticon Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.

• Founder, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Incorporated
• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board, The Sedona Conference®
• Chair and Editor-in-Chief, The Sedona Conference® “Discovery 2.0” Drafting Team
• Technical Advisor and Steering Committee Member, The Sedona Conference® Working Groups on Electronic Discovery, Document Retention and International Discovery
• Board Member, Harvard Law School Judicial Education Program
• Technical Expert to Sedona Canada in its development of electronic discovery guidelines and best practices

John Jessen founded EED, Inc. in 1987 with the vision that a group of specialists combining technical and legal expertise would be needed to address the growing number of electronic evidence issues facing the legal profession. To meet the needs of his clients, Mr. Jessen hired a diverse team of experts, from trial lawyers to software engineers, creating the first company in the industry.

With over twenty years of experience in the computer industry, John has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Le Monde, Newsweek, Forbes, among many others, and on CBS’ 60 Minutes, 20/20 and the Discovery Channel. He has been called the “Best of the breed” of electronic evidence experts by the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal and “The nation’s foremost authority on secret or deleted computer files” by Entrepreneur Magazine.

John assists in-house counsel and attorneys in utilizing electronic data in litigation and organizations in developing and implementing electronic data retention and riskreduction programs. He also serves as discovery expert and court and/or partyappointed Special Master, neutral, or mediator.

Please contact John by email at jjessen@eedinc.com.

 

Robin Johnson
Partner
Eversheds

Robin is a leading cross border M&A lawyer who also heads up Eversheds' Industrial Engineering sector group. He is consistently ranked, by Mergermarket, in the top 10 lawyers in Europe for the last five years and has been voted for two years in a row as the Insider Corporate Lawyer of the Year. Robin has lectured extensively in terms of cross border M&A both in Europe and in the United States and is a regular thought leader on such topics. He is a member of the American Bar Association.

"Clients, like us all, require and demand consistency and confidence in the team, clear communication and control of process. This is even more important on cross border processes. The cross border teams I work with all appreciate that the whole is greater than the sum of parts, but the parts are totally interdependent on each other. Whilst automation is the future to all processes, our goal is to constantly strive to achieve the most efficient process on budget and on time."

 

Montgomery Kosma
Vice President, Legal Services Outsourcing 
CPA Global

As Vice President of Legal Services Outsourcing for CPA Global, Montgomery Kosma advises corporate legal departments and outside counsel on integrating CPA Global’s managed review and LPO services into their overall legal operations. His twenty years’ experience in legal practice, top management consulting, and technology make him an effective partner in designing modern, cost/risk balanced strategies for procurement and management of legal services – particularly in largescale, high-stakes litigation and investigations. Monty brings deep legal expertise to CPA Global. He spent half of his prior career as a member of the global litigation and antitrust practices at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Jones Day, spanning civil and criminal investigations, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and sensitive internal inquiries. He was deeply involved in numerous high-profile matters, such as the FTC’s investigation of Intel, P&G’s acquisitions of Gillette and Wella, the DOJ’s investigations of the DRAM, parcel tanker shipping, and rubber products industries, and the Bush-Gore Supreme Court litigation. He served as chief counsel in several matters, including a RICO case in federal district court and a fraud and false advertising case before the 11th Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Monty also has a history of transformational leadership. Applying Lean Manufacturing processes and technologies to large-scale mergers and class actions, Monty saved clients millions of dollars by tripling attorney review productivity while driving up initial decision quality. Passionate about operations transformation, Monty left the realm of big law firms to join McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. During his management consulting career, he helped C-level executives and General Counsels carry out operations reengineering, organization design, and records management programs in the pharmaceutical, financial services, and media industries. In addition, he was profiled in the business bestseller Get Out Of Your Own Way for co-founding the Green Bag, a catalyst for change in legal scholarship and the only independent publication among the nation’s top five law journals.

Education

• Harvey Mudd College – B.S. Physics, with distinction

• University of Chicago Law School – J.D. with high honors, Olin Prize in Law & Economics, Order of the Coif

• Judicial clerkship, Hon. David B. Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

 

Seth Krauss
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Take-Two Interactive Software

Seth Krauss is an Executive Vice President and the General Counsel of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two”), a leading world-wide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software, hardware and accessories, which is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. Seth joined the Company in March 2007. Take-Two is globally headquartered in New York City with its international operations headquartered in Windsor, United Kingdom and has roughly 2,750 employees located around the world. Take-Two has more than 15 wholly-owned development studios located in North America, Eastern and Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region as well as sales, marketing and QA offices located in more ten countries around the globe. Seth is Responsible for legal affairs and risk management, governmental and self-regulatory compliance, global insurance and internal audit, managing a global team of 25, including 15 attorneys. Mr. Krauss is a member of the executive management team for the company.

Prior to joining Take-Two, Seth served in the Legal and Compliance Division of Morgan Stanley, a global financial services company, first as Vice President and Counsel and then as Executive Director and Counsel from March 2004 to March 2007, where most recently he had been responsible for coordinating all significant regulatory and law enforcement matters for Morgan Stanley in the United States and served as one of the firm’s senior liaisons to its U.S.-based financial regulators and law enforcement agencies. From 1995 until joining Morgan Stanley in March 2004, Mr. Krauss served first as an Assistant District Attorney and then as a Senior Investigative Counsel in the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where his work included leading complex, long-term investigations into violations of securities, banking, accounting, taxation and related laws and regulations, working closely with the SEC, FINRA (formerly the NASD and NYSE Regulation, Inc.), as well as numerous state, federal and international financial regulators and law enforcement agencies. His work included leading that office’s investigation into the role of financial institutions in Enron’s collapse. From 1992 until 1995, Seth served as a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Duke University. While on the Board, Seth served on the Business and Finance Committee and Student Affairs Committee.

Mr. Krauss graduated Washington University, School of Law in 1995. Prior to that, Seth graduated with honors from Duke University in 1992, where he received his BA in history and political science.

 

Philip Livingston
Chief Executive Officer, Martindale-Hubbell 
and
Senior Vice President, LexisNexis US Legal Markets

Phil Livingston has extensive experience as an operating executive and board member. As CEO of Martindale-Hubbell®, he leads the LexisNexis Marketing and Business Solutions division that provides marketing services and analytics for law firms, as well as tools to help corporate counsel reduce risk in hiring counsel, collaborate online, manage expenses and increase productivity. The division includes martindale.com®, one of the most frequently used resources for lawyer and law firm information on the Web, Martindale-Hubbell® Connected, a global online networking and collaboration community specifically for legal professionals, and CounselLinkTM, an integrated solution to help corporate counsel oversee matters, manage costs and improve collaboration with outside counsel.

Livingston was President and CEO of Financial Executives International (FEI) from 1999 to 2003. FEI is the preeminent association for senior financial executives acting as an advocate to regulators and legislators. In this role he had significant participation in formulation and passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 giving formal testimony to the House Financial Services Committee and directly authoring sections 406 and 407 regarding ethical codes of conduct for corporate financial officers and audit committee financial experts. He also attended the White House bill-signing ceremony. He has appeared on Moneyline with Lou Dobbs, CNBC’s Wake Up Call and Power Lunch as well as Nightly Business Report from PBS. Livingston is widely published including “Test your Financial Literacy” – Directors & Boards; “Financial Management after Enron” – Bank Accounting & Finance; “The Value of Stock Options”, “American Governance Laws Need Fixing” – both pieces for the Op Ed page of the Financial Times.

From 2003 to 2005 he was Chief Financial Officer and Director of World Wrestling Entertainment. Prior to joining FEI, Livingston served as CFO of Catalina Marketing Corporation, a supplier of electronically-targeted marketing services for the consumer packaged goods industry.

Before joining Catalina, Livingston was CFO of Celestial Seasonings, where he successfully managed the company’s initial public offering and debt refinancing in 1993. His early career included positions in financial management and auditing with Genentech, Inc. and Ernst & Young, where he earned his CPA. He received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and both a BS and a BA from the University of Maryland.

Prior to entering the business world, Livingston played offensive tackle as a member of the 1981 Super Bowl Champion Oakland Raiders. He is a past member of both advisory councils to the U.S. and International Financial Accounting Standards Boards (IASB and FASB). He is a member of The Economic Club of New York. Phil and his wife Karen have three children, Sarah, Scott and Cindy.

 

Joe Looby
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting

Joe Looby is a senior managing director in the FTI Technology segment, delivering consulting expertise and advanced technology for investigations, antitrust and complex litigation matters, and is based in New York. He has provided expert testimony and consulting on economic and technology issues and appeared before regulatory agencies on diverse matters. Mr. Looby has spoken and written extensively on litigation technology, electronic evidence and computer forensics. Joe is a former U.S. Navy JAG Lieutenant, an experienced regulator, and published software developer.

Mr. Looby is a contributing author and lecturer at the Sedona Conference, for projects including: Search & Retrieval Sciences; and, E-Discovery Quality Methods & Metrics. Joe has also participated in studies on search technology effectiveness, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and DOD Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA). His industry experience includes advertising, banking, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceutical, securities, technology, and staffing sectors.

Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Looby provided forensic technology leadership to Deloitte’s National Audit Technology Steering Committee, on the implementation of SAS 99 to detect fraud in financial statement audits; he trained a team of more than 50 forensic technologists and accountants on the FASTech data interrogation approach; and, he led Deloitte’s nationally deployed FASTech teams to perform forensic procedures for high-risk billion-dollar market cap audit clients.

Prior to that, Mr. Looby was associate counsel for New York State’s Environmental Enforcement Agency. There he prosecuted air, water and solid waste enforcement actions and served as liaison with EPA’s Enforcement Steering Committee, the Environmental Council of States (ECOS), DOJ, NOAA, DOI and Native Tribes. Mr. Looby also served as a. U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Lieutenant where he prosecuted and defended service members at courts-martial and administrative discharge boards.

Mr. Looby is the patented co-inventor of the “system, software and method for examining a database in a forensic accounting environment.” He is credited with developing the FASTech Profiler, a proprietary software tool that creates interactive maps to the GL (called "profiles") and VISTA, a software program used by hundreds of professionals to track the detection and resolution of environmental enforcement violations. Joe has a B.A. in economics from Fordham University and a J.D. from Union University School of Law. He is a certified fraud examiner, a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is licensed to practice law in New York and Connecticut.

 

Peter Lurie
General Counsel & Co-Founder
Virgin Mobile USA

Peter Lurie is a senior vice president of Sprint and heads the Prepaid Group’s Legal & Business Affairs team. He has a broad management role, evaluates, structures and negotiates key deals with critical vendors, advances regulatory positions and oversees litigation relating to the prepaid operations.

Prior to the merger with Sprint in November 2009, Mr. Lurie was the general counsel of Virgin Mobile USA, and, as co-founder, had a key role in the formation and launch of the company. He guided the venture from the start-up phase through its national launch and rapid growth, managed several capital transactions, an initial public offering and a strategic acquisition of a competitor. Mr. Lurie structured some of the more innovative deals in the digital media and was also responsible for public company reporting obligations, litigation matters and regulatory compliance.

Previously, Lurie served as principal of a private equity group for a German bank, which completed the first public offering of a private equity fund of funds in Europe. Prior to that, he worked on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Lurie is a graduate of Dartmouth College and The University of Chicago Law School.

 

Charles R. Macedo
Partner
Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP

Charles R. Macedo advises and litigates in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark and copyright law, with a special emphasis in complex litigation. He also assists clients in obtaining, maintaining and enforcing patent and trademark portfolios. He has successfully recovered domain names registered to others using clients’ trademarks. Mr. Macedo is the author of The Corporate Insider's Guide to U.S. Patent Practice, being published by Oxford University Press.

Identifying vulnerabilities and considering variations on design concepts, Mr. Macedo can develop patent strategies intended to maximize patent protection and prevent infringement challenges from arising in the future. He has represented clients in intellectual property litigation involving a wide range of subject matter including photomasks, angular rate sensors, methods of taking checks over the telephone, financial service products, internet websites, inventory control systems, cosmetics, nickel metal hydride batteries, cell phones, fax machines, answering machines, telephone switching equipment, inflatable chairs, money market mutual funds, designer handbags, apparel, cathode ray tube displays, projectors, DRAM, semiconductor chips, to name a few.

In the business and computer implemented invention arena, even before the State Street case was decided, Mr. Macedo (along with Mr. Lo Cicero) successfully defended the Discover Card division of Morgan, Stanley from charges of patent infringement and obtained a summary judgment of noninfringement. Mr. Macedo also acts as regular intellectual property counsel to Double Rock Corporation and its related entities. Mr. Macedo was also principal attorney on an amicus submission in In re Bilski. He is frequently consulted on developing effective patent strategies for computer implemented and business related inventions for financial service companies, Software-As-A-Service provider and clients with other internet and computer based inventions.

In the field of trademarks, Mr. Macedo has enforced and defended against trademark assertions involving a wide range of products and services including financial service providers, non-profit organizations, cosmetic companies, luxury retailers of designer handbags, and department store house brands.

He was the sole law clerk to Hon. Daniel M. Friedman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1989 - 1990.

He has published papers, and lectures on various topics and has been the recipient of the prestigious AIPLA Robert C. Watson Award.

Mr. Macedo holds bachelors and masters degrees in physics from The Catholic University of America and a law degree from Columbia Law School, both of which he graduated with honors.

 

Bill Mariano, Esq.
Director, Northeast Electronic Discovery
Applied Discovery

Bill Mariano is an attorney and director of electronic discovery of the northeastern region at Applied Discovery, a division of LexisNexis. In his role, Mr. Mariano works from the New York and Washington D.C. offices with Fortune 500 corporations and AmLaw 100 law firms in the northeastern United States to help clients improve their strategies for handling complex discovery matters while creating greater cost and control efficiencies throughout the discovery process.

Before joining Applied Discovery, Mr. Mariano served as a senior internet business development consultant for a Fortune 100 communications company. In this role, he coordinated strategic relationships with other Fortune 100 companies and spoke on the emerging internet medium as a vehicle to advance a company’s message to a global market.

Mr. Mariano also previously practiced at Tompkins McGuire Wachenfeld & Barry LLC where he focused on securities class action defense. As part of his practice, he gained experience managing document reviews on Concordance and various Web-based solutions.

Mr. Mariano earned his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and a B.A. in Business from the State University of New York at Oneonta, where he graduated with honors.

Mr. Mariano works as a guest trial advocacy instructor at Seton Hall University where he teaches students how to leverage technology in practice. He is also a frequent presenter and author on a variety of topics including: How to Develop an Electronic Discovery Action Plan; The FRCP Amendments: Dealing with Electronic Discovery; Emerging Case Law in Electronic Discovery; and Leveraging Technology to Reduce Discovery Costs.

 

Erin L. Martin
Editor in Chief
Counsel to Counsel

As Director at LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell®, Erin Martin brings over a decade of marketing and publishing industry experience to her role as moderator. During this time, she has served as Director of the Counsel to Counsel roundtable program. Erin helped create the Counsel to Counsel magazine in 2003 and currently serves as the publication’s Editor in Chief, bringing to life a wealth of best practices, horizon issues and practical approaches to the challenges facing in-house counsel and their trusted legal advisers.

Erin has played a major role as part of the team contributing to Martindale-Hubbell Connected, the premier online global network for legal professional, since its inception. Connect with her on Connected. Prior to joining LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, she worked at U.S. News & World Report in New York City. She currently resides in Sparta, N.J. with her husband.

 

Michael O. McCarthy, III
Chief Legal Officer
Infinera Corporation

Michael McCarthy is Infinera Corporation's Chief Legal Officer. Infinera Corporation is a communications equipment provider. Infinera’s solution is based on a set of unique large-scale photonic integrated circuits (“PICs”). The Infinera PICs transmit and receive 100 Gbps of optical capacity and incorporate the functionality of over 60 discrete optical components into a pair of indium phosphide chips approximately the size of a child’s fingernail. Infinera has used this unique PIC technology to design a new digital optical communications system. This system is architected to improve significantly communications service providers’ economics and service offerings as compared to traditional WDM systems.

As Infinera’s Chief Legal Officer, Mr. McCarthy is responsible for all legal matters impacting the Company, including managing all legal aspects of corporate, securities, intellectual property and employment matters. This includes providing legal counsel to other members of Infinera’s management team and to its Board of Directors. At Infinera Mr. McCarthy helped lead the Company through several rounds of private equity financing prior to Infinera’s $120 million initial public offering in June 2007 and subsequent $220 million public offering of common stock in October 2007. Mr. McCarthy joined Infinera in May 2003 as Vice President and General Counsel.

Prior to joining Infinera Mr. McCarthy was with Ciena Corporation, a communications equipment company, from September 1997 through March 2003. At Ciena Mr. McCarthy served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel and the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Support. During his tenure at Ciena, Mr. McCarthy managed the company’s $2.2 billion acquisition of Cyras Corporation in March 2001, its $483 million acquisition of Omnia Corporation in July 1999, and its $459 million acquisition of Lightera Corporation in March 1999. Mr. McCarthy also led the successful defense of a shareholder class action, initiated in August 1998 and dismissed with prejudice in May 2000, and successfully prosecuted and defended lawsuits involving the Company, including four lawsuits challenging the validity of the company’s non-competition agreement. His work with these lawsuits was featured in a February 6, 2001 Wall Street Journal front-page article. Also, Mr. McCarthy managed and expanded Ciena’s intellectual property portfolio through a combination of patent and trademark filings, license arrangements and joint development arrangements, including the increase of approximately 200 patents and patent applications and led the successful patent infringement litigation against Corvis Corporation.

Prior to joining Ciena Mr. McCarthy worked in Washington, D,C, at MCI Communications Corp as part of its legal mergers and acquisitions group and at the law firms of Hogan & Hartson LLP and Baker & McKenzie LLP. Mr. McCarthy holds a B.A. in Mathematical-Economics from Colgate University and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University's School of Law.

 

Mark M. McGuire
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Eaton Corporation

Mark M. McGuire is executive vice president and general counsel of Eaton Corporation, a $15.4 billion global diversified power management company.

In this role, he is responsible for all general legal matters involving the company, its product groups and related trade regulation, and intellectual property issues. In addition, he serves as counsel to the Board of Directors and advises the board on legal and governance matters.

McGuire joined Eaton in December 2005 from International Paper Company, where he held positions of increasing responsibility beginning in 1992. Prior to becoming vice president and deputy general counsel in 2003, he served as associate general counsel, general counsel – Europe, and senior legal counsel to the corporate development function.

Previously a partner with Powell, Goldstein LLP, a law firm with offices in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., McGuire holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a J. Hardy Dillard Fellow. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with distinction, from George Washington University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

McGuire is a member of the Board and Chair of the Governance Committee of The Cleveland Play House and president of the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals, Inc.

McGuire is located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Eaton is a global technology leader in electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton has approximately 75,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com.

 

Brian Miller
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
The AES Corporation

Mr. Miller is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of the AES Corporation. He is a member of the Executive Office of AES. AES is a Fortune 500 global power company with generation and distribution businesses. AES owns and manage over $40 billion in total assets. Through a diverse portfolio of thermal and renewable fuel sources, AES provides affordable and sustainable energy in 29 countries. The AES workforce of 27,000 people is committed to operational excellence and meeting the world's changing power needs. AES’ 2009 revenues were $14 billion.

As AES’ General Counsel, Mr. Miller has responsibility for managing the Company's complex and material global legal issues, including dispute resolution efforts, and his team provides support for the Company's financing, growth and portfolio management activities. He also is responsible for the Company's corporate governance, corporate government relations and ethics & compliance initiatives.

Mr. Miller joined the Company’s legal department as Assistant General Counsel in 2001. In 2002, he was appointed Regional General Counsel for AES’ North America businesses. He was appointed Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary in 2003 and assumed his current role in 2006. He has twice served as the Company’s Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, most recently assuming such role during 2008-2009. He was responsible from 2007-2009 for the Company’s Independent Review Department, which conducts an independent review of proposed investments by AES above a certain material threshold.

Mr. Miller also currently heads the Company's International Climate Strategy & Policy Department, coordinating AES’ business development strategy with sustainable energy and climate change policy goals. In addition, as Head of Government Affairs, Mr. Miller liaises with Heads of State and local government officials to spearhead AES investment initiatives and ensure AES businesses operate in alignment with applicable regulations.

Mr. Miller is a Board member of AES Solar, a joint venture with Riverstone Holdings, LLC, which was formed in 2008 and now has more than 30 MW of Photovoltaic solar projects in Europe. He also sits on the Board of AES Agcert, a wholly owned subsidiary of AES that produces and sells greenhouse gas emission credits from agricultural sources on an industrial scale.

Prior to joining AES, Mr. Miller was Of Counsel with the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, LLP.

 

Paul Neale
President & Chief Executive Officer
DOAR Litigation Consulting

As President & CEO of DOAR Litigation Consulting and a principal consultant in the firm's Discovery Consulting practice, Paul Neale has leveraged over 20 years of managing complex litigation matters to build one of the industry's most successful litigation consulting firms. Under his direction, DOAR has become the only company that has centralized all services needed to manage large, complex litigation matters. Paul has assembled a management team of experts in the fields of electronic discovery, jury consulting and trial presentation to create an organization whose scope of services and expertise is unparalleled. Nationally recognized as an expert in overall case management with an emphasis on the management and production of electronic evidence and the use of technology at trial, Paul is a published author, speaker and accredited CLE instructor. He consults clients on implementing best practices, the current state of the law as it relates to the evolution of the rules of evidence and the impact of technology in displaying evidence on jurors' decision-making.

Paul is a testifying expert in state and federal court regarding the proper preservation, collection and production of electronic evidence and routinely supports clients in their negotiations with opposing counsel or regulatory/government agencies. He testified before the advisory committee which drafted FRE 502 dealing with privilege waiver. He has prepared affidavits outlining best practices in the handling of electronic evidence and the defensibility of response programs on behalf of his clients. He is also a member of the Sedona Conference working groups focusing on document retention and production and on international electronic discovery issues.

Paul is graduated from Temple University and has taken advanced courses at the Wharton School of Business.

 

Sarah A. O’Connor
Senior Vice President, Strategic Development and Chief Legal Officer 
Arch Chemicals, Inc.

Sarah A. O’Connor is Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Arch Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE: ARJ), a global biocides company with approximately $1.5 billion in annual sales. Ms. O’Connor is responsible for all legal matters involving Arch Chemicals and its foreign and domestic subsidiaries. Her responsibilities also include the corporate secretarial function and the Company’s strategic development and planning activities.

Ms. O’Connor joined Olin Corporation in 1989 as an associate counsel in the Law Department, having responsibility for legal matters in the water chemicals business. As a member of the Law Department, Ms. O’Connor assumed increasing levels of responsibility for legal matters associated with the specialty chemicals businesses, including day-to-day commercial matters, litigation support, transactions and antitrust counseling. She was promoted to counsel in 1992 and to senior counsel in January 1995.

In March 1995, Ms. O’Connor became Director, Planning and Development, responsible for the identification and implementation of profitable growth opportunities and the structure and negotiation of acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. She played a key role in Olin’s spin-off of Arch Chemicals. At Arch, Ms. O‘Connor has had responsibility for a number of corporate functions, including strategic development, risk management, government relations and regulatory affairs. She was instrumental in Arch’s acquisition of Hickson International, PLC and subsequent integration and divestiture activities. As General Counsel, she has managed complex litigations and settlements.

Earlier in her career, Ms. O’Connor was employed as a senior attorney by the Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., having responsibility for commercial and real estate matters and litigation management. She also worked in the Law Department of American Home Products Corporation from 1983 through 1987, where she focused on corporate and securities law matters.

Ms. O’Connor received a Bachelor of Science degree from Mercy College. She also earned a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1984 and a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University in 1997.

Ms. O’Connor is a member of the American Bar Association, the Westchester/ Southern Connecticut American Chapter of the Corporate Counsel Association (WESFACCA) and the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. She is also a member of the Advisory Board to the Mercy College School of Business. Ms. O’Connor is admitted to practice in the state of New York and is certified as Authorized House Counsel in the state of Connecticut.

Ms. O’Connor is located at Arch Chemicals’ headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut.

 

Michael Reilly
Assistant General Counsel
FMC Corporation

Michael Reilly is Assistant General Counsel of FMC Corporation, a diversified global chemical company headquartered in Philadelphia. Michael is also Group Counsel for FMC’s Agricultural Products Group, FMC’s largest business unit, which serves the crop protection needs of farmers throughout the world. Michael and the APG legal team handle matters ranging from commercial agreements and M&A, to complex regulatory litigation and patent enforcement, with a goal of delivering all such advice in a practical, timely and cost-effective manner. Michael received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and earned his law degree at Harvard Law School. After a clerkship with Judge Kenneth Ripple of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, he practiced commercial litigation and environmental law at New York and Philadelphia law firms before going in-house in 1995. Michael joined FMC in 2002. Michael is admitted to the bar in New York and Pennsylvania.

 

Kim K.W. Rucker
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Avon Products, Inc

Kim K.W. Rucker, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Avon Products, Inc., directs all of Avon’s legal operations, which include matters relating to corporate governance, compliance, litigation, contracts, government affairs and intellectual property.

Prior to joining Avon in March 2008, Ms. Rucker was Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer for Energy Future Holdings, Corp. (formerly known as TXU Corp.) where she played a key role in the company’s recent $45 billion private equity transaction. She also guided its Board of Directors and senior management on numerous legal, business and policy-related matters, including: corporate governance; regulatory and compliance issues; strategic business transactions; executive compensation; disclosure strategy; corporate secretary and security functions.

Previously, Ms. Rucker was corporate counsel for Kimberly-Clark Corporation at its world headquarters in Dallas, Texas, with responsibilities in corporate governance, corporate transactions, securities law and other general legal matters. Earlier in her career, Ms. Rucker was a partner in the Corporate & Securities group at Sidley Austin in Chicago, Illinois.

Ms. Rucker is a 1987 Harry S. Truman Scholar and holds a B.B.A. in Economics from the University of Iowa from which she graduated with highest honors in 1989.

Ms. Rucker earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1993.

Ms. Rucker does extensive speaking on various legal, governance and related topics.

 

Thomas J. Sabatino, Jr.
Former Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Schering-Plough Corporation

Thomas J. Sabatino Jr. was executive vice president and general counsel of Schering-Plough Corporation, having served in that capacity since joining the company in 2004 until the merger of Schering-Plough and Merck and Co. in November 2009. He was responsible for overseeing the legal operations of the company globally, including formulating corporate legal policy and supervising inside and outside counsel. In addition to leading the law function, he was also responsible for global communications (including external, internal and product communications), federal, state and international public affairs, corporate social responsibility, global administrative services and corporate security. He was a member of the Executive Management Team.

Prior to joining Schering-Plough, Sabatino served as senior vice president and general counsel for Baxter International Inc. in Deerfield, Ill. In that role, he was responsible for the legal operations of the company, as well as compliance, government affairs and corporate business development. Sabatino, who had two tenures at Baxter, first joined that company in 1986 as corporate counsel, working with Baxter's former Systems and Medical Specialty Device divisions and heading Baxter's legal team in the establishment of the IBAX joint venture with IBM in 1989. In 1990, he left Baxter to join Secure Medical, Inc., Mundelein, Ill., as president and chief executive officer. In 1992, he was named associate general counsel for American Medical International Inc., Dallas, Texas, becoming vice president and general counsel in 1993. American Medical International later merged with National Medical Enterprises to become Tenet Healthcare Corporation. In 1995, he left Tenet to rejoin Baxter as associate general counsel. He was named general counsel in 1997 and added the title senior vice president in 2001. Sabatino has also worked for law firms in both Chicago and Boston during his career.

Sabatino earned a B.A. degree, cum laude, from Wesleyan University and a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a member of the Bar in California, Illinois and Massachusetts.

Sabatino holds a number of charitable and professional leadership positions. He is a member of the Boards of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (and chairs its Audit Committee), the Trinitas Regional Medical Center, and the Corporate Council of the Children’s Health Fund. He is the Chairman of the Schering-Plough Charitable Foundation. He also serves on the Boards of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Health Institute of New Jersey, the Global Intellectual Property Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

 

Edward Sander
Senior Vice President Product Marketing
IntraLinks

Ed Sander is a senior technology executive at Intralinks, Inc. responsible for portfolio definition, product positioning & go-to-market strategy as its SVP of Product Marketing.

Ed joined Intralinks from SAP where he served as its global VP of New Product Strategy & Introduction responsible for its "Information Worker" product lines, Duet and Alloy. During Ed's eight years at SAP, he held leadership positions in Product Marketing, Global Sales Operations and Knowledge Management. Ed led SAP’s first CRM product marketing team through the launch of three successive releases of its enterprise CRM product line driving $670MM in business. Ed’s contributions were recognized with the CMO's leadership award and inclusion in its Top Talent executive development program.

Prior to SAP, Ed was part of the senior management team at PeopleLink, Inc. (a pioneering, social software venture of ideaLab!, AT&T Ventures and GE Capital) where he ran the Professional Services function for clients including Viacom, Oracle, Siebel and GE Medical Systems. Ed began his career in the early 90's with the company that would later become Monster.com (TMP Worldwide). As a core member of its corporate marketing & strategy group, Ed led the marketing teams awarded Sears' "Partners-in-Progress" marketing innovation award two years in a row.

Ed has finished two NYC marathons and recently completed his thesis on “SaaS Business Content Collaboration” at Columbia University. He lives in downtown Manhattan with his wife, Dr. Jennifer Jones, and their son, Jackson.

 

Bart Schwartz 
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Assurant, Inc.

Bart Schwartz is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Assurant, a premier provider of specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other markets. Mr. Schwartz has overall responsibility for the legal affairs of Assurant, Inc. and its subsidiaries, and supervisory responsibility for Assurant’s compliance, legal, regulatory and government relations staff.

Mr. Schwartz joined Assurant in April 2008. He previously served as Chief Corporate Governance Officer and Secretary of The Bank of New York Company Mellon Corporation, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., General Counsel and Senior Vice President of The MONY Group Inc., and Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Willis Corroon Corporation.

Mr. Schwartz began his legal career in 1978 with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York and later joined the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He holds a J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law and an MBA from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Mr. Schwartz is a frequent writer and speaker on corporate governance, securities law, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate law topics. He is General Editor and a principal author of the two-volume treatise Corporate Governance: Law and Practice (Lexis/Nexis Matthew Bender, 2005, with annual updates).

Mr. Schwartz lives in New York City and has two children, a daughter in college and a son in high school.

Assurant, a Fortune 500 company, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ.

 

Brian D. Stephen
Senior Counsel, Strategy and Administration
Kaplan, Inc.

Brian Stephen is Senior Counsel, Strategy and Administration at Kaplan, Inc. where he works in support of the company’s Chief Administrative Officer and the company’s General Counsel. In this role, Brian provides broad support to the company’s business units, including enterprise-wide compliance programs, and acts as legal counsel on general corporate matters, including commercial agreements, corporate secretarial duties, and litigation management. Brian is also a member of the Board of Directors and acts as legal counsel to the Kaplan Educational Foundation, which is a non-profit educational foundation established by the company.

Prior to his current role, Brian spent six years as Associate General Counsel where he acted as counsel for the company’s domestic and international acquisitions; provided securities law support to the company’s parent corporation; and was division counsel for the company’s supplemental education services and tutoring centers divisions.

Prior to joining Kaplan, Brian spent approximately seven years in private firm practice in New York City with Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld, LLP and O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell, LLP, where his practice included M&A, securities, corporate finance, and venture capital. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1992 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1995.

 

Daniel J. Tyukody
Partner, Securities Litigation
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Daniel Tyukody, a partner in the Los Angeles office, is a member of the Securities Litigation Group. Mr. Tyukody's practice focuses on defending underwriters, issuers and individual officers and directors in securities class actions, derivative cases, "M&A" cases and SEC proceedings. Mr. Tyukody has also represented the audit committees or special committees of Fortune 500 companies conducting special investigations.

Mr. Tyukody has been named as one of the "Top 500 Lawyers In America" by Lawdragon magazine (2007) and one of the "Top 500 Litigators In America" (2006). Mr. Tyukody was also named as one of the "Top Securities Litigators in California" by the Daily Journal. He was lead trial counsel and obtained a complete defense verdict in June 2005 in Miller v. Thane, one of only seven securities class action lawsuits tried to verdict since 1995. This case was named one of the "Top Ten Defense Verdicts" in California by the Daily Journal.

Mr. Tyukody has successfully argued several matters of first impression under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Mr. Tyukody also provides securities counseling and advice to numerous companies and companies considering or intending to go public.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Tyukody was a partner at Clifford Chance and a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.

 

Martin Wilczynski
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting, Inc.

Martin Wilczynski is a senior managing director in the FTI Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment and is based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Wilczynski is an accounting and investigative professional with twenty five years of experience. His background includes ten years of auditing experience at an international accounting firm and six years on the staff of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served for five years within the Enforcement Division.

Since leaving the SEC, Mr. Wilczynski has focused his consulting practice almost exclusively on SEC enforcement proceedings, internal and forensic investigations, litigation support, accountants’ malpractice, financial reporting and revenue recognition issues. He has worked with outside counsel in representing boards and special committees in a number of complex, fact-finding accounting investigations involving financial restatements, whistleblower allegations and SEC enforcement and reporting issues. He has also been responsible for conducting several forensic “Section 10A” examinations resulting from concerns raised by auditors of public companies. Mr. Wilczynski has assisted counsel on many occasions in translating and communicating the results of those investigations to the SEC staff as well as to other regulators.

While he was at the SEC, Mr. Wilczynski was responsible for numerous financial and accounting investigations, including the critical evaluation of investigatory evidence used in making recommendations to the commission. In addition, he has expertise with respect to actions brought against accounting and auditing professionals pursuant to Rule 102(e) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. In 1997 Mr. Wilczynski was awarded the SEC’s Sydney C. Orbach Award in recognition of significant accounting contributions to the commission’s full disclosure program and to the protection of investors. Mr. Wilczynski is both a certified public account and a certified fraud examiner.