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This program was produced by CLE Co-Chairs Lisa Wayne & David Rudolf with assistance from NACDL's White Collar Committee Co-Chairs Andrew Good & Barry Pollack, and International Affairs Committee Co-Chairs Speedy Rice & Nancy Hollander.
Wanda M. Akin - Newark, NJ
Wanda Akin practices criminal defense from her solo office in Newark, NJ. She teaches Criminal Trial Practice at Seton Hall Law School and with Raymond M. Brown, co-taught International Criminal Law at the American University in Cairo. Akin is an adjunct at Seton Hall University’s John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy And International Relations where she teaches International Criminal Law as well as Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in the Contemporary World. Akin is co-producer of and co-host of Judging Nuremberg: The Laws, The Rallies, The Trials—Returning to Courtroom 600 On The 60th Anniversary Of The Nuremberg Trials, from Nuremberg, Germany during the 2005-2006 Inside The Law season on PBS. She has served as counsel before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Akin has lectured on trial advocacy, legal ethics, media in trial practice, publishing, human rights and international law. Recently she spoke on The International Federation Of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Panel at the UN Special Session of the Commission on the Status Of Women Conference and moderated panel discussion on the draft Code of Professional Conduct for counsel produced by The Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Human Rights First and the International Criminal Bar.
Sandra Babcock - Minneapolis, MN
Over the last decade, Sandra Babcock has been a leading advocate for the application of international human rights norms in domestic criminal proceedings, particularly in death penalty cases. She has argued before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice. She currently directs the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, a pioneering project funded by the Government of Mexico to assist its nationals in capital cases at trial and on appeal. Babcock has provided litigation support to attorneys in over 80 capital cases involving Mexican nationals, and routinely appears as Mexico's counsel in state and federal courts throughout the country. She serves as Mexico's counsel in the case of Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States), a case brought by Mexico in the International Court of Justice on behalf of 54 Mexican nationals on death row under the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Babcock has written several articles on international law and the death penalty.
Jane Barrett - Washington, DC
Jane Barrett concentrates her practice on complex criminal and civil litigation, with an emphasis on the defense of complex criminal cases involving fraud and environmental crimes throughout the United States. A former federal and state prosecutor, Barrett has extensive criminal jury trial experience and has successfully argued numerous appellate cases. She also advises clients on the implementation of effective corporate compliance policies and conducts internal corporate investigations. Since entering private practice, Barrett has represented companies and individuals in a variety of white-collar investigations, including environmental crimes, securities fraud, bribery, racketeering, kickbacks, health care fraud, and government contract and program fraud. Barrett has authored numerous publications, including Corporate Probation-What Happens After the Plea (18th National Institute on White Collar Crime 2004), Criminal Environmental Prosecutions and the Maritime Industry (A World-Wide Trend, Bimco Review 2004) and Failure to Train Employees – Now a Federal Crime (Occupational Safety and Health Magazine).
Barbara Bergman - Albuquerque, NM
NACDL President-Elect Barbara Bergman is a professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law where she teaches courses on evidence, trial practice, criminal law, and criminal procedure. Before turning to teaching fulltime in 1987, she was a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. She is the co-author of the Every Trial Criminal Defense Resource Book with Nancy Hollander and the fifteenth edition of Wharton’s Criminal Evidence. Bergman served on the defense team of Terry Nichols’ capital case in Oklahoma.
Raymond M Brown - Newark, NJ
Former NACDL Board Member (1991-1997) and Parliamentarian (1997-2000), and Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Raymond Brown practices criminal defense, having appeared in 12 states and conducted investigations throughout the US as well as in Kenya, El Salvador, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, the Bahamas, Colombia, and Sierra Leone. Brown teaches as a Research Fellow at Seton Hall’s Law School (death penalty, criminal law, “ethics”, ICL) and as an adjunct at Seton Hall’s School of Diplomacy (ICL, Peacekeeping). He is also a legal journalist, hosting Due Process on public television in New Jersey. Brown has served as counsel before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, taught international criminal law (ICL) at Cairo’s American University, and covered the first trial at the ICTY (OTP v Tadic) for the Courtroom Television Network. He has taught at NCDC and written and lectured on trial advocacy, ethics, race and the criminal justice system, human rights and international law, the art of persuasion, and educational and drug policy throughout the US and internationally.
David Chesnoff - Las Vegas, NV
David Chesnoff built a national reputation through courtroom accomplishments, lectures at legal forums, seminars, and his appearances on several TV programs including the Dick Cavett Show, CNBC, and the Charlie Rose Show. He is a faculty member of the National College for Criminal Defense, serves as an ABC Legal News Analyst, and is a legal consultant to Parade Magazine. Chesnoff represented a defendant in U.S v. Hector Tapia, et al, involving the largest controlled substance seizure in US history, which ended in a hung jury. He successfully defended Salvatore Scafidi in a death penalty prosecution in U.S. v. Scarfo, as well as Nate Dogg, a Death Row Records recording artist, in a multiple armed-robbery trial.
Jenni Gainsborough – Washington, DC
Jenni Gainsborough is Director of the Washington Office of Penal Reform International (PRI), the world’s largest penal reform organization with regional programs in Europe, Asia, sub-Saharan and North Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Prior to joining PRI, she was a senior policy analyst with The Sentencing Project, where she researched and wrote on the overuse of incarceration, the mentally ill in the criminal justice system, and juvenile justice. Gainsborough also served as the Public Policy Coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project and began her career in criminal justice as a consultant to the Department of Justice working on programs for serious habitual juvenile offenders.
Mark Geragos - Los Angeles, CA
Mark Geragos is the managing partner of the twelve-lawyer boutique law firm of Geragos and Geragos, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Geragos practices as a criminal trial lawyer in both federal and state courts, and has represented dozens of high-profile clients. He is currently best known for his defense of Scott Peterson, but his client roster includes some of the more prominent figures in politics, entertainment, and business. The Los Angeles Criminal Courts Bar Association has named him “Trial Lawyer of the Year” and he has been named one of 100 Most Influential Attorneys in California for several years.
Steve Glassroth - Montgomery, AL
NACDL Secretary and Past President of the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Steve Glassroth concentrates his practice in trial work involving criminal cases in both federal and state courts. He is experienced in the defense of all types of serious felonies, including capital cases, other street and drug crimes, child sex and physical abuse cases, as well as complex criminal litigation, and white collar criminal defense. He has been a principal in The Glassroth Law Firm, P.C., and its predecessors since 1986. Glassroth is a frequent speaker on trial techniques and has given CLE presentations at numerous seminars throughout the country. He was the named plaintiff in a successful federal lawsuit that challenged the Alabama Chief Justice’s placement of a monument in the rotunda of the state judicial building (Glassroth v. Moore). The case was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and the US Supreme Court denied review. In response to a complaint he filed, the Chief Justice was ultimately removed from office for his failure to obey the federal court order directing the monument’s removal.
Elise Groulx-Diggs – Montreal, Canada
Elise Groulx-Diggs is a career criminal defense lawyer and the founding president of the International Criminal Bar (ICB), a global institution with a mission of organizing the legal profession to be the "third pillar" of the international criminal justice system. She is a rare breed of legal entrepreneur, having started from her kitchen table with the idea that the legal profession needs to globalize as governments establish new international criminal courts. In 1997, Diggs created a small association, the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association (ICDAA) to ensure respect for fair trial rights and the independence of lawyers. This formed the base for global networking at the United Nations and building a broad coalition of lawyers, bars, legal associations, and non-governmental organizations that eventually resulted in the creation of the International Criminal Bar in 2002.
John Wesley Hall - Little Rock, AR
NACDL Treasurer and Ethics Advisory Committee Chair John Wesley Hall practices criminal defense specializing in drugs, sex and violence, and death penalty cases and he devotes an enormous amount of time providing confidential ethics advice for NACDL members. Hall is the author of three books on trial practice and criminal law including: Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Lawyer (3d ed., 2004), Trial Handbook for Arkansas Lawyers (5th ed., 2003), and Search and Seizure (3d ed., 2000), and is the author of numerous law review articles on the duties of criminal defense lawyers. He is a frequent lecturer on legal ethics and related matters for the criminal defense bar.
Nancy Hollander - Albuquerque, NM
NACDL Past President Nancy Hollander (1992-1993) regularly speaks and writes on forfeiture, Fourth Amendment practice, expert witnesses, child abuse cases, ethics, evidence, and trial practice. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations’ Development Program in Vietnam, program coordinator for Russian Jury Trial Project, and is on the steering committee to create an international criminal bar for lawyers who will appear before the International Criminal Court. Hollander is a faculty member of National Institute for Trial Advocacy and National Criminal Defense College. In 2001, she was named one of the America’s Top 50 Women Litigators by the National Law Journal.
Margaret Huang – Washington, DC
Margaret Huang is the Program Director of the Global Rights’ US Racial Discrimination Program where she manages its efforts to confront racial discrimination in the United States and oversees programs designed to link US anti-racism activists to international and regional human rights systems. Prior to joining Global Rights, Huang was a Program Director with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, working with the winners of the RFK Human Rights Award from Asia and the Middle East where she developed advocacy strategies to influence US policy and targeted various UN human rights mechanisms to support the work of the RFK award winners. Huang also organized coalition advocacy efforts linking US activists with local advocates in countries such as Indonesia and China in order to press for meaningful policy change. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the International Career Advancement Association, and serves as an Advisor to the Human Rights Video Project, a national library project created to increase the public's awareness of human rights issues through the medium of documentary films.
John Keker - San Francisco, CA
John Keker is founding partner of Keker & Van Nest, a 53-lawyer civil and criminal litigation firm in San Francisco. He was named the best lawyer in San Francisco in 2003 by the SF Chronicle, was inducted into the California State Bar Litigation Section Hall of Fame in 2002, and has been listed as one of the 10 most influential lawyers in California by the LA Daily Journal. California Lawyer magazine named him the lawyer that other lawyers most want to represent them when they are in trouble. His recent criminal cases include US v. Frank Quattrone and US v. Andrew Fastow. In 1996, Keker was honored by the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice organization for his successful defense of fellow defense attorney Patrick Hallinan. He once served as a prosecutor in US v. Oliver North. He has been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America in two categories, Business Litigation and Criminal Defense.
Julian Killingley - Birmingham, England
Julian Killingley is Professor of American Public Law at UCE School of Law in Birmingham, England. He had previously been a partner in private practice specializing in criminal and family law. Killingley is qualified as an information technology ergonomist with an interest in cognitive models of tasks and skills. He is currently the director of the Law School's LL.B. Law with American Legal Studies Program. He teaches American Constitutional law, Justice and the Legal Process, and Intellectual property. He has specialized knowledge of the administration of the death penalty in the United States, and is a director of Amicus, a British charity that offers practical assistance to American death row inmates. Killingley has contributed to a number of amicus curiae briefs to the US Supreme Court on issues such as mental retardation and the execution of juveniles. He is well known in the media and has made numerous invited appearances to discuss the American Legal System and Death Row issues. He is presently conducting an ethnographic study into a life-changing program for young recidivist offenders.
Samantha Knights - London, England
A Gray's Inn Barrister in London, Samantha Knights is currently a Visiting Researcher in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. She interned at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York during the summer of 2000. Knights is a member of Amicus, a UK-based charity established to assist in the provision of legal representation for those awaiting capital trial and punishment in the US, and to raise awareness of potential abuses of their rights.
David Lewis - New York, NY
David Lewis practices law with a concentration on white collar and organized crime. He has represented elected officials, members of the Irish Republican Army, former CIA Agent Edwin P. Wilson, and General Manuel Noriega. After seventeen months on trial in The Pizza Connection heroin case, Lewis spent the next ten months in a trial involving alleged members of the Gambino crime family. He tried the first “Fatal Attraction” murder trial in Westchester County that ended in a hung jury, and defended a former New York City police officer in the Dobbs Ferry Deli shooting. Lewis successfully battled the Department of Justice on its desire to expand the death penalty in New York to a defendant named Daquan Major.
Jack Litman - New York, NY
Jack Litman concentrates his criminal law practice on complex criminal cases ranging from allegations of white collar crimes to murder. He successfully defended the “Preppy Murder” case, and defended real estate developer David Tse for the 1988 killing of gang member Andy Liang. Tse was acquitted based on self-defense, even though he had to reload his revolver twice in order to shoot Liang 18 times. Litman has appeared as a TV commentator on shows dealing with issues related to criminal law enforcement – such as the acclaimed Fred Friendly series, The Bill of Rights Constitution: A Delicate Balance. Litman is the Past President of both New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York Criminal Bar Association, and he has lectured extensively for NACDL and its affiliates around the country.
Abbe David Lowell – Washington, DC
Abbe Lowell focuses his practice on the investigation, litigation, and trial of complex civil and criminal cases across the US. He counsels clients with respect to their dealings with legislative and government agencies and advising of international, national, state, and local governments, as well as NGO’s. A partner at Chadbourne & Parke, Lowell has successfully tried more than a dozen criminal and civil jury cases throughout the country involving charges of public corruption, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, mail and wire fraud, election law violations, conspiracy, and money laundering. His civil cases include claims of civil rights violations, employment discrimination, conspiracy, securities fraud, negligence, and breach of contract and fiduciary duty.
Bruce Lyons - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
NACDL Past President Bruce Lyons (1986-1987) devotes his practice to all aspects of criminal defense work, including the application of forensic science, at both state and federal trial levels. During the past 30 years he has testified before the US House of Representatives and has written and lectured nationally on all aspects of criminal law. He is a licensed member of several state and federal bars, including Florida, Colorado, and the US Supreme Court. Lyons recently traveled to Xi’an, China, on behalf of the American Bar Association and the Ford Foundation to participate in a trial demonstration on domestic violence. His publications include: Robbery (The Florida Bar, 1981); Attorney/Client Privilege, (Broward Barrister, May/June, 1982); Damage Control in the Child Abuse Defense, (The Champion, Jan-Feb., 1995); and Defending Violent Crime Cases, (The Practical Litigator, Vol 10, No.6, Nov., 1999). In 1997, Lyons received NACDL’s highest recognition, the prestigious Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award.
Pamela Mackey - Denver, CO
Best known for her defense in the Kobe Bryant case, Pamela Mackey spent three years as a ski-bum in Aspen and served as a deputy state public defender in the central mountains of Colorado. She is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, and in 2003, was selected by her peers as the Best of the Bar in Colorado for individual Criminal Defense. Mackey is the current chair of the Criminal Justice Act Standing Committee for the District of Colorado and a member of the Tenth Circuit Criminal Jury Instructions Committee.
Tracy Miner - Boston, MA
Tracy Miner represents many of the northeast region's major corporations, financial institutions, public officials, and high-profile individuals in state and federal investigations. Her experience includes defending corporations and their officers in health care fraud, environmental and defense contracting cases, as well as individuals charged with offenses such as RICO, mail fraud, extortion, securities fraud, and bribery. Miner is a board member for the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is a member of the Criminal Law Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association, and she serves on the Federal Court Criminal Justice Act Panel. Miner has served as a Member of the Board of Editors of the Boston Bar Journal and as a faculty member of the ABA Law Student Division. She has lectured extensively on criminal law issues.
Billy Murphy, Jr. - Baltimore, MD
During his years in the courtroom, Billy Murphy has learned how to get the jury to listen and question the government’s evidence. Having tried some of the biggest and most celebrated criminal and civil cases in Maryland’s history, he is one of the most sought-after defense lawyers in the state and throughout the nation. His federal practice has comprised the defense of numerous white collar crimes including insurance fraud, mail and wire fraud, drugs, and money laundering. Murphy was pushing the envelope and thinking outside the box in defense of his clients in state and federal courts before those notions entered the popular lexicon.
Paul Nugent – Houston, Texas
Paul Nugent specializes in criminal jury trials. A protégé of legendary Texas trial attorney Percy Foreman, he has earned “Not Guilty” verdicts in over 100 state and federal cases. He won an acquittal in the highly publicized “City Hall Six” bribery trial involving an FBI sting that targeted alleged corruption on Houston’s City Council. Nugent freed Kerry Max Cook from his 22-year false imprisonment on Texas’ death row, exposing widespread police and prosecutorial misconduct in an eight-year struggle that included two capital murder jury trials. He has testified before the US Congress’ Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and has appeared on PBS’s Frontline, ABC’s Nightline, Court TV, and A&E’s American Justice.
Steve Peters - Denver, CO
Steve Peters has extensive experience in complex civil and criminal litigation. From 1990 to 2000 he was an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is the former chair of the board of directors at Craig Hospital in Engelwood, Colorado, and was an assistant US attorney for the District of Colorado from 1987 until 1994, where he supervised and coordinated multi-agency white collar investigations, grand jury presentations, trials, and appeals. In 1994, Peters was presented with the US Department of Justice’s Director Award.
Raj Purohit – Washington, DC
As Legislative Director of Human Rights First, Raj Purohit is responsible for leading the organization’s advocacy efforts at the Congressional and Executive levels, with a focus on international relations, judiciary and labor issues. He helps develop and implement new legislative initiatives and lobbying strategies. He also represents Human Rights First in a range of coalitions and is a media spokesperson. Before joining Human Rights First, Purohit served as Legislative Director for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has also served as Director of Legal Services at the Center on Conscience and War.
Jeffery Robinson - Seattle, WA
NACDL Board Member Jeff Robinson served as a Seattle-King County Public Defender and Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington before joining Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender in 1988. He practices criminal defense in state and federal courts representing individuals and corporations. Robinson teaches Trial Advocacy at the University of Washington Law School and is a visiting instructor at Harvard Law School. He is a past president of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a faculty member of the National Criminal Defense College. In 2003, Robinson was honored by the Seattle King County Bar Association as Lawyer of the Year, and was selected by Black Enterprises magazine as one of the top 100 Black Lawyers in America. Robinson is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Speedy Rice - San Diego, CA
Speedy Rice practiced aircraft accident litigation and civil rights from 1986 to 1998. He argued appellate cases before a number of courts, including the California, New Mexico, and the US Supreme Courts. Rice taught courses on International Human Rights, Civil Procedure, Conflicts, Evidence, Remedies, Trial Advocacy, and Aviation Law at Gonzaga Law School in Spokane, WA, from 1993 to 2002, where he served as Director of the Externship Program. From September 2002 to January 2004, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Human Rights to the Law Faculty of the University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Serbia, and Montenegro. Rice was a visiting Professor of American Law at the University of Central England, Birmingham, England, for the Spring Semester of 2004. He has taught and lectured at numerous international locations and is NACDL’s point person on international US death penalty issues. Rice regularly speaks and writes internationally on human rights and death penalty.
Hilary Shelton - Washington, DC
Hilary Shelton is the Director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau and is responsible for advocating its federal public policy agenda in the United States to the US government. He previously served as Federal Liaison/Assistant Director to the Government Affairs Department of The College Fund for The United Negro College Fund in Washington, D.C. While playing an integral role in the crafting and final passage of such crucial federal legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1991, he was also instrumental in ushering through the passage of The Civil Rights Restoration Act, The Violence Against Women Act, The Hate Crimes Statistics Act, The Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act, The National Voter Registration Act, The National Assault Weapons Ban, The Brady Handgun Law, Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and many other crucial laws and policy measures affecting the quality of lives and equality in our society. Shelton serves on the boards The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, The Center for Democratic Renewal, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute.
Rupert Skilbeck - London, England
Rupert Skilbeck is the current Defense Coordinator for the New Tribunal for Bosnia / Herzegovina. He practices predominantly in criminal law and has experience in international human rights and humanitarian law. In 2004, Skilbeck worked as the Defense Advisor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Previously, he worked with the Southern Center for Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He has lectured extensively in Europe and around the world for such bodies as The Council of Europe, The International Bar Association, The Judicial Studies Board, The Bar Human Rights Committee, and The British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has also undertaken several missions for Amnesty International. Skilbeck is an executive member of The Bar Human Rights Committee in London and is a director of Amicus, an NGO which assists lawyers working against the death penalty in the US.
Eric Tars – Washington, DC
Eric Tars joined Global Rights in 2004 as the US Racial Discrimination Program Fellow to work with US-based civil rights groups to integrate international human rights norms into their domestic campaigns. He is responsible for helping to provide strategic direction and implementation of the program in its three main thematic areas: fighting racism in all aspects of the criminal justice system, assisting domestic workers in gaining basic employment protections, and ensuring the right to equal education is upheld for all of America’s children. Tars previously served as Legal Assistant at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, as Law Clerk at Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, and as Research Assistant to Prof. Mari Matsuda.
Michel Taube - Paris, France
Michel Taube founded Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) in 2000, within the framework of the publishing company, L'Écart. His involvement in the service of human rights is extensive as he is involved with The Club UNESCO of Human Rights, the European Contest of human rights Rene Cassin, and he held national responsibility to the LICRA (International League Against Racism and Anti-semitism) in the eighties as well as aided in the mobilization against the Front National in France in the nineties. These engagements--among others--drove Taube to become fully involved in a cause where human rights, philosophic and political convictions come together. Taube has published 10 works as editor, and he has written 3 books: On n'en a pas fini avec le Front national[We are not Finished with The National Front] (l'Écart Publishing Company, 1998), Lettre ouverte aux Américains pour l¹abolition de la peine de mort [Public Letter to the Americans for the Abolition of the Death Penalty] (l'Écart Publishing Company, 2000), and L'Amérique qui tue[The America That Kills] (Michel Lafond, 2001). He has also published several editorials and articles on the death penalty in Universalia 2004 of the Encyclopaedia Universali.
Martin Weinberg - Boston, MA
Marty Weinberg is a nationally prominent criminal defense lawyer. He is a former director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is currently co-chair of its Lawyers Assistance Strike Force and Money Laundering Committees. He has represented defendants in over twenty federal district courts, eight US Courts of Appeal, and in the US Supreme Court where he successfully argued the landmark Fourth Amendment case of United States v. Chadwick. He is currently co-counsel in the Martha Stewart appeal that is pending in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the post-Blakely case of United States v. Fanfan which is awaiting decision in the US Supreme Court.
Steve Weisbrod - Washington, DC
Steve Weisbrod has broad experience in insurance coverage, bankruptcies, criminal defense, and other complex litigation, He has litigated and tried insurance coverage, securities fraud, and other types of civil and criminal cases in courts throughout the US. He has represented many individuals and companies in grand jury investigations and regulatory inquiries including investigations undertaken by the Securities and Exchange Commission and an Independent Counsel investigation in which he represented a member of the President's cabinet. He regularly advises companies, their directors, and officers on insurance coverage issues arising out of civil, criminal, regulatory, and bankruptcy proceedings. Formerly a full-time criminal defense lawyer, he is now of-counsel to Gilbert Heintz & Randolph LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in complex insurance litigation and insurance-related alternative dispute resolution.
Elisabetta Zamparutti – Rome, Italy
Elisabetta Zamparutti has practiced law and worked as parliamentary assistant to Senator Piero Milio, a member of the Italian Senate’s Justice Commission and the Committee to abolish the death penalty worldwide. A member of the Transnational Radical Party since 1993, she also participated in the establishment of Hands Off Cain, an NACDL international affiliate that works to abolish the death penalty. Since 1997, she has edited Hands Off Cain’s annual report on the death penalty worldwide and has lobbies for the organization in various UN fora. Her lobbing activity has included promotion of, and participation in, missions by members of the Italian Senate and Chamber of Representatives to countries that retain the death penalty in Caribbean states, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Zambia.
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