This year’s Wayne Law Review Symposium, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 16, will feature a former associate U.S. attorney general, corporate counsel and academic experts to discuss “Corporate Counsel as Gatekeepers.”
Tony West, former associate U.S. attorney general and executive vice president of government affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary of PepsiCo, will deliver the keynote address.
The symposium will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium at Wayne State University Law School, 471 W. Palmer St.
The event, free and open to the public, includes a continental breakfast, lunch and a cocktail and networking reception.
Register, needed by Oct. 7, can be completed at law.wayne.edu/lawreview2015.
The Wayne Law Review Symposium is made possible through the support of the Cohn Family Endowed Fund. This year’s event is co-sponsored by the Association of Corporate Counsel Michigan.
This year’s symposium examines the evolving role of corporate lawyers as “gatekeepers” responsible for enhancing the integrity of the organization by deterring wrongdoing and, if necessary, revealing it to the appropriate regulators and prosecutors.
Wayne Law Dean Jocelyn Benson; Dennis Lienhardt, editor-in-chief of Wayne Law Review; and U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn, Eastern District of Michigan, will deliver opening remarks at 9 a.m.
At 9:15 a.m., former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and distinguished legislator in residence at the law school, will introduce West.
Timothy M. Guerriero, Wayne Law class of 1980, former general counsel for TI Automotive Ltd., will moderate a panel discussion on “The Changing Role of In-House Lawyers” at 10 a.m. Panelists will be:
• David A. Collins, president, board of directors, American Bar Foundation; former general counsel, Saturn Corp.; and former executive director of corporate compliance, General Motors Corp.
• John J. Collins, Wayne Law class of 1976, former managing director and general counsel, AlixPartners LLP.
• Emily Frascaroli, Wayne Law class of 2001, counsel, environmental, safety & regulatory, Ford Motor Co.
• David Jaffe, former general counsel, Guardian Industries Corp., and chief executive, Jaffe Counsel PL
D’lorah L. Hughes, associate (clinical) professor and director of clinical education at Wayne Law, will moderate a panel discussion, “The Role of Gatekeepers in Corporate Governance,” at 11:30 a.m. Panelists will be:.
• Joan Heminway, professor, University of Tennessee College of Law.
• Arthur Laby, professor, Rutgers University School of Law.
• Peter J. Henning, professor, Wayne Law.
Thomas Cranmer, partner with Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, will moderate a panel discussion, “Dealing with the Government, Dealing with the Corporate Client” at 1:45 p.m. Panelists will be:
• Alan Gershel, grievance administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan, and former assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Michigan.
• U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, Eastern District of Michigan.
• Aleksandra A. Miziolek, Wayne Law class of 1980, general counsel, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.
• Richard Zuckerman, partner, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP.
Symposium Editor Justin Zayid will give closing remarks at 3:30 p.m., and at 3:45 p.m. there will be a reception.
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