Corporate Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom
Glen Lavy, Esq., serves as corporate counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees corporate issues, protecting the ministry from all legal and non-legal threats. He also provides key legal counsel to the president and CEO.
From 2011-2014, Lavy was vice president of Legal Strategies and Funding. Within a few short years, Lavy and his team recruited top-notch Christian lawyers across the country. They have tripled the number of applicants who want to attend the Legal Academy and who contribute invaluable pro-bono service to advance the organization’s mission.
When joining ADF in 2001, Lavy focused his litigation efforts on protecting the legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. From 2004 to 2007, he served as senior vice-president of the Marriage Litigation Team. Lavy wrote friend-of-the-court briefs supporting marriage and family in Lawrence v. Texas and Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, two crucial cases affecting legal precedents for sexual activity and marriage. He was a pivotal player in Lewis v. Alfaro, a landmark California Supreme Court case which stopped San Francisco from issuing same-sex “marriage” licenses and voided the ones already granted by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Lavy earned his J.D. in 1990 from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Arizona Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th, 8th, and 9th Circuits. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Court of Arizona, the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern District of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, as well as the Federal Claims Court and the U.S. Tax Court.
Corporate Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom
Glen Lavy, Esq., serves as corporate counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. He oversees corporate issues, protecting the ministry from all legal and non-legal threats. He also provides key legal counsel to the president and CEO.
From 2011-2014, Lavy was vice president of Legal Strategies and Funding. Within a few short years, Lavy and his team recruited top-notch Christian lawyers across the country. They have tripled the number of applicants who want to attend the Legal Academy and who contribute invaluable pro-bono service to advance the organization’s mission.
When joining ADF in 2001, Lavy focused his litigation efforts on protecting the legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. From 2004 to 2007, he served as senior vice-president of the Marriage Litigation Team. Lavy wrote friend-of-the-court briefs supporting marriage and family in Lawrence v. Texas and Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, two crucial cases affecting legal precedents for sexual activity and marriage. He was a pivotal player in Lewis v. Alfaro, a landmark California Supreme Court case which stopped San Francisco from issuing same-sex “marriage” licenses and voided the ones already granted by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Lavy earned his J.D. in 1990 from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Arizona Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th, 8th, and 9th Circuits. He is also admitted to the U.S. District Court of Arizona, the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern District of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, as well as the Federal Claims Court and the U.S. Tax Court.
Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History at Northwestern University School of Law
Stephen Presser is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts. He is frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He holds a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and also teaches in Northwestern's history department.
Shareholder, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Chris Murray is Co-Chair of the firm’s Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. In this role, he assists attorneys throughout the firm and clients nationwide to create, roll out, and enforce effective employment arbitration agreements and other ADR programs. Mr. Murray has extensive experience with class/collective action waivers in employment arbitration. Mr. Murray was part of the Ogletree team that successfully defended the use of such waivers in the Fifth Circuit’s landmark decision in D.R. Horton, Inc. v. N.L.R.B. Since then, he has successfully defended the enforceability of class action waivers in numerous subsequent cases and submitted an amicus brief on the subject on behalf of several major employers’ associations in the Supreme Court’s Murphy Oil case. Mr. Murray assists clients and the Firm’s attorneys to draft or revise arbitration programs focused on a client’s specific needs and goals and in light of changing law and evolving best practices.
Founder & Partner, John L. Dodd and Associates
John L. Dodd has been in private practice for over 20 years, is a former staff attorney at the California Court of Appeal, and has handled over 1,000 appellate matters, including several landmark parental rights and adoption cases decided by the California Supreme Court. He has served as a member of the Orange County Bar Association Board of Directors, the California Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation and has Chaired the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State of California.
Mark Pulliam, a longtime member of the Federalist Society (and former President of the San Diego Lawyers Chapter), is a lawyer and writer in Austin, Texas. He is a contributing editor of Law and Liberty, and also writes for a variety of publications, including his blog, Misrule of Law.
Paula Stannard is a former deputy general counsel and acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she oversaw the Food and Drug, Civil Rights and Legislation divisions of the 450-attorney HHS Office of the General Counsel and provided legal advice and counsel to senior HHS officials, including the Secretary of the department, on the issues arising in their respective areas.
At Alston & Bird, Paula advises clients on regulatory questions that arise out of the on-going health care reform effort and focuses her practice on HIPAA and health information technology (including certified EHR and meaningful use issues), food and drug and other regulatory issues in the health care sector. Her HHS experience provides clients substantive knowledge of, and experience in, FDA, HIPAA, e-health and health IT, federal health insurance regulation, patient safety, and public health preparedness and emergency response issues.
Paula received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1990, where she was an executive editor of the Stanford Law Review, and her B.A., magna cum laude, in political science and Latin from Amherst College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She clerked for the Honorable J.L. Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Stanford University
(J.D., 1990)
Amherst College
(B.A., 1987)
Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History at Northwestern University School of Law
Stephen Presser is a leading American legal historian and expert on shareholder liability for corporate debts. He is frequently an invited witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on issues of constitutional law. He holds a joint appointment with the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and also teaches in Northwestern's history department.
Shareholder, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Chris Murray is Co-Chair of the firm’s Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. In this role, he assists attorneys throughout the firm and clients nationwide to create, roll out, and enforce effective employment arbitration agreements and other ADR programs. Mr. Murray has extensive experience with class/collective action waivers in employment arbitration. Mr. Murray was part of the Ogletree team that successfully defended the use of such waivers in the Fifth Circuit’s landmark decision in D.R. Horton, Inc. v. N.L.R.B. Since then, he has successfully defended the enforceability of class action waivers in numerous subsequent cases and submitted an amicus brief on the subject on behalf of several major employers’ associations in the Supreme Court’s Murphy Oil case. Mr. Murray assists clients and the Firm’s attorneys to draft or revise arbitration programs focused on a client’s specific needs and goals and in light of changing law and evolving best practices.
Founder & Partner, John L. Dodd and Associates
John L. Dodd has been in private practice for over 20 years, is a former staff attorney at the California Court of Appeal, and has handled over 1,000 appellate matters, including several landmark parental rights and adoption cases decided by the California Supreme Court. He has served as a member of the Orange County Bar Association Board of Directors, the California Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation and has Chaired the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State of California.
Mark Pulliam, a longtime member of the Federalist Society (and former President of the San Diego Lawyers Chapter), is a lawyer and writer in Austin, Texas. He is a contributing editor of Law and Liberty, and also writes for a variety of publications, including his blog, Misrule of Law.
Paula Stannard is a former deputy general counsel and acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she oversaw the Food and Drug, Civil Rights and Legislation divisions of the 450-attorney HHS Office of the General Counsel and provided legal advice and counsel to senior HHS officials, including the Secretary of the department, on the issues arising in their respective areas.
At Alston & Bird, Paula advises clients on regulatory questions that arise out of the on-going health care reform effort and focuses her practice on HIPAA and health information technology (including certified EHR and meaningful use issues), food and drug and other regulatory issues in the health care sector. Her HHS experience provides clients substantive knowledge of, and experience in, FDA, HIPAA, e-health and health IT, federal health insurance regulation, patient safety, and public health preparedness and emergency response issues.
Paula received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1990, where she was an executive editor of the Stanford Law Review, and her B.A., magna cum laude, in political science and Latin from Amherst College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She clerked for the Honorable J.L. Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Stanford University
(J.D., 1990)
Amherst College
(B.A., 1987)
Senior Counsel, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Michael J. Madigan is a litigation partner in Orrick's Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Madigan has more than 30 years of experience in white collar criminal investigations, congressional and corporate investigations, corporate governance issues and Washington, D.C., legislative and political issues. He began his legal career by serving as a federal prosecutor where he tried more than 100 jury trials. At age 30, he served as Counsel to Senator Howard Baker on the historic Senate Watergate Committee. In addition, Mr. Madigan has served as Chief Counsel for Senator Fred Thompson's Campaign Finance investigation, Counsel to the Church Committee and Minority Counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Mr. Madigan has successfully defended corporate and individual clients (including law firms and accounting firms) in a variety of complex criminal, civil and congressional investigations; conducted corporate internal investigations and counseled on corporate governance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues.
Mr. Madigan has been elected to and/or been asked to serve on a variety of boards and has been involved in the major decision-making of each organization, including the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar (elected to two three-year terms); the Board of Trustees of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service; the Boards of Directors of the Robert A. Shuker Scholarship Fund, Inc.; the Frederick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation, the D.C. Conference on Opportunities for Minorities in the Legal Profession, the Council for Court Excellence and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (elected to two two-year terms).
Mr. Madigan has been appointed to serve on a number of commissions and committees, including the District of Columbia Federal Judicial Nominating Commission (federal judge selection), the Magistrate Judge Selection Committee (Vice Chairman), the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission (local judge selection), the D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference and the Mayor's Corporation Counsel Advisory Committee. He has taught Trial Advocacy at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy for the past 20 years, where he received the "Justin Simon Award for Excellence in Teaching" and has been a Delegate to both the D.C. Circuit and D.C. Judicial Conferences for the last 15 years.
Mr. Madigan is a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and a "Master" in the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court. He is a Member of the Barristers, the Lawyers Club and the Cosmos Club.
Partner, Hogan Lovells
Robert S. Bennett is a former federal prosecutor and a leading member of the defense bar. Bob is renowned in his field as an exceptional trial lawyer who has handled numerous high-profile cases and has represented corporations and individuals, including corporate directors and officers, in criminal, civil, SEC enforcement, and congressional matters. Bob has been listed repeatedly in various publications as one of the nation's most influential and successful litigators.
Bob regularly represents large companies in high-profile criminal investigations and complex civil actions, such as Enron, HealthSouth, KPMG, and BNP Paribas.
He also represents individuals in high-profile matters and has successfully represented two former Secretaries of Defense, Clark Clifford (Democrat) and Caspar Weinberger (Republican). He was President Clinton's personal lawyer in the Paula Jones case, and he represented New York Times reporter Judith Miller in the CIA leak investigation.
His robust background includes representing clients before congressional committees. In 1981 and 1982, he served as a legal consultant to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations regarding the appointment of Alexander M. Haig, Jr. as Secretary of State, and he has served as special counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Ethics in several major investigations.
Bob advises management, audit committees, and boards of directors on Sarbanes-Oxley matters, and he assists boards and audit committees in conducting internal investigations.
Bob has co-chaired several American Bar Association National Institute programs on the defense of corporations and their officers in parallel grand jury and administrative agency investigations. He has also written and lectured on complex criminal and civil matters, and crisis management issues.
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