PAST EVENTS2009-2010Thursday, November 5, 2009ILE / WHARTON FINANCE SEMINAR HOWELL JACKSON "Regulatory Reform in the Real World" Seminar: 3:00 to 4:30 PM 
Howell Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests include financial regulation, international finance, consumer protection, federal budget policy, and entitlement reform. Professor Jackson has served as a consultant to the United States Treasury Department, the United Nations Development Program, and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund. He is a member of the National Academy on Social Insurance, a trustee of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) and its affiliated TIAA-CREF investment companies, a member of the panel of outside scholars for the NBER Retirement Research Center, and a senior editor for Cambridge University Press Series on International Corporate Law and Financial Regulation. Professor Jackson frequently testifies before Congress and consults with government agencies on issues of financial regulation. He is co-editor of Fiscal Challenges: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (Cambridge University Press 2008), co-author of Analytical Methods for Lawyers (Foundation Press 2003) and Regulation of Financial Institutions (West 1999), and author of numerous scholarly articles. Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 1989, Professor Jackson was a law clerk for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced law in Washington, D.C. Professor Jackson received J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University in 1982 and a B.A. from Brown University in 1976. Thursday, October 29, 2009DISTINGUISHED JURIST LECTURE HON. LEWIS A. KAPLAN "Private Securities Litigation — Time for a Fresh Start?" Lecture: 4:30 to 5:30 PM Open to the Public 
Judge Kaplan was appointed United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York on August 9, 1994 and entered on duty August 22, 1994. He received his A.B. with high honors in political science from the University of Rochester in 1966 and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1969. He then served as law clerk to Honorable Edward M. McEntee of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Judge Kaplan joined the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in 1970 and was a partner in the firm from 1977 until joining the bench. Since his appointment to the bench, Judge Kaplan has handled a number of well known cases. He now is presiding over the first criminal prosecution in a federal district court of a Guantanamo detainee. He tried what the government called the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history, the prosecution of many former members of the accounting firm, KPMG, and others, for conspiracy to defraud the United States and for tax evasion. He was responsible for the civil antitrust price-fixing cases brought against Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc. and Christie’s and the companion criminal antitrust case against Sotheby’s. He is presiding over multidistrict litigations relating to the failed Italian company, Parmalat, and to Lehman Brothers Holdings. He has been the trial judge in such intellectual property cases as Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, in which held that dissemination of a computer program that decrypts copyrighted motion pictures stored on DVDs violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and Larson v. Thomson, which dealt with a claim of joint copyright ownership in the show Rent by a dramaturg who worked on the script. Other noteworthy decisions include his 1998 ruling enjoining the City of New York from interfering with the so-called Million Youth March in Harlem on the ground that the regulations relied upon by the City in banning the march violated the First Amendment as well as a 1997 decision upholding the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 against constitutional challenge. In 2009, Judge Kaplan received the Federal Bar Council’s Learned Hand Medal for excellence in federal jurisprudence and the Judicial Recognition Award of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The New York State Bar Association Section on Commercial and Federal Litigation in 2007 awarded him its Stanley H. Fuld Award for “outstanding contributions to commercial law and litigation.” Judge Kaplan is a Judicial Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, judicial liaison to the Council of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and a member of the American Law Institute. He is chair of the Technology Committee of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, was a member of the Committee on Automation and Technology of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1997 through 2003, and has served as a director and member of the executive committee of the Federal Judges’ Association. Insights from PracticeTuesday, October 13, 2009Sessions: 4:30 to 6:00 PM Open to the Public Panel Co-Chairs: Panelists: Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009LAW AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LECTURE J. P. SUAREZ "The 'Ten Points' for Maintaining a Risk-Taking Open to the Public 
John Peter Suarez (J.P.) is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Wal-Mart Stores International Division, responsible for managing all legal affairs for the 14 countries in which Wal-Mart operates. His areas of responsibility include franchising, operational support, mergers & acquisitions, employment, tax, compliance, and supervision over all other legal affairs. J.P. is responsible for providing advice and legal counseling to all members of the International management team, including the CEO of the International Division. Prior to being named to this position, J.P. was the Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., responsible for helping to identify all regulatory issues facing the company, implementing mitigation plans, and monitoring overall compliance with legal obligations in the areas of Operations, Pharmacy, Privacy, Environmental, Immigration and Financial Services, and Food Safety. J.P. also led the company’s Product Safety area, helping to ensure that all Wal-Mart’s products meet appropriate safety standards. J.P. joined Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in 2004 and began his career as the Vice President and General Counsel for Sam’s Club Legal. He was responsible for managing the legal affairs for Sam’s Club, a $44 billion Warehouse Club. His responsibilities included ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations such as OSHA, environmental, and food safety issues and managing operations, employment, merchandise and marketing issues. J.P. also served as the Senior Vice President for Asset Protection for Wal-Mart Stores U.S. Division. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, J.P. served as the U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator for compliance and enforcement, where he was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was responsible for directing the nation’s environmental compliance and enforcement efforts. He also served as a federal and state prosecutor, and was the chief enforcement officer overseeing New Jersey’s gaming industry. J.P. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the law review. He completed his undergraduate studies at Tufts University, where he received a B.A. in English and Drama with honors in both majors. J.P. has three children ages 11, 8 and 7. |
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