BenchmarkWomen in Litigation Forum

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September 10 2015 | Convene Times Square, New York

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08:20 Registration and breakfast

08:55 Chair’s opening comments

09:00 Labor & employment litigation • Latest developments in wage hour litigation andclass/collective actions, including:- interns- arbitration agreements and class waivers

• Best practices for in-house lawyers on casemanagement and ediscovery

Elise Bloom, partner, Proskauer Rose (moderator)Katharine Parker, partner, Proskauer RoseSarah Hunter, SVP & senior employment counsel, CitizensFinancial GroupAmy Melican, senior director, senior counsel, CoachYvette Politis, associate general counsel, RELX GroupAmy Littman, deputy general counsel & managing director,Bank of America

09:50 Securities class actions• Shareholder litigation surrounding acquisition ofpublic companies

• How to be a full service operation: knowing how togive clients corporate support as well as litigationadvice

• The slowdown of mortgage-backed securities• Financial reinstatement: how to handle the auditors

Laura Cooper, partner, Fasken Martineau (moderator)Sophia Lee, general counsel, IEX Group

10:40 Refreshment break

11:05 The increase in white collar crime • Knowing when to settle• Lessons learned from Avon, Xerox and Alcoa• FCPA enforcement actions• Best practices around dealing with bribery and fraud

Margaret Dale, partner, Proskauer Rose (moderator)Jessica Budoff, executive director, legal & compliance, Morgan Stanley Matthew Queler, assistant chief of FCPA unit, DOJSigal Mandelker, partner, Proskauer Rose

11:55 Government investigations andenforcements• Strategies for handling SEC, DOJ investigations andenforcement actions

•What are the trends for enforcement actions involvingpublic companies?

• Trends in government investigations/enforcement• Does the increasing number of women taking onsenior government roles impact the nature ofcompliance matters?

Fiona Philip, partner, Sidley Austin (moderator)Lisandra Wilmott, VP & assistant general counsel, JP MorganYvonne Cristovici, assistant general counsel, Pfizer

12:45 Networking lunch

13:45 Litigation and arbitration in differentjurisdictions •Managing cross-border disputes and multiplelawsuits

• Does international arbitration lead to decisions thatare easier to enforce internationally?

• How to draft effective arbitration clauses• How to handle the different cultural perspectives andlegal systems

• Does international arbitration allow parties to chooseneutral forum?

Martina Hufnal, principal, Fish & Richardson (moderator)Louise Barrington, chartered arbitrator, advocate & mediator,Aculex TransnationalAna Vermal, partner, Proskauer Rose

14:35 Predicting and controlling the cost oflitigation • Pre-action correspondence• Forecasting and factoring cost and reputational risk:improving predictability

• The benefits and challenges of legal outsourcing • Alternative fee arrangements and risk sharing• Controlling and managing discovery costs• Knowing when to settle

Helen Maher, partner, Boies Schiller & Flexner (moderator)Sheila Murphy, SVP & assistant general counsel, MetLifeLisa Davis George, executive counsel, litigation, GE CapitalKathryn Rubino, assistant editor, Above the LawCourtney Ozer, senior counsel, litigation, Unilever

15:25 Coffee break

15:50 Smashing the glass ceilingHear from leading women lawyers about how theyprogressed their careers, the challenges they facedalong the way and what advice they would share withwomen rising through the ranks today.

Gayle Klein, principal, McKool Smith(moderator)Naomi Waltman, SVP & associate general counsel, CBSStephanie Abrutyn, VP & senior counsel, HBOHilary Lane, SVP, information governance, NBC Universal

16:50 Close of forum

Speaker Profiles

Elise Bloom, Partner, Proskauer Rose

Elise M. Bloom is a member of Proskauer’sExecutive Committee, co-head of theClass/Collective Actions Group and former co-chair of the Labor & Employment LawDepartment. Elise is recognized as one of theleading employment lawyers and was named“Best in Labor & Employment” at Euromoney’s2014 Americas Women in Business Law Awards.Elise is also widely considered to be one of themost creative and effective Wage & HourCollective Action defense lawyers in the U.S., asdemonstrated by the fact that she was recently

named as one of the top five Class Action “Most Valuable” lawyers byEmployment Law360. Elise defends employers against individual and classactions brought under federal and state anti-discrimination laws as well asagainst collective and class action claims alleging wage and hour violationsunder federal and state law. Possessing extensive pre-trial and jury trial experience, Elise is routinely

called upon to handle litigation involving a wide range of generalemployment issues, even when not involved in the pre-trial preparation. Inaddition to her focus on wage-hour and anti-discrimination cases, her trialexperience extends to state law contract and tort claims as well as claimsarising under the FMLA and ERISA. In addition to her litigation practice, shealso conducts training programs for her clients on the full spectrum ofemployment issues as well as on diversity issues.

Katharine Parker, Partner, Proskauer Rose

Katharine Parker is a savvy strategist who assistscompanies with a wide range of complexemployment law matters in and out of court.Clients recognize her for the value that “lies in theproactive, practical advice she provides” andpraise her for being a “wonderful confidant.” Katharine has led the defense of numerous

class, collective and single-plaintiff actions.These cases have included defense ofdiscrimination and harassment allegations, wageand hour disputes, background check matters,breach of contract issues, claims asserting

wrongful denial of employee benefits and alleged breaches of fiduciaryduties in the management of retirement plans, among many other types ofemployment and employee benefit disputes. She has successfully resolved many complex matters, saving clients

money and sparing them reputational damage. When resolution is notpossible, she is a zealous advocate who often has won dismissal of casesthrough motion practice and successfully defended cases at trial. Katharine has an active counseling practice as well. Clients seek her out

for advice on complex employment law compliance questions because ofher ability to listen to and understand their needs. She develops practicalsolutions for her clients to help them achieve their business goals. Sheassists with hiring and background procedures, reductions-in-force, leavepolicies and administration, complex accommodation questions, affirmativeaction and diversity plans, and defense of government investigations andaudits.

Sarah Hunter, SVP & Senior Employment Counsel,Citizens Financial Group

Sarah K. Hunter is SVP & Senior EmploymentCounsel for Citizens Financial Group, Inc.,where she is a member of the LegalDepartment’s Senior Leadership Team. Sarahmanages employment-related litigation andpartners with human resources and businessline management on a wide variety ofemployment-related matters. Prior to joiningCitizens in 2005, Sarah practiced employmentand commercial litigation with the Boston officeof Brown Rudnick LLP. Sarah also served as alaw clerk to the Hon. Ronald R. Lagueux, United

States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. She is a graduate ofRoger Williams University School of Law and Boston University. CitizensFinancial Group, Inc. operates through its subsidiaries, Citizens Bank. N.A.and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. Citizens is one of the nation’s oldestand largest financial institutions, and is headquartered in Providence, RhodeIsland. Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial bankingproducts and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-marketcompanies, large corporations and institutions.

Amy Melican, Senior Director, Senior Counsel, Coach

Amy Melican is Senior Director, Senior Counselat Coach, Inc. Among other things, Amyprovides employment counseling to Coach’sHuman Resources Department and assists withthe management of Coach’s litigation in NorthAmerica. She also is responsible for negotiatingand drafting contracts relating to productmarketing, public relations, creative servicesand human resources. Prior to joining Coach,Amy was an attorney in the Labor &Employment Department at Proskauer RoseLLP, where she represented corporate clients in

complex employment matters and provided counseling to assist clients inmanaging a range of employment issues. Prior to her tenure at Proskauer,Amy served in the New York City Law Department, Office of the CorporationCounsel as an Assistant Corporation Counsel and had clerkships with theU.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit and NYS Supreme Court,Appellate Division, Third Department.

Yvette Politis, Associate General Counsel, RELX Group

Yvette Politis is Associate General Counsel withthe RELX Group. RELX has officesinternationally and is the parent organization toLexisNexis, Elsevier, Reed Business Informationand Reed Exhibitions. As in-house employmentcounsel, Ms. Politis is responsible foremployment counseling, litigation management,management training and corporatecompliance initiatives. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, Ms. Politis was

an attorney in Seyfarth Shaw’s Boston officespecializing in employment counseling,

employment litigation and wage and hour matters. She has spoken aboutemployment discrimination and wage hour matters at national conferencesand currently serves on the steering committee of the New England LaborCounsel. Ms. Politis received her JD from Boston College Law School and

graduated from Cornell University with an undergraduate degree inIndustrial and Labor Relations.

Amy Littman, Deputy General Counsel & ManagingDirector, Bank of America

Amy B. Littman is a Deputy General Counseland Managing Director in the Bank of AmericaLegal Department. She manages teams thatprovide Human Resources, Compensation andBenefits, Corporate Services and Third PartyAdministration legal support across Bank ofAmerica.Amy joined the Bank’s Legal Department in

2005 as an Associate General Counsel supportingits United States and Latin American banking andmarkets businesses on employment matters. Thebusiness lines Amy supported expanded over time

and by 2014, she managed the employment attorneys globally across all linesof business. Recently she extended her coverage as a Deputy GeneralCounsel to the Corporate Services, Third Party Administration, Compensationand Benefits and Employment Litigation Legal teams. Before joining Bank ofAmerica, Amy was a Senior Counsel in the Labor and Employment Group atthe Proskauer law firm, where she was outside counsel to the Bank since1999.Amy is the executive sponsor for the Legal Department’s Diversity &

Inclusion Business Council and is a member of the Bank’s Global Diversity &Inclusion Council. She is also an executive sponsor for the Bank’s DisabilityAdvocacy Network. Amy graduated cum laude from the College of the HolyCross in 1991 and graduated cum laude from State University of New York atBuffalo School of Law in 1994. She is a member of the New York andColorado bars.

Laura Cooper, Partner, Fasken Martineau

Laura Cooper is Chair of Fasken Martineau'sOntario Litigation Department. As Chair, sheleads the litigation groups in Toronto and Ottawaand liaises with the Chairs of Fasken’s litigationgroups throughout Canada, England, Franceand South Africa. Laura is also Co-Chair of thefirm’s Ontario Class Actions Practice Group andChair of the Ontario Pro Bono Committee of thefirm. Laura acts regularly for internationallyknown corporations in the defence of significantclass actions in areas including securities,antitrust/competition, product liability, and

consumer remedies, among others. Many of her cases have cross-borderand international implications and she regularly works with clients andcounsel in the U.S. and globally. Benchmark Canada has ranked Laura asa litigation star for arbitration and class actions in Canada and as a locallitigation star in Ontario. Legal 500 Canada has ranked Laura for her work inCompetition, and in 2013 Laura received the Lexpert Zenith Awardcelebrating leading women lawyers. Laura is also ranked by Lexpert for herwork in class actions, and has been named by Benchmark as one ofCanada’s Top 25 Women Litigators in 2014 and 2015.

Sophia Lee, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary,IEX Group

Sophia Lee is General Counsel andCorporate Secretary of IEX Group, Inc., whichwas featured in Michael Lewis’ recent book“Flash Boys.” Sophia oversees all legal,securities and intellectual property matters ofthe business, including IEX’s patent portfolio.Sophia is also managing the national securitiesexchange application process for IEX. Sophiahas 20 years of experience in the financialservices industry and private law firm practicecombined, advising technology and financialservices firms on strategic partnerships,

acquisitions, financings, and intellectual property matters. Sophia waspreviously deputy general counsel of Liquidnet, where she establishedalternative trading systems in the US, Canada and various countries in AsiaPacific and served as liaison with global regulators regarding equity marketstructure issues. Between 2000 and 2004, Sophia served as associategeneral counsel at agency-only broker ITG. Sophia also spent 4 years as amergers & acquisitions associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &Garrison and is a CFA charter holder.

Margaret Dale, Partner, Proskauer Rose

Margaret Dale is a Partner in Proskauer’sLitigation Department. Her practice focuses oncomplex commercial litigation, including classaction defense, as well as intellectual property,privacy and data security, corporate governancelitigation, securities litigation, and regulatory andinternal investigations. She also represents andcounsels clients in art law matters. In addition,Margaret is the head of the firm's eDiscoveryPractice Group. In that role, she regularlyconsults on issues relating to eDiscovery,including the timing of and need for litigation

holds, developing discovery plans, and managing and defending thoseplans. Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice, and is currentlyworking on a number of projects. She also proudly serves as Co-Chair ofthe Board of Directors of the Center for Family Representation, a not-for-profit corporation, whose mission is to enable families to live together safely,and to keep children out of foster care.

Jessica Budoff, Executive Director, Legal &Compliance, Morgan Stanley

Jessica Budoff is an Executive Director in theGlobal Financial Crimes Legal Advisory Groupat Morgan Stanley. She principally handles anti-corruption matters, including investigations, duediligence, and advising on compliance policiesand procedures. She also helps coordinate theFranchise Risk Committee, which reviewsmatters that may pose a reputational risk to theFirm. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Jessicawas counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer andFeld, where she handled a variety of white collar,securities and bankruptcy litigation matters.

Before joining Akin Gump, Jessica served as a law clerk for the HonorableBrian M. Cogan, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of New York. Jessicagraduated from Duke University and Cornell Law School.

Speaker Profiles

Speaker Profiles

Matthew Queler, Assistant Chief in the Fraud Section,DOJ

Matthew Queler is an Assistant Chief in the FraudSection of the Department of Justice’s CriminalDivision. He is a supervisor in the FraudSection’s FCPA Unit, having re-joined theDepartment in August 2012. There hesupervises and handles some of theDepartment’s most complex FCPAinvestigations. Prior to that, Matthew was aPartner at Proskauer Rose, where, as part of theCorporate Defense & Investigations Group, hispractice focused on corporate internalinvestigations, white collar criminal defense, SEC

enforcement actions, and FCPA compliance and investigations. Before joining Proskauer, Matthew served from 1998 to 2003 as an

Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey, where he successfullyprosecuted numerous cases involving federal criminal violations. As afederal prosecutor, Matthew also was an inaugural member of New Jersey’sAnti-Terrorism Task Force. Prior to that, Matthew clerked for the HonorableWilliam G. Bassler (retired), U.S. District Judge, District of New Jersey.Matthew graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from YaleUniversity, and cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Sigal Mandelker, Partner, Proskauer Rose

Sigal P. Mandelker is a member of Proskauer’sWhite Collar Defense & Investigations Group.Sigal offers a nuanced understanding ofdomestic and international enforcement matters,crisis management, appellate litigation andregulatory matters. Sigal represents individualand corporate clients in connection withgovernment investigations and prosecutions,including white collar criminal defense, the FalseClaims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act(FCPA), anti-money laundering matters,Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

enforcement matters, securities litigation, internal investigations, publiccorruption issues and cyber security matters. Before joining Proskauer, Sigalserved in a number of high-ranking positions at the Department of Justiceand the Department of Homeland Security. From 2006 to 2009, she wasDeputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of theDepartment of Justice, where she oversaw four major sections, includingthe Computer Crime and Intellectual Property and the Domestic Securitysections, and over 120 lawyers and other professional staff. She superviseda number of high-profile and complex domestic and internationalprosecutions, including some of the nation’s most significant cases,represented the Department internationally, including before the UnitedNations, and testified before Congress numerous times.

Fiona Philip, Partner, Sidley Austin

Fiona Philip, partner in Sidley’s Securities &Derivatives Enforcement and Regulatorypractice group resident in the Washington, D.C.office, represents multi-national corporations,officers and directors, and other individuals in arange of government and regulatoryinvestigations. Fiona also conducts internalinvestigations involving the Foreign CorruptPractices Act (FCPA), insider trading, accountingand internal controls irregularities, disclosurefraud, and corporate governance issues. Shealso provides compliance counseling to

corporations designed to help prevent the need for such investigations.Fiona received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her J.D. fromGeorgetown University Law Center.

Lisandra Wilmott, Assistant General Counsel,JPMorgan Chase

Lisandra Wilmott is an Assistant GeneralCounsel for the Consumer & CommunityBanking Division at JPMorgan Chase, whichincludes JPMorgan Chase’s Private WealthManagement, Card and Merchant Services,Auto Finance, Consumer Banking, BusinessBanking, and Mortgage Banking businesses. Lisandra joined JPMorgan Chase from

Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP, whereshe served as an attorney handling one of thefirm’s largest mortgage backed securitiesdefault cases against the home lending division

of General Motors.Prior to that, she served as an associate at a small boutique Washington

D.C. based law firm where she represented developers in complexcommercial litigation matters.Lisandra spent the first 2 years of her career in government, clerking at

the United States Department of Justice, in their Transnational CrimesDivision where she helped in the prosecution of human trafficking and armsand narcotics smuggling cases. Prior to this she clerked for the DeputyChief Administrative Law Judge at the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission, where she aided in the investigation of the Enron energyscandal. Lisandra currently serves as the head of the Chase Honors Mentor

program where she works with young female law students in determiningthe best paths for their evolving legal careers.Lisandra received a BS from Villanova University in 2002 and a JD from

the University Of Maryland School Of Law in 2005.

Yvonne Cristovici, Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer

Yvonne M. Cristovici is Assistant GeneralCounsel in the Government Investigations groupat Pfizer Inc. She is responsible for managinggovernment litigation and investigations of thecompany’s operations around the world, as wellas associated litigation involving governmentregulators and private plaintiffs. Prior to joiningPfizer, Ms. Cristovici was a partner in GoodwinProcter’s White Collar Crime & GovernmentInvestigations Practice, representing individualsand corporations in connection with U.S.Attorney’s Office, Securities and Exchange

Commission and other government investigations, internal corporateinvestigations and complex business and securities litigation. Ms. Cristovicihas authored numerous articles in the areas of white collar and securitieslitigation. Her subject matter expertise includes accounting fraud, insidertrading, breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt PracticesAct violations, and healthcare fraud and abuse.

Ms. Cristovici received her law degree (magna cum laude) and MBAfrom the University of Ottawa, Canada. Following law school, Ms. Cristoviciserved as a law clerk to the Honorable Alice Desjardins of the Federal Courtof Appeal of Canada.

Ana Vermal, Partner, Proskauer Rose

Ana Vermal is a partner in Proskauer’s LitigationDepartment and a member of the firm’sInternational Arbitration, Latin America andPrivate Investment Funds Dispute PracticeGroups. She is primarily based in the firm’s Parisoffice and also regularly works out ofthe New York office. She focuses on complexinternational arbitration and litigationproceedings involving joint ventures,acquisitions, construction projects, licensingagreements and distribution relationships, aswell as a variety of other international commercial

agreements. Ana acts as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrationsinvolving corporations from the United States, Europe, Latin America, andAsia and held under the arbitration rules of the International Chamber ofCommerce (ICC) and the American Arbitration Association’s InternationalCentre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). She also has substantial experiencein handling arbitrations under other international arbitration rules, includingthose of the London Court of International Arbitration, the JapanCommercial Arbitration Association, the Swiss Chambers of Commerce andthe International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

Martina Hufnal, Principal, Fish & Richardson

Martina Tyreus Hufnal is a Principal in theDelaware office of Fish & Richardson. Herpractice focuses on intellectual property litigationand covers a wide range of technologies. Inaddition to district court litigation, Ms. Hufnal hasexperience in post-grant proceedings, includinginter partes review. She has also practicedbefore the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals andthe Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Hufnalclerked for the Honorable Judge Sue L.Robinson in the United States District Court ofDelaware.

Louise Barrington, chartered arbitrator, advocate &mediator, Aculex Transnational

For 30 years Louise has been involved ininternational commercial dispute resolution, firstwith the ICC in Paris and in Hong Kong, then asa professor of law in Hong Kong and London,and as an advocate and arbitrator. Shepracticed law in Canada, then obtained an LLMin Paris and qualified in New York and England.She is an accredited mediator, experiencedteacher and assessor in dispute resolution. Shedivides her time among Hong Kong, Paris andToronto, resolving disputes involving sales,insurance, tort and construction.

While primarily acting as a neutral, Louise continues her teaching work asauthor, mentor, thesis supervisor and professional trainer, designing anddelivering courses for institutions and schools around the world. She is chief editor of The Danubia Files, a practitioner’s and teaching text,released in March 2013, and is best known as the founder and director ofthe Vis East Arbitration Moot and of ArbitralWomen.

Helen Maher, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner

Helen Maher is a partner in Boies, Schiller &Flexner’s Armonk office. She has tried, argued,and litigated cases in federal and state courtsthroughout the United States, and has beeninvolved in numerous forms of alternativedispute resolution. Ms. Maher has extensiveexperience handling complex antitrust,intellectual property, commercial, and other legaldisputes, for both plaintiffs and defendants.

Sheila Murphy, SVP & Assistant General Counsel,MetLife

Sheila M. Murphy is Senior Vice President andAssociate General Counsel at MetLife. Sheleads the Distribution and Products Unit whereshe provides strategic and advice to the RetailGroup of the Americas. Sheila’s focus is onprotecting business interests related to the sale,suitability or performance of life insuranceproducts, annuities and investments. She alsodefends the Company in product design SEC,FINRA and state regulatory matters. MetLife continually avails itself of Sheila’s

strong leadership ability. At the request ofMetLife’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Sheila serves on the AdvisoryBoard to MetLife’s Women’s Business Network and served on the USDiversity Task Force. She is responsible for talent development for theLitigation Section. Sheila is co-Chair of the Legal Affair’s Academy andpreviously chaired its Leadership and Management Committee. Sheila also acts as a mentor in both the Legal Affairs’ and Women’sBusiness Network Mentoring Programs. Sheila is a member of the LitigationSupport Business Owner’s Committee and actively advises on e-discoveryissues. Sheila previously served on the Legal Affairs TechnologyGovernance Committee and on a task force analyzing potential strategiesfor increasing Legal Affairs’ efficiencies, effectiveness and engagement.Sheila is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, whereshe served on the Comparative Labor Law Journal and the School ofManagement at the State University of New York at Binghamton where shegraduated magna cum laude. Prior to joining MetLife, Sheila was a litigationassociate at the law firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood where she focused oncomplex financial litigation.

Speaker Profiles

Speaker Profiles

Lisa Davis George, Executive Counsel, Litigation, GECapital

Lisa Davis George is currently ExecutiveCounsel – Litigation for GE Capital Corporation.During her time at GE Capital, she has managedhigh exposure litigation matters across a diverseset of business platforms, with responsibilitiesincluding hiring and managing of outsidecounsel, early case assessment, budgetmanagement, including alternative feearrangements, and defining settlement and trialstrategies in collaboration with her businesspartners. In addition to her litigation experience,Lisa also served as the Chief Compliance Officer

for GE Equipment Finance, establishing a compliance infrastructure in aglobal business platform and defining key risk areas and strategy formitigating compliance challenges. Before joining GE in 2006, Ms. George practiced commercial litigation at

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker following litigation practice in Boston,Massachusetts with a focus on commercial, environmental, and productliability matters. She is admitted to practice law in Connecticut,Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Ms. George received her J.D. and graduated cum laude from the

American University Washington College of Law. She graduated magnacum laude from Duke University with a B.A. in international studies, politicalscience, and a concentration in the German language.

Kathryn Rubino, Assistant Editor, Above the Law

Kathryn Rubino joined the editorial staff at Abovethe Law in 2015. She received her Bachelor'sDegree in Journalism and MassCommunications from New York University andher Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.Beginning in 2003, Kathryn began her work as alitigator working at both Cahill Gordon & Reindeland Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati with afocus on class action and antitrust litigation. In2010, she transitioned to ediscovery vendorDiscoverReady working in their discoverypractice. In 2013 Kathryn started writing a

column for Above the Law pseudonymously about her experiences in thelegal industry and has authored guest columns at Corporette.

Courtney E. Ozer, Senior Counsel, Litigation, Unilever

Courtney E. Ozer is Senior Counsel – Litigationat Unilever United States, Inc. Prior to joiningUnilever, Ms. Ozer was in private practice for adecade with Kasowitz, Benson, Torres &Friedman LLP and subsequently Levine Lee LLP,both in New York City, where she worked on awide range of complex civil matters and whitecollar/regulatory investigations. At Unilever, Ms.Ozer is responsible for U.S. litigation and pre-litigation disputes covering many substantiveareas, including commercial litigation, consumerclass actions, false advertising claims,

employment litigation, trademark disputes, products liability cases, andpersonal injury actions. She provides regular and decisive guidance to thebusiness – including marketing, sales, human resources, and consumerservices – on effective strategies to avoid litigation and accomplish businessgoals. She is responsible for providing legal advice to Unilever’s foodservices unit and regularly participates in the division’s senior leadershipmeetings. Ms. Ozer also provides advice and training to the business onantitrust matters and Unilever Code compliance, and is the North Americanrepresentative to Unilever’s Global Competition Network. She has extensiveresponsibility for data retention and e-discovery issues, selects andmanages outside counsel, and liaises with external auditors on a regularbasis. Ms. Ozer is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, whereshe was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Weekly, the recipient of theMichael Feldman Advocacy Award, a Student Attorney in the CriminalJustice Clinic, Senior Articles Editor of the Georgetown Immigration LawJournal, and a member of the Student-Faculty Admissions Committee. Ms.Ozer received her undergraduate degree from New York University.

Gayle Klein, Principal, McKool Smith

Gayle Klein is a Principal in McKool Smith’sNew York Office. As the co-chair of the firm’sComplex Financial Litigation practice, Ms. Kleinregularly litigates against financial institutionsand specializes in business disputes involvingfinancial transactions, breaches of fiduciary duty,and securities-related matters. She also handlesdisputes involving theft of trade secrets, non-competition agreements, and defends clientsinvolved in consumer class actions. Prior tojoining McKool Smith, Ms. Klein was theyoungest woman to have been elected litigation

partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She is recognized as one of the“500 Best Lawyers in the United States” by Lawdragon.

Speaker Profiles

Stephanie Abrutyn, Senior Vice President & ChiefCounsel, Litigation, HBO

Stephanie S. Abrutyn is senior vice president &chief counsel, Litigation, for Home Box Office,Inc., responsible for the full range of legal issuesand proceedings arising from the operations,distribution and programming of Home BoxOffice, Inc. Abrutyn also oversees HBO'slitigation group and anti-piracy program. Shewas named to the position in July 2015.Abrutyn initially joined HBO as a senior counselin June 2005. Prior to HBO, she served as senior counsel,

East Coast Media, for Tribune Company, from1999 to 2005, where she counseled and represented six of its daily papersincluding Newsday, The Hartford Courant and The Baltimore Sun. Duringher tenure there she received the Tribune Company Corporate ExcellenceAward for her contributions to the company. From 1996 to 1999, Abrutynworked at ABC, Inc. as a general attorney, Litigation and EmploymentPractices; and from 1991 to 1996, was a member of the Media andCommunications Practice Team in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker &Hostetler. She is currently on the New York State Bar Association Media Law

Committee, a member of the Board of Directors at the Media Law ResourceCenter Institute and a member of the Governing Board of the ABA Forum onCommunications Law. She also teaches Media Law at the Benjamin N.Cardozo School of Law and is a frequent speaker and author on FirstAmendment and media law issues. She is a former co-editor ofCommunications Lawyer. Abrutyn holds a BA with honors from Colgate University, a JD degree

from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and studied at the Instituteof Political and Economic Studies in London, England.

Naomi Waltman, SVP & Associate General Counsel,CBS

Naomi Waltman is Senior Vice President andAssociate General Counsel of CBS Corporation.She serves as co-head of the IntellectualProperty section of the CBS Law Department,where she helps develop and implementstrategies to protect the company’s intellectualproperty. She also represents CBS Corp. and itsbusiness units in a broad range of litigationmatters, including intellectual property,defamation, employment, and generalcommercial disputes. Previously, Waltman wasVice President and Senior Counsel at Viacom,

Inc., where she provided strategic advice and counseling to Viacom’sbusiness units on a variety of legal issues. Earlier in her career, she was alitigation associate at the law firm of Kaye Scholer in New York, and servedas a law clerk to the Honorable Warren W. Eginton of the U.S. District Courtfor the District of Connecticut. Waltman received a J.D. from Stanford LawSchool and a B.A. with Distinction from Stanford University.

Hilary Lane, SVP, Information Governance, NBCUniversal

Hilary Lane is Senior Vice President, InformationGovernance at NBCUniversal. Hilary overseesInformation Governance, Privacy andeDiscovery. She is also responsible for patent,privacy, and technology related litigation. Priorto assuming responsibility for InformationGovernance, Hilary was SVP, Litigation,responsible for all aspects of litigation includingcopyright, idea theft, patent, defamation,access, and employment matters atNBCUniversal.Hilary joined NBCUniversal in December

2005. Prior to joining NBCUniversal she was a litigator at Clifford Chanceand Rogers & Wells.Hilary holds a Law Degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a

Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,and a Bachelors Degree from the State University of New York at Albany.