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Hon. Leonard S. Chauvin, Jr.
L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr. practices law in Louisville, Kentucky. He has served as an assistant Commonwealth Attorney in the Jefferson County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office; Assistant General Counsel, Department of Highways; Judge Pro Tem, Louisville Police Court; Master Commissioner, Jefferson Circuit Court; Assistant County Attorney, Jefferson County; Chairman, Registry of Election Finance; Member, Kentucky Judicial Retirement Form System; Old Kentucky Home Boy Scouts of America; Chairman, Fellows American Bar Foundation (1981); President, American Bar Association (1989-1990); Chairman, House of Delegates (1982-1984); American College of Tax Counsel; Secretary, National Judicial College; President, American Judicature Society; American College of Trust and Estate Counsel; 1984 Lawyer of the Year, Kentucky Bar Association; President, Louisville Bar Association (1972).

Mr. Chauvin graduated from Castle Heights Military Academy; University of Kentucky; University of Louisville, J.D., 1961 (1989 LLD hon.); and Ohio Northern, LLD (hon.), 1989. Married to Cecilia McKay Chauvin, the couple has three children, Leonard Stanley, III, Jacqueline Chauvin and McKay Chauvin (all lawyers).

Hon. Louis E. Condon
Retired
Professor and Judge in Residence at the Charleston School of Law in Charleston, SC. Past Chair, ABA Senior Lawyers Division. Past Chair, Senior Lawyers Division of the South Carolina Bar. Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Participating Fellow, SC Bar Foundation. Mediator/Arbitrator for the National Arbitration Forum. Graduate of the College of Charleston, BS 1950. JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law, 1962. Frequent student at the NJC since 1975. Participant in the Institute for Faculty Excellence in Judicial Education, 1997-98. Former President of the Alumni Associations of the College of Charleston and the USC School of Law. Served over twenty years as Master in Equity for Charleston County hearing civil, non-jury cases from the state’s general jurisdiction court Retired December 31, 1995. Married to the former Marie J. Vincent. Four sons and three grandchildren.

Stephen English
Bullivant Houser Bailey, PC
Mr. Stephen English is director of the Litigation Department at Bullivant Houser Bailey in Portland, Oregon. He has over 30 years of trial experience in state and federal courts in the Northwest. His experience includes business disputes and products liability claims, commercial torts, trade secrets, securities, breach of contract, and directors and officers liability. He has served as national, regional, and Oregon counsel for international businesses, manufacturers and insurers.. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the Honors College at the University of Oregon and his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He has taught for 10 years in the subject areas of business litigation, product liability, and torts for the Hastings College of Law Advocacy Program, the Oregon State Bar Masters of Trial Advocacy program, and at various ABA-TIPS events. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is past chair of the Oregon State Bar Litigation Section and the Executive Committee and co-authored the Oregon State Bar Torts Handbook Commercial Torts.

Philip J. Kessler
Butzel Long
Chairman, Butzel Long. Member, Butzel Long Board of Directors. Graduate, School of Law of the University of California at Berkeley, 1972. Fellow & Regent, The American College of Trial Lawyers. Fellow, International Society of Barristers. Life Member, U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference. Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Fellow, Michigan State Bar Foundation. State Membership Chair, U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. Former Member & Chair, Local Rules Advisory Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Former Associate Professor, Detroit College of Law. Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, since 2007. Mediator, Oakland County Circuit Court. Recipient, The Best Lawyers in America (Business Litigation), since 1987. Recipient, Who's Who in American Law, the World & Legal. Mr. Kessler is a Martindale-Hubbell featured AV Peer Review Rated Lawyer.

Hon. Marilyn H. Loftus
Retired
Retired Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, 1997. Faculty, National Judicial College, since 1996. Former First Assistant Attorney General, New Jersey. Former County & Superior Court Judge, New Jersey. Member, Marquette University President’s Council. Former President, National Association of Women Judges, 1989. Past Chair, Special Task Force and Committee on Women in the Courts of New Jersey Supreme Court.

Edward W. Madeira
Pepper Hamilton, LLP
Edward W. Madeira, Jr. is Chair Emeritus and senior counsel with Pepper Hamilton LLP, having been with the firm since 1953. He served as chair of the firm’s Litigation Department from 1982 92, vice chair of the firm from 1989 92, and co chair of the firm from 1992 94. Mr. Madeira’s practice, concentrated in civil litigation, includes civil antitrust defense, products liability defense of major pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of automobiles, paper and forest products, asbestos mining companies and major equipment and consumer product manufacturers, as well as defense of mass tort and environmental catastrophe litigation. He has addressed various conferences and seminars on products liability and defense management of mass tort litigation. Mr. Madeira graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1952. He served as a law clerk for Justice John C. Bell, Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court before joining the Pepper firm in December 1953.

Ed Neugebauer
Aetna, Inc.
Ed Neugebauer is the Head of Litigation for Aetna, Inc. Ed joined U.S. Healthcare in 1994 as Assistant General Counsel responsible for litigation and the Southeast Region. In 1997, he was named Head of Litigation for Aetna U.S. Healthcare. Prior to joining Aetna, Ed worked at the Washington D.C. office of Epstein Becker and Green. He worked on health care related litigation, including antitrust and medical liability issues. Ed also authored or participated in publishing several articles and other publications on these issues. Prior to joining Epstein Becker and Green, he was in private practices in Oklahoma. Ed is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in Political Science and a J.D. He is a member of the Oklahoma, Virginia and Pennsylvania bars. He continues to be involved in speaking and providing materials at conferences regarding legal issues facing the managed care industry.

Peter Chase Neumann
Attorney at Law
Trial lawyer since 1965, Mr. Neumann has personally tried nearly 150 jury trials to verdict, both criminal and civil, and argued approximately 40 appeals. Born 1940, Norfolk, NE. Admitted to Arizona Bar 1964, Nevada Bar 1969. Past president of Tucson Trial Lawyers and Nevada Trial Lawyers Associations. Diplomat and past president of ABOTA - Reno Chapter. Former Nevada governor to Bd. Of Governors of ATLA (AAJ). Founder of the ATLA Jeep Rollover Litigation Group. Certified as a civil trial lawyer by Nat’l Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) since 1980. Board member of Scenic America and Scenic Nevada. Listed in Who’s Who Legal and Best Lawyers in America.

Charles E. Patterson
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Partner, Morrison & Foerster, LLP. Graduate, University of Michigan Law School, 1966. Former Chairman, Lillick & McHose Executive Committee. Vice-Chairman, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP Executive Committee. Officer, U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-68. Lecturer, American Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the International Association of Defense Counsel and the California Bankers Association

James W. Quinn, Esq.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Global co-chair, Litigation/Regulatory practice. Senior member of Weil Gotshal’s 15-person Management Committee. Selected in 1993 and 2004 by National Law Journal as one of the ten top trial lawyers in the United States in its annual feature, "Winning: Successful Strategies From 10 of the Nation's Top Litigators." Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Ranked as a leader in New York commercial litigation and sports law nationally in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2005, 2006 and 2007. Listed as highly recommended in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2006 for Dispute Resolution, and included in Euromoney's 2004 Guide to the World's Leading Experts In Commercial Arbitration, The International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators 2006 and Chambers Global 2004/05: The World’s Leading Lawyers. Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation. Chaired a variety of committees of both The American Bar Association and The Bar Association of The City of New York. Member of the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the Center for Public Resources. Member of the International Society of Barristers. Serves as a Board Member of the American Diabetes Association, the Landmark Foundation and The Respect For Law Alliance, among many others. Received LL.B from Fordham University School of Law, member Fordham Law Review; A.B, cum laude from University of Notre Dame.

Marsha J. Rabiteau
Legal Policy Strategies Group

Richard Willard, Esq.
Steptoe & Johnson, LLP
Richard K. Willard is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. He is a member of the Litigation Department. Mr. Willard's practice involves corporate counseling and litigation of cases raising public policy concerns. He has served as lead counsel in complex litigation involving multiple claims, parties, and jurisdictions. He has frequently appeared in trial and appellate courts around the country, including six arguments in the Supreme Court. He has also served as senior vice president and general counsel for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Gillette Company, where he led large worldwide legal departments, advised on strategic transactions, and enabled launch of new products with strong intellectual property protection. During the Reagan Administration, he served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division, the largest litigation division of the US Department of Justice. There, he chaired the Reagan Administration's Tort Policy Working Group and developed its proposals for reforming civil litigation, workplace drug testing, and preventing unauthorized disclosure of classified information.