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BenchmarkWomen in Litigation Forum

www.benchmarklitigation.com

June 30 2015 | Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, California

Supported by:

BENCHMARKLITIGATION

• Networking opportunities with senior generalcounsel and private practice litigators

• Latest case studies and how to improveyour litigation strategies

• Factors when considering litigation and howto minimise damage

• How to be a business generator and createcredibility

• Practical and authoritative advice from sometoday's most prolific female litigators

• Discussion how to advance your career andchallenges faced in this industry

Join your women peers to hear more about:

FREE for

in-house counsel

Sponsored by:

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Agenda – June 30 2015

13:30 The increasing importance of privacy law • Target breach MDL and other reverberations• Recent and proposed legislation at state and federal

levels• International data protection laws, including the new

EU Data Protection Regulation• Mobile Apps and data security – FTC and FCC

actions; COPPA• Data security and the internet of things

Anna Spencer, partner, Sidley Austin (moderator)

Renee Lawson, VP and deputy general counsel, Zynga

Diane D’Arcangelo, associate general counsel, Microsoft

Lauren Foster Wu, senior corporate counsel & U.S. privacy officer, Genomic Health

14:30 Predicting and controlling the cost oflitigation • Costs of litigation for corporate clients• Why may corporate litigation costs be outpacing

opponents’ costs?• Controlling costs by:

- avoiding disputes- choosing a dispute resolution mechanism other

than litigation- controlling costs even in the litigation context

• Knowing when to settle• Predicting the costs

Ludmila Herbst, partner, Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy (moderator)

Sarah Givan, director, legal, LinkedIn

Elizabeth Valentina, VP, content protection litigation, Fox

Lindsey Haswell, senior counsel, litigation, Uber

15.30 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

Jennifer Kelly, partner, Fenwick & West (moderator)

Sharon Zezima, general counsel & secretary, GoPro

Nima Kelly, EVP, general counsel and corporate secretary,GoDaddy

Darci Teobaldi, general counsel, Advanced Bionics

16:50 Close of forum

08:20 Registration and breakfast 08:55 Chair’s opening comments

Lauren Kerr, conference producer, Benchmark Litigation

09.00 Best practice for handling governmentinvestigations • Strategies when handling SEC, DOJ investigations

and enforcement• Dodd Frank updates; a year down the line. • Avoiding professional negligence – when and how to

take action• Do women have the advantage in compliance cases

given the higher number of women in government in-house roles?

Charlene Shimada, partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius (moderator)Susan Resley, partner, Morgan Lewis & BockiusAndrea DeShazo, senior director, global compliance & ethics, McKessonSusan Muck, partner, Fenwick & West

10:00 Litigation in different jurisdictions • Managing cross-border disputes and multiple lawsuits• Is international arbitration the strategic solution –

choice of where to sue?• Gathering evidence in foreign jurisdictions• Managing the risks and costs of cross-border disputesEleni Kassaris, partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon (moderator)Elizabeth McBride, director, global litigation, Applied MaterialsAlexis Garcha, senior IP litigation counsel, NokiaWendy Anna Herby, associate general counsel, head of IP & litigation, CourseraAndrea Laing, partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon

11.00 Refreshment break

11:30 IP litigation in 2015/16• Alice v CLS Bank: Is patent protection getting more

difficult? How valuable is it?• Post grant proceedings and inter-partes review• Octane Fitness v Icon: effect on filings and

jurisdictional differences• Best practices within the IP sector

Betty Chen, principal, Fish & Richardson (moderator)

Leah Poynter Waterland, director, legal, IP litigation, Cisco

Susan Kim, senior litigation counsel, Google

Linda Beach, senior IP counsel, Rovi

Tamara Fraizer, principal, Squire Patton Boggs

12:30 Networking lunch

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Speaker Profiles

Betty Chen, principal, Fish & Richardson

Betty Chen is a Principal in the Silicon Valley andAustin offices of Fish & Richardson. Her practicefocuses on intellectual property litigation andcomplex commercial litigation. She has extensiveexperience in patent litigation involving a myriadof technologies, especially in the fields ofcomputer software, computer hardware, medicaldevices, and consumer products. Ms. Chen hasalso successfully represented clients intrademark, copyright, licensing, trade secrets,contracts, and employment disputes. Ms. Chenhas extensive jury trial experience and manages

matters through all phases of litigation in a variety of forums, includingfederal district courts and the International Trade Commission.

Previously, Ms. Chen was a law clerk to the Honorable Ron Clark, UnitedStates District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and a judicial intern forthe Honorable William Wayne Justice, United States District Court for theWestern District of Texas. Ms. Chen has also worked in the legal departmentat Devon Energy.

Susan Muck, partner, Fenwick & West

Susan Muck has conducted internalinvestigations into alleged bribery andaccounting fraud for multinational corporations,represented companies and individuals in SECinvestigations and at trial, and regularly advisesboards and management on disclosure andaccounting issues, the Foreign Corrupt PracticesAct, and other regulatory matters. In addition toher expertise in internal and regulatoryinvestigations, Susan has extensive experiencedefending shareholder and class actions thatoften accompany regulatory matters. She won

the dismissal of General Electric-InVision in securities litigation arising out ofthe settlement of FCPA investigations by the DOJ and SEC, a result that wasaffirmed by the Ninth Circuit, Glazer Capital Management, LP v. Magistri, 549F.3d 736. She also represented the Special Committee of the CaliforniaMicroDevices Board of Directors in an investigation resulting in a leadingCalifornia opinion on the conduct of special litigation committees,Desaigoudar v. Meyercord, 108 Cal. App. 4th 173 (2003).

Susan is a Best Lawyers' 2014-15 Lawyer of the Year. Only a single lawyerin each practice area in each community is honored as a Lawyer of the Year.She is also Law360’s Securities MVP for her work with Immersion andDiamond Foods.

In 2012, Susan was recognized as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers” and oneof the “Top Women Lawyers” in California by the Daily Journal. She hasrepeatedly been named one of the top litigators in California by the DailyJournal, The Best Lawyers in America, and Northern California SuperLawyers. In 2013, Fenwick’s Securities Litigation team was named“Securities Litigation Department of the Year” by The Recorder over 20 otherCalifornia firms.

A dedicated member of the legal community, she is a founding memberof Women in Securities (WISe), a network for women securities defenselitigators.

Sharon Zezima, general counsel, GoPro

Sharon Zezima has spent the last 20 yearsadvising media and technology companiesacross a broad range of legal areas, includingcommercial transactions, intellectual property,corporate governance, securities, M&A,employment and litigation. She is the GeneralCounsel and Secretary of GoPro, Inc., themaker of wearable and mountable cameras andaccessories and enabler of compelling,immersive content, where she helped theCompany prepare for and execute its initialpublic offering in 2014. Previously, Sharon

served as Vice President and General Counsel for Marketo, Inc., a SaaSmarketing software company, where she built the legal department andhelped take the company public. Prior to Marketo, Sharon was VicePresident and Deputy General Counsel for Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), whereshe oversaw all areas of global legal support for EA's mobile and socialgames division as well as the worldwide publishing and platformorganizations. Prior to her work at EA, Sharon was a partner at Schachter,Kristoff, Orenstein and Berkowitz. She began her legal career at the Orricklaw firm in San Francisco. Sharon holds a degree in American Studies fromSmith College and a law degree from the University of Chicago.

Ludmila Herbst, partner, Farris, Vaughan, Wills &Murphy

Ludmila Herbst is a Vancouver-based litigator atFarris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, where shehas worked throughout her career and hasbeen an equity partner since 2007. She hasrepresented clients before the Supreme Courtof Canada, all levels of court in British Columbia,arbitration tribunals and regulatory bodiesincluding the British Columbia UtilitiesCommission. Her broad-ranging practiceincludes class actions, corporate andcommercial disputes, energy-related mattersand high profile constitutional cases.

Ludmila frequently publishes and speaks on issues related to herpractice. She is one of the two co-authors of Commercial Arbitration inCanada: Domestic and International Arbitrations, a leading text on arbitrationlaw that has been cited by trial and appellate courts across Canada. She isthe assistant editor of, and a regular contributor to, the Advocate, a legaljournal circulated to all lawyers in British Columbia with a readershipthroughout the Commonwealth. She is on the editorial board of, andcontributes to, a text on British Columbia Business Disputes, and has writtenfor numerous other publications on topics including commercial arbitration,civil procedure, evidence, the sale of goods, and women’s legal history.

Leah Poynter Waterland, director, IP litigation, Cisco

Leah Poynter Waterland is a Director on the IPLitigation team at Cisco, where she and herteam manage worldwide patent litigation andcollaborate with Cisco’s Intellectual PropertyGroup to support Cisco’s IP strategy efforts. Herareas of responsibility include conducting earlyanalysis of incoming patent cases, setting casestrategy, and advising business leaders tominimize legal risk. In recent years, Waterlandhas focused on judicial and legislative patentreform and specialized in the evolving case lawof patent damages analysis as well as the

polices of standards setting organizations as they relate to standard-essential patent claims. In September 2014, California legal, business, andtechnology publication The Recorder named her one of 50 influentialwomen in law and technology in the Bay Area, and in April 2015, TheRecorder recognized Waterland in its Litigation Department of the Yearawards with an In-House Impact Award.

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Renée Lawson, deputy general counsel, Zynga

Renée Lawson is Deputy General Counsel atZynga. In addition to playing lots of fun Zyngagames like Words with Friends and FarmVille,Renée leads Zynga’s intellectual property andlitigation teams focused on building and protectingZynga’s intellectual property portfolio and handlinga wide range of lawsuits and disputes, data andeDiscovery issues, and insurance coverage. Shealso is a Co-Founder and Board Member of AltaVista School, a progressive elementary andmiddle school in San Francisco with a focus onmath, science and technology.

Prior to joining Zynga, Renée was a partner at Morgan Lewis in SanFrancisco for six years and started her legal career at Brobeck Phleger andHarrison. She specialized in the areas of intellectual property andcommercial litigation.

In her final trial before going in house, Renée obtained a unanimous juryverdict as lead trial counsel for a technology company in a breach ofcontract and fraud suit. The jury returned the verdict in just 35 minutes,denying plaintiff relief and awarding damages to her client (thedefendant/cross-complainant).

Zynga Legal is proud to have been named one of the most innovative in-house teams in the United States by the Financial Times and a 2012 BestLegal Department finalist by Corporate Counsel. Renée also has beennamed to the "Defense Hot List" by the National Law Journal, was identifiedas one of the "Best Lawyers in the Bay Area" by Bay Area Lawyer, andreceived the Inaugural Jack Londen Award from the Lawyers' Committee forCivil Rights for her pro bono work.

Alexis Garcha, senior IP litigation counsel, Nokia

ALEXIS K. GARCHA is Senior IP LitigationCounsel at Nokia USA Inc. Nokia is a globalcommunications and information technologycompany focused on three businesses:networks, location intelligence and advancedtechnology development and licensing. Ms.Garcha joined Nokia in 2012 and focuses ondeveloping and executing successful and costeffective IP strategies that are aligned withNokia’s business objectives. Ms. Garchahandles all types of civil litigation including bothoffensive and defensive patent litigation, ERISA

claims, and antitrust litigation. Ms. Garcha graduated from the University ofCalifornia, Hastings College of The Law in 2004 and was admitted to theCalifornia State Bar in 2004.

Elizabeth Valentina, VP, Content Protection Litigation,Fox Entertainment Group

Elizabeth Valentina is Vice President, ContentProtection Litigation for Fox EntertainmentGroup. She manages worldwide copyright,content protection circumvention and anti-piracycivil litigation and amicus practice for Fox’s filmand television businesses. She also advises oncopyright matters, the DMCA and contentprotection policy throughout the Fox companies.

Ms. Valentina was previously at Jenner &Block LLP in New York City where she gainedexperience in a broad range of litigation andintellectual property matters. Her practice

focused on copyright, trademark and new media matters for the major filmstudios, publishers, fashion designers, global entertainment contentcompanies, and entertainment industry advocacy groups. She also workedin documentary film production while in New York. She joined Fox in 2008.

She is a frequent speaker on copyright, content protection andtechnology issues, and a member and former Trustee of the Los AngelesCopyright Society.

Sarah Givan, director, legal, LinkedIn

Sarah is a Director of Legal at LinkedIn, whereshe strategically manage all types of litigation forLinkedIn, including consumer class actions,patent and other IP litigation, and employmentdisputes. She also provides counseling on arange of product issues involving privacy,publicity, data security, and IP concerns.

Prior to joining LinkedIn in 2013, she was anattorney at the law firms Howard Rice andArnold & Porter, where she focused primarily onpatent, trademark, and copyright litigation andcounseling. She received her law degree from

Stanford.

Susan Kim, senior counsel, Google

Susan is litigation counsel in the patent litigationgroup at Google Inc. Prior to joining Google,Susan was a patent trial lawyer in the IntellectualProperty Practice Group at King & Spalding LLPin New York. She has extensive experience inlitigating, licensing and prosecuting intellectualproperty across a wide range of hardware andsoftware technologies including electronicdevices, integrated circuits, computer andsoftware-related patents, mechanical devices,and wireless telephony. She earned her B.S. inOperations Research from Columbia University

(Dean’s List) and her law degree from Fordham University (Dean’s List).

Eleni Kassaris, partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon

Eleni has a varied litigation and disputeresolution practice where she represents clientsin a wide range of industries, including mining,oil and gas, construction, and life sciences. Aspart of her practice, Eleni acts in both anadvisory capacity and as litigation counsel onmatters relating to general contractual disputes,wrongful dismissal litigation, post-employmentcompetition by former employees, human rightsviolations in the workplace, privacy law matters,workers compensation and occupational healthand safety matters, compliance with

employment standards and executive compensation matters. Eleni hasappeared before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Court ofAppeal for British Columbia and the Federal Court of Canada, and regularlyrepresents clients on matters before administrative bodies and tribunals.Eleni also advises a number of not-for-profit organizations and individualson a pro bono basis as part of the Firm's award-winning pro bono program.

Tamara Fraizer, principal, Squire Patton Boggs

Tamara assists clients to assess intellectualproperty (IP) related issues, leverage andenforce IP rights and defend against IP claims.Her practice includes IP counseling and disputeresolution, including patent litigation. She hasprosecuted patents before the USPTO, and haslitigated cases before various federal and statecourts, as well as the US International TradeCommission. Tamara’s experience spans avariety of industries including life sciences,medical device, electronics, pharmaceuticals,and healthcare related consumer products and

software. She is also well versed in the areas of digital health, personalizedmedicine and bioinformatics.

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Speaker Profiles

Andrea Laing, partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon

Andrea’s practice focuses on complexcorporate/commercial litigation including classactions and cross-border disputes. Since theintroduction of statutory liability for secondarymarket misrepresentation in Ontario, Andrea hasbeen actively defending public issuers againstclass actions premised on misrepresentationclaims. She is currently representing CelesticaInc. in a major cross-border securities classaction; she recently presented arguments beforethe Supreme Court of Canada over issuesrelating to the application of the statutory

limitation period in Part XXIII.1 of the Ontario Securities Act to the case.Andrea regularly writes, speaks and is quoted in the press about securitiesclass action topics. She has been recognized as one of the "LitigationLawyers to Watch" in The 2011 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/CanadaCross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada. She is also repeatedlyrecommended for in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2013 and 2014)for securities litigation, and in the 2015 edition of Benchmark Canada: TheDefinitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys for hernational class action practice.

Nima Kelly, EVP, general counsel and corporatesecretary, GoDaddy

I'm officially an EVP, General Counsel, andCorporate Secretary for GoDaddy -- responsiblefor all things legal. You know, the usual stuff -m&a, governance, litigation, and intellectualproperty matters, as well as customer-facing &third-party transactional agreements. Unofficially,I'm somewhat of a corporate historian in view ofmy tenure, and oftentimes referred to as the "VPof Everything" as my path to the GC's seat wasatypical. I recently became the executive sponsorof GDLIT - GoDaddy Latinos in Technology - andcouldn't be more thrilled as I'm proud of my

Mexican background.Since joining GoDaddy in 2002, I've served as Project Manager for our

private registration offering, VP of Wild West Domains (our reseller affiliate),VP of Public Relations for our ground-breaking 2005 Super Bowlcommercial, VP of Corporate Administration, and Deputy General Counsel.Along the way I grew our philanthropic efforts -- GoDaddy Cares -- anddeveloped our legendary holiday parties at Chase Field. In my life beforeGoDaddy - was there one? -- I worked in HR leadership positions andpracticed labor and employment law in NYC.

Darci Teobaldi, general counsel, Advanced Bionics

Darci is the General Counsel in charge of all legalrequirements of the Advanced Bionicsoperations in the Americas. Advanced Bionics isa US based biotech innovator of cochlearimplants. She enjoys supporting the company inproviding hearing to those with severe toprofound hearing loss. Responsible for UScorporate governance, contract management,employee and labor relations and regulatory andcompliance legal support, as well as worldwidelitigation management and strategic, she hasinteracted extensively with local and parent

Board of Directors and litigation management teams on mass tort litigation.She has held equal positions in the consumer products industry,

medical diagnostics industry and university legal positions. Darci alsoworked for patients in bad faith denial of insurance benefits part of a teamrecognized in national media. With over 20 years legal experience shelooks for to new opportunities in the business, philanthropic and legalcommunities.

Jennifer Kelly, partner, Fenwick & West

Jennifer Lloyd Kelly is a partner at Fenwick &West, where she focuses her practice oncommercial and intellectual property litigationand counseling. She regularly managescomplex disputes for technology companiesaround the world, with a particular emphasis oncopyright, trademark, patent, right of publicity,trade secret and false advertising matters. TheDaily Journal named Jennifer as one of the "TopIntellectual Property Attorneys" in 2014-2015 andone of the “Top Entertainment Lawyers,” a listthat honors the top 50 litigators and dealmakers

who are reshaping the movie, music and game businesses. She was alsorecently named among San Francisco’s Influential Women in Business bythe San Francisco Business Times. In the community, she serves on theBoard of Directors of TechLaw, a global network of technology law firms thatshare expertise in technology issues, intellectual property and theacquisition, selling and financing of technology companies.

Wendy Anna Herby, associate general counsel, headof IP & litigation, Coursera

Wendy Anna Herby is Associate GeneralCounsel, Head of Intellectual Property andLitigation at Coursera, Inc. She is responsiblefor developing Coursera's patent portfolio,licensing, IP policy, copyright and trademark,and everything litigation. Prior to Coursera, shemanaged IP policy and patent reform and interpartes review trials at Cisco Systems, andmanaged patent litigations across the globe,such as the Apple v. Motorola smartphonecases for Apple Inc. She is a graduate from theUniversity of Washington School of Law and

holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Washington StateUniversity. Prior to law school, Wendy Anna was a bioprocess engineer.

Elizabeth C. McBride, Director, Global Litigation,Applied Materials

Elizabeth McBride is the Director of GlobalLitigation at Applied Materials, a leadingmanufacturer of semiconductor and displayequipment, services and related software. Shecurrently manages high profile, complexlitigation, arbitration, and regulatoryproceedings. In her role, she manages globalintellectual property protection and enforcementactivities, and counsels on IP strategy, employeemobility, data privacy, communications, supplychain, and public policy issues. Herresponsibilities also include leading internal

investigations, responding to third-party subpoenas, managing e-discoveryand overseeing computer forensic experts.

Prior to joining Applied, Ms. McBride was an IP litigator at Orrick,Herrington & Sutcliffe. Her practice focused on trade secret, copyright, andpatent litigation involving complex technologies in high stakes cases at boththe trial and appellate court levels. Among her notable engagements wasrepresentation of Oracle in its successful Federal Circuit appeal in thesoftware copyright case against Google. Ms. McBride spent her earlycareer in public policy, as a research associate at The Urban Institute, whereshe analyzed and evaluated state and federal justice policy andprogramming. She also clerked in the United States Attorney’s Office,Criminal Division, in the Northern District of California.

Ms. McBride graduated from Princeton University and earned her J.D. atStanford University, where she served as associate editor for the StanfordLaw and Policy Review

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Andrea DeShazo, senior director, global compliance &ethics, McKesson

Andrea is Sr. Director, Global Compliance &Ethics and Lead Investigations Counsel withMcKesson Corporation based in San Francisco,California. At McKesson, Andrea oversees theinvestigations, anti-corruption and antitrustcompliance programs. Prior to joiningMcKesson, Andrea handled the day to dayoperations of Applied Materials’ complianceprogram, including its investigations function.Andrea has conducted or overseeninvestigations in China, Germany, India, Korea,Thailand and the U.S., among other countries.

Prior to her in-house positions, Andrea was in private practice as a whitecollar criminal defense attorney and in the public sector as a publicdefender. She is an attorney with more than fifteen years of experience, anda graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and DartmouthCollege. She is a native Spanish speaker, having lived in Bolivia, Chile andColombia.

Diane D’Arcangelo, associate general counsel,Microsoft

Diane D’Arcangelo leads the privacy andaccessibility legal teams in Microsoft’s Legal &Corporate Affairs department. She manages ateam of subject matter experts responsible forpolicy and product compliance work in privacyand accessibility. During her time at Microsoft,Diane has had a number of roles. She served asthe Legal & Corporate Affairs lead for North Asiabased in Tokyo, managed a business teamresponsible for the licensing of MicrosoftWindows operating systems and productivityapplications to OEM customers, and was a

member of Microsoft’s litigation team specializing in antitrust work. Dianegraduated from Stanford Law School and practiced as a litigator at Sullivan& Cromwell in New York prior to joining Microsoft in 1998.

Anna Spencer, partner, Sidley Austin

Anna Spencer is a nationally regarded partner inSidley’s Washington, D.C. office. Her practicefocuses on the privacy and security of healthinformation. As practice area team leader forhealth information policy, Anna helps companiesleverage data assets, respond to data breachesand develop rules involving for the electronicexchange of health information. She hasdeveloped multiple privacy and securitycompliance and training programs on behalf ofhealthcare entities and has negotiated numerousBusiness Associate Agreements on behalf of

clients. Anna is a frequent speaker on privacy and security matters, is aleader of “Women in Privacy,” a networking group for women lawyers in herfield, and has served on the board of the Starlight Children’s Foundation.She also does pro bono work for Wesley Theological Seminary. Annaearned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and received herB.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Sewanee.

Charlene Shimada, partner, Morgan, Lewis &Bockius

Charlene (Chuck) Shimada’s practiceconcentrates on securities litigation defense,corporate governance, class actions andcomplex commercial litigation. Chuck hasrepresented a broad range of clients, includingissuing corporations, officers and directors,underwriters and public accounting firms, notonly in private litigation, but also in investigationsby the U.S. Securities and ExchangeCommission, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S.Internal Revenue Service, and HawaiiDepartment of Commerce and Consumer

Affairs. Chuck’s work has been recognized by Chambers USA, BestLawyers, The Legal 500 and Super Lawyers.

A pioneer in the legal profession, Chuck was the first woman litigationpartner, as well as the first woman of color partner, at McCutchen DoyleBrown & Enersen LLP, where she served as the Office Managing Partner ofits San Francisco headquarters, one of the first women of color to hold thatposition in any major U.S. law firm. She also served as the co-officemanaging partner of Bingham McCutchen LLP’s San Francisco office.

In addition to her legal practice, Chuck has been active in professionaland civic affairs. She co-founded Women In Securities (WISe), a network forwomen securities litigators in the Bay Area that seeks to promote theirdevelopment and advancement. Chuck also serves as a Ninth CircuitLawyer Representative, is on the Board of Directors of the Bar Associationof San Francisco and the Japan Society of Northern California, and is amember of the U.S.-Japan Council.

Susan Resley, partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Susan D. Resley is a partner in Morgan Lewis'sLitigation Practice and West Coast leader of theSecurities Enforcement team. Susan has beenengaged by dozens of companies and theirboards to conduct internal investigationsconcerning allegations of accounting anddisclosure fraud, insider trading, and violationsof the FCPA or related corruption laws. She alsohas nearly 20 years of experience representingcompanies, financial institutions (includingbrokerage and investment advisory firms), andaccounting firms, as well as individual directors,

officers, and employees in investigations and proceedings brought by theSecurities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement, the DOJ,the PCAOB, and FINRA. She has been recognized in the US Legal 500 forWhite Collar Defense.

In defending private and public companies, financial institutions, and theirdirectors, officers and senior employees in regulatory investigations, Susanconsistently obtains favorable results for her clients, including decisions bythe SEC or DOJ not to bring any action. She has defended clients incomplex regulatory investigations concerning alleged accounting orfinancial fraud (including revenue and expense recognition issues),violations of SEC or FINRA disclosure rules, insider trading, "pay to play"conduct, stock options backdating, failure to supervise issues and markettiming. Susan has also obtained dismissals of actions against her clients inlitigation against the SEC and private plaintiffs.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Susan was a partner in the securitieslitigation group of an international law firm in its Silicon Valley office; beforethat, she was a partner at another international firm. Susan began her legalcareer in the SEC's Division of Enforcement where she led and conductedinvestigations involving insider trading, accounting, market manipulation,broker-dealer conduct, offering fraud and municipal securities offerings.

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Speaker Profiles

Lauren Foster Wu, senior corporate counsel & U.S.privacy officer, Genomic Health

Lauren has worked both in-house and in privatepractice on a wide-range of issues in thehealthcare space, providing legal advice to abroad range of healthcare clients with respect tocompliance and regulatory governance,development and implementation of complianceand privacy programs, contract review andnegotiation, structuring and monitoring ofhospital and hospital system arrangements withphysicians and other providers, and compliancewith federal and state laws regarding fraud andabuse, privacy, licensure, reimbursement, and

other obligations.Currently working as Senior Counsel and U.S. Privacy Officer at a leading

genomic science-based, cancer diagnostic company, Lauren’s practicefocuses on compliance and regulatory support, including privacy. In thatrole, she has been involved in restructuring the existing privacyinfrastructure, working to create a more agile, scalable and yetcomprehensive privacy program in an ever changing global environmentwhile shoring up potential areas of risk and exposure. Lauren is CIPP/UScertified, and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law andthe University of Southern California.

Lindsey Haswell, senior counsel, litigationr, Uber

Lauren has worked both in-house and in privatepractice on a wide-range of issues in thehealthcare space, providing legal advice to abroad range of healthcare clients with respect tocompliance and regulatory governance,development and implementation of complianceand privacy programs, contract review andnegotiation, structuring and monitoring ofhospital and hospital system arrangements withphysicians and other providers, and compliancewith federal and state laws regarding fraud andabuse, privacy, licensure, reimbursement, and

other obligations.Currently working as Senior Counsel and U.S. Privacy Officer at a leading

genomic science-based, cancer diagnostic company, Lauren’s practicefocuses on compliance and regulatory support, including privacy. In thatrole, she has been involved in restructuring the existing privacyinfrastructure, working to create a more agile, scalable and yetcomprehensive privacy program in an ever changing global environmentwhile shoring up potential areas of risk and exposure. Lauren is CIPP/UScertified, and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law andthe University of Southern California.