Former NAFUSA Executive Director and current board member Ronald G. Woods, shown above left, was honored on May 9, 2013, in Houston when he was chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Garland R. Walker American Inn of Court’s Professionalism Award. Each year the award is made to a Houston-area lawyer “whose personal life and professional achievements have exhibited integrity, compassion and a commitment to the highest standards of the legal profession.”
The Garland R. Walker American Inn of Court is one of over 300 Inns across the nation that make up the American Inns of Court movement. The mission of the ALC is to foster professionalism, ethics, civility and excellence in legal skills.
Woods served as United States Attorney 1990-1993 for the Southern District of Texas. He is also a former FBI Speical Agent. He holds his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
NAFUSA lifetime member Matthew G. Whitaker will make his official announcement to enter the U.S. Senate race on June 3. He is the first Republican in Iowa to declare his intentions for the seat currently held by Democrat Tom Harkin. Whitaker served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa from 2005-2009. He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, earning Academic All- American honors in 1992. He was the tight end on the 1990 Big Ten Champion football team and played in the 1991 Rose Bowl game.
Whitaker is the managing partner of Whitaker Hagenow & Gustoff LLP, a law firm located in Des Moines, Iowa. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law.
Prof. Little is also now on the “masthead” for SCOTUSBlog, for criminal cases. Here is a recent item he posted. Other SCOTUSBlog post from Prof Little can be viewed by clicking on his “bio” at the top of the posting.
NAFUSA board member Joe D. Whitley is the program chair for the 8th Annual Homeland Security Institute to be held at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC on June 20-21, 2013. Pre-program workshops will be held on June 19th at Greenberg Traurig, located at 2101 L Street NW, Washington. This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Whitley served as he first general counsel of DHS, as well as serving as a three-time appointed United States Attorney for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia. Click here for program details and registration information.
The NAFUSA officers and board of directors held their annual spring meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, May 4, 2013. On the evening before the meeting, NAFUSA Treasurer Bart Daniel and his wife, Cindy, hosted a reception at their lovely historic Charleston home, a half block from the Battery. Daniel arranged horse and buggy transportation to the restaurant for dinner.
The meeting was held on Saturday morning and chaired by President Jay Stephens, who informed the group of the developing plans for the September conference to be held at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, DC, September 26-28, 2013. The fall conference will open with a cocktail reception on the Jones Day roof top, which overlooks the Capitol. Friday and Saturday mornings will include the usual CLE programs, and the planning committee is working on three panels: government regulation hot topics, criminal litigation ethics and the United States Supreme Court. The committee is also planning a cruise on the Potomac and the conference will conclude with a banquet and business meeting on Saturday evening. More details are expected soon.
There were additional reports on finances, membership, nominations, the Bradford Award, the DOJ liaison committee and the NAFUSA Foundation. Presdient Elect Don Stern announced the 2014 conference will be held on October 9-11, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. The 2015 conference will be held in Phoenix or Scotsdale, and the 2016 conference in San Diego.
Affiliated Monitors, Inc., NAFUSA’s newest sponsor, has announced the addition of NAFUSA President Elect Donald K. Stern, former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and former Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Michael S. Dukakis, as Managing Director, Corporate Monitoring and Consulting Services, effective May 1, 2013. In this new role, Stern will oversee the company’s corporate monitoring programs across a spectrum of industries: healthcare, financial services, environmental and others. He will continue his law work on internal investigations, white collar defense and commercial litigation at business litigation boutique Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, P.C. (YSR), where he has become Of Counsel to the firm.
Affiliated Monitors, based in Boston, has joined NAFUSA as a 2013 sponsor at the $5000 level. It is the first company of its kind to provide businesses and government agencies with independent, proactive and remedial solutions to specific regulatory and contractual issues.
Stern has most recently been senior counsel in the litigation department and a member of the Boston office of Cooley LLP. His practice focused on internal investigations, white collar defense work and business litigation. He represented companies and individuals in complex civil, criminal and regulatory matters as well as clients in grand jury and civil enforcement investigations involving allegations of securities fraud, healthcare fraud, foreign corrupt practices, political corruption, insurance fraud and antitrust violations.
In addition to serving as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts,1993-2001, Stern served as the chief legal counsel to Governor Michael S. Dukakis. He advised the governor on a range of legal and policy issues and was a liaison between state and federal criminal justice agencies and the state judiciary. He also spent seven years as an Assistant Attorney General under Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, where he held several positions, including Chief of the Government Bureau.
He is currently co-chair of the American Bar Association/Department of Justice White Collar Liaison Committee, and a liaison to the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Corporate Monitors. He was an advisor to President Barack Obama’s transition team for the Justice Department. He will become president of NAFUSA at the fall conference in Washington.
Stern was on the faculty of Boston College Law School, where he directed the civil and criminal law clinics. More recently he taught the popular Government Lawyer course at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He received an honorary LL.D. from the New England School of Law in 1997. He is an Executive Fellow at the Bentley University Center for Business Ethics.
Affiliated Monitors, founded in 2004, is the first company in the country to focus on providing top quality, independent monitoring services across a wide range of regulated industries and professions. It provides businesses and government agencies with independent, proactive and remedial solutions to specific regulatory and contractual issues. The website for more information is http://www.affiliatedmonitors.com.
Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, P.C. is a boutique business litigation law firm based in Boston that was founded in 1995. YSR helps clients in a broad range of industries to resolve complex business disputes in areas including real estate, securities, shareholder and partner disputes, professional and fiduciary liability matters, business transactions and contract disputes, and employment litigation. It serves corporations and other business organizations of all sizes, investors, business executives, officers, directors, law firms, partnerships, and lenders, as well as non-profit organizations.
NAFUSA member John McKay, who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 2001-2007, will be moving to Ramallah in the West Bank on June 1, 2013, to take a two year job consulting for the State Dept. in the West Bank coordinating our Rule of Law initiatives there. These programs are in support of the Palestinian courts, prosecutors and police and McKay will be the chief of the team responsible for liaising with the courts and other justice institutions as well as State Dept. officials in Jerusalem.
Federal allegations of multi-million dollar fraud have reached to the top of Pilot Flying J, the nation’s largest truck-stop operator. The Knoxville-based company is majority-owned and controlled by the family of Gov. Bill Haslam. The allegations suggest that the truck-stop chain may have deliberately cheated its customers on rebates they were supposed to have earned on diesel-fuel purchases. Jimmy Haslam, the chief executive officer of Pilot Flying J, and the governor’s brother, is also the owner of the Cleveland Browns.
NAFUSA members Tom Dillard, Ed Yarbrough and Hal Hardin are representing some of the Pilot Flying J officials in the ongoing federal investigation. Dillard, shown left, served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee in 1981 and the Northern District of Florida, 1983-1987. He also served as a United States Magistrate in the ED of Tennessee, 1976-1978. He is a partner in the Knoxville firm of Ritchie, Dillard, Davies & Johnson, PC.
Ed Yarbrough, shown below, served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 2007-2010. He is a partner in the Nashville firm of Walker Tipps and Malone, PLC.
NAFUSA board member Hal Hardin, shown below left, served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1977-1981. He currently practices in Nashville.
Joe D. Whitley, a member of NAFUSA’s board of directors, has been sworn in as a member of the Atlanta Police Foundation board of directors. In addition, Whitley received his official badge as an honorary deputy chief with the Atlanta Police Department. The Atlanta Police Foundation is a public/private partnership focused on advancing public safety in Atlanta, in collaboration with the City of Atlanta, the Atlanta Police Department and the business community.
Whitley is also co-chair (along with Robert E. Gallagher of PwC, one of NAFUSA’s 2013 sponsors) of Georgia’s Institute of Continuing Legal Education annual International Business Crimes: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Criminal Antitrust and Export Controls conference which will be held in Atlanta on June 6, 2013. Click here for more details and to register
Whitley served as the United States Attorney for both the middle and northern districts of Georgia. He was also the first general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and served as the acting associate attorney general. He is currently a shareholder of Greenberg Traurig, and chair of the firm’s Atlanta white collar practice.
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