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Adjunct Faculty - 2006 - 2007

  Denise Alter

Denise Alter began teaching at Boalt in 2000 while a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco where she practiced complex commercial and securities litigation on behalf of clients in high technology and biotechnology, banking and financing, and energy.   Thereafter, she founded Bridge Law, which provides services in art law, advocacy, and alternative dispute resolution to clients in business and in the arts.   Ms.Alter teaches Civil Trial Practice and Art Law at Boalt.  

Ms. Alter’s research focuses on comparative law issues involved in the repatriation of stolen art and antiquities, and on ethics and governance for arts organizations and the art market.   Her recent work includes: A Collector’s Guide to Art Theft: the Importance of Provenance and Good Title, to be published in an upcoming issue of Artelligenz; and an unfinished study, American Museums and the Stolen Antiquities Trade: the Need for Transparency in Acquisitions.   She has advised artists, museums, and arts organizations, and litigated a wide range of business and art disputes.   Graduating from Christie’s master’s degree program (unaccredited) in art history, history of the art market, and connoisseurship, Ms. Alter focused her thesis on changes to the practice of fine art conservation mandated by the Visual Artists’ Rights Act.  

Prior to teaching at Boalt, Ms. Alter taught Commercial Arbitration at the University of San Francisco, School of Law.   She has lectured in arbitration at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, and to businesses including Lucent and the U.S. Postal Service.   She has been an arbitrator for over a decade, and she is a past member of the Board of Governors for the Association of Business Trial Lawyers in Northern California.  

Ms. Alter received her B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco.

  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

Steven E. Bochner teaches Venture Capital and IPO Law:   Advising the Emerging Growth Company.   He is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati with more than two decades 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. Aside from his well-established corporate clients, he has represented numerous start-up companies, as well as leading venture capital and investment banking firms.   Mr. Bochner is currently a member of his firm's Policy Committee.

Mr. Bochner is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies, which is 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.   He serves as chairman of the Governance and Disclosure Subcommittee of the SEC Advisory Committee.   In 2006, Mr. Bochner was appointed to his second 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 listing 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.  

  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.

  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

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.

  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.

  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

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.

   Justice Jack B. Jacobs

Before his appointment as a Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court in 2003, Jack B. Jacobs served as Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery since October 1985, after having practiced corporate and business litigation in Wilmington, Delaware since 1968. Justice Jacobs holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago (B.A., 1964, Phi Beta Kappa) and a law degree from Harvard University ( LLB., 1967).

In addition to his judicial activities, Justice Jacobs serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and at the Widener University School of Law.   Justice Jacobs is a member of the American Law Institute, where he serves as an Advisor to its Restatement (Third) of Restitution.   He is also a member of the Delaware and American Bar Associations (where he served on the Committee on Corporate Laws of the ABA Business Law Section) and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  

Justice Jacobs has participated in academic symposia and continuing legal education programs related to corporate and securities law sponsored by various law schools and   Continuing Legal Education organizations, and has guest lectured at several American and foreign law schools. Justice Jacobs has served as Regent's Lecturer in Residence at the UCLA School of Law (January 2005); Distinguished Jurist Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (March 2002); and as an invited guest speaker in various conferences, including those sponsored by the Asian Corporate Governance Association (Hong Kong, October 2003); the Korea Development Institute (Seoul, Korea, November 2004); the University of Tokyo (Japan, November 2005); the OECD (Stockholm, Sweden, March 2006); and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2006).   He also serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Columbia Law School Center on Corporate Governance, and the Center for Corporate, Securities and Financial Law of Fordham Law School.

Justice Jacobs has authored (or co-authored) several law review articles, most recently:   “Implementing Japan’s New Antitakeover Defense Guidelines,” 2 NYU Journal of Law and Business 323 (2006); “The Uneasy Truce Between Law and Equity in Modern Business Enterprise Jurisprudence,” 8 Del. L. Rev. 1 (2005); "Entity Rationalization:   A Judge's Perspective," 58 Bus. Lwyer . 1043 (2003) ;   “Function Over Form:   A Reassessment of Standards of Review in Delaware Corporation Law,” 56 Bus. Lwyer . 1287 (2001); “Realigning the Standard of Director Due Care with Public Policy,” 96 N.W.L. Rev. 449 (2002); “The Great Takeover Debate:   A Meditation of Bridging the Conceptual Divide,” 69 U.Chi.L.Rev. 1067 (2002); and   “Comments on Contestability,” 54 U. Miami L. Rev. 847 (2000).

His current term on the Delaware Supreme Court ends June 4, 2015.

 Michael J. Kennedy

Michael Kennedy is a partner at O’Melveny & Myers 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.

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 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 weapon against anti-union employers. 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.

Mr. Rosenfeld received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall.

    Michael C. Ross

Michael C. Ross teaches Constructing the Deal: Selected Topics in Corporate Acquisitions and the seminar Ethics and Integrity in Law and Business.

Mr. Ross was Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Safeway Inc. Beginning in 1993, he was responsible for Safeway’s legal affairs in the United States and Canada, as well as security, risk management and environmental health and safety.   Before he retired as an executive officer in May 2000, Ross successfully managed Safeway’s acquisitions of The Vons Companies, Inc. (1997), Dominick’s Supermarkets, Inc. (1998), Carr-Gottstein Foods, Co. (1999), and Randall’s Food Markets, Inc. (1999).   He continues to oversee the company’s major acquisitions and successfully managed the acquisition of Genuardi’s Family Markets, Inc. in 2001.

Mr. Ross serves on the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of Virginia and is a member of the ABA Business Law Committee on Corporate Compliance.   He is a perennial member of the panel on “Ethics and the Corporation” at Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College.   He serves on the Advisory Board of The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy.  

Prior to joining Safeway, Mr. Ross was a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins.   He specialized in mergers and acquisitions, and participated in numerous transactions in a wide variety of industries.  

Mr. Ross received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia.

  Anthony Zaloom

Anthony Zaloom teaches Law and Business in China.   He has worked in major law firms in both China and Japan for the last thirty-five years dealing with foreign and outward bound investments, corporate transactions, and litigation.   He has been a guest lecturer at Stanford University Law School and at Tokyo University Law Department.

Mr. Zaloom received his B.A. from Princeton University (Oriental Studies) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.