Focus Groups

Law firm, Corporate General Counsel, and Government/Non-profit Leader Participants

We are grateful to the following individuals who participated in the focus groups we conducted throughout the country:

Chicago (July 10, 2007)
John J. Conroy, Jr.
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Thomas Fitzgerald
Managing Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP

Harvey W. Freishtat
Chairman
McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Gregory S. Gallopoulos
Managing Partner
Jenner & Block

Lee I. Miller
Partner, Joint Chief Executive Officer
DLA Piper

Jason L. Peltz
Partner
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP

Duane C. Quaini
Partner & Former Chairman
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Los Angeles (July 11, 2007)
Kenneth M. Doran
Managing Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Mark B. Helm
Co-Managing Partner
Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP

Paul S. Malingagio
Managing Partner
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A. William Urquhart
Partner
Quinn Emmanuel

Washington, DC (July 17, 2007)
Thomas H. Milch
Chair
Arnold & Porter LLP

Michael E. Nannes
Chairman
Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Stuart M. Pape
Managing Partner
Patton Boggs LLP

Greg Schumaker
Firm-Wide Hiring Partner
Jones Day

Stuart C. Stock
Partner and Chairman of the Management Committee
Covington & Burling LLP

Thomas D. Yannucci
Partner & Chairman of the Management Committee
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

New York (July 18, 2007)
Joseph W. Armbrust, Jr.
Partner and Co-Head of New York Office
Sidley Austin LLP

Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr.
Partner & Chair
O’Melveny & Myers LLP

David Gordon
Managing Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP

James D Holzhauer
Chairman
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

William J. Perlstein
Co-Managing Partner
WilmerHale

Carol Sawdye
Executive Director
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Keith C. Wetmore
Chair
Morrison & Foerster LLP

New York (July 18, 2007)
Evan R. Chesler
Presiding Partner
Cravath, Swain & Moore LLP

John R. Ettinger
Managing Partner
Davis Polk & Wardwell

Martin Frederic Evans
Presiding Partner
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Allen I. Fagin
Chairman
Proskauer Rose LLP

Gary B. Fiebert
Executive Director
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Robert O. Link
Chairman and Managing Partner
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Lynn Neuner
Partner
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP

Joseph C. Shenker
Partner and Vice Chairman
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

William J. Williams, Jr.
Of Counsel
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Alfred D. Youngwood
Chair
Paul,Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Chicago (October 9, 2007)
Marc Bassewitz
Senior Vice President, Secretary
and General Counsel
Bally Total Fitness

Suzanne Bettman
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer
R.R. Donnelley

Adam Cooper
Senior Managing Director and General Counsel
Citadel Investment Group, L.L. C.

Natalia Delgado
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Huron Consulting

Paul Lovejoy
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
United Airlines

Robert Sacks
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Standard Parking

Mark Tresnowski
Managing Director and General Counsel
Madison Dearborn Partners

James Wooten
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Illinois Tool Works

Peggy Zagel
National Managing Principal, Risk, Regulatory and Legal Affairs General Counsel
Grant Thornton

Washington, D.C. (October 9, 2007)
William Blumenthal
General Counsel
Federal Trade Commission

Avis Buchanan
Director
Public Defender Service for D.C.

Ona Dosonmu
General Counsel
The Brookings Institution

Susan Gates
General Counsel
Children’s Defense Fund

Robert Hoyt
General Counsel
United States Department of Treasury

John Huerta
General Counsel
Smithsonian Institution

A. J. Kramer
Federal Public Defender
Federal Public Defender Service

Ross Leckow
Deputy General Counsel
International Monetary Fund

Peter Nickles
General Counsel
Washington, D.C., Mayor’s Office

Jeffrey Taylor
U.S. Attorney
United States Attorney

London (November 7, 2007)
Guy Beringer
Partner
Allen & Overy LLP

Ted Burke
Chief Executive
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Ralph Cohen
Managing Partner
SJBerwin LLP

Simon Johnston
Senior Partner
Nabarro

Laura King
Partner
Clifford Chance

Claude Lambert
Partner
Homburger

John Trotter
Senior Partner
Lovells LLP