Torridon Law PLLC Founder and Former United States Attorney General William Barr to Headline GICLI 2024
Government Investigations & Civil Litigation Institute (GICLI) marks 10th year of Annual Meeting.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 22, 2024) Former United States Attorney General William P. Barr will speak at the 10th GICLI Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 19th – 21st.
Torridon Law PLLC founder Bill Barr will participate in a fireside chat on Thursday, November 21, with fellow Torridon Law PLLC partner and former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeffrey Jensen. In this rare setting, the leaders will share insights into the pressing legal issues for both the public and private sectors and the new likely landscape of the Department of Justice (DOJ) following the outcome of the 2024 United States presidential election.
Patrick Oot, Co-Chair of Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Government Investigations and White-Collar Group said, “When I left the Securities and Exchange Commission over ten years ago, Ashish Prasad and I spent days in a windowless hotel conference room mapping out the first program and outlining a government investigations treatise. We never would have dreamt where this would be now. The presence of former Attorney General Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein at this year’s event is a testament to the hard work of the planning committee to develop this special program and why the country’s top practitioners seek out GICLI programming and content every year.”
The GICLI (pronounced JIK-LEE) Annual Meeting includes an all-star faculty with 38 education sessions and nearly 200 speakers. Marc Fishman, Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel at Novo Nordisk remarked, “It is a great opportunity to both learn and network with some of the sharpest in-house, outside counsel, and government practitioners.”
Key highlights from the program include the following sessions:
Hon. Chad Readler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will moderate GICLI’s Supreme Court Update discussion with former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, now a partner at King & Spalding LLP. Other panelists include John Barkett, partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and Lilah Blackstone, Deputy General Counsel for the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking.
In a deep dive strategy session on pre-trial case management orders, former federal magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Hon. Kimberly C. Priest Johnson, will join Spencer Wein, Senior Legal Counsel for Global Litigation at Unilever; IQVIA Senior Counsel Randy Gray; Bayer Senior Associate General Counsel Tracey Vinson; and Aristocrat Senior Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer Patrick Zeller. Shook, Hardy & Bacon Complex Litigation and Strategic Counseling Partner and Co-Chair Jennifer Stevenson will moderate this important panel.
O’Melveny & Myers Partner Steve Brody will explore reasons why mass tort filings are exploding, what it means for both manufacturers and insurers, and whether anything can be done to stem the tide before more damage is done. Novo Nordisk Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel Marc Fishman, Bayer Senior Assistant General Counsel Christopher Guth and former Securities and Exchange Commission Director of Public Affairs and Policy and Issue Advocacy Expert Matt Well, will join the dialogue.
To learn more about GICLI, our advisory board, and GICLI’s 10th Annual Meeting, please visit www.gicli.org. To register for the event, please visit - www.gicli.org/register.
About GICLI
Founded in 2014 by former SEC Senior Counsel and Shook, Hardy & Bacon Government Investigations & White-Collar Co-Chair Patrick Oot and HaystackID General Counsel Ashish Prasad, the Government Investigations & Civil Litigation Institute (GICLI) was launched in response to the need for in-depth education regarding the dramatic surge in regulatory enforcement activities and related civil litigations that burden the corporate legal department.
Media contacts:
For Mr. Barr and Mr. Jensen contact Torridon Law PLLC - Brandon Messian bmessian@torridonlaw.com
For Mr. Rosenstein contact King & Spalding LLP – Bency McClain bmcclain@kslaw.com
For GICLI founders:
Patrick Oot – Contact Shook Director of Communications Heather McMichael, hmcmichael@shb.com
Ashish Prasad – Contact HaystackID Chief Marketing Officer Rob Robinson wrrobinson@haystackid.com
For GICLI 2025 speaking and sponsorship opportunities contact:
Barbara Hanahan – barb@gicli.org