American Conference Institute’s 3rd Annual Forum on Defending and Managing

Employment Discrimination Litigation

Expert defense strategies for leading outside counsel and in-house counsel

Monday, July 30 to Tuesday, July 31, 2012
New York Downtown Marriott, New York, NY

Lindsay P. Thompson
Senior Employment Litigation Counsel
Family Dollar Stores, Inc.

Jason Brown
VP & Senior Counsel
American Express Company

Ron Peppe
Vice President Legal & Human Resources
Canam Steel Corporation

Philip I. Weis
Director & Senior Employment Counsel
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Hilary L. Kelly
Senior Counsel, Employment & Litigation
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.E.

Jane Hix
Senior Legal Counsel, Office of GC
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.

Arturo J. Fernandez
Assistant Gen. Counsel, Labor & Employment
Ryder System, Inc.

Andrew H. Smith
Director, Associate General Counsel
Citigroup

Dori Anne Kuchinsky, Esq., CIPP
Senior Litigation & Global Privacy Counsel
W.R. Grace & Co.

Neal A Murphy
Counsel
Aetna

Wanda Morris
Counsel, Employment & Labor Law
Home Depot

Christine Greener Uhlig
Senior Attorney, Legal Department
The Northern Trust Company

Ed Berrios, Esq.
Assistant Vice President
Chubb & Son

Alexander Barnard
Director & Counsel
Credit Suisse Securities LLC

John W. Hamlin, Esq.
Chief Employment Counsel
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

Stephen J. Calvert
Assistant General Counsel
CenterPoint Energy

Jason A. Fogg, Esq.
VP, Claims & Regulatory Compliance
Monitor Liability Managers, LLC

David J. A. Hayes III
Vice-President & General Counsel
Trans States Holdings, Inc.

Edward T. McNally II, Esq.
National EPL Practice Leader
CNA Open Brokerage

Jennifer J. Hamilton, Esq.
Senior Claims Analyst
Allied World National Assurance Company

Amy Elizabeth Loggins
AVP - Corporate Counsel
Crawford & Company

Eric W. Iskra,
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Miles R. Afsharnik
Senior Vice President, Claim & Legal Resource Director,
Professional Risk Group
Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.

Raymond Cashman
Senior Claims Manager
Freedom Specialty a Nationwide Company

Gregory Staron
Claims Manager
Beazley Group

Joni F. Mason
Senior Vice President,
EPL Product Manager
Chartis

Brian Weiss, Esq.
Vice President, FINEX
Willis North America

Daniel Aronowitz
Managing Principal
Euclid Specialty Managers

Moderator:
Julie Dean

Larsen Kutak Rock LLP

Patricia A. Shiu (invited)
Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
U.S. Department of Labor

Seema Nanda
Acting Deputy Special Counsel
Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC)
U.S. Department of Justice

Elizabeth Grossman
Regional AttorneyNew York District Office
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Dawn C. Valdivia
Diana L. Hoover
Quarles & Brady LLP Hoover Kernell LLP

Dianne C. Coombs
Northrop Grumman

Terence P. McCourt
Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Martha S. Doty
Alston & Bird LLP

Kay Hodge
Stoneman, Chandler & Miller LLP

Paul F. White, Ph.D.
Managing Director
ERS Group

Jay W. Waks
Kaye Scholer LLP

Steven W. Suflas
Ballard Spahr LLP

Elise M. Bloom
Proskauer Rose LLP

Lynne C. Hermle
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Aimee B. Florin
Director and Associate General Counsel
Citi | Office of the General Counsel

Allan Bloom
Paul Hastings LLP

Marina Tsatalis
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Paul G. Klockenbrink
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP

Hon. Donetta W. Ambrose
U.S. Dist. Ct., W.D. Pa.

Hon. Lloyd D. George
U.S. Dist. Ct., D. Nev.

Hon. Ann D. Montgomery
U.S. Dist. Ct., D. Minn.

Hon. Bernard Zimmerman
U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D. Calif.

Hon. James C. Francis, IV
U.S. Dist. Ct., S.D.N.Y.

Hon. Mildred E. Methvin
U.S. Dist. Ct., M.D. Pa. (recall)

Hon. B. Waugh Crigler
U.S. Dist. Ct., W.D. W. Va.

Hon. Arthur J. Boylan
U.S. Dist. Ct., D. Minn.

Hon. Anthony J. Mohr
Calif. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Co.

Moderator:
Hon. Louisa S. Porter

U.S. Dist. Ct., S.D. Calif. (retired)

Charles A. Edwards
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP

Ricki E. Roer
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

Hayes Ryan
Gordon & Rees LLP

Margaret R. T. Myers
Adams and Reese LLP

James Gillece, Jr.
Whiteford Taylor Preston

Jason C. Schwartz
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Susan M. DiMickele
Squire Sanders (US) LLP

Ali Saad, Ph.D.
Managing Partner
Resolution Economics LLC

Michael S. Burkhardt
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

David B. Ross
Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Allan G. King
Littler Mendelson

Wayne O. Adams III
Ice Miller LLP

Peter M. Panken
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

John M. Husband
Holland & Hart LLP

Arlene K. Kline
Akerman Senterfitt LLP

Drema M. Kalajian
Attorney
Ally Financial Legal Staff

C. David Morrison
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Stuart R. Buttrick
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

Jonathan W. Yarbrough
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP

Lawrence Peikes
Wiggin and Dana LLP

Christopher G. Gegwich
Nixon Peabody LLP

Grace E. Speights
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Mark J. Neuberger
Foley & Lardner LLP

Richard W. Warren
Miller Canfield P.L.C.

Vincent A. Cino
Jackson Lewis LLP

John L. Barber
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP