President, New England Legal Foundation
Born in New York City; educated in the New York City public schools, Columbia University and Yale Law School. Joined Ropes & Gray, LLP in Boston in 1984; became litigation partner in 1993; retired in 2004. Joined New England Legal Foundation as General Counsel in 2004 and selected as President in 2006.
Senior Vice President & Group General Counsel, Travelers Compani, Inc.
Matthew Furman is Senior Vice President & Group General Counsel – Corporate and Governance of The Travelers Companies, Inc. He joined Travelers in 2007. Mr. Furman oversees corporate and governance matters, including public company reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC and NYSE compliance, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Travelers, Mr. Furman was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and in private practice with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Attorney and Legal Commentator
John Shu is an attorney and legal commentator. His focus areas include constitutional law, securities & corporate law, antitrust law, administrative law, politics, and international affairs. Mr. Shu has lectured and published on a wide variety of issues.
Mr. Shu served President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush. He also served Judge Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, and Judge Paul Roney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, who was Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Mr. Shu is a member of the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Foreign Policy Association.
Senior Litigation Counsel, New Civil Liberties Alliance
Peggy Little, Senior Counsel at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a new public interest law firm challenging the administrative state founded in 2017 by Professor Philip Hamburger, has over three decades of experience as a trial and appellate litigator in complex, high-stakes regulatory, mass-tort, class-action, products liability, securities, commercial and civil rights litigation representing individuals and high-profile litigants including Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, public companies, and universities in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
Peggy is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to starting her own trial and appellate law firm in 1997, where she was appellate consulting counsel to the New Haven firefighters in Ricci v.DeStefano, a landmark 2009 United States Supreme Court decision, Peggy was a partner at Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2004 to early 2018, Peggy directed, part-time, the Federalist Society Pro Bono Center.
Peggy has participated in many national conferences and symposia addressing issues of current importance in constitutional law – specifically state and federal constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers and the first amendment – and regularly speaks, blogs and publishes on the topic of the unconstitutional exercise of governmental power. In May of 2017, she presented her paper, Pirates at the Parchment Gates, to a conference of state and federal judges at the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School. Her work has been published by law reviews, legal publications, the Federalist Society, the Wall Street Journal, Law and Liberty and the Manhattan Institute.
Recent publications include: How the SEC silences its critics, The SEC should listen to Sen. Cotton, Lucia v. SEC, Opening Salvos in the Opioid Litigation Wars, Straight Dope on the Opioid Crisis
Business Cases and the Roberts Supreme Court
Martin J. Newhouse
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Matthew Furman
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Financial Reform – The Senate Version
John Shu
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State Attorneys General and Regulation of National Financial Institutions
Margaret A. Little
Recently, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal issued a press release, joined by all 49 other...
The Future of Small Banks in our Financial System
R Gilbert
Until recently I thought the consensus view on the future of the banking industry included...
Critical Look at the Community Reinvestment Act
Gerald A. Reynolds
Some federal statutes fail to accomplish the goals established by Congress due to false assumption,...
Rethinking Access to the Payments System
Eugene M. Katz, Robert H. Rosenblum
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Book Review: The Bankers: The Next Generation by Martin Mayer
John Pickering
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