2026 Planning Committee
Steering Committee
Chair
David Lynn
Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC
Vice Chair
Keir Gumbs
Chief Legal Officer, Edward Jones, St. Louis
Members
Steven Bochner*
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA
Richard Climan*
Hogan Lovells US LLP, Silicon Valley, CA
Meredith Cross*
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC
Edward Greene*
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York City
Dixie Johnson*
King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC
Thomas Kim*
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC
Alex Lee
Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago
Robert Mundheim*
A&O Shearman, New York City
Larry Sonsini*
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA
John White*
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York City
Planning Committee
Michele Anderson
Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC
Ran Ben-Tzur
Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley, CA
Richard Blake
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA
Andre Bouchard
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE
Brian Breheny
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC
Lillian Brown
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC
Catherine Clarkin
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York City
Robert Cohen
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York City
Sharon Flanagan
Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco
Margaret Foran
Chief Governance Officer, SVP and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ
Adé Heyliger
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC
Arian June
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Washington, DC
Jeffrey Karpf
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York City
David Katz
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City
Stanley Keller
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, Boston
Katherine Kelly
Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Mark Kronforst
Partner, Professional Practice, EY, Washington, DC
Scott Lesmes
Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, DC
Simon Lorne
Vice Chairman & Chief Legal Officer, Millennium Partners LLP, New York City
Brian McCarthy
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles
Kyle Moffatt
Partner, Professional Practice Group Leader, PwC, Florham Park, NJ
Elizabeth Morgan
King & Spalding LLP, New York City
Scott Morgan
San Francisco
Lona Nallengara
A&O Shearman, New York City
Jane Norberg
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC
David Peinsipp
Cooley LLP, San Francisco
Scott Siamas
Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel-Corporate, Securities & Global Governance, Salesforce, San Francisco
Sarah Solum
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Silicon Valley, CA
Allison Berry Spinner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA
Christina Thomas
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC
Andrew Thorpe
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, San Francisco
Kellye Walker
SVP, Chief Legal Officer and Worldwide Public Affairs, Deere & Company, Moline, IL
Mary Jo White
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City
Thomas Yang
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Bank of America, New York City
Emeritus Advisory Board
Lydia Beebe
Alan Beller
John Coffee Jr.
Thomas Cole
J. Michael Cook
James Cox
Gordon Davidson
Meyer Eisenberg
Arthur Fleischer Jr.
Stephen Friedman
Daniel Goelzer
Linda Griggs
Linda Wertheimer Hart
Richard Ketchum
Donald Langevoort
Colleen Mahoney
Bruce Alan Mann
John Olson
Louise Parent
Mary Schapiro
A. Gilchrist Sparks III
E. Norman Veasey
Patricia Vlahakis
Richard Walker
Planning Directors
Shilpa Gokhale
Assistant Dean, Executive Education, Office of Executive and Professional Education, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago
Maryann Wou
Director, Professional & Continuing Legal Education, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago
*indicates past Institute Chair