Gaylord Palms Resort
6000 West Osceola Parkway
Kissimmee, FL 34746
6000 West Osceola Parkway
Kissimmee, FL 34746
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Friday, May 15, 2026
Gaylord Palms Resort
6000 West Osceola Parkway
Kissimmee, FL 34746
(Orlando)
The Federalist Society established its In-House Counsel Network to foster balanced discussion of the most pressing legal issues facing the business community. We are pleased to host this day-long national summit, to be held on Friday, May 15, 2026, at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando.
This conference is off the record.
This event is now sold out.
Afternoon Fireside Chat
Hon. Paul S. Atkins
Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Evening Fireside Chat
Hon. Theodore W. Ullyot
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, National Football League
Speakers Confirmed to Date
- Mr. Charbel Barakat, Vice President and Counsel for Public Policy, D.R. Horton, Inc.
- Mr. Brian W. Barnes, Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
- Mr. Ketan Bhirud, Head of Regulatory & Litigation, Saronic Technologies
- Mr. Adam Biegel, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
- Ms. Rachel P. Bissex, Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP
- Mr. Ridge Blanchard, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Hon. Steven G. Bradbury, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
- Mr. Ian Brekke, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, Affinity Partners
- Mr. Reginald J. Brown, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Hon. Daniel Burrows, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice
- Mr. Michael Buschbacher, Managing Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC
- Ms. Olivia Curley, Deputy General Counsel, eXp World Holdings, Inc.
- Hon. James P. Danly, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
- Mr. David Dewhirst, Solicitor General, Florida Attorney General's Office
- Mr. Joshua Dubin, Founder, DRC Litigation Strategies
- Mr. Steven A. Engel, Partner, Dechert LLP
- Hon. David Fotouhi, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Mr. Matthew Galeotti, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Mr. Tyler Green, Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC
- Ms. Hillary H. Holmes, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Mr. Brad G. Hubbard, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Mr. Scott A. Keller, Partner, Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP
- Mr. Eric S. Klinger-Wilensky, Partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP
- Hon. Benjamin C. Kohlmann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Navy
- Hon. Adam P. Laxalt, Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
- Mr. Steven P. Lehotsky, Partner, Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP
- Mr. Christopher Markham, Senior Trial Counsel, Coinbase, Inc.
- Mr. Nathan Morris, Senior Counsel, Litigation Policy and Risk Mitigation, Johnson & Johnson
- Mr. Logan Overman, Deputy General Counsel, Global Policy & Strategic Initiatives, Koch
- Mr. Chad Pekron, Former Chief Litigation Counsel, Walmart
- Mr. Matthew Rice, Solicitor General, Tennessee Attorney General's Office
- Mr. Justin Schwab, General Counsel, U.S. Council on Environmental Quality
- Hon. Joshua Simmons, General Counsel, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
- Mr. O.H. Skinner, Executive Director, Alliance For Consumers
- Mr. Andrew Stevens, Associate General Counsel, G2
- Prof. Charles Tyler, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Mr. Jonathan Urick, Senior Associate Chief Counsel, U.S. Chamber Litigation Center
- Mr. Manuel Valle, Senior Managing Associate, Sidley Austin LLP
- Mr. Collin J. Vierra, Partner, Eimer Stahl LLP
- Ms. Kristin Westgard, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Litigation, Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Koch
Confirmed Panel Topics
AI in Companies and Law Firms: Reshaping In-House Work and Outside Counsel Relationships
Jury Trends
Y’all Street: Interstate Competition in Corporate Governance—Texas, Delaware, and Nevada
Agenda-Driven Science and the Courts: Climate Litigation and Judicial Education
A View From In-House: Responding to Changing Oversight and Enforcement Priorities of the Trump Administration and Congress Post-Midterms
Developments in First Amendment Litigation Affecting Corporate America
Antitrust, Proxy Advisors, and Institutional Investors
Schedule
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM: Breakfast & Registration
10:00 AM: Welcome Remarks
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM: Morning Fireside Chat
10:40 AM - 11:55 AM: Morning Breakout Sessions
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Lunch
12:30 - 2:00 PM: Plenary Panel 1 - Make America Build Again: The Legal and Regulatory Landscape for American Re-Industrialization
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Afternoon Breakout Sessions
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM: Afternoon Fireside Chat
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM: Plenary Panel 2 - The Future of Horizontal Federalism: The Structural Constitution's Limits on Extraterritoriality
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM: Reception
6:45 PM: Dinner & Evening Fireside Chat
Post-Dinner Reception
Pricing
All-inclusive general registration tickets: $275 for Members; $350 for Non-Members
Registration includes lunch, CLE credit, full-day conference access, and a seat at the dinner program.
CLE
This event has been approved for
5.50 Total CLE Hours
Attendees must SIGN IN and SIGN OUT at the event and complete the provided attendance reporting form to receive CLE credit.
Questions? Check out our CLE FAQ page.
Hotel Information
Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
6000 West Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee, FL 34746
Attendees can reserve a room in the Federalist Society's room block through the following link: http://book.passkey.com/go/FederalistSociety2026.
Room block availability cannot be guaranteed after Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
Rooms are available on a first come, first served basis.
Please contact Emily Manning at [email protected] with any questions.
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Gaylord Palms Resort
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Sun Ballroom
Level 2, Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
Gaylord Palms Resort
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Sun Ballroom
Level 2, Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
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Sun Ballroom
Level 2, Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
Speakers
10:40 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.
Morning Breakout Sessions
Sponsors: In-House Counsel Network
CLE
1.25
hours
Ethics
0
hours
Gaylord Palms Resort
Description
The Breakout Sessions will include:
AI in Companies and Law Firms: Reshaping In-House Work and Outside Counsel Relationships
AI in Companies and Law Firms: Reshaping In-House Work and Outside Counsel Relationships
Miami 3
Jury Trends
Jury Trends
Miami 1
Y’all Street: Interstate Competition in Corporate Governance—Texas, Delaware, and Nevada
Y’all Street: Interstate Competition in Corporate Governance—Texas, Delaware, and Nevada
Miami 2
Agenda-Driven Science and the Courts: Climate Litigation and Judicial Education
Agenda-Driven Science and the Courts: Climate Litigation and Judicial Education
Daytona
Gaylord Palms Resort
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Sun Ballroom
Level 2, Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Plenary Panel 1 - Make America Build Again: The Legal and Regulatory Landscape for American Re-Industrialization
Sponsors: In-House Counsel Network
CLE
1.50
hours
Ethics
0
hours
Gaylord Palms Resort
Description
Decades of de-industrialization have sparked a consensus that the United States must rebuild and modernize its aging infrastructure. However, the path to a "bricks and mortar" renaissance is often blocked by a dense thicket of legal and regulatory hurdles. Government and private sector legal experts discuss the legal and regulatory challenges to and corresponding solutions for re-industrialization.
Featuring:
- Charbel Barakat, Vice President and Counsel for Public Policy, D.R. Horton, Inc.
- Hon. Steven G. Bradbury, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
- Hon. James P. Danly, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
- Hon. David Fotouhi, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Hon. Benjamin C. Kohlmann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Navy
- Justin Schwab, General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality
- Moderator: Michael Buschbacher, Managing Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC
Sun Ballroom
Level 2, Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
Speakers
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Sponsors: In-House Counsel Network
CLE
1.25
hours
Ethics
0
hours
Description
The Breakout Sessions will include:
A View From In-House: Responding to Changing Oversight and Enforcement Priorities of the Trump Administration and Congress Post-Midterms
A View From In-House: Responding to Changing Oversight and Enforcement Priorities of the Trump Administration and Congress Post-Midterms
Miami 1
Developments in First Amendment Litigation Affecting Corporate America
Developments in First Amendment Litigation Affecting Corporate America
Miami 2
Antitrust, Proxy Advisors, and Institutional Investors
Antitrust, Proxy Advisors, and Institutional Investors
Miami 3
Gaylord Palms Resort
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Plenary Panel 2 - The Future of Horizontal Federalism: The Structural Constitution's Limits on Extraterritoriality
Sponsors: In-House Counsel Network
CLE
1.50
hours
Ethics
0
hours
Gaylord Palms Resort
Description
In an increasingly fractured political landscape, states are aggressively enacting regulations with profound extraterritorial effects, from environmental mandates to social policy. As a result, the actions of one state now routinely dictate conduct in others, and even deprive sister states of their own sovereign authority to exercise police powers within their own borders. Government, private sector, and academic legal experts discuss whether the age of extraterritorial ambition presents a constitutional crisis for federalism— and whether the structure of the Constitution, well beyond the so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, places justiciable limits on extraterritoriality. In short, can the Constitution keep California inside California?
Featuring:
- Steven A. Engel, Partner, Dechert LLP
- Tyler Green, Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC
- Mr. Matthew Rice, Solicitor General, Tennessee Attorney General's Office
- Prof. Charles Tyler, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Moderator: O.H. Skinner, Executive Director, Alliance For Consumers
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