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Crossfire with Dean Edley
Saturday, September 30
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
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Christopher Edley, Jr., joined Boalt as dean and professor of law in 2004 after 23 years as a Harvard Law School professor. He earned his J.D. and master's in public policy from Harvard. Chris co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a multidisciplinary research and policy think tank on racial justice issues. His publications include Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values and Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy.
Following graduation, Chris joined President Carter's administration as assistant director of the White House domestic policy staff, where his responsibilities included welfare reform and social security. He was national issues director for the 1987-88 Dukakis presidential campaign, and a senior adviser on economic policy for Clinton's transition team in 1992. He worked as associate director for economics and government at the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, he also was special counsel to the president, directing the White House affirmative action review. He returned in 1997 as a consultant to the president's advisory board on the race initiative.
From 1999 to 2005, Chris served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and in 2001, on the Carter-Ford National Commission on Federal Election Reform. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the advisory board executive committee for the behavioral and social sciences and education division of the National Academies of Sciences. Chris was recently named to a nonpartisan commission conducting an independent review of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Dan Furniss '76 is head of the litigation group at the Palo Alto offices of Townsend and Townsend and Crew. Dan specializes in the litigation and trial of complex commercial disputes including patent, antitrust and trade secret litigation. In the past year, he has been lead trial counsel in patent cases for Hynix Semiconductor and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the national science agency of the government of Australia and the inventors of the current 802.11g wireless LAN technology. Among the clients he has represented are VISA, Affymetrix, Baxter Healthcare, Business Objects, Sun-Maid Growers of California, Boeing and Intergraph Corp.
Dan began his career as a business fraud and securities prosecutor in San Mateo County, where he tried numerous cases to juries and courts. In public and private practice, Dan has tried more than 40 cases encompassing more than 400 trial days. His representation of the defendant in Aliotti v. Dakin remains a leading precedent in the copyright area of "look and feel."
Dan was counsel to plaintiff insurance brokers in the 1994 landmark decision of the California Supreme Court in Manufacturers Life Ins. v. Superior Court, where the court held that insurance companies are subject to California's antitrust laws.
Dan has taught business law at the College of Notre Dame, Belmont and lectured at Hastings Institute of Advocacy on trial practice skills. At Boalt, he was cochair of the Moot Court Board and a two-time McBane Moot Court Competition finalist. This year, Dan will be inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
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Deborah Ludewig '91 recently joined Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham as a partner. Deborah was previously a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where her corporate practice focused on emerging high-technology companies and investors in formation; financing; public offerings; mergers and acquisitions; strategic partnering; joint venture and restructuring transactions; and board fiduciary and corporate governance matters. While at Pillsbury, she earned recognition for her work with emerging companies and start-ups.
Prior to joining Kirkpatrick, Deborah was vice president and general counsel for Worlds, Inc. As a member of the executive team, she led the negotiation of business transactions, financings, litigation and employment matters for this Internet start-up that grew from seven to 120 employees during first four months after she was hired. She established the legal department and infrastructure to support the company's five business units.
Deborah is a board member of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives and was honored in 2003 by the forum with its award Acknowledging Contributions to Women Entrepreneurs. She is on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute and chaired the San Francisco-based program, Drafting Corporate Agreements. She has spoken extensively on entrepreneurship, corporate law and board leadership.
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Scott Potter '94 is the founding managing partner of San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP), a private equity firm focused on expansion-stage companies within the information technology, media, consumer, and service industries. In his career as a private equity investor, CEO, and adviser, Scott has been involved in over 75 private equity financings, 20 public offerings, and 15 merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. He serves as chairman of The Guild and is on the boards of directors for MCF Corporation, Method Products, Penguin Computing, Rave Motion Pictures, and Modviz, Inc.
Prior to founding SFEP, he served as a managing director of LMS Capital, the private equity arm of London Merchant Securities plc where he oversaw LMS Capital's North American Private Equity and Venture Capital portfolio. Before joining LMS Capital, Scott was senior vice president of field operations at Inktomi Corporation, where he had responsibility for the company's sales force, business development, consulting services, and field offices. From 1999 to 2002, he was president and CEO of Quiver, Inc., an enterprise software company backed by several leading private equity and venture capital firms.
Scott's career began as a corporate finance attorney for Silicon Valley law firm Venture Law Group, where his practice focused on private and public financings, M&A, and corporate partnering transactions. Scott earned his law degree from Boalt and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Psychology from UC Berkeley.
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