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For Immediate Release
September 16, 2008

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

MEDIA ADVISORY
WHAT: "Our Courts and Corporate Citizenship"
WHEN:
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
Hart Auditorium - McDonough Hall
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
SCHEDULE:

9:00 – 9:05 a.m.
Welcome
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:05 – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

9:15 - 9:20 a.m.

Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University

9:20 – 9:40 a.m.
Keynote Address
Alan Greenspan, former Chairman, United States Federal Reserve
"Markets and the Judiciary"

9:40 – 10:35 a.m.
Panel I
"Independent Courts as a Precondition to Open Markets"
Kenneth Frazier, Executive Vice President and President, Global Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.
C. Boyden Gray, former Special Envoy for European Union Affairs
Bradford L. Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Viet D. Dinh, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Panel II
"Can Corporations be Brought Back to Courts as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism? Should They?"
Kenneth Feinberg, Managing Partner and Founder, The Feinberg Group LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Randy J. Holland, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Ramona E. Romero, Corporate Counsel and Manager of Law Firm Partnering, DuPont
Fern M. Smith, JAMS, The Resolution Experts

Catherine Herridge, National Correspondent, FOX News (moderator)

12:00 – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch: Report on Judicial Salaries
D. Brock Hornby, Judge, United States District Court, District of Maine
Bernard W. Nussbaum, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Meryl J. Chertoff, Director, Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

3:15 – 3:35 p.m.
Remarks
Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

3:35 – 4:35 p.m.
Panel III
"State Judicial Races – How Can Corporations Help Stop the Campaign Funding 'Arms Race?'"
Louis Butler, Justice, Retired, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Thomas Gottschalk, Of Counsel, Kirkland and Ellis LLP
Theodore Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Adam Liptak, National Legal Correspondent, New York Times (moderator)

5:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court
NOTE:

This conference will examine the benefits and challenges of the relationship between corporations and the courts. It is sponsored by the Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law.

A Web cast will be available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending must e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.

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Meryl Chertoff

Director, Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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Meryl Chertoff

Meryl Chertoff is director of the Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law School, an academic institute that studies and educates the public about federal and state courts. She also directs Georgetown Conversations, a law and public policy symposium program, and she is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown. As a legislative relations consultant in New Jersey, she represented corporations, professional associations, and charitable organizations before the state legislature and regulatory agencies, specializing in health, education, youth, and financial services issues. She also served as director of New Jersey’s Washington office and worked in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s legislative affairs office.

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An Evening with Michael and Meryl Chertoff

Meryl Chertoff is Director of the Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law, an academic institute that studies and educates the public about federal and state courts.

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Chertoff has strong ties to the Jewish community. Born and raised in Elizabeth, N.J., Chertoff's two children have attended Jewish day schools, and his wife Meryl was a co-chairwoman of the regional Anti-Defamation League's civil rights committee when he was the U.S. attorney in New Jersey in the mid 1990s. They live in Bernardsville, N.J.