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Schedule at a GlanceThursday, Sept. 87:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration Desk Open8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Exhibits Open

8:45–9:00 a.m. Welcome and Remarks by Chief Judge James F. Holderman, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Remarks by Ashley Belleau, FBA president

9:00–10:00 a.m. Session 1: The U.S. Reaction Since 9/1110:00–10:15 a.m. Break

10:15–11:45 a.m. Session 2A: Hot Topics in Renewable Energy Law Session 2B: Gideon v. Wainwright—A Mutimedia Presentation: Looking Backward, Going Forward11:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Break

12:00–1:30 p.m. Foundation of the FBA Fellows Luncheon

1:30–1:45 p.m. Break

1:45–2:45 p.m. Session 3A: The Challenge of Immigration Court Reform Session 3B: How Social Networking Impacts Lawyers2:45–3:00 p.m. Break

3:00–3:30 p.m. The Judicial Vacancy Crisis

3:30–3:45 p.m. Break

3:45–5:00 p.m. Session 4A: Revolution or Reaffirmation—The Supreme Court’s New Class Action Decisions Session 4B: Supreme Court Review of the 2010–2011 Term and Preview of the Upcoming Term5:00–6:00 p.m. Federal Litigation Section Happy Hour6:00–9:00 p.m. Reception at the Art Institute of Chicago

Friday, Sept. 97:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Registration Desk Open8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Exhibits Open

8:00–8:45 a.m. Seventh Circuit Swearing In Ceremony and Remarks by Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit8:50–9:50 a.m. Session 5A: Diversity in Legal Education and the Legal Profession: Diversity Models That Work Session 5B: The Law in Repressive or Non-Democratic Regimes9:50–10:00 a.m. Break

10:00–11:00 a.m. Session 6A: The Top Three Issues for Representing Health Care Providers Session 6B: Labor and Em- ployment Law Flash Forward11:00–11:15 a.m. Break11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 7A: Ponzi and Revenge Session 7B: Human Trafficking12:45–2:00 p.m. Younger Federal Lawyer Awards Luncheon

2:00–4:00 p.m. Federal Bar Building Corporation Board Meeting

3:00–4:30 p.m. Architectural Boat Tour

6:00–9:00 p.m. Reception at John G. Shedd Aquarium

Saturday, Sept. 107:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration Desk Open8:30–9:45 a.m. Vice Presidents for the Circuits Meeting8:30–11:00 a.m. Section and Division Chairs Meeting9:30–11:30 a.m. Foundation of the FBA Board Meeting10:00–11:30 a.m. Chapter Education Program Presented by the Vice Presidents of the Circuits11:30–11:45 a.m. Break11:45 a.m.–1:45 p.m. FBA Awards Luncheon1:45–2:00 p.m. Break2:00–5:00 p.m. National Council Meeting6:30 p.m. Reception and Presidential Installation Banquet

Thursday, Sept. 89:00–10:00 a.m. Session 1: The U.S. Reaction Since 9/11 (1 hour CLE credit)Speakers: Hon. Richard A. Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Geoffrey R. Stone, professor, University of Chicago Law School.

10:15–11:45 a.m. Session 2A: Hot Topics in Renewable Energy Law (1.5 hours CLE credit)Discussion of renewable energy policy; public interest group perspec-tive on wind energy development; hot topics in project finance of re-newable energy; and issues arising from development of utility corridors for renewable projects.

Speakers: Robert Edwards, deputy general counsel for energy policy, U.S. Department of Energy; Howard Learner, executive director, Envi-ronmental Law & Policy Center; Paul Forrester, partner, Mayer Brown LLP; Sheila Slocum Hollis, partner, Duane Morris LLP.

10:15–11:45 a.m. Session 2B: Gideon v. Wainwright—A Mutimedia Presentation: Looking Back-ward, Going Forward (1.5 hours CLE credit)Featuring original memorabilia, vintage film-clips, and interviews of Clarence Earl Gideon, his Supreme Court counsel Abe Fortas, counsel for Florida Bruce Jacob, and retrial counsel W. Fred Turner; excerpts of the 3-hour oral argument before the Supreme Court and current reflec-tions of Jacob, Turner, and constitutional scholar John Hart Ely, who played a significant role in the original Supreme Court briefing.

Speaker: Paul M. Rashkind, supervisory assistant federal public de-fender and chief of the Appellate Division, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Florida.

1:45–2:45 p.m. Session 3A: The Challenge of Immigra -tion Court Reform (1 hour CLE credit)Speakers: Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director, National Immigrant Justice Center; Hon. Dana Marks, president, National Association of Immigration Judges; Juan Osuna, acting director, Executive Office for Immigration Review; Melville W. Washburn, partner, Sidley Austin LLP.

1:45–2:45 p.m. Session 3B: How Social Networking Im-pacts Lawyers (1 hour CLE credit)The ongoing rapid changes in technology have significantly impacted the practice of law. Many lawyers use social networking for business networking and professional development reasons and as a litigation

tool. As members of a regulated profession, we need to be mindful of our ethical obligations when we use social networking.

Speaker: Ashley Belleau, FBA national president and partner, Montgom-ery Barnett.

3:00–3:30 p.m. The Judicial Vacancy Crisis (no CLE credit)Speakers: Peter V. Baugher, partner, Schopf & Weis, and chair of U.S. Senator Mark Kirk’s Judicial Review Commission; Richard A. Devine, partner, Meckler, Bulger, Tilson, Marick & Pearson LLP, andchair of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin’s Judicial Review Commission.

3:45–5:00 p.m. Session 4A: Revolution or Reaffirmation—The Supreme Court’s New Class Action Decisions (1.25 hours CLE credit) Topics include Walmart, involving certification of a nationwide class seeking monetary relief under the non-opt-out provisions of Rule 23(b)(2); AT&T Mobility, involving whether the Federal Arbitration Act pre-empts states from refusing to enforce arbitration agreements that would bar class actions; Halliburton, involving whether a securities fraud plain-tiff asserting a fraud-on-the-market theory must establish loss causation to obtain class certification; and Bayer Corp., involving whether a federal court can enjoin a state court from proceeding with a class action after the federal court had previously denied certification.

Speakers: Hon. James F. Holderman, chief judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Hon. Gerald E. Rosen, chief judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; Hon. Layn R. Phillips (ret.), partner, Irell & Manella LLP; Prof. James E. Pfander, Northwest-ern University School of Law; Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP; Wm. Frank Carroll, of counsel, Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated.

3:45–5:00 p.m. Session 4B: Supreme Court Review of the 2010–2011 Term and Preview of the Upcoming Term (1.25 hours CLE credit) Speaker: Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean and distinguished profes-sor, University of California–Irvine School of Law.

Friday, Sept. 98:50–9:50 a.m. Session 5A: Diversity in Legal Education and the Legal Profession: Diversity Models That Work (1 hour CLE credit) Speakers: Hon. Ann Claire Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Victor P. Henderson, managing partner, Holland & Knight LLP; Darryl M. Bradford, general counsel, Exelon; Venu Gupta, executive director, Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms; Gloria Santona, executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary, Mc-Donald’s Corporation.

8:50–9:50 a.m. Session 5B: The Law in Repressive or Non-Democratic Regimes (1 hour CLE credit) Speakers: Sheldon H. Nahmod, distinguished professor of law and co-director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities, Chicago-Kent Col-lege of Law; Ronald J. Allen, Wigmore professor of law, Northwestern University School of Law.

CLE Sessions

Congress of the United StatesHouse of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

Danny K. Davis7 District - Illinoisth

July 22, 2011

Attendees at the 2011 National ConventionFederal Bar Associationc/o Maria Z. VathisPresident, Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar AssociationBoundas, Skarzynski, Walsh & Black200 East Randolph Street – Suite 7200Chicago, Illinois 60601

Dear Friends:

Welcome to Chicago and the 7 Congressional District! I understand that it has been 50 yearsth

since Chicago has had the opportunity to host the FBA. Congratulations to all the members andguests present at this most august occasion. I join you in thanking outgoing President AshleyBelleau for outstanding service rendered and welcoming incoming President Fern Bomchill.

I understand that this year’s event includes some extraordinary programs including a debatebetween Judge Richard Posner and Professor Geoffrey Stone on the United State’s ReactionSince September 11 , a program on Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Impacting Classth

Actions with Chief Judge James Holderman, Chief Judge Gerald E. Rosen and Judge Layn R.Phillips, and a program on Diversity with Judge Ann Williams.

I invite every attendee to find the time to sample Chicago rich cultural and gustatory offeringsand trust that all those in attendance will be uplifted by the spirit of the Convention and moved tosoberly and creatively ponder the historic challenges we confront as a nation at this moment inhistory.

Sincerely,

Danny K. DavisMember of Congress

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10:00–11:00 a.m. Session 6A: The Top Three Issues for Representing Health Care Providers (1 hour CLE credit) Participants of this session will be introduced to key issues that affect health care providers in both transactions and litigation. Understanding these key issues is essential to effectively representing clients. At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to understand how federal fraud and abuse statutes affect transactions and litigation; identify key confidentiality issues that arise under HIPAA; and identify compliance issues for nonprofit health care providers.

Speakers: Jane K. McCahill, shareholder, Polsinelli Shughart PC; Janice A. Anderson, shareholder, Posinelli Shughart PC; Elaine Lisko, corporate counsel, Catholic Health Initiatives Legal Services Group.

10:00–11:00 a.m. Session 6B: Labor and Employment Law Flash Forward (1 hour CLE credit) Speakers: Danuta B. Panich, shareholder, Ogletree Deakins; Laurie E. Leader, professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Hon. Wayne Ander-sen (ret.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.Session 7A: Ponzi and Revenge (1.25 hours CLE credit) The session will feature the following subtopics: SIPA; clawbacks; Stern v. Marshall; civil and criminal forfeitures; what’s in a claim NEV (net equity value) or hard money less hard money out; and pari delicto.

Speakers: Irving H. Picard, partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP; Douglas A. Kelley, partner, Kelley, Wolter & Scott PA; Douglas G. Baird, Harry A. Bigelow distinguished service professor of law, University of Chicago Law School; Ronald R. Peterson, partner, Jenner & Block LLP.

11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 7B: Human TraffickingSpeakers: Scott Mendeloff (moderator), shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP; Hilary Axam, director of the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, U.S. Department of Justice; Andy Huang, assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. Department of Justice; Hon. Virginia M. Kendall, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

CLE Sessions (continued)

Thursday, Sept. 88:45–9:00 a.m. Welcome and Remarks by Chief Judge James F. Holderman, U.S. District Court for the Northern Dis-trict of Illinois; Remarks by Ashley Belleau, FBA president

12:00–1:30 p.m. Foundation of the FBA Fellows LuncheonThe Foundation of the FBA will induct its 2011 Fellows.

5:00–6:00 p.m. Federal Litigation Section Happy Hour

6:00–9:00 p.m. Reception at the Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, opened on its present site in 1893. The museum housed a

collection of plaster casts and had a visionary purpose: to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education. The collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of hu-man expression from cultures around the world, and the school’s graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country.

Friday, Sept. 98:00–8:45 a.m. Seventh Circuit Swearing In Ceremony and Remarks by Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Those interested should print, complete and mail finished ap-plications (located at www.ca7.uscourts.gov/forms/applctn.pdf) to Collins Fitzpatrick, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sev-enth Circuit, 219 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604. Please submit applications by Aug. 31 to ensure entry; ap-plications submitted after that date will still be considered.

12:45–2:00 p.m. Younger Federal Lawyer Awards LuncheonPresentation of the Younger Federal Lawyer Awards, which are bestowed upon outstanding federal attorneys nominated by U.S. agency heads, general counsels, judge advocates general, administrative judges, and attorneys.

2:00–4:00 p.m. Federal Bar Building Corporation Board Meeting

3:00 p.m. Architectural Boat TourThe Official Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise describes the architecture and design of over 50 buildings throughout downtown Chicago. Cruises board 15 minutes before departure time. A snack bar and indoor salon with air conditioning and outdoor general admission seating is available for each guest. To make a complimentary reserva-tion, please email [email protected].

6:00–9:00 p.m. Reception at John G. Shedd AquariumThe aquarium’s founder, John G. Shedd, retired president of Marshall Field & Company, gave a total of $3 million to start the aquarium. It began with a large freshwa-ter pool featuring fishes, rep-tiles, and amphibians, and over the next year, more than a million gallons of seawater were shipped by rail from Florida to fill new galleries. When the aquarium officially opened on May 30, 1930, it housed the greatest variety of sea life under one roof.

Saturday, Sept. 108:30–9:45 a.m. Vice Presidents for the Circuits Meeting

8:30–11:00 a.m. Section and Division Chairs Meeting

9:30–11:30 a.m. Foundation of the FBA Board Meeting

10:00–11:30 a.m. Chapter Education Program Presented by the Vice Presidents of the Circuits

11:45 a.m.–1:45 p.m. FBA Awards LuncheonThis annual event recognizes the outstanding service and achievements of members, sections, divisions, and chapters. Special Recognition Awards, Section and Division Awards, Vice Presidents for the Circuits Awards, Chapter Activity Awards, and Newsletter Awards will be pre-sented.

2:00–5:00 p.m. National Council Meeting

6:30 p.m. Reception and Presidential Installation BanquetThe banquet marks the formal installation of Fern Bomchill as the FBA national president for FY 2012. The banquet will feature the presenta-tion of the Ilene and Michael Shaw Public Service Grants, the President’s Award, the Sarah T. Hughes Civil Rights Award, and the Earl W. Kintner Award.

Meetings and Social Events

Spotlight: Chief Judge Frank H. EasterbrookFrank H. Easterbrook is the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chi-cago Law School. Before joining the court in 1985, he was the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he taught and wrote in antitrust, securities, corporate law, juris-prudence, and criminal procedure. He has published The Economic Structure of Corporate Law (with Daniel R. Fischel) and about 100 scholarly articles. He served as co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1982–1991 and as a member of the Judicial Con-ference’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure from 1991–1997. Before joining the faculty of the law school in 1979, Judge Easterbrook was deputy solicitor general of the United States. He holds degrees from Swarthmore College and the Uni-versity of Chicago Law School, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, the Mont Pelerin Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Order of the Coif.

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Gabriel Aizenberg is a commercial litigator whose practice encom-passes a variety of litigation areas, including fraud, contractual disputes, business torts, breach of fiduciary duty, claims of trade secret misap-propriation, and government contracts. He has successfully represented clients in veil piercing litigation, litigation overcoming the asset-protection features of both foreign and domestic trusts, asset turnover and tracing proceedings, and proceedings to freeze assets both here and abroad. Aizenberg is outside general counsel for litigation matters for a local private school and an officer of the Holocaust Educational Foundation. He also has represented several federal prisoners in civil rights cases in district courts and the court of appeals.

Professor Ron Allen is the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago. A graduate of Marshall University and the University of Michigan School of Law, Allen is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of evidence, criminal procedure, and con-stitutional law. He has published seven books and over 100 articles in major law reviews; he has been quoted in national news outlets hundreds of times, and appears regularly on national broadcast media. Allen has worked with various groups in China to help formulate proposals for legal reform, and he was recently retained by the Tanzanian government to assist in the reform of their evidence law.

Janice A. Anderson has over 25 years of experience focusing on health regulatory and compliance issues. Her practice focuses on cor-porate health care and transactional law and has specific expertise in structuring hospital/physician alignment strategies to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of care. Anderson is knowledgeable in the areas of legal and regulatory compliance and has extensive experience with issues involving Stark, anti-kickback, HIPAA, EMTALA, False Claims Act, reimbursement, and civil money penalty laws. She also advises nonprofit governing boards on a wide range of issues. Prior to her law firm tenure, Anderson was the general counsel, vice president, and corporate compli-ance officer for Borgess Health.

Hon. Wayne R. Andersen retired from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 2010. A 1970 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and a 1967 graduate of Harvard University, he remains a co-holder of the 100-yard dash record and is a member of the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame. In 1984, Judge Anderson was elect-ed to the Circuit Court of Cook County; in 1991, President George H. Bush appointed him to the U.S. District Court. Judge Anderson is currently a mediator/arbitrator for JAMS, a volunteer member of the Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Board investigating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School, and a mentor at the University of Illinois Institute of Politics.

Hilary Axam has served as acting director of the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division since 2009, and a special litigation counsel in the unit since its inception in 2007. She has been a prosecutor with the Civil Rights Division since 2001. Axam has prosecuted and supervised some of the most significant human trafficking cases in the United States, involving both forced labor and sex trafficking. In 2006, she and the team from United States v. Car-reto received the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys’ Director’s Award. Previously, Axam worked internationally as counsel to the Judiciary of the Republic of Palau and as a Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dean Douglas G. Baird is a 1975 graduate of Yale College and a 1979 graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the managing editor of the Stanford Law Review. Before joining the faculty in 1980, he was a law clerk to Hon. Shirley M. Hufstedler and Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Baird served as dean of the Stan-ford Law School from 1994–1999. His research and teaching interests focus on corporate reorganizations and contracts.

Peter Baugher has been a partner at Schopf & Weiss LLP in Chicago since1989. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Chicago law firms Schiff, Hardin & Waite and Adams, Fox, Adelstein & Rosen. A 1970 graduate of Princeton University and 1973 graduate of Yale Law School, he served as an editor of the Yale Review of Law and Social Ac-tion. Following law school, clerked for Hon. Philip W. Tone of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Baugher was a principal drafter of Illinois’ 1998 International Commercial Arbitration Act. He is currently chair of Illinois Senator Mark Kirk’s Judicial Advisory Board, where he screens potential federal judges for the senator and president of the Chi-cago International Dispute Resolution Association.

Ashley Belleau is a partner with Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz LLP in New Orleans, where her main areas of practice include commercial litigation, business law, and alternative dispute resolu-tion. She is the national president of the Federal Bar Association; she is a past president of the New Orleans Chapter and is a past vice president for the Fifth Circuit. Belleau graduated from Newcomb College and Tu-lane University Law School. Before entering private practice, she served as a judicial law clerk for Hon. Henry A. Mentz Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Belleau has been recognized as a Louisiana Super Lawyer, a Barrister of the Tulane Chapter of the American Inns of Court, and a Fellow of the Foundation of the FBA.

Under Elizabeth J. Cabraser’s leadership, Lieff Cabraser has be-come one of the country’s largest law firms serving clients seeking to re-dress for financial and consumer fraud, anti-competitive practices, harmful drugs and products, and illegal employment practices. She has served as court-appointed lead, co-lead, or class counsel in over 80 federal multi-district and state coordinated proceedings. She has held leadership roles in landmark cases such as the Exxon Valdez disaster. Cabraser has been repeatedly recognized as one of the foremost litigators in our na-tion; in 2010, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession honored Cabraser with its Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.

Wm. Frank Carroll is a trial and appellate lawyer who for the past three decades has been lead counsel in high stakes, high profile business litigation. He is board certified in Civil Trial Law and Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, one of fewer than 100 attor-neys in Texas with such dual certification. Carroll has a primary emphasis on federal court, class action, financial institutions, antitrust, securities, and intellectual property trials and appeals, as well as the defense of government investigations. He has been an arbitrator since 1979 and has represented many clients in arbitration matters. Carroll also serves as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, where he has taught since 1978.

Speaker Biographies

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean of the Donald Bren School of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, he was the Alston & Bird professor of law and professor of political science at Duke University. Chemerinsky is the author of four books and over 100 law review articles; he is a frequent contributor to newspapers and other magazines and regularly serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media. In April 2005, he was named by Legal Affairs as one of “the top 20 legal thinkers in America.” Chemerinsky frequently argues appellate cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Richard A. “Dick” Devine leads MBT’s white-collar criminal defense, investigations, and commercial litigation practices. A trial lawyer for more than 35 years, he has a wide range of court experience in the federal sys-tem. He has also argued major cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Illinois Supreme Court, and the Illinois Appellate Court. After spending more than 25 years in private practice in Chicago, Devine was elected Cook County state’s attorney in 1996 and held that post for 12 years before deciding to return to private practice. During his tenure as state’s attorney, he established the office’s acclaimed Domestic Violence Unit and made significant advances in the recruitment and retention of women and minority prosecutors.

Robert H. Edwards Jr. is the deputy general counsel for energy policy for the Department of Energy. In this capacity he provides legal and policy advice to the Offices of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Fossil Energy. He has practiced law in Washington, D.C., for 20 years. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, he was a partner on the Global Projects Team of Mayer Brown LLP. Edwards graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Busi-ness, and graduated from Stanford Law School, where he served as an associate managing editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law.

Paul Forrester is a respected corporate finance and securities law-yer whose practice is especially focused on structured credit, including collateralized loan obligations, and energy financings. The Legal Me-dia Group’s Expert Guide series recommends Forrester as one of the world’s leading lawyers in project finance. Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 1980, Forrester was associated with a law firm based in Sydney, Aus-tralia. He served as director of Bildakit Homes, an Australian enterprise, between 1986 and 1987, subsequently resuming his career with Mayer Brown later in 1987. Forrester is a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law and the University of Sydney (Australia).

Venu Gupta joined the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms as the organization’s executive director in January 2006. Prior to joining the Chicago Committee, Gupta was the director of diversity edu-cation & outreach at Northwestern University School of Law. Through her experiences in law school administration, private practice and nonprofit organizations, she brings a working knowledge of the Chicago legal community and law firms on issues of diversity. Gupta graduated from Harvard Law School in 1999. Subsequently, she was a law clerk for Hon. David H. Coar of the Northern District of Illinois.

Victor P. Henderson is the executive partner in charge of the Chicago office of Holland & Knight and a member of the firm’s Litigation Depart-ment. He is a trustee of John Marshall Law School and a member of the Il-linois Community College Board. Henderson is the former television host of “Inside Justice” on WYCC and of “Unspoken” on CBS. Prior to becoming an attorney, he practiced as certified public accountant. Henderson is a past president of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Equal Justice

Foundation and a former chair of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms. He is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law Center.

Chief Judge James F. Holderman has been a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since 1985 and was named chief judge in July 2006. During his tenure on the bench, Judge Holderman has presided over numerous cases in all areas of federal juris-diction. He has also served by designation as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Before his appointment, Judge Holderman was a partner in Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, where he specialized in federal court litigation across the United States. Before his years in private practice, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago. Judge Holderman was recently honored with the Distinguished Judicial Service Award by the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago.

Sheila Slocum Hollis is chair of the Washington, D.C. office of Duane Morris LLP and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and Part-ners Board. She practices in the areas of energy transactional and regu-latory law and international and administrative law before government agencies, Congress and other entities. Hollis was the first director of the Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1980. She began her energy law career as a trial lawyer at the Federal Power Commission from 1974 to 1975. Hollis served as a professorial lecturer at The George Washington University Law School from 1979 to 1999 and was recently recognized by the school for her 20-year contribution.

Doug Kelley is a well-respected trial attorney who has been involved in several high-profile cases. He successfully represented the plaintiff in La Société Générale Immobilière (LSGI) v. The City of Minneapolis, in which a federal jury awarded $34 million to his clients for breach of a munici-pal development contract. Early in his career as an AUSA, he successfully prosecuted a Las Vegas Casino bank fraud deal involving the Mafia; for this effort, he received the Department of Justice Meritorious Achievement Award. Most recently, Kelley has served as a court-appointed receiver charged with managing and liquidating the personal assets of Thomas J. Petters and five codefendants convicted of the largest Ponzi scheme in Minnesota history.

Hon. Virginia M. Kendall was appointed to the federal bench in January 2006. Prior to her appointment, she worked at the U.S. At-torney’s Office in Chicago for over 10 years. Previously, she clerked for Hon. George Marovich in the Northern District of Illinois. Judge Kendall has been an adjunct professor at Loyola University School of Law for the past 15 years and an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University Law School for the past four years. She has published law journal articles

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on a variety of topics and currently lectures extensively. She has traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, and to Zambia and will travel later this year to con-tinue her training on anti-human trafficking laws and procedures through the State Department and Lawyers without Borders.

Professor Laurie Leader joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in the win-ter of 1999. Previously she worked in private practice, specializing in labor and employment law. From 1995 until she began work at Chica-go-Kent, Leader was the principal of Leader & Associates Ltd. Previously, she had been a partner in several other Chicago law firms. Between 2006 and 2008, Leader was the co-host of “The Employment Hour,” which appeared on Comcast cable. Leader is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, where she was executive editor of the Cleveland State Law Review and taught a legal research and writing class to first-year students.

Howard A. Learner is an experienced attorney serving as the presi-dent and executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center. Learner is responsible for the overall strategic policy direction, develop-ment, and leadership of this public interest organization. Before founding ELPC, he was the general counsel of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a public interest law center, specializing in complex civil litigation and policy development. Learner is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School, teaching an advanced environmen-tal law seminar. He is a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School and a 1976 graduate of the University of Michigan.

Scott Mendeloff has tried to successful conclusion well over 50 cases in a wide array of areas in both the civil and criminal arenas in federal and state courts around the country. Beyond trial work, Scott has deliv-ered highly favorable results in the commercial and white collar areas alike. From 1986-1997, Scott served in the U.S. Department of Justice, and in 1996-1997, he served as one of the primary trial lawyers in the prosecution of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. The Jus-tice Department has awarded Mendeloff the Attorney General’s Award, the Director’s Award, and other commendations. A frequent guest legal analyst on national and local television programs, Scott has appeared on numerous programs.

Jane K. McCahill represents health care institutions and providers in corporate transactions that involve complex heath care regulatory and reimbursement issues. She regularly advises clients on managed care arrangements and Medicare and Medicaid coverage and payment mat-ters. McCahill’s noteworthy experience includes handling internal investi-gations and responding to governmental fraud and abuse investigations. She also counsels joint venture entities and physician groups to meet Stark anti-referral requirements. McCahill represents providers responding to certification, licensure and accreditation surveys and EMTALA complaints and hearings. She also advises on privacy requirements under federal HIPAA standards.

Mary Meg McCarthy has served as the executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center since 1998. She oversees all aspects of NIJC’s legal services, advocacy efforts, and programmatic and op-erational functions. Under McCarthy’s direction, NIJC has become the leading immigrant and human rights organization in the country. In ad-dition, she has developed an unparalleled pro bono network of more than 1,000 attorneys. She has testified before congressional committees on human rights and the need for immigration reform. She is a frequent

speaker at national and international conferences and has been quoted in leading news outlets. Prior to joining NIJC, McCarthy practiced civil litigation and served as a pro bono attorney for NIJC’s asylum project.

Juan P. Osuna was appointed as director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review in May 2011, and had been acting director since December 2010. Osuna is a graduate of George Washington University, the Washington College of Law at American University, and American University’s School of International Service. Previously, he served the De-partment of Justice as an associate deputy attorney general and a deputy assistant attorney general. Before working at DOJ, Osuna served as chair and member of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Prior to that, he held various senior editorial and management positions at West Group (now Thomson West), a leading legal publisher. Osuna teaches immigration policy at George Mason University School of Law.

Danuta B. Panich has a varied practice encompassing advocacy for and advice to employers in all aspects of employment and labor law. In particular, Panich has represented some of the nation’s largest employers in FLSA collective actions and state law wage hour class actions. In addition to her labor and employment practice, Panich devotes substantial atten-tion to assisting professional services firms and companies with litigation preparedness planning. Panich is frequently asked to speak or provide training on litigation techniques, electronic discovery and records manage-ment. She has also authored several articles on these topics, and is active, through her leadership role in the FBA, in developing continuing legal edu-cation programs for practitioners and their clients.

Ronald R. Peterson is a partner in Jenner & Block LLP and is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability. He has concentrated his practice in the areas of commercial, insolvency and bankruptcy law, focusing primarily on rep-resenting debtors, trustees, creditors’ committees, landlords, and secured lenders in Chapter 11 cases. In addition to his insolvency litigation prac-tice, Peterson counsels clients on a variety of transactional issues. He has been a member of the panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, since 1987. He presides over approximately 100 consumer bankruptcy cases per month. Peterson graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and from Ripon College.

Professor James E. Pfander has focused his teaching and research on federal jurisdiction and procedure. Much of Pfander’s recent work deals with the history and structure of Article III of the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court of the United States in relation to inferior courts and tribunals. In 2009, Oxford University Press published his book on that subject, One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States. Other books include Principles of Federal Jurisdiction (2006) and Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (5th ed. 2009). A member of the American Law Institute, Pfander currently serves as reporter/consultant to the Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Hon. Layn R. Phillips is a litigation partner in the Newport Beach office of Irell & Manella LLP, which he joined in 1991. He joined the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles in 1980 as an assistant U.S. attor-ney, serving for four years. He was nominated, at age 31, by President Ronald Reagan to serve as a U.S. attorney and again three years later to serve as a U.S. district judge in Oklahoma City. During his four years on the bench, he presided over more than 140 federal trials in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. He also sat by designation on the U.S. Court

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Irving H. Picard focuses his practice primarily on representing unse-cured and secured creditors, commercial landlords, bankruptcy trustees and other parties in interest in bankruptcy reorganization cases, as well as in out-of-court restructurings. He also serves as a court-appointed trust-ee in securities brokerage house liquidations under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA). He is currently serving as the court-appointed trustee under SIPA in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Picard has extensive litigation experience including investigating the financial affairs of debtors and seeking to recover property, objections to confirmation of chapter 11 plans, substantive consolidation and prefer-ence and fraudulent transfer issues.

Hon. Richard A. Posner graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, where he was first in his class and was president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as law clerk to Justice William J. Bren-nan Jr., as an assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission, as an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, Thurgood Marshall, and as general counsel of President Johnson’s Task Force on Communications Policy. Posner began teaching in 1968 at Stanford and became professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School in 1969, where he remained until his appointment to the Seventh Circuit in December 1981. He was chief judge from 1993 to 2000.

Paul M. Rashkind has practiced law for over 30 years, representing clients in the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals and district courts, as well as in state courts. He is chief of the Appellate Division for the Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Florida, a position he has held since 1992, and lectures at the University of Miami School of Law. Before becoming a federal defender, he was in private practice for 14 years as a partner of Bailey Gerstein Rashkind & Dresnick and an associate of Sams Gerstein & Ward. Before entering private practice, Rashkind was an assistant state attorney of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, He is the recipient of the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Bar Foundation’s Career Achieve-ment Award and the FACDL “Against All Odds” Award.

Professor Harry Reicher is scholar-in-residence at Touro Law Cen-ter, University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he has taught for 16 years. As an academic, Reicher taught for many years at Monash Uni-versity in Melbourne, where his original legal training was undertaken, with postgraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School. From 1995 to 2004, he was representative to the United Nations of Agudath Israel World Organization. In recognition of his pio-neering work on the legal dimension to the Holocaust, in January 2004, President George W. Bush appointed Reicher to the U.S. Holocaust Me-morial Council, on which he served until April 2008.

Judge Gerald E. Rosen was nominated by President George H. Bush to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in November 1989. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Rosen was a senior partner in Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone. In 1974, he was a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Robert P. Griffin in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he attended the George Washington University Law School at night. For 16 years, Judge Rosen has been an adjunct pro-fessor at Wayne State University Law School, University of Detroit Law School, and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He has lectured at continu-ing legal education seminars, numerous International conferences, and represented the U.S. government at worldwide events.

Gloria Santona is the chief legal officer of McDonald’s Corporation, and she leads McDonald’s worldwide legal, compliance, regulatory and corporate governance functions. She has fostered the legal department’s diversity efforts and on-going engagement in pro-bono legal services, which have garnered the department awards. Santona joined McDon-ald’s as an attorney upon her graduation from the University of Michigan Law School, and subsequently held a number of management positions in the legal department. She became the company’s corporate secretary in 1996 and has served as general counsel since 2001. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Maga-zine and has received numerous awards.

Geoffrey Stone has been a member of the University of Chicago Law School faculty since 1973. From 1987–1993, he served as dean of the Law School and from 1993–2002 he served as provost of the University of Chicago. Stone is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as editor in chief of the Law Review. He was a law clerk to Hon. J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States. STone has written several award-winning books, and is currently chief editor of a 15-volume series, Inalienable Rights, being published by the Oxford University Press between 2006 and 2013. Maria Z. Vathis has extensive experience with defending clients in complex business litigation matters involving contracts, fraud, business torts, and professional liability. Her practice also includes analyzing in-surance coverage under first-party property, commercial general liability, and directors and officers insurance policies. In addition, she handles the defense of class actions involving alleged violations of federal statutes. Vathis is president of the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Associa-tion and a board member of the Hellenic Bar Association. She is also a member of the National Association of Insurance Women. Vathis is an active member of the American Cancer Society’s Associate Board of Ambassadors and co-chairs the fashion committee.

Melville W. Washburn joined Sidley Austin LLP in 1987. His prac-tice includes litigation and arbitration in jurisdictions throughout the United States. He has published several articles regarding legal issues facing ac-countants and consultants and has served as a faculty member at confer-ences on reinsurance dispute resolution. Washburn served on a trial team which achieved a defense verdict on behalf of a major accounting firm after a three-week jury trial. He successfully represented group of lend-ers enforcing lien on a $30 million fund in federal interpleader litigation, and served as second chair on behalf of a major energy company in a five-week arbitration where the opponent unsuccessfully sought more than $150 million in mine closing and reclamation costs.

Hon. Ann Claire Williams is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the first African American ever appointed to the Seventh Circuit. In 1977, Judge Williams co-founded Minority Legal Edu-cation Resources Inc. and in 1987, she was a founding member of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Chicago. She created a fellowship program for the Board of Equal Justice Works and co-founded the Just The Beginning Foundation. Judge Williams has led conferences and training internationally and has also served on training delegations to the Interna-tional Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Tribunal for the former Yugosla-via. Judge Williams has received numerous awards for her contributions to the law and the legal community.

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10:15–11:45 a.m. Session 2A: Hot Topics in Renewable Energy Law (1.5 hr.) _______ $55 _______ $65 _______

Session 2B: Gideon v. Wainwright—A Multimedia Presentation: Looking Backward, Going Forward (1.5 hr.) _______ $55 _______ $65 _______

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3:45–5:00 p.m. Session 4A: Class Action Developments in the U.S. Supreme Court (1.25 hr.) _______ $50 _______ $60 _______

Session 4B: Supreme Court Review of the 2010–2011 Term and Preview of the Upcoming Term (1.25 hr.) _______ $50 _______ $60 _______

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10:00–11:00 a.m. Session 6A: The Top Three Issues for Representing Health Care Providers (1 hr.) _______ $40 _______ $50 _______

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11:15 a.m– Session 7A: Ponzi Schemes in Bankruptcy (1.25 hr.) _______ $50 _______ $60 _______

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