This timely conference will explore contemporary approaches to white collar prosecutions, including use of "The Thompson Memorandum." It will cover the following topics:

• The Origins and Purposes of the Corporate Cooperation Dilemma and the Phenomenon of Punishment by Indictment
• The Legal Context for Corporate Investigations
• The Defense Bar: New Professional Identities
• The Future of Cooperation

Confirmed speakers include:

Samuel W. Buell is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University, where he teaches criminal law and securities regulation. Professor Buell served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and in the Eastern District of New York, and as special prosecuting attorney for the Enron task force. He was the lead prosecutor in the case of U.S. v. Jeffrey Skilling, et al., as well as co-lead prosecutor in the case of U.S. v. Arthur Andersen, LLP.

John P. Cooney, Jr. is a partner in the litigation department of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he represents individuals and institutions in securities, mail and wire fraud, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and other white collar crimes. Before joining Davis Polk, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York as Chief of the Narcotics Unit. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Chairman of its Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Joseph A. Grundfest is the W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at the Stanford Law School and Co-Director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance. He has previously served as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as a staff attorney for the President’s Counsel of Economic Advisers.

The Honorable Gerard E. Lynch has been a United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York since his 2000 appointment by President Clinton. He is also a Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, where he specializes in federal criminal law. Before his appointment to the bench, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, both as Chief Appellate Attorney and Chief of the Criminal Division.

Robert G. Morvillo is a founding partner in the firm of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, & Silberberg, P.C., and has represented a wide variety of individuals and corporations in white collar cases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and has served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York as both Chief Trial Assistant in the Fraud Unit and Chief of the Criminal Division.

Julie Rose O’Sullivan is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author of the leading American casebook on white collar crime. She previously worked in the Arkansas Office of the Independent Counsel on the Whitewater investigation and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division in the Southern District of New York.

Mark F. Pomerantz is a partner in the litigation department of the Paul Weiss firm, where he represents corporations and individuals in criminal and regulatory proceedings brought by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Before entering private practice, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, both as Chief Appellate Attorney and Chief of the Criminal Division.

Linda Thomsen currently serves as Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where she has previously served as Deputy Director and Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel. Before serving on the SEC she was in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland.

Robert Weisberg is the Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School and Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. He has served as a consulting attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the California Appellate Project, working on death penalty litigation in the state and federal courts.

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