BEST LAWYERS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING MAY 11 and 12, 2016

Bringing together the distinguished members of the Best Lawyers Advisory Board for discussions about management of law firms and in-house legal departments. elcome to the 2016 Best Lawyers Advisory WBoard Meeting. We are so pleased you are able to join us for the gathering of this unique group of the world’s preeminent law firm leaders and general counsel—a complete membership list appears in this brochure.

For those arriving early May 11, Best Lawyers has organized a special viewing of Sylvia by the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. This showing of Sylvia will feature company leads Isabella Boylston, Alban Lendorf, and Danill Simkin. The performance will be preceded by a discussion about the ballet and followed by a backstage tour of the opera house.

The same evening, Best Lawyers will host a dinner where board members can see old friends and meet new ones. welcome

The board meeting will take place May 12 at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. The meeting will focus on the challenges faced by law firm leaders and general counsel in our current economic climate.

The meeting will feature a keynote address by Linda Klein, the incoming president of the American Bar Association, followed by a panel discussion chaired by former ABA president Carolyn Lamm on the globalization of the market for legal services and the impact of lawyer regulation worldwide.

It is my pleasure to host this distinguished group, and I hope you enjoy the meeting. Thank you for your participation on the Best Lawyers Advisory Board.

Steve Naifeh CEO & Co-Founder of Best Lawyers wednesday MAY 11 Cultural Events

1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Pre-show Discussion About the Ballet Meet in the Revlon Bar area before the house opens to enjoy a brief discussion about the ballet.

2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Performance of Sylvia by the American Ballet Theater Sylvia boasts an incomparable role for its heroine showcasing her dramatic range and astonishing technique, performed against a lushly romantic, rococo setting to a

GILLIAN MURPHY IN SYLVIA. splendid score by Léo Delibes. PHOTO: GENE SCHIAVONE 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Backstage Tour of the Metropolitan Opera House Experience an exclusive behind-the- scenes look at how the Metropolitan Opera House operates.

IMAGE BY ALLEN.G / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM

5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Dinner at The Grand Tier Restaurant Set within one of the most spectacular cultural destinations in the world, The Grand Tier Restaurant serves contemporary American cuisine by Executive Chef Richard Diamonte. thursday MAY 12 Board Meeting Agenda

8:00 - 8:45 A.M. Arrival and Registration Breakfast will follow 8:45 - 9:00 A.M. Opening Remarks Steven Naifeh, CEO BEST LAWYERS 9:00 - 9:15 A.M. Welcome Remarks Kenneth M. Doran, Managing Partner GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 9:15 - 10:00 P.M. Panel Discussion: The Globalization of the Market for Legal Services and the Impact of Lawyer Regulation Panel discussion by: Carolyn Lamm, Panel Chair Partner, Co-Chair International Arbitration Americas WHITE & CASE LLP/WASHINGTON, D.C. Peter Dwoskin Senior Vice President Strategic Development & General Counsel U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Andrew Perlman Dean & Professor of Law SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL Jennifer Paradise General Counsel WHITE & CASE LLP/NEW YORK David B. Wilkins Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, & Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession HARVARD LAW SCHOOL 10:00 - 10:15 A.M. Networking Break 10:15 - 11:00 A.M. Keynote Speech Linda Klein President-Elect AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION 11:00 - 12:00 P.M. Networking Lunch 12:00 P.M. Closing Remarks Steven Naifeh KENNETH M. DORAN is the Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and serves as the Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Doran has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, leveraged buy-outs and "going private" transactions, cross-border transactions, corporate reorganizations, and other restructurings. Mr. Doran regularly counsels clients regarding corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties, and other compliance matters.

Mr. Doran has extensive experience in representing investment bankers, private equity groups, and public and private companies in a wide array of industries, as well as individual investors and owners of closely held businesses.

Panel chair, CAROLYN LAMM regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes, cutting-edge cases, successfully resolving significant international arbitrations involving international corporates and sovereign clients. She also serves as lead counsel in arbitration-related litigation matters.

Her practice concentrates on international dispute resolution through international arbitration, litigation, and international trade proceedings. She advises clients in matters with ICSID and its Additional Facility, and in other international arbitral proceedings involving States, as well as commercial arbitral fora including AAA/CDR, ICC, Vienna Centre, Stockholm Chamber, Swiss Chamber, and in federal court litigation. She teaches International Investment Arbitration at the University of Miami School of Law in the White & Case LLM program in International Arbitration.

PETER DWOSKIN is the Senior Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel for U.S. News & World Report. In addition to his duties as the chief legal officer for U.S. News, Peter has responsibility for evaluating, structuring and negotiating many of U.S. News’s key partnerships and strategic alliances. He also oversees U.S. News’s Specialty Marketing operating unit, whose portfolio includes the licensing of U.S. News’s intellectual property assets. Peter serves on U.S. News’s Executive Committee, which oversees the U.S. News business and maps out U.S. News’s strategic direction.

After law school, Peter clerked for the Honorable George C. Pratt, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, after which he was associated with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. He then served as counsel to Reliance Group Holdings, a financial services firm, prior to joining U.S. News.

ANDREW PERLMAN is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. He was the chief reporter of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20, which produced amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct that respond to changes in technology and increased globalization. More recently, he was appointed as the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, which is examining how to improve the delivery speaker BIOGRAPHIES

of, and the public’s access to, legal services. Andy was the founding director of Suffolk’s Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation as well as the related Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration. In 2015, Andy was recognized by FastCase as one of 50 "entrepreneurs, innovators, and trailblazers...who have charted a new course for the delivery of legal services."

JENNIFER PARADISE is General Counsel of White & Case LLP. As such, she advises the firm's lawyers on issues relating to professional responsibility, multijurisdictional practice, and regulatory compliance in furtherance of the firm's commitment to delivering superior legal services to its clients.

Jennifer is also a member of White & Case's Global Risk Management Committee and Global Legal Opinions Committee.

Jennifer is active in the legal profession and regularly lectures on issues pertaining to professional responsibility. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and is a liaison to the ABA Section on International Law's Working Group on the Admission to Practice of Lawyers from Outside of the United States. She is also a member of the steering committee for the Firm Counsel Connect, an ABA Business Law Section initiative to raise awareness of risk management issues facing law firms.

DAVID B. WILKINS is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an International Research Fellow of the Novak Druce Center for Professional Service Firms at Oxford University’s Said School of Business.

Professor Wilkins has written more than 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author of several books.

The key note speaker, LINDA KLEIN, senior managing shareholder at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, assumed the role of president- elect of the American Bar Association in August 2015 at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. She will serve a one-year term as president-elect then become ABA president in August 2016.

Klein’s practice, based in Atlanta, includes most types of business dispute resolution, including contract law, employment law and professional liability, working extensively with clients in the construction, higher education, and pharmaceutical industries.

In June 1997, Klein became the first woman to serve as president of the State Bar of Georgia. During Klein's term, she devised a proposal and advocated for the state to allocate funding for Georgia Legal Services and Atlanta Legal Aid to hire lawyers to help indigent victims of domestic violence. She organized a statewide group of community organizations and local and minority bar associations that together convinced the General Assembly to appropriate $2 million. Since then, the annual appropriations have helped thousands in Georgia with legal issues related to domestic violence. *2016 BEST LAWYERS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING ATTENDEES UNITED STATES Michael V. Ciresi Ciresi & Conlin LLP Charles P. Adams, Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota Adams and Reese LLP New Orleans, Louisiana Matthew J. Clark Robert L. Adler Arent Fox LLP, Washington, D.C. Edison International, Rosemead, California Robert A. Clifford Joseph R. Alberts Clifford Law Offices PC, Chicago, Illinois The Dow Chemical Company H. 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