The 2009 Attorneys Who Matter represent the best and brightest in the legal field. The list consists of attorneys in all areas of practice, from federal agencies to leading in-house counsel to the top ethics and compliance officers of major companies. The attorneys have all risen to the top from a combination of their expertise, peer or client endorsements and high-profile cases (as well as the number of those cases successfully litigated). They are also the attorneys with the best public service, legal community engagement and academic involvement. It doesn’t hurt that they all have received plenty of awards and recognition, too.
The in-house counsel and ethics and compliance officers listed on Ethisphere’s 2009 Attorneys Who Matter all help lead their companies to the top of the ethics and compliance world. Many have ensured that their companies were recognized as Ethisphere’s 2009 World’s Most Ethical Companies. The outside counsel on the list are those who are best prepared to handle any issue arising around their particular specialty or subject matter expertise, and are the individuals that you are best off calling when seeking advice in a particular subject matter.
Below you’ll find the list of 2009’s Attorneys Who Matter, along with the methodology for selecting the top attorneys as well as exclusive Q&A’s with a select group of those that made the list.
Attorneys Who Matter (in Corporate Compliance)
Traditional White Collar
Hall of Fame – best of the best
- Brendan Sullivan – Williams & Connolly
- Earl Silbert – DLA Piper
- Robert Bennett – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Reid Weingarten – Steptoe & Johnson
- Robert Fiske, Jr. – Davis Polk & Wardwell
Top Guns
- Alan Vinegrad – Covington & Burling
- William McLucas – WilmerHale
- Ira Millstein – Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Michele Roberts – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Jonathan Schiller – Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
- Paul McNulty – Baker & McKenzie
- Mary Jo White – Debevoise & Plimpton
- Carol Elder Bruce – Bracewell Guiliani
- Thomas C. Green – Sidley Austin
- Robert Tarun – Baker & McKenzie
- Charles Scheeler – DLA Piper
- Ty Cobb, Hogan & Hartson
- Greg Bruch – Willkie, Farr & Gallagher
- David Howard – Dechert
- Peter Clark – Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Up and Comers/Rising Stars
- Matt Levine – Fish & Richardson
- Tony Alexis – Mayer Brown
- Stuart Altman – Hogan & Hartson
- David Schertler – Schertler & Onorato.
- Steven J. McCool – Mallon & McCool
- Bill Jacobson – Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Government Stars
- Gregory Craig – White House
- Eric Holder – DOJ
- Mark Mendelsohn – DOJ
- Jon Leibowitz – FTC
- Neil Barofsky – TARP
- Preet Bharara – USAO
- Marc Litt – USAO
- Patrick Fitzgerald – USAO
- Lori Richards – SEC
- Robert Khuzami – SEC
Top General Counsel/In-House Counsel
- Brackett Denniston – General Electric
- Richard Baer – Qwest
- Mark McGuire – Eaton
- Deirdre Stanley – Thomson Reuters Corp.
- Rick Palmore – General Mills
- Bradford Smith – Microsoft
- Thomas O’Neil – WellCare
- Amy Schulman – Pfizer Inc.
- Hank Udow – Cadbury PLC
- James Comey – Lockheed Martin
- Alberto Mora – Mars
- Larry Thompson – PepsiCo
Top Ethics and Compliance Officers
- Andy Hinton – Google
- Dr. Andreas Pohlmann – Siemens AG
- Odell Guyton – Microsoft
- Mark Ohringer – Jones Lang LaSalle
- Jon Hoak – HP
- Matthew B. Pachman – Freddie Mac
- David Landau – Starbucks
- Leonard Shen – American Express
- Wendy Hallgren – Fluor
- Chad Fentress – Accenture
- Alan R. Yuspeh – Hospital Corporation of America
Compliance Specialties
Antitrust
- David Boies – Boies, Schiller & Flexner
- Mark Leddy – Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Doug Melamed – WilmerHale
- Michael Hausfeld – Hausfeld LLP
- Harry Reasoner – Vinson & Elkins
- Kenneth Letzler – Arnold & Porter
- William Baer – Arnold & Porter
- Robert Cooper – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Environmental
- Ted Garrett – Covington & Burling
- Gene Lucero – Latham & Watkins
- Michele Corash – Morrison & Foerster
- Robert Wyman – Latham & Watkins
- Scott Reisch – Hogan & Hartson
Government Contracting
- Jeffrey Belkin – Alston + Bird
- David Churchill – Jenner & Block
- Stanfield Johnson – Crowell & Moring
- Rand Allen – Wiley Rein
- Marcia Madsen – Mayer Brown
Labor & Employment
- Eugene Scalia – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Debra Katz – Katz, Marshall & Banks
- Nancy Abell – Paul Hastings
- Max Schwartz – Sullivan & Cromwell
- Paul Salvatore – Proskauer Rose
Securities
- Harvey Pitt – Kalorama Partners
- Harry Weiss – WilmerHale
- Paul Huey-Burns – Dechert
- Dixie Johnson – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen
- Vince DiBlasi – Sullivan & Cromwell
- Richard Morvillo – Mayer Brown
- Michael Horowitz – Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
- Daniel Shea – Hogan & Hartson
Healthcare/Pharma
- Barbara Van Gelder – Morgan Lewis
- Thomas Fox – Reed Smith
- Frederick Robinson – Fulbright & Jaworski
- Cheryl Wagonhurst – Foley & Lardner
- Edward Kornreich – Proskauer Rose
Data Privacy/Security
- Lisa Sotto – Hunton & Williams
- Alan Raul – Sidley & Austin
- Erin Egan – Covington & Burling
- J. Beckwith Burr – WilmerHale
- Ruth Hill Bro – Baker & McKenzie
Trade/Export Compliance
- Judith Lee – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Bill Barringer – Winston & Strawn
- Richard Cunningham – Steptoe & Johnson
- Gary Horlick – Offices of Gary N. Horlick
- William McGlone – Latham & Watkins
- Edward Rubinoff – Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
FCPA
- Timothy Dickinson – Paul Hastings
- Martin Weinstein – Willkie Farr
- Homer Moyer – Miller & Chevalier
- Lucinda Low – Steptoe & Johnson
- Thomas Johnson Jr – Covington & Burling
- Sharie Brown – DLA Piper
