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Leonard S. Chauvin
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).

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.

Patricia Glaser
Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro
Partner, Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, LLP, since 1988 and current head of the litigation department. Glaser is a business trial lawyer and provides general legal advice to publicly and privately held companies in such areas as real estate, contracts, antitrust, entertainment, banking and securities. Glaser received her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University in 1973. Associate/Partner, Wyman, Bautzer, Christensen, Kuchel & Silbert, 1973-88. Member of the Board of Regents of Hebrew University of Jerusalem; President of the American Friends of Hebrew University, Western Region; Member, American University's International Board of Advisors. Member, National Board of Directors of D.A.R.E. Member, Los Angeles Music Center Theatre Group Board of Directors. Member, Geffen Theatre Board of Directors; Member, Judicial Council Task Force on the Quality of Justice, 1998.

Douglas G. Houser
Bullivant Houser Bailey PC
Senior Partner, Bullivant Houser Bailey PC, a 180-lawyer firm with offices in Oregon, Washington, California and Nevada. Graduate, Willamette University and Stanford Law School. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Former General Counsel, NIKE, Inc. Director, NIKE, Inc. Former General Counsel, Pacific Northwest Life Insurance Company. Former Board of Overseers, RAND Institute of Civil Justice, the well-known “think tank” in Santa Monica, California. He has been very active professionally in state, national, and international legal organizations and societies. Doug Houser, a fourth generation Oregonian, has been married for 40 years to Lucy Houser, an Episcopalian minister. They have three children and four grandchildren, of whom they are justifiably proud.

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.

Marilyn H. Loftus
Retired Judge
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.

Charles W. Matthews
ExxonMobil Corporation
Vice President & General Counsel, ExxonMobil Corporation, since 1999. General Counsel, Exxon Corporation, 1995-99. General Counsel, Exxon USA Law Department, 1992-95. Member, Exxon Corporation’s Law Department, since 1971. Graduate, University of Houston (Law), 1970. National Trustee, Boys & Girls Clubs of America Southwest Region. Commissioner, Texas Access to Justice Commission. Director & President, University of Houston Law Foundation. Member, American, Texas, Houston & Dallas Bar Associations. Fellow, American, Texas, Houston & Dallas Bar Foundations. Member, Association of General Counsel. Member, Chief Legal Officers Roundtable. Member, Texas General Counsel Forum. Member, American Association of Corporate Counsel. Board Member, National Center for State Courts. Vice Chairman, Center for American and International Law. Board of Overseers, Rand Institute for Civil Justice. Former Director, International Association of Defense Counsel. Member, Higginbotham Inn of Court. Former Public Trustee, American Inns of Court Foundation. Former Vice President, Texas Bar Committee for Administration of Justice. Board of Directors, AT&T Cotton Bowl, since 2004.

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. officer of Epstein Becker and Green. He worked on health care related litigation, including antitrust and medical liability issues. Ed also authored or participating 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 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.

Robert L. Parks
Law Offices of Robert L. Parks, P.L.
Robert L. Parks was admitted to the Florida Bar in June of 1964, and has engaged in extensive plaintiff product liability and aviation practice since that time. He served a two-year term as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Air & Space Law, and in 1995, Mr. Parks was appointed Chair of the Aviation Law Certification Committee by the President of the Florida Bar Association. In October, 1996, he was one of seven lawyers appointed by the Florida Bar to membership on the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. He is a past President of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocacy, a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers, and a member of the American Law Institute. He is a member of the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, and has authored two chapters in Kreindler’s Aviation Accident Law for Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., on “Military Accidents” and “Air Traffic Control Negligence”. He has extensive MDL and class action experience, most recently being local counsel in a 203 million dollar settlement in Miami.

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
Koch Industries, Inc.

Mary H. Terzino
The Dow Chemical Company
Assistant General Counsel and Director, Corporate Legal Issues, The Dow Chemical Company; member, Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform; chair of the Institute for Legal Reform’s Coalition to Curb Global Forum Shopping; member, Board of Directors of the Civil Justice Association of California; member, Operating Committee of the Civil Justice Reform Group; corporate representative to the Product Liability Advisory Council; former member of the Board of Trustees, Brazosport Memorial Hospital (Lake Jackson, Texas); A.B. Marquette University; J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School.