Adjunct Faculty
Denise Alter Denise Alter began teaching at Berkeley Law in 2000 while a Litigation Partner at Orrick in San Francisco. She founded Bridge Lawsm in 2005 to provide legal services in art law, advocacy, and alternative dispute resolution to clients in business and in the arts with a focus on corporate and individual fine art collectors. Ms. Alter holds expertise in corporate governance, fine art collection management, the fine art market, cultural heritage law, and the repatriation of stolen art and antiquities. In March 2009, the Columbia Business Law Review will publish an article by Ms. Alter addressing corporate art collecting and collection management. Another recent article, A Collector’s Guide to Art Theft: the Importance of Provenance and Good Title, is published on Artelligenz.com.
Ms. Alter teaches Art and Cultural Property Law and Civil Trial Practice.
Ms. Alter received her B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco where she received her J.D.
Michael Bamberger Michael Bamberger is a partner in the New York office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. He has a broad background in business law, constitutional law, intellectual property, media law (both from the counseling/transactional and litigation perspective), and corporate/securities law. He was the founding editor of the seven-volume work, State Limited Partnership Laws, and the five-volume series, State Limited Liability Company and Partnership Laws, the major works in their fields.
Mr. Bamberger is a member of the eight-member Joint Editorial Board on Uniform Unincorporated Organization Acts of the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws, and has served as Chair of the Board for two years. He writes and lectures extensively on partnerships and LLCs.
Mr. Bamberger has advised partners and partnerships with respect to partner withdrawal, partnership dissolution, and partnership merger. He has represented large investment partnerships converting to LLCs, and has structured many transactions involving LLCs. His experience also includes representation of world‑wide group with respect to development of its global corporation structure, world‑wide licensing, and other agreements. Mr. Bamberger has worked with committees of independent directors in connection with evaluation, negotiation and approval of management‑supported takeovers. He has also worked with financial institutions in financing leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations.
Mr. Bamberger received both his A.B. and LL.B. from Harvard University.
David J. Berger David J. Berger is a partner in the litigation department of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and chairs WSGR’s M&A Litigation Department. Mr. Berger is also a member of the firm's Policy Committee. Mr. Berger specializes in the areas of corporate governance litigation, fiduciary duties of directors, merger and acquisitions, and securities litigation.
He represented Hewlett-Packard in its successful proxy contest to acquire Compaq, and also tried the case of Walter Hewlett v. Hewlett-Packard Corp. in the Delaware Chancery Court, which resulted in a complete victory for Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Berger also represented Ameritrade in its merger with TD Waterhouse and J.D. Edwards in its merger with PeopleSoft and response to Oracle's hostile tender offer. He serves as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange's Proxy Working Group, and has represented a number of institutional and other investors, as well as directors, in proxy contests and other challenges arising from control issues.
Mr. Berger received both his B.A. and J.D. from Duke University.
Steven E. Bochner sbochner@wsgr.com 650-354-4110 website
Steven E. Bochner teaches Venture Capital and IPO Law: Advising the Emerging Growth Company. He is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ("WSGR") with over 25 years of experience practicing corporate and securities law. In that time, Mr. Bochner has served as lead counsel for some of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies, and has assisted clients in venture capital, public offering, and merger transactions valued in the billions of dollars. He has also represented numerous start-up companies, as well as leading venture capital and investment banking firms. Mr. Bochner is a member of the Board of Directors of WSGR.
In 205, Mr. Bochner was appointed as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies, which was charged with evaluating the current securities regulatory system relating to disclosure, financial reporting, internal controls, and capital formation for smaller public companies, including the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In 2006,Mr. Bochner was appointed to his record term as co-chair of the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council, on which he's served since 1996. The council is responsible for making recommendations to the NASDAQ board on policy and rule changes related to issuer listings standards.
Mr. Bochner is chair of the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. He received his B.S. from San Jose State University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall.
Thomas Brown
tbrown@omm.com
Thomas Brown is a partner in the Antitrust/Competition Practice in O’Melveny & Myers’ San Francisco office. His practice focuses on competition law and legal issues affecting the financial services industry.
Before joining O’Melveny, Mr. Brown was Vice President, Senior Counsel at Visa U.S.A. Inc. In 2003, he defended the company in the then largest private antitrust case in U.S. history. Mr. Brown has written numerous trial and appellate briefs on antitrust law, including the petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Robinson-Patman Act case, Osram Sylvania Products v. Von Der Ahe, which attempted to clarify the type of proof needed to establish injury to competition in a price-discrimination action brought under the act. He has represented clients before the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Mr. Brown received an A.B in Economics-Mathematics (cum laude) from Columbia University. He obtained a J.D. from the University of Chicago where he was a John M. Olin Student Fellow of Law and Economics and member of the Law Review.
Joan Cambray Joan Cambray teaches Real Estate Transactions and is a partner in the Oakland firm of Wendel Rosen Black & Dean. An experienced real estate and commercial litigator, Ms. Cambray represents home builders, developers, contractors and property owners in connection with disputes in a variety of complex real estate and business litigation matters. Past cases have included matters related to real estate contracts, various home builder and construction issues, commercial contracts, mortgages, trust deeds, foreclosures, escrow, title insurance, real and personal property secured transactions, guaranties and a variety of lender-related issues.
Ms. Cambray received her B.S.N. from Oakland University and her J.D. from the University of San Diego.
Graef “Bud” Crystal
graefc@bloomberg.net 707-528-3923 website
Bud Crystal specializes in the field of executive compensation. He has written a syndicated column for Bloomberg News, and edited his own newsletter on executive pay called crystalreport.com. Mr. Crystal has worked as an executive compensation consultant for Towers Perrin, a leading New York management consulting firm; where he was a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors and headed the firm's worldwide compensation consulting practice. Mr. Crystal was Adjunct Professor of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behavior at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, where he taught graduate courses in executive compensation issues and design.
He has written more than 1,600 articles on executive compensation topics, contributing frequently to such major publications as Fortune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Financial World, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair and The London Sunday Telegraph. In both 2001 and 2003, he was named a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He has also written six books, including, most recently, In Search of Excess: The Overcompensation of American Executives and What Are You Worth? The former was endorsed by Bill Clinton and was cited by Business Week as one of the ten best business books of 1991 and was endorsed by President Bill Clinton, who called it "A wake-up call to the corporate world." In addition to his writing, Mr. Crystal has done extensive work in both national and local television and radio. He has appeared numerous times on all three network evening news programs, as well as ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Good Morning, America and The Today Show. Mr. Crystal has been profiled in many periodicals, Fortune called him “America’s Leading Expert on Executive Compensation.” And The Wall Street Journal called him “A Walking Encyclopedia of Executive Pay.” In 2005, the Society for Human Resource Management listed him among 50 people as having had the most influence on the human resources field in the past 50 years. He has also been active in the public policy arena, serving as a consultant to the SEC and the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
A 1956 industrial psychology graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he also received a Master of Arts degree in the same field from Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Michael Cypers
Michael Cypers teaches Securities Litigation: Enron and Beyond. He is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, and has represented international accounting firms in civil litigation and SEC matters, and a major Wall Street investment bank defending litigation arising from Enron. He also has substantial experience in SEC and state investigatory proceedings. Throughout his twenty-plus-years of practice, he has regularly defended clients in class action litigation.
Mr. Cypers received his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from Boalt Hall.
Alfred F. DeLeo adeleo@coxcastle.com 310-284-2285 website
Alfred F. DeLeo teaches Techniques of Financial Analysis, Partnership Tax, and Accounting for Lawyers. He is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP, where he practices tax law.
Mr. DeLeo has particular expertise in matters involving real estate acquisitions, dispositions, sale-leasebacks, exchanges, co-venturing and development, and in matters involving real estate investment trusts, and tax-exempt entities (including pension funds) and their investments in real estate. His expertise extends to general individual, partnership, limited liability company and corporate tax planning, and includes Federal and California income taxation, California property taxation and the application of miscellaneous California excise taxes.
Mr. DeLeo received his B.S.L. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from George Washington University.
Lothar Determann
lothar.determann@bakernet.com website
Mr. Determann, a partner with the San Francisco office of Baker and McKenzie, focuses his practice in the areas of Software Licensing, Electronic Commerce, Data Protection, Intellectual Property and International Commercial Law related to Technology Transactions and Outsourcing .
Mr. Determann has written three books and more than 50 articles and treatise contributions, including Dangerous Liaisons – Software Combinations as Derivative Works (21 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1421 – 2006); Manufacturer Guarantees in Global Commerce, Computer Law Review International (2004, co-author: U. Krüdewagen); SCO v. Linux — A case study in the implications of upstream intellectual property disputes for software end users, Computer & Law International (2003, co-author: A. Coan); Don’t Judge A Sale by its License: Software Transfers under the First Sale Doctrine in the U.S. and the EC, 36 U.S.F. L. Rev. 1 (2001, co-author: A. Fellmeth), Freedom of Communications on the Internet (1999, 653 p.).
He has also taught courses on Computer Law, E-Commerce Law and Data Privacy Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law, University of San Francisco Law School, and Free University of Berlin. Mr. Determann often presents on international and technology law topics.
Two year training program with Deutsche Bank AG in Munich (1988-90); graduated as certified banker (1990); marketed syndicated loans for National Westminster Bank Plc in London (1990, 1991); studied German, English and French law at the University of Passau in Bavaria; First State Exam (JD-equivalent) 1994; doctorate law degree 1996 (Dr. iur - JSD equivalent); clerked for Berlin Court of Appeals (1995-97); Second State Exam 1997; post-doctorate thesis on Internet law (Habilitation) and admittance to Association of German Public Law Professors (1999).
Free University of Berlin (Habilitation) (1999); Free University of Berlin (Dr. iur.) (1996); State of Berlin (J.D.) (1994); (Second State Exam) (1997)
David P. Eich
deich@kirkland.com
David Patrick Eich is a partner with Kirkland and Ellis, representing financial sponsors and their affiliates in multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, fund formations and other complex private equity transactions in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Mr. Eich is leading the expansion of Kirkland's global private equity practice to Asia and is the senior partner in the firm's Hong Kong office. Dual qualified in the U.S. as an attorney and in the U.K. as a solicitor (he is also a registered foreign lawyer in Germany), he has closed many deals around the world from his offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London and Munich since 1994.
Mr. Eich is a founding co-sponsor of the Private Equity Institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a Director of its Global Advisory Board. Mr. Eich is a founding co-sponsor of the London Business School Private Equity Institute and a member of its Global Advisory Board. He also lectures about private equity annually to classes in the LBS M.B.A. degree program.
Mr. Eich graduated from Harvard University (magna cum laude) in 1988 and Columbia Law School with Honors from the Parker Program in International and Foreign Law in 1992.
William ("Bill") FalikBill Falik has practiced land use, real estate, and environmental law and mediation in Northern California for the past 37 years and during this period he has pursued a dual career as attorney and real estate developer. He graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1968 and from Harvard Law School in 1971, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. During his legal career, Mr. Falik has been a partner in three San Francisco law firms in which he chaired the environmental and land use law departments. Currently, he is the Managing Partner of Westpark Community Builders which developed 1,500 acres in Roseville, California and planned and entitled 4300 residential units which were sold to the three largest builders in the United States. In addition, as CEO of Live Oak Enterprises, he has developed the Whitney Oaks master planned community in Rocklin, California with a championship Johnny Miller designed golf course and 2000 homes. Mr. Falik currently serves on a number of nonprofit Boards and renders real estate development consulting services to diverse clients. In addition, he serves as a mediator and expert witness in complex real estate cases. Mr. Falik has served as a federal district court law clerk in San Francisco and has taught real property law, CEQA, Environmental Law, Land Use Law, and Real Estate Development at the University of San Francisco School of Law where he served as an Assistant Professor. In addition he has served as a Teaching Associate at Boalt Hall. He now teaches real estate courses as an Adjunct Professor at both Berkeley Law and Haas School of Business.
Michael C. Ferguson
profferg@aol.com
Michael Ferguson is founding partner of Ferguson & Berland, a Berkeley-based practice he established in partnership in 1974 with fellow Boalt alum William Berland. Mr. Ferguson is certified as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate law by the State Bar of California and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Council. He has served as chairman of the State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and as chair of the State Bar’s Estate Planning, Probate & Trust Law Advisory Commission. He has been recognized by the State Bar of California’s for his commitment to its specialization programs and in 1999 received the Bar’s annual C. Rick Chamberlain Award. Early in his career, Michael was Board Chairman and General Council for the Rockridge Health Care Plan -- an Oakland, CA based HMO serving predominantly MediCal population.
Mr. Ferguson has taught and lectured extensively. He taught business law in the Executive MBA program at St. Mary’s College for six years. Since 1994, he has been teaching the estates and trusts course at Berkeley Law. While at Berkeley law, he was note and comment editor of the California Law Review and Order of the Coif. Mr. Ferguson attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate and earned a B.A. with honors in Economics.
Eric John Finseth
efinseth@mayerbrown.com
Mr. Finseth is a partner with Mayer Brown, specializing in corporate and securities law. His broad securities and transactional experience includes: corporate governance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC reporting obligation and mergers and acquisitions; registered and unregistered offerings of equity, debt and complex securities; the formation and subsequent representation of real estate investment funds and venture capital funds; and venture capital financings and the formation of technology startup companies. Prior to joining Mayer Brown, he served as an Attorney Fellow in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, Office of Chief Counsel.
Mr. Finseth speaks fluent German and reads French, having received a Magister Artium (MA) in Modern History from the Freie Universität Berlin on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). In addition to having studied in Europe, he worked as an intern in the Directorate-General for External Relations of the European Commission in Brussels.
Mr. Finseth received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University. He also received an M.A. from Freie Universitat Berlin and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School.
William O. Fisher Bill Fisher graduated from the Yale Law School in 1976 and received a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard the same year. He worked for about a quarter of a century at Pillsbury Winthrop, first as an associate and then as a partner. He specialized there in large-scale corporate litigation, including cases raising securities and fiduciary duty issues. He also counseled clients on disclosure matters and assisted in litigation-related efforts tied to capital funding. Along the way, Mr. Fisher spent a little over a year in the Office of Policy and Management Analysis in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.
Mr. Fisher has offered Governing the Corporation After Enron at Boalt for three years and Insider Trading for one. He has published numerous articles on securities law issues, regularly leads the preparation of the Caselaw Developments section of the ABA’s Annual Review of Federal Securities Regulation, and is the principal author of a treatise chapter concerning the obligations and potential liabilities of attorneys in public and private offerings.
Deene Goodlaw has taught the course in Pensions and Employee Benefits at Boalt since 1995. She was Chair of the Employee Benefits Practice Group at Pillsbury, Winthrop, Pittman and Shaw. Ms. Goodlaw currently is a member of the Conversation on Coverage, a retirement policy group based in Washington D.C. and acts as legal counsel to the natinwide Pension Assistance Project. She consults frequently with law firms and government agencies on employee benefits matters and acts as an expert witness in ERISA litigation. She was Acting Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Coorporation from 1980 to 1983 and has lectured and written extensively in the fields of employee benefits and taxation. Ms. Goodlaw received her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Charles A. Hansen Charles A. Hansen teaches Real Estate Transactions and Real Estate Secured Transactions . . He is a partner at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean in Oakland. With nearly 30 years of experience, Mr. Hansen maintains a busy civil litigation practice with a focus on real estate, commercial and secured transactions litigation. He has been retained as a consultant and expert witness in a variety of transactional and state and federal court litigation matters relating to commercial and real estate lending, real estate transactions, mortgages, trust deeds, brokers, escrow, title insurance, commercial leasing, real estate development, guaranties and personal property-secured transactions.
Mr. Hansen received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his J.D. from Boalt Hall.
Alan E. Harris aharris@fbm.com 415-954-4424 website
Alan E. Harris, a partner at Farella Braun + Martel, has practiced construction law for 30 years. His litigation experience includes the preparation and trial of complex construction cases involving defects and delay damages. He has reviewed hundreds of construction contracts for clients and has acted as their legal advisor to resolve construction issues before they became claims or disputes. Mr. Harris' clients range from the State of California, municipalities and special districts to design professionals and contractors. His cases have covered a wide variety of projects including office buildings, roads, waste treatment plants, cogeneration facilities, dams, powerhouses and apartment complexes. Additionally, Mr. Harris has mediated hundreds of disputes both for his clients and as the neutral party chosen by the claimants. He also has acted as an arbitrator, court-appointed special master and expert in a large number of construction cases.
Mr. Harris was recognized as one of the top four construction attorneys in California in the 2005 Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers.
Mr. Harris received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from Boalt Hall.
Robert D. Infelise
rinfelise@coxcastle.com
Mr. Infelise is a senior trial attorney specializing in high stakes business litigation. He has litigated complex environmental, federal and state taxation and commercial litigation matters. In an era in which few matters actually go to trial, Mr. Infelise has tried over thirty-five matters to judgment. On the environmental side, he was lead counsel for the lender and developer plaintiffs in RTC v. Rossmoor, 34 Cal.App.4th 771 (1995) one of the few environmental cost recovery actions tried to a jury. He was actively involved on behalf of the developer plaintiff in Bixby Ranch Co. v. Spectrol Electronics, the seminal California case involving stigma damages.
In addition to his litigation practice, since 1994 Mr. Infelise has been a member of the faculty at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches The Law of Hazardous Waste, the Environmental Law Writing Seminar, Environmental Law and Policy, and the Workshop on Development and the Environment. He was the Interim Director of the Environmental Law Program in 2003.
Mr. Infelise graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 1980. He then joined the Los Angeles office of Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP. In 1998, Mr. Infelise opened the firm’s San Francisco office and serves as managing partner.
Hanno F. Kaiser
hanno.kaiser@lw.com website
Hanno F. Kaiser, a partner at Latham & Watkins, is an antitrust lawyer with a special focus on technology and new media markets. He has counseled clients in mergers and non-corporate transactions involving online advertising, content distribution, online auctions, operating systems, all levels of the enterprise software stack, chip design and standard setting with respect to both US and EU antitrust law. In the "bricks and mortar" world, Mr. Kaiser has recently advised casino companies, supermarkets, clean energy firms, and a variety of financial institutions, trade associations and hedge funds in proceedings before the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
Mr. Kaiser's clients include Yahoo! Inc., Oracle Corporation, Apple Inc., eBay Inc., The Hearst Corporation, Hilton Hotels Corporations, Harrah's Entertainment Inc., Pathmark Stores Inc. and The Carlyle Group.
Before relocating from New York to San Francisco in 2008, Mr. Kaiser taught antitrust as an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. He regularly publishes in the field of antitrust, law & economics and jurisprudence and is a frequent speaker on a broad range of antitrust and IP issues. His latest law review publications include "The Three Dimensions of Freedom, Crime, and Punishment," Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 9, 101-114 (2006) and "Debt Investments in Competitors under the Federal Antitrust Laws," Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Vol. IX, 605-36 (2004).
Mr. Kaiser holds law degrees from the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and the University of California at Davis. For his Ph.D. thesis on the philosophy of criminal justice (University of Bonn, summa cum laude).
Mr. Kaiser is a member of the New York bar and the German bar. He served on the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the Bar of the City of New York (2005-07) and on the New York State Bar Association's Antitrust Law Section's Executive Committee (2006-07). Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Mr. Kaiser practiced EU competition law with the Düsseldorf office of Shearman & Sterling.
Barry Kaye
barry.kaye@kfinancialgroup.com
Barry Kaye is an innovative and detail-oriented attorney with a reputation for bringing people together and structuring complex transactions. His entrepreneurial character and versatile skill set have allowed Mr. Kaye to move deftly between law and business and weave a unique, well-diversified practice. Mr. Kaye’s professional history shows experience and expertise in three main areas: intellectual property, real estate and business. With an early interest in IP, Mr. Kaye worked at Darby & Darby, a New York law firm specializing in intellectual property. After graduating from law school in 1994, Mr. Kaye clerked for U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk in Los Angeles where he was afforded the opportunity to work behind the scenes on a number of copyright and trademark infringement cases along with securities, insurance coverage and a host of other federal matters. Following his clerkship, Mr. Kaye joined Hennigan, Mercer & Bennett in Los Angeles where, in addition being part of the team that successfully represented Orange County in their bankruptcy and securities litigation, he also worked on copyright and banking matters. To this day, a portion of Mr. Kaye’s practice includes IP work. In 1998, Mr. Kaye joined CDR Financial Products, a capital markets group in Beverly Hills, where he focused on real estate finance. Mr. Kaye negotiated transactions with lenders, mortgage servicers, insurers and investment banks to launch a novel pledged-asset mortgage program using asset value “wrappers” as a stand-in for the transfer of borrowers’ collateral.
Mr. Kaye currently manages K Financial Group, a financial consulting firm that specializes in structuring and sourcing financing for new business entities and is also Of Counsel at Fenton & Nelson in Los Angeles.
Mr. Kaye is an active member of the California and New York bars.
Michael J. Kennedy
micheal.kennedy@shearman.com
Michael Kennedy is a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP in the firm’s San Francisco office. He concentrates on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate partnering, joint ventures and corporate governance, with an emphasis in the technology, emerging growth, healthcare, biotechnology and media industries.
Mr. Kennedy has extensive experience in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries, having been involved in numerous transactions involving a variety of industries (building products, automotive, defense, financial services, media, technology and healthcare). He represents all major investment banks in their merger and acquisitions advisory practices.
He has practiced in the mergers and acquisitions area since 1984, and has significant experience in the debt (bank and high-yield areas) and restructuring areas. He is frequently asked by boards to advise on hostile transactions, proxy fights and other governance matters.
Mr. Kennedy received his B.A. from Yale and his J.D. from New York University.
Janice Kosel
jkosel@ggu.edu
Professor Kosel teaches a course on Commercial Transactions. She is a member of the California Bar; specializing in Family Law, Corporate and Commercial. She’s the author of “Bankruptcy: Do It Yourself and Chapter 13: The Federal Plan to Repay Your Debts” as well as “Property Disposition in Antenuptial, Postnuptial and Property Settlement Agreements.” Ms. Kosel formerly practiced with Orrick, Herrington, Rowley & Sutcliffe. She is also a former member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, the Family Law Specialization Exam Writing Committee of the California State Bar and the Board of Directors of Legal Assistance for Seniors.
Ms. Kosel received a B.A. from the UC Berkeley and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.
Arlene Kostant
Arlene Kostant is a State Bar Certified Family Law Specialist with a private practice specializing in mediation and family law in San Francisco. She grew up in the suburbs of New York City and detoured as an elementary school teacher in France prior to becoming an attorney. She is a member of the San Francisco Collaborative Law Group and the Alliance of Collaborative Professionals of the East Bay. The Daily Journal recently named her one of California's most sought-after family law mediators. Ms. Kostant began teaching at Hastings in 1992. She is also on the adjunct faculty teaching Negotiation at Boalt Hall.
She received her B.A. from New York University in 1970, her M.A. in Foreign and Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester in 1972, and her J.D. with honors from Golden Gate University in 1977. Ms. Kostant is a member of the San Francisco Bar Association's Family Law Section and was its chair in 1997.
Anita K. Krug
akrug@howardrice.com
Anita Krug teaches Hedge Funds and Investement Management Law. She is a partner with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady & Rabkin, P.C. in San Francisco. Ms. Krug’s practice revolves around securities regulatory matters, particularly those involving investment management regulation and regulations affecting the structure and activities of private investment funds — "hedge funds" in particular, but also private equity funds and commingled trusts. Ms. Krug has substancial experience negotiating investment management and subadvisory arrangements and advising investment managers on securities and tax-based considerations relating to investment strategie and activities and structuring private investment funds. She also represents institutional and individual investors in connection with hedge fund and private equity fund investments.
Ms. Krug received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, her J.D. from Harvar Law School (cum laude), and her B.A. from Kansas State University (summa cum laude).
Joseph LavittJoseph Lavitt has served as lead counsel in numerous high-profile lawsuits, including civil actions to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for failed financial institutions and federally-financed housing developments. In addition to his civil practice, Lavitt has been frequently appointed to represent indigent defendants in the Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court, where he has proudly obtained the ultimate dismissal of unwarranted charges of behalf of the unfairly accused.
Lavitt’s scholarly interests are tort and insurance law. He has written extensively on a broad range of insurance coverage issues, including a recent article concerning the inconsistent treatment of policyholders following Hurricane Katrina. See, The Doctrine Of Efficient Proximate Cause, The Katrina Disaster, Prosser's Folly, And The Third Restatement Of Torts: Cracking The Conundrum, 54 Loy. L. Rev. 1 (2008)
Lavitt teaches Insurance Law at Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall), and has taught at the University of San Francisco School of Law (Insurance Law), and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California (Torts, Insurance Law, and several other courses.)
Prior to becoming an attorney, Lavitt did constituent and campaign service for Sen. Christopher Dodd, of Connecticut. He has spoken widely to various housing providers about remedying housing discrimination and achieving effective enforcement of anti-discrimination law. Lavitt is a member of the Standing Committee of the California State Bar on Group Insurance Programs, a Master of the American Inns Of Court, and contributes to many other civic and non-profit organizations. He earned his A.B. at the University of Georgia (Athens), with high honors, and his J.D. at Berkeley Law.
Robert J. Majteles
rob@treehousecapital.com 510-652-7244 website
Mr. Majteles founded Treehouse Capital LLC in order to make investments of time and money in interesting people doing worthy things. Prior to launching Treehouse, Mr. Majteles was a successful CEO of three different technology companies. In addition, Mr. Majteles has also been an investment banker and a merger and acquisitions attorney. Mr. Majteles is also a lecturer at both the graduate and undergraduate level at UC Berkeley.
Mr. Majteles received his law degree from Stanford University and his B.A. from Columbia University.
amarks@milbank.com 213-892-4376 website
Allan Marks is a partner in the Global Project Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. As part of a broad corporate and finance practice, he has represented companies involved in power, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, technology, real estate, and other industries. Mr. Marks routinely represents developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters in the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects worldwide, with special expertise in the energy, telecommunications and transportation sectors. He has participated in numerous project financings, acquisitions, restructurings, securities offerings and private placements for a variety of sophisticated institutional clients. Many of the innovative transactions he has handled have been recognized as "Deals of the Year" by leading industry publications. He speaks and publishes frequently on energy markets (especially as related to renewable and alternative energy), infrastructure investments, cross-border financing issues, and emerging markets. Mr. Marks has worked on transactions throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas over the past two decades with an aggregate value in excess of $50 billion.
Mr. Marks received a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University and received a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley Law School. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley Law School, where each Spring he teaches a course on Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance (LAW 247). He has given lectures at Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) and the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. He was previously an adjunct lecturer for the post-graduate program in Derecho de Empresa at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. For several years he has been ranked by Chambers USA as one of California’s leading project finance lawyers and in the top tier of transportation infrastructure lawyers nationally. Mr. Marks was also recently named as a leading lawyer for projects by Chambers Latin America 2009.
Richard Mendelson
RPMendelson@gmail.com 707-261-7005
Richard Mendelson ia an attorney with the law firm of Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty an is an internationally-recognized expert on vineyard and wine law and related land use, intellectual property, business and administrative law issues. He chairs the DP&F's Wine Industry Group. Over the past two decades, Richard has handled legal matters involving almost every aspect of the wine business, including liquor licensing, environmental challenges to vineyard development, grape purchase agreements, winery use permits, representation of winery clients before the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and federal Alcohol & Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, state and federal label approvals, distributor appointments and terminations, and import-export contracts. Richard’s background in the wine industry began as a graduate student at Magdalen College, Oxford which houses many of Europe’s largest wine cellars.
Mendelson resides in Napa, California, and owns a small vineyard, producing three wines under the Mendelson label. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in Wine Law at UC Berkeley, School of Law, where he directs the Program on Wine Law and Policy. He also lectures on a variety of vineyard and wine law topics at UC Davis Graduate School of Management and as part of the University of Aix-Marseille and the University of Bordeaux.
He earned his B.A. from Harvard College, his M.A. from Oxford University, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. 
Samuel R. Miller
srmiller@sidley.com
Mr. Miller is a partner in the San Francisco office of Sidley Austin LLP, where he focuses his litigation practice in the areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and securities law. He served as an extern law clerk to California Supreme Court Associate Justice Stanley Mosk and to United States District Court Judge Stanley A. Weigel. After law school, he clerked for Judge William H. Orrick, United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Mr. Miller has been a member of the California Bar since 1975 and of the District of Columbia Bar since 1979.
Mr. Miller has taught seminars on antitrust and intellectual property at UC Berkeley, School of Law and at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Miller has also been a faculty member of the U.S.
Department of State and U.S. Information Agency's Programs in Latin America. He is a former program director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has taught at the Hastings College of Advocacy. From 1992 to 1995, he chaired the American Bar Association's Antitrust Litigation Committee. In 1994, Mr. Miller served as special trial counsel in the case brought by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice against Microsoft. He also serves as an Early Neutral Evaluator and a mediator for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In addition, Mr. Miller serves on the Board of Directors of the East Bay Community Law Center.
Mr. Miller received his B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University and his J.D. from of UC Berkeley School of Law.
R. Clark Morrison
cmorrison@coxcastle.com
Mr. Morrison is a partner in the San Francisco office of Cox, Castle & Nicholson and co-chair of the Land Use and Natural Resources Practice Group. He has over 20 years extensive experience in the entitlement and development of large and controversial development projects. His clients include the developers of California’s largest master-planned communities, public agencies (universities, water districts, airports, cities, and counties) proposing major new facilities or infrastructure projects, domestic and international commercial and industrial concerns, energy and mining companies, Native American tribes, and wineries and other agricultural concerns. Mr. Morrison’s areas of development-related expertise include general and specific plans, development agreements, infrastructure finance, school facilities agreements, environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Subdivision Map Act, Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg, the Williamson Act, and all other California laws affecting the development of real property.
Mr. Morrison is one of a handful of attorneys in California with significant experience in wetlands and endangered species matters. He assists clients in negotiating the approval processes of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and Game, U.S. EPA, and California’s Regional Water Quality Control Boards. His experience includes permitting and litigation under Sections 401 and 404 of the Clean Water Act, Sections 7 and 10 of the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and Sections 2081 and 1603 of the California Fish and Game Code. He has participated in the development of numerous large-scale habitat conservation plans, natural community conservation plans, and mitigation banks, and presently is handling some of the State’s most complex wetlands and endangered species matters.
Mr. Morrison has lectured and written extensively on land use, natural resource, and environmental issues for UC Berkeley, School of Law, USF Law School, San Jose State University, U.C. Davis Extension, U.C. Berkeley Extension, Chapman University, the American Bar Association, the Association of Environmental Professionals, CLE International, and a number of other professional organizations and periodicals. He serves on the advisory board of the California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter, and has served as Lecturer-in-Residenceat UC Berkley, School of Law.
He received his law degree in 1987 from UC Berkeley, School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Morrison attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his A.B. with High Distinction.
Jessica Notini
notini@sbcglobal.net
Adjunct Professor Jessica Notini is a mediator and facilitator with the Northern California Mediation Center and teaches a variety of subjects related to alternative dispute resolution both in California and internationally. Her mediation practice is focused in the areas of probate & estate, employment discrimination and business disputes. She has facilitated for schools, government agencies, law firms and other entities seeking to organize their work on complex and controversial projects. She is a core trainer for the Northern California Mediation Center, Adjunct Professor of Conflict Resolution at Golden Gate University and John F. Kennedy University, and she teaches courses in Spain, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico.
Ms. Notini served for three years as President of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California (formerly NCMA) and assisted in the development of the California Dispute Resolution Institute. She is currently a member of the California State Bar ADR Committee and the Board of Directors for the Mediation Society of San Francisco.
Prior to her career as a full-time neutral, Ms. Notini practiced environmental law for 5 years. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan (magna cum laude) and was awarded the Order of the Coif. She earned her B.A. at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Stephen D. Oetgen
soetgen@kirkland.com
Stephen Oetgen is one of the founding partners of Kirkland & Ellis LLP's San Francisco office. When the San Francisco office first opened in January 2003, Mr. Oetgen relocated from the firm's Chicago office, where he began his career in 1994 and became partner in 2000. Mr. Oetgen serves as lead counsel in various private equity transactions, including going-private transactions, leveraged and management buyouts, venture capital investments, divestitures, other mergers and acquisitions, equity financings, and various senior and subordinated debt financings. He also serves as one of the directors of the K&E Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation affiliated with the firm.
Mr. Oetgen received his B.S. from University of Illinois and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Mark Perlow
mark.perlow@klgates.com 415-249-1070 website
Mark Perlow is a partner in the San Francisco office of K&L Gates LLP and one of three global practice group coordinators for the K&L Gates investment management practice. His practice focuses on investment management, financial regulation, and securities law, and he regularly represents mutual funds, hedge fund managers, investment advisers, fund boards of directors and broker-dealers on a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters.
Before joining K&L Gates, Mr. Perlow served as senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission, focusing on investment management, fund and corporate governance, and enforcement, and he also served in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. While on the SEC staff, Mr. Perlow worked on regulatory initiatives on fund governance, auditor independence, the scope of the securities laws online, codes of ethics, personal trading of investment personnel, and foreign custody of fund assets, and he advised the SEC on the policy and legal implications of enforcement actions. He also served as senior attorney on a number of enforcement actions and investigations, including the W.R. Grace 21(a) Report on independent directors’ duties regarding executive compensation, and cases involving accounting fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, and broker-dealer sales abuses.
Mr. Perlow received a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.A. from Oxford University, and an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley.
David A. Rosenfeld
David Rosenfeld, a partner at Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in Alameda, California, has been practicing law on behalf of the unions since 1973. He learned labor law from David Feller. He has argued many important cases before the United States Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, various federal and state courts of appeal and the National Labor Relations Board. He takes particular pride in developing creative and unusual tactics, both in the courts as well as outside of the courts. His book entitled "Offensive Bargaining" published by the National Labor College and the strategies he has developed have been used by unions throughout the country as an effective strategy in the bargaining context. His annual booklet "Offensive Use of the California Labor Code" has encouraged California Unions and worker advocates to use wage and hour issues more aggressively.
He has taught various labor and employment related courses at the law school since 2004 including a yearly seminar entitled "Representing Low Wage Workers." He also has taught a seminar entitled "The Law of Organizing Workers." He is the faculty advisor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Mr. Rosenfeld received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.
Michael C. Ross mross230@aol.com 925-254-6621
Mr. Ross is the former Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Safeway Inc. He was responsible for Safeway's legal affairs in the United States and Canada, and oversaw the security, risk management, and environment, health and safety divisions. He was also responsible for the company's compliance programs.
During his tenure, he successfully managed Safeway's acquisitions of The Vons Companies, Inc., Dominick's Supermarkets, Inc., Carr-Gottstein Foods, C., and Randall's Food Markets, Inc. After his retirement, he consulted with the company for several years on major M&A initiatives, including the successful management of the acquisition of Genuardi's Family Markets, Inc.
Mr. Ross has taught practical M&A seminars for many years at the University of Virginia and Berkeley law schools. He has also been teaching practical ethics seminars at both institutions for several years. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia, and is a member of the ABA Business Law Committee on Corporate Compliance. He is a perennial member of panels on such topics as M&A, D&O Insurance, Ethics and the Corporation, and Financial and Legal Risk Management at Stanford Law School's Directors' College. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, and the Board of Trustees of the California Shakespeare Theater.
Prior to joining Safeway, Mr. Ross was a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins. He specialized in M&A, participating in numerous transactions in a wide variety of industries.
Mr. Ross received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia.
Hugh Taylor
hughta@sims.berkeley.edu 310-383-7041
Hugh Taylor has been an entrepreneur in the technology field as has also served as a marketing executive at both startup and Fortune 500 technology companies. A lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, Mr. Taylor is the author of the book “The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You” (Wiley 2006) and co-author, with Eric Pulier, of “Understanding Enterprise SOA” (Manning, 2005) and the upcoming “Event-Driven Architecture” with Frank Martinez, Angela Yochem and Les Phillips (Prentice Hall 2008). Mr. Taylor is a frequent speaker on SOA and compliance at industry conferences, including the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the Microsoft Business Process Modeling and SOA conference, the HP Technology Forum, and IBM Rational DeveloperWorks.
He earned his AB, magna cum laude from Harvard College 1988 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. Mr. Taylor is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
Anthony Zaloom Anthony Zaloom has worked in major law firms in the US, China and Japan over the last forty years of his career, dealing with international investments, corporate transactions, and litigation. Most recently he was of counsel with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. Prior to that he was a partner with Skadden Arps from 1986-1999, dividing time among their New York, Beijing and Tokyo offices. This followed multi-year tenures with Morrison & Foerster and Graham & James. He has taught at Stanford University Law School, Tokyo University Law Department, and the Tsinghua Law School.
Mr. Zaloom received his B.A. from Princeton University (summa cum laude in Oriental Studies) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.