2011 Events

CEO Forum 2011

Monday December 5, 2011
The Langham Hotel, Post Office Square, Boston

CYBER SECURITY: RISKS AND CHALLENGES

Co-Chaired by EMC's Paul T. Dacier, and LeClairRyan's James L. Messenger.

Moderator: Dr. Herbert H. Thompson, Chief Security Strategist at People Security and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in New York. Panelists: Arthur W. Coviello, Jr., Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC; Stephen P. Heymann, Esquire, Chief of the Cybercrimes Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts; Stuart D. Levi, Esquire, co-head of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group; Carl S. Young, Managing Director and Chief Security Officer at Stroz Friedberg.

For pictures from the 2010 CEO Forum, please click here.

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Fall Breakfast Program

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Boston College Club, 100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICIES AND PRACTICES YOUR COMPANY CAN “LIKE”


Moderator: Sara Jane Shanahan, Esquire, Partner, Sherin and Lodgen LLP. Panelists:
Kristin Caplice, Esquire, Assistant General Counsel, Analog Devices, Inc., Professor John Deighton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, David J. Goldstone, Esquire, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP, Lori L. Roeser, Esquire, Associate General Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, C. Forbes Sargent III, Esquire, Partner, Sherin and Lodgen LLP.

For a photo from the Fall Breakfast Program, please click here.

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Spring Breakfast Program

Wednesday May 4, 2011
Boston College Club, 100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts

UPDATE ON THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPERIOR COURT BUSINESS LITIGATION SESSION:  RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Moderator: Wayne A. Budd, Esquire, Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP. Panelists: Hon. Barbara J. Rouse, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, Hon. Judith Fabricant, Associate Justice Massachusetts Superior Court, Hon. Peter M. Lauriat, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, Hon. Christine M. Roach, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court.

For a photo from the Spring Breakfast Program, please click here.

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2010 Events

CEO Forum 2010 - Monday December 6, 2010

The Langham Hotel, Post Office Square, Boston

Officers’ Rights and Corporate Wrongs

Should Senior Leaders of Companies Be Held Liable for Corporate Transgressions?

Moderator: Professor Charles J. Ogletree, the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and the Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Panelists: Alice S. Fisher, Esquire, Deputy Managing Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins; Michael K. Loucks, Esquire,  partner in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Deborah Platt Majoras, Esquire, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary for Procter & Gamble; The Honorable F. Dennis Saylor IV, United States District Judge for the district of Massachusetts; Jay B. Stephens, Esquire, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Raytheon Company. 

                    For pictures from the 2010 CEO Forum, please click here.

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Fall Breakfast Program

Thursday, October 28, 2010
Boston College Club, 100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts

IS THERE A BACKLASH AGAINST ARBITRATION? MAKing SENSE OF recent Court decisions and legislative actions affecting ARBITRATION

Moderator: John A. Shope, Esquire, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP; Panelists: S. Elaine McChesney, Esquire, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP; William W. Park, Esquire, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, President, The London Court of International Arbitration; Ben Robbins, Esquire, Senior Staff Attorney, New England Legal Foundation; Ellen J. Zucker, Esquire, Partner, Burns & Levinson LLP.
 

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Spring Breakfast Program , Thursday, June 17, 2010

Boston Marriott Newton, 2345 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, Massachusetts

WHAT TO DO WITH ELECTRONIC DATA:
LATEST UPDATES ON BEST PRACTICES IN DATA MANAGEMENT AND E-DISCOVERY

Moderator: James L. Messenger, Esquire, Partner, LeClairRyan. Panelists: Dennis R. Kiker, Esquire, Partner, LeClairRyan; Jay Brudz, Esquire, Senior Counsel, Legal Technology, General Electric Company; Jeffrey W. Greene, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP; Sean B. McSweeney, Esquire, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel,
Liberty Mutual Group.

 

2009 Events

CEO FORUM 2009-Monday, December 7, 2009, Langham Hotel, Boston

"The Economy in Crisis: What Happened and What Lies Ahead?"

Co-Chaired by Bingham McCutchen's Andrew Phelan, and Day Pitney's Stanley Twardy.

Panelists: Christopher Cox, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP (formerly Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission); William Longbrake, Executive in Residence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (formerly CFO, Washington Mutual); Jonathan R. Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale Law School; and Robert C. Pozen, Chairman of MFS Investment Management®. Moderator: Lena G. Goldberg, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (formerly Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Fidelity Investments).

For pictures from the 2009 CEO Forum, please click here.

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NELF Fall Breakfast Program, Thursday, October 29, 2009, Boston College Club, Boston

"National Health Reform: Implications for the New England Business Community"

Moderator: Brent L. Henry, Vice President and General Counsel, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Panelists: Richard C. Lord, President and CEO, Associated Industries of Massachusetts;  Laura S. Peabody, Sr. Vice President, General Counsel, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.; Laurel Sweeney, Senior Director, Global Reimbursement Policy, Philips Healthcare; Stephen M. Weiner, Chair, National Health Law Practice, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC.

NELF Spring Breakfast Program, Wednesday, April 29, 2009, Boston College Club, Boston

"The Massachusetts Superior Court Business Litigation Session: Where it Stands Today and Planning for the Future."

Moderator: Martin J. Newhouse, President, New England Legal Foundation. Panelists: Hon. Margaret R. Hinkle, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and Administrative Justice of the BLS; Hon. Judith Fabricant, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court; Paul T. Dacier, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, EMC Corporation.

2008 Events                                                                  

CEO FORUM 2008-Monday, December 8, 2008, Hotel Langham, Boston

"The Sustainability Challenge for New England Business"

Co-Chaired by Water's Corporation's Mark Beaudouin, and Mintz Levin's Joseph Blute.

Panelists: Laurie Burt, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection; Ann R. Klee,  Vice President of Corporate Environmental Programs, General Electric Company;  Mary G. Powell,  President and Chief Executive Officer, Green Mountain Power Corporation; and Timothy Smith,  Director of Socially Responsive Investment at Walden Asset Management. Moderator: Henry Lee, Harvard Kennedy School.

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NELF Fall Breakfast Program, October 29, 2008, Boston College Club

"Benefits and Burdens of Conducting Corporate Internal Investigations in a Changing Legal Environment"

The seminar, which was organized with the help of Terry Segal from Duane Morris, who served as moderator addressed current trends in white-collar crime prosecution.  Panelists included David Bergers, who heads Boston’s SEC office, Michael Loucks, the acting U.S. Attorney in Boston, Bob Popeo of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC, Tom Dougherty of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and Diana K. Lloyd, at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP.

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NELF Spring Breakfast Program, April 8, 2008, Boston College Club

 "Class Actions and Reactions: Trends and Directions in Class Action Litigation"

NELF's breakfast panel discussion on this subject was moderated by Donald R. Frederico, Esquire, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP. The panelists were: Beth I.Z. Boland, Esquire, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP; Scott Z. Hochfelder, Esquire, General Counsel, KB Toys, Inc.; John A. Shope, Esquire, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP, and Thomas M. Sobol, Esquire, Partner, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP.

2007 Events

CEO Forum 2007, Monday, December 10, 2007, Hotel Langham, Boston

"Is Shareholder Democracy Good for Shareholders?"

Co-Chaired by Ernst & Young’s Lynda Harbold Schwartz and Putnam’s Jason A. Tucker

Panelists:  Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger; Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law, UCLA School of Law, Lynn A. Stout; and John A. Hill, Vice Chairman of First Reserve Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Putnam Mutual Funds.  Moderator:  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP partner Louis A. Goodman, member of NELF’s Board of Directors.

For pictures from the 2007 CEO Forum, please visit here.

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NELF Fall Panel Discussion, October 25, 2007, Boston College Club

"Dealing with Electronic Data: Today's Best Practices in Data Management and E-Discovery"

The panel discussion was moderated by Paul R. Gupta, Esq., Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP of New York. The panelists were: Ian Craig, Esq., Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP of the United Kingdom; Mark Bentley, Esq., Vice President, Strategic Services, Iron Mountain, Inc.; Martha Mazzone, Esq., Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Fidelity Investments; Andrea Aptowitz, Esq., Associate General Counsel, PerkinElmer, Inc. and David W. Wetmore, Executive Director, Fraud Investigative & Dispute Services/Legal Services, Ernst & Young LLP. 

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NELF Spring Breakfast Program, May 3, 2007, Boston College Club

"Committing Your Company to Arbitration: Benefits and Pitfalls"

The panel discussion was moderated by Richard M. Gelb, Esq., of Gelb & Gelb LLP of Boston.  The panelists were: Patrick D. Lane, Esq., Associate General Counsel-Litigation, Procter & Gamble; Kenneth R. Feinberg, Esq., Managing Partner, The Feinberg Group, LLP, of Washington, D.C.; William W. (“Rusty”) Park, Professor of Law, Boston University; and The Honorable John C. Cratsley, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court.