Previous Speakers

2023

Global Enforcement & Compliance Program pt. 4, Washington, D.C. / Virtual - December 6, 2023

Gurbir Grewal, Director Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Molly Moser, Acting Chief Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Doha Mekki, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Henry Liu, Director of Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
Ian McGinley, Director of Enforcement, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Awards Gala (Washington, D.C.) - November 28, 2023

Lisa O. Monaco, Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
The Honorable Beryl A. Howell, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Kathy Ruemmler, Chief Legal Officer Goldman Sachs, Former White House Counsel
Loretta Lynch, Former U.S. Attorney General, Partner, Paul Weiss
Juliette W. Pryor, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Lowe's
Cynthia Randall, Deputy General Counsel and Head of Litigation, Microsoft
Patricia Brown Holmes, Managing Partner, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
Steve Reed, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, BrightSpring Health Services
Heather Elliott, Professor of Law, University of Alabama

Global Enforcement & Compliance Program pt. 3, Washington, D.C. / Virtual - October 11, 2023

Denise Barnes, Partner Honigman LLP
Jennifer Short, Partner, Blank Rome LLP
Jamie Ann Yavelberg, Director of the Fraud Section in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the DOJ Civil Division
Ellen London, Moderator, Shareholder, London & Stout

Annual Fall London Luncheon and Panel - October 10, 2023

Claire Cross, Partner, Corker Binning
Alison Geary, Partner, Mischon De Reya LLP
Ilene Jaroslaw, Partner, Elliot Kwok Levine & Jaroslaw
Judith Seddon, Partner, Dechert LLP

Global Enforcement Series pt. 2 & London Summer Reception - June 21, 2023

Freya Page, Head of Guidance, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)
Jessica Medhurst, HM Treasury, Sanctions and Illicit Finance Unit
Abigail Culank, Deputy Director, Sanctions Directorate Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Linda Minsker, Director, Office of Enforcement Analysis, Bureau of Industry and Security U.S. Department of Commerce and Lauren Sun, Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury, OFAC.

Watercooler+, Boston/Virtual - May 1, 2023

Dr. Elliott Jenkins, Forensic and Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Jhilam Biswas, Director, Psychiatry, Law and Society Program (PLSP) Co-Director, Harvard Mass General Brigham Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Arden O'Connor, Founder CEO, O'Connor Professional Group

Watercooler+, Missouri/Virtual - April 14, 2023

Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, Meta Annual

Annual Meeting, Miami - February 28 - March 1, 2023

Uma Amuluru, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Law and Global Compliance, The Boeing Company
Katy Choo, Group VP and Chief Counsel, Global Investigations, GE
Katie Daniels, Head of Compliance Global, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Beatriz Lopes de Oliveira, State Prosecutor, District Attorney Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo

Diversity Committee: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 2.0, Virtual - January 19, 2023

Chasity Henry, Deputy General Counsel and VP of Jacobs
Leticia Hernandez, Corporate Counsel, Microsoft
Stacey Guillen, Business Development, Kanarys

2022

Global Enforcement Series pt. 4, (Washington, D.C.) - December 13, 2022

Claire Murray, Vice Chair of the US Sentencing Commission
Stacy Bogert, Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement at the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Deborah Connor, Former Chief of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) of the US Department of Justice, now Partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Investigations and White Collar Defense Group
Steven Fitzpatrick, Senior Attorney in the Proceeds of Crime and International Assistance Division, UK Serious Fraud Office

Awards Gala (Washington, D.C.) - November 29, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Lisa Osofsky, Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
Loretta Lynch, Former U.S. Attorney General, Master of Ceremonies
Sally Q. Yates, Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Partner, King & Spalding
Jamie S. Gorelick, Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Partner, WilmerHale
Chief Judge Beryl Howell, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Matthew Barton, General Counsel, Petrofac
Ellen S. Podgor, Professor, Stetson University College of Law
Zach Fardon, Chair of Government Matters Group, King & Spalding, Former U.S. Attorney for the N.D. III

Watercooler+: Gender Pay Gap (Virtual) - November 16, 2022

Meredith Frank, Partner, Major, Lindsay & Africa

ABA Lunch & Panel Discussion (London) - October 11, 2022

Dana Denis-Smith, Founder of the First 100 Years Project
Judy Krieg, Head of Fraud and Corruption Division B, UK Serious Fraud Office

Global Enforcement Series pt. 3, (New York) - October 11, 2022

Lisa Miller, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Fraud and Appellate Sections, U.S. Department of Justice
Crystal Jezierski, Former Senior Vice President Global Ethics at Walmart

Global Enforcement Series pt. 2, (London) - June 22, 2022

Lauren Kootman, Assistant Chief, Corporate Enforcement, Compliance & Policy Unit, DOJ Fraud Section
Sara Chouraqi, Joint Head of Fraud, Bribery and Corruption
Vanessa Sisti, UK Serious Fraud Office, DOJ Assistant Chief (on detail)
Terrie Segura, Zimmer Biomet, Global Compliance Investigations, Vice President
Michaela Ahlberg, Getinge, Compliance & Ethics Specialist

Global Enforcement Series pt. 1, (Washington, D.C./Virtual) - April 11, 2022

Kenneth Polite, AAG for DOJ Criminal Division
Jonathan Kanter, AAG for DOJ Antitrust
Hampton Dellinger, AAG for DOJ Office of Legal Policy
Holly Vedova, FTC Enforcement Director, Bureau of Competition
Gurbir Grewal, SEC Enforcement Director
Anne Milgram, DEA Administrator

Watercooler+, Virtual - April 7, 2022

Zahra Damji, Deputy Editor and Research Manager, Chambers USA

2021

Awards Gala, Virtual - December 7, 2021

Leslie R. Caldwell, Former Assistant Attorney General (Master of Ceremonies)
Kent Walker, Google Chief Legal Officer
Jennifer Zachary, Merck General Counsel
Donald B. Verrilli Jr., Former U.S. Solicitor General (Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson)
Loretta E. Lynch, Former U.S. Attorney General (Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison)
Mary Jo White, Former SEC Chair (Senior Chair, Debevoise & Plimpton)
Andrew Ceresney, Former SEC Director of Enforcement (Co-Chair of the Litigation, Debevoise & Plimpton)
Karen Patton Seymour, Former General Counsel of Goldman Sachs (Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell and Member of its Management Committee)
Dean David Meyer, Tulane University Law School

Annual Meeting, Virtual - April 21, 2021

Preet Bharara, Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Rita Garnto, Simple Self-Care by Rita, Stress Management Educator
Barbara Pinson Lash, Lash Legacy III, Inc., Professional Executive & Media Coach

Diversity Committee, Virtual - April 14, 2021

George Gascon, Los Angeles County District Attorney
Diana Becton, Contra Costa County District Attorney
Alisa Blair, Special Advisor to the Los Angeles County District Attorney

Diversity Committee, Virtual - March 30, 2021

U.S. Senator Cory Booker
Congressman Andy Kim
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal
Governor's Counsel Parimal Garg

Watercooler+, Virtual - January 26, 2021

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, then-U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia
Sarah R. Saldaña, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas (Dallas) and former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Carmen Ortiz, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
Kate Shaw, Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School; former Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President, White House Counsel's Office, President Obama

2020

Awards Gala, Virtual - December 1, 2020

Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General
Mary Joe White, former SEC Chair
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Salesforce
Nina Totenberg, NPR Correspondent, Legal Affairs
Loretta E. Lynch, Former Attorney General
Karen P. Seymour, Partner Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Aviva Gilbert, Partner Farella Braun + Martel LLP
Kim Bullard, Elton John keyboardist (performance of a song he wrote for WWCDA, sung by Cece Bullard)

Watercooler+, Virtual - October 10, 2020

Judge Allison Dale Burroughs, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Massachusetts

Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA - March 10-11, 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid)

Rachel Brand, Walmart, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer; Former U.S. Associate Attorney General
Michelle Banks, Global General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, GAP, Inc.; Barker Gilmore Senior Advisor
Hui Chen, Compliance Consultant, HC Ethics LLC; Former Compliance Counsel Expert, U.S. Department of Justice
Mark Filip, Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and Kirkland & Ellis Partner
Rita Garnto, Simple Self-Care by Rita, Stress Management Educator
Barbara Pinson Lash, Lash Legacy III, Inc., Professional Executive & Media Coach

Washington, D.C. - January 29, 2020

Jessie K. Liu, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

2019

Awards Gala, Washington, D.C - December 3, 2019

Sally Q. Yates, Former Acting U.S. Attorney General (Master of Ceremonies)
Jeffrey Pash, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, National Football League
Wick Sollers, Partner, Global Chair of Government Matters practice, King & Spalding
Robert T. Grand, Managing Partner, Barnes & Thornburg

Washington, D.C. - October 30, 2019

Mara Senn, Senior Investigator/Senior Litigation Specialist, Integrity Vice Presidency, World Bank at FTI

Washington, D.C. - September 25, 2019

Laura Terrell, Deputy General Counsel, FTI Consulting, Inc. at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Washington, D.C. - April 24, 2019

Deborah L. Harris, Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section, DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division at Katten Muchin Rosenman

Washington, D.C. - March 27, 2019

Tracy D. McCormick, First Assistant, United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia

Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA - March 5-6, 2019

Deborah Harris, Chief of the Environmental Crimes Division at the U.S. Department of Justice
Judge Jane Margaret Trich Milazzo, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana
Madeleine Landrieu, Dean, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
P.K. Scheerle, CEO/Chair of the Board of GIFTED Healthcare
Lisa Diaz, Associate General Counsel of Litigation, Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement at Northern Trust
Debra Baker, Managing Director, GrowthPlay

Washington, D.C. - January 30, 2019

Deborah Connor, Chief, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, U.S. Department of Justice

2018

Washington, D.C. - October 30, 2018

Kerri Ruttenberg, Author, Images with Impact: Design and Use of Winning Trial Visuals

Washington, D.C. - September 26, 2018

Carrie Johnson, NPR Justice Correspondent

General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Reception, Palo Alto, CA - September 25, 2018

Julie Gruber, Chief Legal Officer at Gap, Inc.
Leslie Caldwell, Former, DOJ, Chief of Criminal Division
Sally Q. Yates, Former, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. - April 25, 2018

Sandra Moser, Acting Chief, DOJ Fraud Section

Washington, D.C. - March 28, 2018

Melissa Boyle Mahle, former field operative for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and expert on the Middle East and counterterrorism

Annual Meeting - March 4-5, 2018

Kathy Ruemmler, Former, White House Counsel
Hon. Beryl Howell, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Washington, D.C. - January 31, 2018

Carol Leonnig, Washington Post, Pulitzer Price for Secret Service Reporting and currently covering the Special Counsel Mueller Russia Investigation

2017

Washington, D.C. - October 30, 2017

Brooksley Born, Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and former Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Louisiana - September 27, 2017

Kimberly Dunne – “Trial Talk”

Washington, D.C. - September 27, 2017

Vicki Kennedy, Senior Counsel at Greenberg Traurig and Co-Founder & President of Board, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate

Louisiana - July 26, 2017

Hon. Samantha Jessner & Angela Machala (Vice Chair LACBA Judicial Appointments Committee)

Louisiana - June 28, 2017

Professor Laurie Levenson

Louisiana - April 27, 2017

Retired US Probation Officer Kent Costley

Washington, D. C. - April 26, 2017

Honorable Carolyn Lerner, former Special Counsel in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel

Annual Meeting, Ft Lauderdale, Florida - March 7, 2017

Leslie Caldwell, former DOJ Criminal Division Chief

Louisiana - March 1, 2017

Hon. Dolly M. Gee

Washington, D.C. - February 22, 2017

Mara Senn, trial attorney at the Kleptocracy Initiative of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of DOJ's Criminal Division

2016

Boston

U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs, District of Massachusetts
Judge Heidi Brieger, Massachusetts Superior Court

Washington, D.C. - October 26, 2016

Leslie Caldwell, Chief of the Criminal Division at DOJ

Louisiana - September 28, 2016

Jennifer Lentz Snyder, DDA, Head Deputy, Healthcare Fraud Division

(Jonathan Club)

Washington, D.C. - September 28, 2016

Robert Amsterdam – who currently represents the Republic of Turkey in its global investigation of the U.S. resident cleric Fethullah Gülen

Louisiana - May 25, 2016

Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell – United States District Court Judge

Louisiana - April 27, 2016

The Impact of Justice Scalia's Absence on Criminal Cases Pending Before the Supreme Court -- Speaker’s: Prof. Laurie Levenson and L.A. Superior Court Judge Michael Raphael

Louisiana - January 27, 2016

National Security and the Central District of California Speaker: Ms. Patricia Donahue

2015

Boston

M. Page Kelly, U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Massachusetts
Kimberly West, Criminal Bureau Chief, Massachusetts Attorney’s General’s Office
Cynthia Young, Criminal Division Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for District of Massachusetts

Washington, D.C. - September 30, 2015

William Baer, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust

Louisiana - January 28, 2015

Hilary Potashner, Federal Public Defender

Washington, D.C. - January 28, 2015

Jennifer O'Connor, Deputy White House Counsel

2014

Boston

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris, District of Massachusetts; Chair, U.S. Sentencing Commission

Louisiana - October 29, 2014

Valerie Flores, General Counsel, City Attorney’s Office

Washington, D.C. - October 29, 2014

Carol Leonnig – Carol is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative staff writer for the Washington Post. She recently covered news about NSA surveillance based on the disclosures by Edward Snowden and broke the story of the scandal involving Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. Most recently, she broke the story of security lapses by the Secret Service.
Carrie Johnson – Carrie is a correspondent for NPR’s Washington Desk who covers justice issues for NPR’s flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as newscasts and NPR.org. Carrie has received numerous journalism awards and has been a finalist for the Loeb award for financial journalism and the Pulitzer Prize (for team coverage of the massacre at Fort Hood, TX).
Sari Horwitz - Sari covers the Justice Department for the Washington Post. She is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner (for stories involving neglected children in the DC foster care system, police shootings, and the Virginia Tech shooting). Sari is the co-author of two books: Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation and Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery.

Louisiana - September 24, 2014

Stephanie Yonekura, Acting US Attorney for the Central District of California

Washington, D.C. - September 24, 2014

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

Louisiana - May 28, 2014

Michele W. Layne, Securities & Exchange Commission, Regional Director, Division of Enforcement

Louisiana - April 30, 2014

Barbara Natterson Horowitz, MD – Professor at UCLA Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Washington, D.C. - April 30, 2014

Mary Jo White, Chair of the SEC

Washington, D.C. - March 26, 2014

Laurie Fulton, former Ambassador in Denmark

Louisiana - January 29, 2014

Jacqueline Nguyen, 9th Circuit Judge

Washington, D.C. - January 29, 2014

Marina Ein, a veteran crisis manager and public relations executive. As the president of a premier communications boutique, Ein Communications

2013 - 1999

Louisiana - October 30, 2013

U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte, Asst. DA William Hodgman, Asst. DA Joey Esposito

Washington, D.C. - October 30, 2013

Crisis Management (panel) – Tracy Schmaler (ASGK Public Strategies), Christopher Dorval (Dorval Strategies), Thomas McCoy (O’Melveny) and Jonathan Sallet (O’Melveny)

Louisiana - September 25, 2013