2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
Claudia Barrero is chairman of SCG Legal and a partner at Colombia member firm prietocarrizosa, where she coheads its mergers and acquisitions practice and heads the capital markets and securities practice. She specializes
in mergers and acquisitions of listed companies and has extensive experience in infrastructure projects and
corporate governance matters. She has advised issuers on IPOs and debt issues, as well as several Colombian and
international clients in such matters as cross-border mergers and acquisitions and related capital markets issues.
She received her law degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia, a postgraduate degree in commercial law
from Universidad de los Andes, and an LL.M. in international business legal studies from the University of Exeter.
R. Matthew Chevraux is assistant to the special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service. He began his career in
the Los Angeles field office, where he investigated counterfeit currency, financial crimes and became a computer
forensic examiner. Following his assignment in Los Angeles, Mr. Chevraux was selected for the presidential
protective division in Washington, where he protected President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.
After completing his protective detail time, he transferred to the criminal investigative division at Secret Service
headquarters. His current assignment includes supporting the Secret Service’s computer forensic program, the
redesign and development of the Service’s case information databases and evidence computer system, and
serving as the Secret Service representative to the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and
Communication Integration Center. Mr. Chevraux has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the
University of California, Riverside.
Rob Clarke is a partner in Florida member firm Ausley McMullen. Board-certified by the Florida Bar in business
litigation, he practices in the area of civil litigation and serves as trial counsel in a broad range of cases including
complex commercial business disputes, significant personal injury and wrongful death claims, class actions, and
other litigation and regulatory matters. In addition to his litigation practice, he also teaches Florida civil procedure
and trial practice at the Florida State University College of Law. Mr. Clarke also chairs the Florida Bar Civil
Procedure Rules Committee. He is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Law.
C. Malcolm Cochran is a director at Delaware member firm Richards, Layton & Finger, where, for more than 25
years, he has counseled clients involved in complex business and other civil disputes, through litigation and trial
and in less formal settings. Mr. Cochran has substantial trial experience in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the
Delaware Superior Court and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and has represented
clients in complex arbitration proceedings and before Delaware’s administrative agencies. He has served on
numerous boards and state commissions, and has represented clients in the Delaware General Assembly, where
he served as counsel early in his career. He is a graduate of the Catholic University of America Columbus School of
Law.
Andrew Manning Cox is a partner in England (Birmingham and London) member firm Wragge Lawrence Graham
& Co, where he handles litigation and arbitration cases both in the High Court and in many other jurisdictions. He
is also a solicitor advocate with full Higher Court rights. As a member of the firm’s U.S. desk, he is also significantly
involved in helping U.S. companies do business in the United Kingdom and vice versa. Mr. Cox is also a chartered
arbitrator, an accredited mediator and a notary public. He completed his legal studies at the University of
Cambridge.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
William Deckelman, Jr. is executive vice president and general counsel of CSC, with global responsibility for all
legal activities throughout CSC. Prior to joining CSC, Mr. Deckelman served as executive vice president and general
counsel of Affiliated Computer Services, and served as a director from 2000 to 2003, holding various executive
positions there since 1989. From 1996 through 1999, he was a partner in the law firm of Munsch Hardt Kopf &
Harr in Austin, Texas. He was previously an attorney at MTech Corporation, responsible for mergers and
acquisitions, prior to its merger with Electronic Data Systems Corporation. Mr. Deckelman received his law degree
from the University of Arkansas School of Law.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, and
university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. A nationally known
and respected commentator on politics, Mr. Dionne appears weekly on National Public Radio and regularly on
MSNBC. He is a regular contributor to NBC’s Meet the Press. He has also appeared on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
and other PBS programs. Mr. Dionne began his career with The New York Times, where he spent fourteen years
reporting on state and local government, national politics, and from around the world, including stints in Paris,
Rome, and Beirut. His best-selling book, Why Americans Hate Politics, won The Los Angeles Times book prize, and
was a National Book Award nominee. Mr. Dionne graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University
and received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Kenneth Feinberg is the founder and managing partner of Feinberg Rozen, a specialty alternative dispute
resolution firm. He has been a central figure in many of our nation's most challenging and widely known disputes.
Best known for serving as special master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, he
reached out to all who qualified to file a claim, evaluated applications, determined appropriate compensation, and
disseminated awards. He later shared his extraordinary experience in his 2005 book, What Is Life Worth? Just a
few years later, Mr. Feinberg became fund administrator for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund following the tragic
shootings at Virginia Tech. He also has been involved in compensation relief efforts for the victims of the Boston
Marathon bombing, the BP oil spill, and, most recently, the General Motors ignition switch recalls. The National
Law Journal named him "Lawyer of the Year" in 2004, and repeatedly has named him one of "The 100 Most
Influential Lawyers in America." Mr. Feinberg is a graduate of the New York University School of Law.
The Honorable Dan Glickman is executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a
nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of the United States Congress. He served as U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001. Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture,
Secretary Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 4th Congressional
District of Kansas, during which time he served on the House Agriculture Committee. He was also a member of the
House Judiciary Committee, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and a leading
congressional expert on general aviation policy. He served as chairman of the Motion Picture Association of
America from 2004 until 2010. Secretary Glickman received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law
School.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert is a member of Washington, DC, member firm Dickstein Shapiro’s public policy
and law practice group. Elected in 1987 to the first of ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing
Illinois’ 14th Congressional District., he later went on to become the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the
House in history. During his tenure as Speaker, he was instrumental in passing post-September 11th
antiterrorism legislation and legislation to create a Department of Homeland Security, the most significant
restructuring of the federal government in the past 50 years. Prior to his election to Congress, Speaker Hastert
served three terms in the Illinois General Assembly. He received his baccalaureate degree from Wheaton College
and his master’s from Northern Illinois University.
Heidi Henning is vice president and general counsel of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where she oversees
a staff of attorneys who attend to all of the Institute’s legal affairs, including matters directly related to HHMI’s
scientific endeavors, intellectual property, the transfer of scientific materials, and scientific collaborations, as well
as matters relating to HHMI’s operations and investments. Ms. Henning joined HHMI in 1993 as an associate
general counsel and was promoted to the position of deputy general counsel in 2006. Prior to joining HHMI, she
worked in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury Department. Before that, she
was an associate at the law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after completing a
clerkship with Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is a graduate of
the Yale University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review.
William Hubbard is a partner in South Carolina member firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and president
of the American Bar Association. His term began at the conclusion of the ABA annual meeting in Boston last
month. Mr. Hubbard practices business litigation related to breach of contract, business torts, breach of fiduciary
duty claims, unfair trade practices, energy and utilities disputes, and class actions. He has held a variety of
leadership positions in the ABA including chairman of the ABA House of Delegates, president of the American Bar
Foundation and president of the American Bar Endowment. He also served on the ABA Board of Governors, the
ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, and chaired the ABA Young Lawyers Division. He is a member
of the council of the American Law Institute, and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2002, Mr.
Hubbard received the Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian award given by the governor of South Carolina.
Before joining Nelson Mullins, he served as a law clerk for Judge Robert F. Chapman of the U.S. District Court for
the District of South Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law.
JB Kelly is a partner in Washington, DC, member firm Dickstein Shapiro’s state attorneys general practice. He
previously served as general counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, overseeing major litigation
involving the state of North Carolina. He was a member of the negotiation teams in high-profile multi-state
settlements involving mortgage foreclosure, Ameriquest, and tobacco, among others. He also oversaw the
strategy, planning, and development of Attorney General Cooper’s 2010 National Association of Attorneys General
presidential initiative focused on consumer protection strategies, analysis of Dodd-Frank provisions related to
Attorneys General, and preventing future financial crises. Mr. Kelly formerly was senior counsel at Employment
Learning Innovations, and, before that, special counsel for policy initiatives to North Carolina Attorney General
Mike Easley. He began his legal career at Hunton & Williams, where he worked as an associate from 1984 to 1994.
Mr. Kelly is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
Brian Levine is a prosecutor and National CHIP Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime
and Intellectual Property Section. Prior to joining CCIPS, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Internet
bureau at the New York Attorney General’s Office, a county prosecutor in Detroit, Michigan, and a civil litigator in
Silicon Valley. Mr. Levine has clerked for federal judges in the Southern District of Florida and on the Seventh
Circuit. He earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Jeff Lobb is vice president and assistant general counsel of Choice Hotels International, one of the world's largest
hotel franchisors. Mr. Lobb oversees the legal function of all of the company's transactional activity, which
includes mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, investments, real estate and financing. The Washington
Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association named him “Outstanding In-House Counsel” in 2012. Prior to
joining Choice, he was associated with several major law firms in the Washington metropolitan area. Mr. Lobb is a
graduate of the William & Mary School of Law.
Alfonso López Lajud is head of the litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice group at Mexico member
firm Sánchez Devanny. Before joining Sánchez Devanny, he worked for eight years as senior associate at another
prominent Mexico City law firm, where he handled civil, commercial, family law and real estate matters before
both federal and local courts throughout Mexico. Previously, he worked four years as an associate for a major law
firm, also in Mexico City, where his work included the liquidation process of several banking institutions,
collaborating with the Instituto para la Protección al Ahorro Bancario in the transfer of assets area, and
coordinating real estate auctions. Mr. López obtained his law degree from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico
City. He has also completed advanced graduate studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in the translation of legal
texts.
Elisa Erlenbach Maas is a director in Delaware member firm Richard, Layton & Finger’s limited liability company
and partnership advisory group, where she focuses on rendering advice as to matters of Delaware law relating to
Delaware limited partnerships, general partnerships and limited liability companies, including with respect to
formation, operation, governance and dissolution matters. Working with some of the country’s largest
corporations and their subsidiaries, Ms. Maas handles joint venture transactions between Fortune 500 companies,
cross-border transactions involving some of the world’s largest banking institutions, and transactions involving
billion-dollar private equity funds. She also renders advice concerning the operations, financing transactions and
dissolutions of private equity funds and assists with regard to litigation matters involving Delaware LLCs and LPs.
She received her J.D. from Cornell Law School.
Deirdre McEvoy is counsel in New York City member firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler’s litigation
department and a member of its white collar defense and investigations team. Ms. McEvoy most recently served
as chief of the New York field office of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division. Prior to heading the
antitrust division’s New York field office, Ms. McEvoy served for ten years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
Southern District of New York, where she spent three years as deputy chief of the criminal division. In 2010, she
received a “Prosecutor of the Year Award” from the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation for the investigation
and prosecution of securities fraud at a major international public company. Following law school, Ms. McEvoy
served as a law clerk to the Honorable Chester J. Straub in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to
the Honorable Nina Gershon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is a graduate of
Columbia Law School.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
D. William (Bill) Moreau, Jr. is a partner in Indiana member firm Barnes & Thornburg, where he chairs the firm's
interdisciplinary higher education practice group. He represents clients before local, state, and federal legislative,
administrative, and regulatory bodies. Trained as a litigator and appellate advocate, Mr. Moreau served former
U.S. Senator Evan Bayh as his deputy secretary of state and chief of staff, gubernatorial transition director, chief of
staff, and legislative director. Earlier in his career, he worked on Capitol Hill, handling environmental and energy
issues for U.S. Senator Birch Bayh during his last term. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center
and former chairman of SCG Legal.
David Poisson became CEO of SCG Legal in 2011. Previously, he was of counsel to the law firm of Howe Anderson
& Steyer in Washington, DC. Elected in 2005 to the first of two terms in the Virginia General Assembly, he served
as deputy House minority whip and on the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources, Counties, Cities
and Towns, and Militia, Police and Public Safety committees. He was also legislative director and chief counsel to
the late U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina and subsequently served as chief of staff and counsel to thenU.S. Representative, now Assistant Senate Majority Leader, Richard Durbin of Illinois. Mr. Poisson is a graduate of
the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the
Virginia State Bar, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Bar, and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.
Veta Richardson is president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a 34,000member international organization, which serves as the “voice of the in-house Bar” and provides practical
resources and extensive networking opportunities for its in-house counsel members. Previously, Ms. Richardson
was executive director of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, promoting the identification, recruitment
and retention of minority attorneys by corporate law departments and law firms. Earlier in her career, she served
as vice president and deputy general counsel at ACC, where she foresaw the need for more access to online
resources for its members. Her expertise in the in-house arena was shaped by her work as in-house counsel to
Sunoco, where her practice focused on corporate governance, transactions, securities and finance. Ms. Richardson
is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law.
Alan M. Rifkin is managing partner of Maryland member firm Rifkin, Weiner, Livingston, Levitan & Silver.
Recognized by The Daily Record in 2007 as one of 50 “Influential Marylanders” and by Super Lawyers® every year
from 2008 to 2012 as one of the area’s premier sports and entertainment lawyers, Mr. Rifkin was former
Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer’s chief legislative officer and counsel. He also served as counsel to
the Senate of Maryland under former Senate President Melvin A. “Mickey” Steinberg. Mr. Rifkin’s current areas of
practice include business law and transactions, sports law and transactions and complex civil and commercial
litigation. In the area of sports law, he represents the Baltimore Orioles in a wide variety of matters, including a
recently negotiated agreement with Sarasota, Florida, to build a new spring training camp for the ball club. Mr.
Rifkin is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
Susan Kohn Ross is a partner in California (Los Angeles) member firm Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. Ms. Ross
regularly represents clients throughout the world regarding international issues through her own relationships
and through the firm’s international law firm alliances on such topics as logistics and shipping contract
negotiations, free trade agreement qualification and compliance, duty reduction analyses and transfer pricing. She
has represented multiple clients faced with claims by Customs and Border Protection that their goods were
transshipped. She is a graduate of Southwestern Law School and is admitted to practice in California, the United
States Court of International Trade, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United
States Supreme Court.
Chad Shandler is a director at Delaware member firm Richards, Layton & Finger, where he represents clients in a
variety of areas, including complex financial and commercial litigation, trusts and estates litigation, intellectual
property litigation and insurance litigation. Mr. Shandler has conducted hearings and trials in all of Delaware’s
state and federal courts. He also has significant appellate experience before the Delaware Supreme Court and
Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Recently, he has litigated several high-profile trust disputes in the Delaware Court
of Chancery. He has also counseled various trust companies on fiduciary and regulatory matters. In addition, Mr.
Shandler has an active alternative dispute resolution practice, with extensive experience arbitrating and
mediating commercial disputes. He is a graduate of the Villanova University School of Law.
Carlos Soltero is a partner in Texas member firm McGinnis Lochridge, where he represents plaintiffs and
defendants in civil litigation, including business and property disputes, malpractice, personal injury and wrongful
death cases. He serves on the firm’s management committee, and heads its litigation and South Texas practice
groups. Board-certified in personal injury trial law, Mr. Soltero’s work has included obtaining judgments and
settlements on behalf of plaintiffs in wrongful death and personal injury cases involving trucking and other
accidents. He also routinely represents clients in complex business litigation, serves regularly as lead or cocounsel in complex civil cases, and often represents or assists other lawyers in a range of professional and
personal litigation matters. Mr. Soltero is a graduate of Yale Law School.
Kevin St. John was appointed deputy attorney general by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen in 2011. In
this capacity, he serves as the chief operating officer of the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Previously, he served
as the Department of Justice’s special assistant attorney general for public affairs and policy. Mr. St. John serves on
the advisory board of the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute. The Wisconsin Law Journal
recognized him as a “Leader in the Law” in 2012. Prior to entering government service, Mr. St. John practiced law
with the Madison office of Michael Best & Friedrich and the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
Scott Thomas joined Washington, DC, member firm Dickstein Shapiro in 2006, where he heads the firm’s political
law practice. Prior to joining Dickstein Shapiro, Mr. Thomas served as a commissioner on the Federal Election
Commission from 1986 to 2006. He was appointed to the FEC for three consecutive terms, first by President
Reagan in 1986, then by President Bush in 1991, and again by President Clinton in 1997. He served as chairman in
1987, 1993, 1999, and 2005. He serves on the American Bar Association standing committee on election law, as
well as the elections committee of the ABA’s section on administrative law and regulatory practice. He is a
graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
September 7 & 8, 2014
Speaker Bios
Daniel Wierzbicki joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March 2004, becoming a unit chief in its cyber
division in July 2013. In this position, he oversees national security investigations across the United States. Mr.
Wierzbicki most recently served as a supervisory special agent, conducting national security investigations in the
cyber division at FBI headquarters. Prior to that, he worked at the Washington field office investigating criminal
cyber intrusions. Mr. Wierzbicki is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where he obtained a B.S.
degree in chemical engineering.
Katherine “Kay” Winfree is chief of staff of the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau, which
is responsible for investigating potential illegal activity and enforcing rules and orders, including fines. She
previously served as chief deputy attorney general for the State of Maryland. Before that she was a federal and
state prosecutor, handling corruption cases, including money laundering, and the prosecution of convicted
Beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. During her tenure as a federal prosecutor, she was
the recipient of the Harold Sullivan Award, honoring her as the top prosecutor from among 350 Assistant United
States Attorneys. Ms. Winfree is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she was note
editor of the law review and a member of the Order of the Coif.