Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group
Dan Troy is Managing Director and an expert witness on FDA matters at Berkeley Research Group. Previously he served as Chief Counsel of the US Food and Drug Administration and General Counsel of GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School
Professor of Law Michael S. Greve joined the faculty of the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in fall 2012 after having served as John G. Searle Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he specialized in constitutional law, courts, and business regulation and served as chairman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Prior to joining AEI, Greve was founder and co-director of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional litigation.
Greve has served previously as an adjunct professor at a number of universities, including Cornell and Johns Hopkins Universities, and has been a visiting professor at Boston College since 2004. He was awarded a PhD and an MA in government by Cornell University. Greve also earned a Diploma from the University of Hamburg in Germany.
A prolific writer, Greve is the author of nine books and a multitude of articles appearing in scholarly publications, as well as numerous editorials, short articles, and book reviews. He is a frequent speaker for professional and scholarly organizations and has made many appearances on radio and television.
In addition Greve has provided congressional and state legislative testimony, has lobbied and consulted in federal agency proceedings, and has provided litigation services and management in over 30 cases, including matters before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Board Member, Center for Equal Opportunity
Roger Clegg is a Board Member at and former President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. He focuses on legal issues arising from civil rights laws--including the regulatory impact on business and the problems in higher education created by affirmative action. A former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Clegg held the second highest positions in both the Civil Rights Division (1987-91) and in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (1991-93). He has held several other positions at the U.S. Justice Department, including Assistant to the Solicitor General (1985-87), Associate Deputy Attorney General (1984-85), and Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy (1984). Clegg is a graduate of Yale University Law School (1981).
Partner, Weintraub, Stock, Grisham, PC
(Partner) born Memphis, Tennessee, April 30, 1954; admitted to bar, 1981, Tennessee and U.S. District Court, Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas; U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court.
Education: University of Memphis (B.S., Ed., 1976; J.D., 1980). Phi Delta Phi. Listed: The Best Lawyers of America; Mid-South Super Lawyers. Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law. Frequent Speaker, Labor and Employment seminars nationally and internationally. Board Member: Metropolitan Board YMCA; National Assembly YMCA; Orphanos Foundation Base Institute. Adjunct Professor, Business College, Union University.
Member: Memphis (Member: Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee; Employment and Labor Law Section) and Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Section) Bar Associations; The Federalist Society (Co-Chair, Memphis Lawyers' Chapter, 2000—). Practice Areas: Employment Law; Litigation; Labor Relations Law; Construction Contract Law.
Law School: University of Memphis, J.D., 1980
College: University of Memphis, B.S., Ed., 1976
Associate, Ropes & Gray
Peter has significant experience in representing mutual funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, corporations and individuals in complex securities and corporate litigation matters, including the representation of the directors and officers of several public companies in securities class actions and breach of fiduciary duty actions. Peter also is experienced in litigating contested merger transactions, including strategic, financial and going private transactions. Peter has been involved in advising committees of directors at several large corporations concerning corporate governance and related issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions and other strategic alternatives, as well as related-party transactions, internal investigations and litigation. Peter currently serves as the Chairman of the Directors and Officers Liability Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association and is a member of the ABA Business Law Section's Task Force on Director and Officer Liability.
Peter also has significant experience, as both a litigator and adviser, in representing directors and officers of public and private corporations, as well as principals of private equity and hedge funds, in connection with their indemnification and director and officer insurance programs. Peter was involved in the successful representation of the outside directors of the Enron Corporation in litigation involving Enron's $450 million director and officer insurance program.
Peter has represented several public companies and investment advisers in connection with investigations conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and has also represented public companies and an investment advisor in connection with criminal investigations conducted by the Department of Justice.
Peter also represents clients in the health care industry in enforcement and litigation matters. Peter has helped to represent a large health care company in investigations conducted by the federal government, including by the Department of Justice, and by state enforcement authorities.
In 2004, Peter served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County. Peter prosecuted some fifteen jury and bench trials and argued legal and evidentiary motions on a daily basis.
Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
George Terwilliger is co-head of the firm's white collar practice and leads the firm's Strategic Response and Crisis Management practice group. Following his fifteen years of public service in the US Department of Justice, where he began as a law clerk and concluded as Acting Attorney General, George has provided counsel in government and internal investigations, agency enforcement proceedings and in civil and criminal litigation. He has represented many of the nation's and the world's largest corporations, including major financial institutions, energy companies, public institutions as well as leading business and government officials, including members of the US Senate and House as well as cabinet officials. He has also represented lawyers and corporate legal departments in investigations. As a result of both his private sector work and government positions, George is called upon to provide counsel as well as commentary to government officials, Congress and private organizations on national security, homeland defense, terrorism, and other public policy and legal issues. George's work regularly involves providing counsel in the executive suites and boardrooms of major corporations.
In private practice for international law firms, George has represented national and international financial, energy, telecommunications, industrial and healthcare companies. He is a recognized expert in leading credible corporate internal investigations and his experience designing and executing both targeted and global legal compliance reviews has involved work in more than 60 countries around the globe. George is an expert on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and regularly provides counsel to companies addressing FCPA issues. No stranger to high stakes litigation and crisis events, George helped lead the Bush-Cheney legal team in the 2000 Florida vote recount, served as special outside counsel to a Senate committee investigating vote fraud allegations, served as counsel to an executive commission on gambling, and has represented many clients in politically charged election law and similar cases. He has guided corporations and individual through high stakes matters of intense public interest. He represented an incumbent president in First Amendment litigation concerning the right to have an inaugural prayer said in a public ceremony.
At the Department of Justice, George served for 10 years as a frontline federal prosecutor, handling hundreds of investigations, trials and appeals, including in white collar and national security cases. President Ronald Reagan appointed him as a U.S. attorney, and he next served as the deputy attorney general and as acting attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration. As Deputy Attorney General, George ran the Justice Department's operations, overseeing all the nation's federal prosecutors, as well as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. He also had leadership responsibility in several national and international crises, including a hostage-taking in a federal prison and the federal law enforcement response to domestic unrest in Los Angeles. In several instances, he personally handled negotiations of high-profile criminal and civil matters in the United States and abroad.
Legal Director & General Counsel, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Kent S. Scheidegger has been the Legal Director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation since December 1986. He also served as Chairman of the Criminal Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society 2003 to 2005. His articles on criminal and constitutional law have been published in law reviews, national legal publications, and congressional reports. Legal arguments authored by Mr. Scheidegger have been cited and incorporated in several precedent-setting United States Supreme Court decisions.
After receiving a degree in physics with honors from New Mexico State University in 1976, Mr. Scheidegger served for six years in the United States Air Force as a Nuclear Research Officer. He took his law degree with distinction from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1982 and practiced civil law in Northern California. He was general counsel of California Cooler, Inc. from 1984 until 1986, when he joined the Foundation.
ABA Watch February 2007 Online Supplement
Table of Contents
ABA President William Neukom Speaks to The Federalist Society
State-Level Protection for Good-Faith Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Daniel E. Troy
In 1996, the Michigan legislature enacted a common-sense proposition into law: drug-safety determinations should be...
Manufacturer's Immunity: The FDA Compliance Defense
Lars Noah, Michael S. Greve
Lars Noah: Thank you for inviting me to participate. I have been intrigued by these...
An End (or Prelude?) to Further Litigation in the Reparations Movement
For decades there have been eff orts to obtain reparations for the descendants of those...
The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative and the Future of Racial Preferences
Roger B. Clegg
On November 7, 2006, the people of Michigan voted by an overwhelming 58-42% margin in...
Testing the Waters of Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Claims
James H. Stock
It has been nearly five years since Congress, in the aftermath of several corporate scandals,...
Corporate Governance Reform and Director Elections
Daniel Fisher
The beginning of this decade featured a number of high-profile corporate scandals which have led...
Business Judgment Rule on the Line: Tower Air, IT Group, and Notice Pleading in Federal Court
Randall W. Bodner, Peter L. Welsh
The business judgment rule has long been a cornerstone of corporate law and business practice...
The McNulty Memorandum: Recent Modifications to Federal Prosecutorial Policy Regarding Corporations
George J. Terwilliger
On December 12, 2006, the Department of Justice (“Department”) announced changes to its corporate prosecution...
The Vienna Convention and the Supreme Court: Reaching the Limits of Internationalism?
Kent Scheidegger
The Supreme Court has taken much criticism in certain circles for paying too much attention...