Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Francis J. Menton, Jr. is a partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the Business Litigation Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Menton specializes in complex and technical commercial litigation, principally contract and securities claims. He has a nationwide trial practice, and has tried cases in state and federal courts including Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
Mr. Menton is the author of "New Opportunities for Defendants in Securities Class Actions," Engage (Fall 2007), "Can You Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft?" New York Law Journal (April 29, 2002), and "Top Ten Federal Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech," Federalist Society Free Speech and Election Law News (Summer 2000, 1999, 1998). He also authored "Evaluating Claims Under The Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995," New York Law Journal (January 6, 1996).
Clinical Professor of Law, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
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).
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.
Top Ten Federal Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech 1998-99
Francis J. Menton
It's been another year of tireless struggle by the Government to suppress the free speech...
Supreme Court Preview: Compelled Financing of Expressive Activities
Anthony (Tom) Caso
Since the Court's decision in Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Educ., 431 U.S. 209 (1977),...
Tough Times for Preferences
Roger B. Clegg
For years, the use of heavy racial and ethnic preferences was the dirty little secret...
A Supreme Fallacy: "Diversity" and the High Court
Brian W. Jones
So civil-rights advocacy has come to this. In the wake of the recent revelation that...
ABA Briefs in the 1997-98 Supreme Court Term
Kent Scheidegger
In the Supreme Court’s 1997-98 term, the American Bar Association continued its past record of...
Understanding Mergers & Acquisitions: Due Diligence Through a Different Prism
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The Incidence of Class Action Activity: Is Class Action Litigation Increasing?
We began our survey by asking: "How many putative class actions were pending in 1988...
Recent Developments
On January 4, 1999, the California Supreme Court made it easier for out-of-state residents to...
Cities Are Finding Ways to Sweep Gangs off the Streets
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: A New Era of National Security
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