Barry S. Alberts is a partner in the Chicago office of Schiff Hardin LLP. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation, including general business litigation. He has been involved in a wide range of litigation matters in both federal and state courts, as well as in private arbitrations. Mr. Alberts regularly represents corporations, corporate officers, and directors, as well as lawyers and law firms, in a wide variety of litigation matters in both federal and state courts.

His practice has included the representation of lawyers and law firms in connection with professional liability claims, and in civil actions involving charges of common law fraud, securities fraud, violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), and breaches of fiduciary duties. He also has experience in litigating trust and will contests and a wide variety of contract and common law business tort actions.

Mr. Alberts earned a B.A. cum laude from Miami University in 1968 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1971.

Lawrence J. Fox is a partner of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP where he has practiced continuously since 1972, concentrating principally in the area of securities litigation.

As the former chairman of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, he has often been asked to speak on behalf of the ABA on ethics in the legal profession. As the former chair of the ABA's Section of Litigation, he has participated fully in the major issues affecting litigators and the litigation process – civil justice reform, alternative dispute resolution, the integrity of the adversary process, the role of women and minorities in the profession and related issues.

Securities Litigation. Larry has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation brought under Rule 10b-5 and 14 of the 1934 Act, as well as 11 and 12 of the 1933 Act. He has defended accounting firms, underwriters, underwriters' counsel, issuers' counsel, directors and officers. He has instituted actions on behalf of new management against former management, former accountants and former directors and has also instituted actions on behalf of institutional clients of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP who sought recovery under Rule 10b-5. He has participated in tender offer litigation on behalf of both acquiring corporations and targets, and he has engaged in proxy litigation on behalf of management and insurgents. He has also handled a number of broker-dealer cases on behalf of brokerage firms as defendants. Larry has represented special litigation committees of major corporations in determining whether it was in the best interest of the corporation to permit derivative litigation to go forward. Larry participated as counsel in what he believes is one of the longest 10b-5 trials in the history of the Southern District of New York. In connection with a number of the foregoing matters, Larry has handled related SEC investigations and proceedings.

Alternative Dispute Resolution. Larry was one of the earliest participants in the minitrial process, is an original law firm representative to the Center for Public Resources, a member of the Board of Editors of Alternatives, the CPR monthly newsletter, a member of the CPR distinguished panel of neutrals, and has written and taught extensively on alternative dispute resolution.

Professional Activities. Larry has played an active role in the legal profession's efforts to enhance the professional development of lawyers, including extensive publications, continuing legal education and ABA activities.

Richard M. Humes is an associate general counsel in the Litigation and Administration Practice of the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He represents the commission in district court, appellate court, Supreme Court, and administrative litigation in which the commission and/or its members or employees are defendants. He also investigates and prosecutes violations of SEC Rule 102(e).

Before serving in his current position, Mr. Humes was assistant general counsel for litigation and a special trial counsel in the SEC’s Office of the General Counsel. From 1979 to 1980, he was special assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. From 1977 to 1979, he was a staff attorney at the SEC’s Office of the General Counsel for the SEC.

Mr. Humes received the Presidential Meritorious Executive Award in 1996 and the SEC Distinguished Service Award in 1991. He graduated from Howard University School of Law cum laude with a J.D. in 1976 and earned his B.A. from Brown University in 1973.

William McLucas is the chair of the firm’s Securities Department, and a member of the Securities Enforcement Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1998.

In 1977, Mr. McLucas joined the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, where he rose through the Division to serve as Director of Enforcement for eight years—longer than any other Enforcement Division Director in Commission history. Mr. McLucas led the Division’s Staff in numerous high-profile investigations and landmark enforcement actions, including settlement of the SEC’s cases against Michael Milken, hundreds of insider trading cases and numerous inquiries involving public companies, accounting firms and investment banks.

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business describes Mr. McLucas as “the preeminent SEC enforcement lawyer in the country.”

Mr. McLucas has represented the board committees in some of the most prominent corporate scandals that have arisen recently in the US markets, including Enron and WorldCom.

He also advised the Special Committee of the Board of Nortel Networks in its review of certain accounting restatements and, most recently, the Special Committee of the Board of UnitedHealth Group in its review of options dating issues.

Mr. McLucas is a frequent speaker on panels and programs on topics pertaining to securities laws, corporate governance and law enforcement.

• Selected as one of only seven “Leading Lawyers” in Corporate Governance in the March 2008 issue of Legal Times. He was also named Washington, DC’s “Leading Lawyer” in the area of securities and corporate governance by the Legal Times, December 2004.
• Recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for his work in securities and financial services (2006, 2007 and 2008). Previously recognized in the 2003, 2004 and 2005 editions for general commercial litigation; cited as “an expert in litigation” in the 2003 edition.
• Selected by peers for inclusion in each edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 2005; recognized for his securities practice along with the areas of bet-the-company litigation, corporate governance and compliance, business litigation and M&A
• Recognized as one of the world's preeminent corporate governance lawyers in multiple editions of Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers
• Selected as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America,” by Lawdragon Magazine, which also declared him the “go-to guy for accounting fraud investigations.”
• Listed in Washingtonian magazine’s “Top 30 Lawyers in Washington,” 2004 and 2007
• Named one of the National Law Journal’s One-Hundred Most Influential Attorneys in America, 1997
• Ranked as a “top litigation lawyer” in the 2003 edition of Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers
• National Public Service Award
• Tom C. Clark Outstanding Lawyer Award
• President’s Award for Distinguished Executive Service

Samuel C. Thompson Jr. joined Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law in July 2007 as a professor of law and the founder and director of Penn State’s Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions. The Center examines corporate, securities, tax, antitrust, and other legal and economic issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions and hosts continuing legal education programs addressing these issues.

Professor Thompson, who previously was a professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law and director of the UCLA Law Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, is a highly regarded scholar of corporate and international tax, corporate governance, and antitrust and is the author of 16 books and more than 75 articles. His teaching interests focus on the corporate, securities, tax, and antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions as well as international tax, investment banking, taxation of business entities, and economic growth policy.

Throughout his distinguished career, Professor Thompson has held a number of notable positions, such as head of the tax department of Schiff Hardin & Waite in Chicago; tax policy advisor, on behalf of the U.S. Treasury Tax Assistance Office, to the South African Ministry of Finance in Pretoria, South Africa; Attorney Fellow in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Merger and Acquisitions Office; consultant on merger and acquisition issues to the Federal Trade Commission; and professor in residence at the European Commission’s Antitrust Merger Taskforce in Brussels. On several occasions he has testified about tax policy before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and the House Judiciary Committee. He formerly served as dean of the University of Miami School of Law and has been a professor and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the Jacquin D. Bierman Visiting Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School.

As a law student, Professor Thompson worked on a university-sponsored civil rights project near Leland, Mississippi, before beginning service as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, where he rose to captain and received the Navy Commendation Medal for service in Vietnam. He played varsity football at his undergraduate school, West Chester University.