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Program Agenda: (Program and Faculty subject to change)
| 8:15 am |
Registration, Exhibits & Continental Breakfast
A special thank you to Navigant Consulting for Co-Sponsoring our Thursday breakfast and refreshment breaks
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| 9:00 am |
Welcome and Introduction - Program Co-Chairs Gerald Goldstein, Gerald Lefcourt, and Abbe David Lowell - Norman Reimer, NACDL Executive Director - Prof. Bruce Green, Fordham Law School's Stein Center for Law & Ethics |
| 9:15 am |
Prosecutors Behaving Badly: More Unethical Conduct or Just More Discovery of Misconduct? ---Ethical and Strategic Considerations Post-Stevens, Broadcom, Blackwater, and Others
---Exploring Abusive Trends and the Need for Systematic and Systemic Reform
Moderator: Gerald Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley (San Antonio, TX) Panelists: Hon. Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey; David Markus, David Oscar Markus PLLC (Miami, FL);
Richard Marmaro, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Los Angeles, CA); Hon. Ricardo M. Urbina, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia; Ellen Yaroshefsky, Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Ethics Center, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York, NY)
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| 10:45 am |
Refreshment Break
A special thank you to Navigant Consulting for Co-Sponsoring our Thursday breakfast and refreshment breaks
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| 11:00 am |
iDefense: Strategic & Ethical Issues in the Digital Age ---Responding to Grand Jury Subpoenas for Electronically Stored Information ---Dissecting the 9th Circuit’s Balco Decision and Other Novel Digital Issues
Moderator: Gerald Lefcourt, Gerald B. Lefcourt P.C. (New York, NY) Panelists: Elkan Abramowitz, Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. (New York, NY); Daniel K. Gelb, Gelb & Gelb, LLP (Boston, MA); Mark R. Hellerer, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (New York, NY); Eric V. Mazur, Director, Forensic & Electronic Discovery Services, Navigant Consulting (Washington DC) |
| 12:30 pm |
Special Lunch & Keynote Address An Interview of Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Senior Analyst and New Yorker staff writer, by Abbe David Lowell
A special thank you to Dwyer & Collora LLP for Co-sponsoring our Thursday Luncheon
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| 2:00 pm |
Where Do We Go From Here? Honest Services Fraud and Public Corruption ---Analyzing the Supreme Court’s Weyrauch, Black, and Skilling Decisions ---Defending Today’s Public Corruption Cases
Moderator: Abbe David Lowell, McDermott Will & Emery (Washington, DC) Panelists: Miguel A. Estrada, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Washington, DC); Ross Garber, Shipman & Goodwin LLP (Hartford, CT); Hon. Barbara M. G. Lynn, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; Jack Smith, Chief, Public Integrity Section, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, DC); Richard Craig Smith, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (Washington, DC) |
| 3:30 pm |
Refreshment Break
A special thank you to Navigant Consulting for Co-Sponsoring our Thursday breakfast and refreshment breaks
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| 3:45 pm |
The White Collar Trial: Required Skills and Exceptional Techniques ---Tackling the White Collar Opening, Closing, Direct and Cross ---Examining the Best and Worst White Collar Trial Techniques
Moderator: Gerald Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley (San Antonio, TX) Panelists: Cristina C. Arguedas, Arguedas, Cassman & Headley LLP(Berkeley, CA); Marcus J. Busch, Trial Attorney, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice (Washington, DC); Francis D. Carter, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP (Washington, DC); Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Washington, DC); Dan K. Webb, Winston & Strawn LLP (Chicago, IL) |
| 5:15 pm |
Adjourn for the day |
| 5:30 pm |
Cocktail Reception sponsored by our friends at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

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| 8:15 am |
Registration, Exhibits & Continental Breakfast
A special thank you to Miller Chevalier for Co-Sponsoring our Friday breakfast and refreshment breaks
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| 9:00 am |
An SEC Makeover: Restructured, Refocused, and … Back in the Game? ---Analyzing the Commission’s Revised Structure and Policies ---Assessing These Changes From the Ground – A Practitioner’s Perspective
Moderator: Gerald Lefcourt, Gerald B. Lefcourt P.C. (New York, NY) Panelists: Susan Brune, Brune & Richard LLP (New York, NY); Pamela Rogers Chepiga, Allen & Overy LLP (New York, NY); Robert Khuzami, Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington, DC); Eliot Spitzer, Former Governor and Attorney General of New York (New York, NY); Richard M. Strassberg, Goodwin Procter LLP (New York, NY) |
| 10:30 am |
Refreshment Break
A special thank you to Miller Chevalier for Co-Sponsoring our Friday breakfast and refreshment breaks
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| 10:45 am |
Workshops (Select One) |
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Groundhog Day: What's New in White Collar Sentencing? ---How to Deal with the Current Fixation on Loss Amount and Getting Beyond the Numbers Game
Speakers: Amy Baron-Evans, Sentencing Resource Counsel, Federal PD & Community Defenders (Boston, MA); David Debold, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Washington, DC) |
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Evasion, Avoidance, or What? Ethically Navigating the Modern Tax Fraud Case Post-UBS ---Where Do We Stand? – The Latest on UBS and Off-Shore Banking
Speakers: Peter D. Hardy, Post & Schell, PC (Philadelphia, PA); Kathryn Keneally, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (New York, NY) |
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Making Ends Meet: Obtaining Insurance Advancement & Indemnity in White Collar Cases ---Hindsight is 20/20 – Lessons on Timely Advancement and Expeditious Indemnity
Speakers: Evan A. Jenness, Law Offices of Evan A. Jenness (Santa Monica, CA); Lee H. Shidlofsky, Visser Shidlofsky LLP (Austin, TX) |
| 11:45 am |
Refreshment Break
A special thank you to Miller Chevalier for Co-Sponsoring our Friday breakfast and refreshment breaks
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| 12:00 pm |
Passport, Please: Defending in an International Enforcement Climate ---The Defense Perspective on Extradition, Discovery, and the Expanding FCPA Landscape ---More Players, New Rules – How the Defense Attorney Must Adapt
Moderator: Abbe David Lowell, McDermott Will & Emery (Washington, DC) Panelists: Peter Binning, Corker Binning (London, UK); Charles E. Duross, Deputy Chief, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. DOJ (Washington, DC); Linda Friedman Ramirez, Law Firm of Linda Friedman Ramirez, P.A. (St. Petersburg, FL); Mark F. Mendelsohn, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Washington, DC); Barry J. Pollack, Miller & Chevalier (Washington, DC); David Schertler, Schertler & Onorato LLP (Washington, DC) |
| 1:30 pm |
Seminar Adjourns |
For more information about NACDL's White Collar Crimes Policy Department, visit our White Collar Web page by >>clicking here
Questions about the seminar? Contact Shana-Tara Regon at shana@nacdl.org or call (202) 872-8600 x 227.
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