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Saul
A. Wolfe, Esq., Chair
Livingston, NJ
Founding
member of Skoloff & Wolfe, P.C. Former President of the New Jersey State
Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Foundation, Harvard Law School Association
of New Jersey, Brandeis University Alumni Association; ABA Board of Governors
2000-2003, Executive Committee 2003, Chair of Operations & Communication
Committee 2003: New Jersey State Delegate 1993-2000; House of Delegates
1989-present; Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation; Former Trustee
of the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education and instructor
for more than 35 years; Recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s
Medal of Honor for service to the justice system. |
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Hon.
Frederic B. Rodgers, Chair-Elect
Golden, CO
Judge,
Gilpin County combined trial courts since appointment by the Governor
in 1986 and retained by election; became a judge in 1969 as one of the
first U.S. Army military judges in Viet Nam; senior vice-president and
member of the Board of Governors, Colorado Bar Association; member of
the national boards of the American Bar Association and American Judicature
Society; 11 year member of ABA House of Delegates; past-president/chair
of ABA Judicial Division, National Conference of Special Court Judges,
and state judicial organizations; Colorado State Chair and Sustaining
Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation; provided judicial training and law
drafting assistance to the Viet Nam Supreme People's Court and Ministry
of Justice, 2002-04; member, The National Judicial College faculty since
1990; member, NJC Faculty Council 1993-99, chair in 1999. |
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Hon.
Tyrone T. Butler, Secretary
Washington, D.C.
Chief Administrative Law Judge, District of Columbia Office of Administrative
Hearings; chief administrative law judge/director of the Bureau of Adjudication,
Division of Legal Affairs, New York State Department of Health; administrative
law judge, New York State Department of Health; assistant district attorney
in Duchess County; New York State general counsel to the Connecticut Inspector
General's Office; inspector general, New York City Corrections Department;
lieutenant, New York City Police Department; immediate past-chair, National
Conference of the Administrative Judiciary, ABA; chair, the NAALJ; past
president, New York State Administrative Law Judges Association; Fellow
of the American Bar Foundation; admitted to the New York State Bar, 1981,
the U.S. District Court, Southern/Eastern districts of New York, 1982,
and D.C. Bar in 2003. |
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Oliver
C. Mitchell, Treasurer
Reading, PA
Senior Vice President-General Counsel and Secretary of Carpenter Technology
Corporation. Former Partner in the Margolis Law Firm in New Jersey. Former
Chairman of the Dealer Policy Board, Ford Motor Company; former member of
Ford's litigation practice group, responsible for all commercial, consumer,
dealer, Superfund and employer litigation in U.S.; served as Ford's chief
labor and employment lawyer; practiced law for 22 years; member Massachusetts,
New York, and Michigan bars; B.A., Cornell University; J.D., Harvard Law
School; former assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts; former
first assistant district attorney, Hampden County, Mass.; fellow, American
College of Trial Lawyers. |
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Marybel
A. Batjer
Las Vegas, NV
Vice President, Public Policy and Communications,
Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., 2005-present; senior leadership posts,
executive branches of two state governments; key advisory roles, two U.S.
presidential administrations, the Pentagon; cabinet secretary to the Governor
of the State of California, 2002-2005; Chief of Staff to Gov. Kenny Guinn;
undersecretary, California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency;
chief deputy director, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing;
special assistant, Secretary of the Navy; President’s special assistant,
National Security Affairs; deputy executive secretary, the National Security
Council; assistant to Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and Deputy
Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci; director of political planning, the
National Women’s Political Caucus; member, State of Nevada’s
Colorado River Commission; member Nevada Security Bank, Board of Directors. |
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John
Frankovich
Reno, NV
Managing partner of McDonald Carano Wilson LLP of Reno with a practice
focusing on real property development and transactions, litigation, and
public utilities law. Mr. Frankovich joined the firm in 1973 after two
years with the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office. He is admitted
to practice in state and federal courts in Nevada and California, including
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Member of the Board of Directors of
Recreational Enterprises, Inc., the operating company for the Eldorado
Hotel Casino and participates in community service through the Economic
Development Authority of Western Nevada; PackPAWS Advisory Board (an organization
affiliated with Univ. of Nevada to promote women’s intercollegiate
athletics); Reno High School Alumni Association. Mr. Frankovich has participated
in numerous seminars and co-authored Major Land Use Laws in Nevada. |
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Thomas
V. Girardi, Esq.
Los Angeles, CA
Partner, Girardi & Keese; Associate Professor, Loyola Law School;
admitted to the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; member, the Inner
Circle of Advocates; Immediate Past National President, the American Board
of Trial Advocates; inductee, Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame; award for outstanding
public support for the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, 2003;
recipient, 2004 Ted Horn Memorial Award, Consumer Attorneys Association
of Los Angeles; appointed to the Judicial Council of California by Chief
Justice Ronald M. George. |
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Hon.
Sophia H.Hall
Chicago, IL
Administrative Presiding Judge of the Resource Section of the Juvenile
Justice & Child Protection Dept. of the Circuit Court of Cook County,
Illinois since 1995 and was Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Division 1992-1995.
Elected to the Circuit Court in 1980, she served for four years in the
Criminal Division, five years in the Law Division, and now serves in the
Chancery Division. Judge Hall was appointed by President William Clinton
to serve a three year term on the Board of the State Justice Institute
in 1998, and continues in that position. She is the past Chair of the
National Conference of State Trial Judges of the Judicial Division of
the American Bar Association, past president of the National Association
of Women Judges, and of the Illinois Judges Association. She has also
served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for
State Courts. Judge Hall has appeared on television and radio and penned
several articles for judicial publications, and in 2003 received the “Judicial
Ethics Award” from the Illinois Judges Association. |
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Hon.
Denette "Dennie" Mouser
Bentonville, AR
Chief
Justice, Supreme Court of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, May, 2005-present;
Assistant General Counsel, Litigation Division, in-house corporate counsel
for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas, 2002-present; associate
in the law firm of Godwin Gruber, P.C., Dallas, Texas, 2002; associate in
the law firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP, Dallas, Texas, 1999-2002;
licensed to practice in Oklahoma, 1999; licensed to practice in Texas, 2000;
admitted to practice in the 5th and 10th Circuit Courts of Appeal; admitted
to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Western
Districts of Oklahoma, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern,
Western, and Eastern Districts of Texas; American Inns of Court; Academic
Achievement Award, Appellate Advocacy; American Indian Law Review, editor,
1998-99; member, Corporate Counsel Women of Color; member, Minority Corporate
Counsel Association. |
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Joseph
P. Petito. Esq.
Washington, D.C.
Partner, Washington, DC office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, government
and regulatory affairs and state public policy group, 1989-present. Federal
lobbyist and head of state government affairs, American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, 1986-1989. Federal lobbyist and counsel, JCP&L/GPU,
19881-1985. Senior advisor, Representative Robert G. Torricelli (D-NJ),
and Governor Brendan T. Byrne (NJ). Member, American Bar Association;
New Jersey State Bar Association; American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, (Consultant Section); National Conference of Lawyers and
CPAs (1999-2003); Past chairman and current member of the board, American
Tort Reform Association; Co-Chair, Operating Committee, Civil Justice
Reform Group. Rutgers University, B.A. Seton Hall University School of
Law, J.D. |
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Hon.
James M. Riehl
Port Orchard, WA
Judge,
Kitsap County District Court; graduate, University of San Diego School of
Law, 1975; practiced law, Kitsap County, 1975-1982; president, Washington
State District and Municipal Court Judges Association, 1995-1996; member/past
co-chair, Board for Judicial Administration; member, Washington State Gender
and Justice Commission; 1996 Judge of the Year, the Washington State Misdemeanant
Corrections Association; 1997, organized first Kitsap County Domestic Violence
Summit; chair elect, National Conference of Specialized Court Judges of
the American Bar Association; Judicial Division liaison, American Bar Association’s
Commission on Domestic Violence; chair, Editorial Board of the ABA Judges’
Journal; ABA advisor, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State
Laws; former dean, Judicial College for the State of Washington; faculty/alumnus,
The National Judicial College. |
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Mark
G. Tratos, Esq.
Las Vegas, NV
Managing
Shareholder of the Las Vegas office of Greenberg Traurig since 2005, and
co-founder of the law firm of Quirk & Tratos in 1994 specializing in
contract negotiation, litigation, and prosecution of copyrights, trademarks
and rights of publicity claims, entertainment law, art law, gaming, and
high technology in entertainment and gaming. Mark has been a member of the
adjunct faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 1984. He currently
teaches Entertainment Law, Rights of Publicity and Privacy Law, and the
Law of Cyberspace at UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law; The Business
of Entertainment at UNLV's Hotel college; and Entertainment and Fine Arts
Law at the College of Fine and Performing Arts. Mark and other members of
the firm conduct Continuing Legal Education programs across the country
on entertainment, Internet and multimedia law, sponsored by such groups
as the Practicing Law Institute, The Rutter Group, the National Business
Institute, the American Bar Association, and the State Bar of Nevada, among
others. Mark has written numerous articles, including several on internet
gaming and the distribution of entertainment content on the internet.
Serves on the Board of Visitors for the Lewis & Clark School of Law
and UNLV Boyd School of Law, and is on the advisory committee of the Southwestern
School of Law Entertainment Program. |
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