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October 14, 2011 - Park Cities Hilton - Dallas, Texas
8:00 8:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 a.m. Welcome
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Tamara M. Bennett, Editor 19th Annual SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium
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Thomas S. Conner, Associate Editor 19th Annual SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Surviving the One-Two Punch of Parallel Investigations by the DOJ and the SEC
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Roel C. Campos, Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Washington, D.C.
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Paul E. Coggins, Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Dallas, Texas
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Corporate End-Users and Swaps: Navigating the Dodd-Frank Regulatory Framework
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Paul M. McBride,
Associate,
Bracewell &
Giuliani LLP,
Houston, Texas
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Christopher D.
Olive, Partner,
Bracewell &
Giuliani LLP,
Dallas, Texas
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Recent Updates from the World of Arbitration
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John P. Kincade, Shareholder, Winstead PC, Dallas, Texas
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Jay J. Madrid, Shareholder, Winstead PC, Dallas, Texas
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Hot Topics for the 2012 Proxy Season
Patrick S. McGurn, Special Counsel, ISS Governance Services Unit, RiskMetrics Group, Rockville, Maryland
11:15 11:45 a.m. Cloud ComputingLessons from the Trenches
Todd A. Fisher, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, Dallas, Texas
Steven G.
Schortgen, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, Dallas, Texas
Carlos White, Assistant General Counsel, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., Dallas, Texas
11:45 12:15 p.m. What's Changed: New Frontiers for
Auditors Without Borders
James R. Doty, Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Washington, D.C.
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Blind Spots: Lessons from the Madoff Scandal
Diana B. Henriques, Senior Financial Writer,
The New York Times & Author of The Wizard of Lies, New York, New York
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: Implementing the Dodd-Frank Act
Panelists
John P. Fletcher, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Windstream, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
Ronald F. Shuff, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Flowserve Corporation, Dallas, Texas
The Honorable Stanley Sporkin, Retired District Judge, District of Columbia & Former Director, SEC Division of Enforcement, Washington, D.C.
D. Wayne Watts, Senior Executive Vice President & General Counsel, AT&T, Dallas, Texas
Moderator
Marc I. Steinberg, Rupert and Lillian Radford
Professor of Law & Senior Associate Dean for Research, SMU Dedman School of Law,
Dallas, Texas
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Law of eCommerceSocial Media and its Impact on Business in the Future
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Peter S. Vogel,
Partner, Gardere
Wynne Sewell
LLP, Dallas,
Texas
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Why CEOs and Analysts Care About the Company's Effective Tax Rate
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Paul Yong, Vice President, Tax & Chief Tax Counsel, Sempra Energy, San Diego, California
3:45 - 4:15 p.m. Corporate Governance Through the Lens of Litigation
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Dr. H. Stephen Grace, Jr., President, H.S. Grace & Company, Inc., Houston, Texas
4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Federal Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: An Update
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Jeffrey M. Gaba, Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas
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