The Delaware Court of Chancery: Change and Continuity

Start/End	All Day; Friday November 11, 2011 EST
Location	JGH 104 - 106 (unless otherwise noted)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 

 

8:00-8:45:       Breakfast and Registration

8:45-9:00:       Welcome by Justice Jacobs & William Savitt

Overview by Professor John C. Coffee

9:00-10:20:     Panel I: The Evolution of M&A Litigation in the Chandler Era

Moderator:  Robert Jackson, Columbia Law School

Panelists:

Ronald Gilson, Columbia Law School/Stanford Law School

William Savitt, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Steven Davidoff, Ohio State University

Martin Lessner, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor

Mark Morton, Potter Anderson & Corroon 

10:20-10:30:   Break

10:30-12:00:   Panel II: Delaware's World:  Who Are Its Competitors?

Moderator:  William Lafferty, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunell

Panelists:

Mark Roe, Harvard Law School

Bernard Black, Northwestern University Law School

Kate Litvak, Northwestern University Law School

Stuart Grant, Grant & Eisenhofer

Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Widener Law 

12:00-1:30:     Lunch, Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, between 116th and 118th Streets; entrance on the east side of Amsterdam Avenue

Welcome:  David M. Schizer, Dean, Columbia Law School

Introduction:  Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Luncheon Address:  Leo E. Strine, Jr., Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

1:30-2:40:       Panel III: Chancellor Roundtable - Continuity & Change at the Court of Chancery

Moderator:  Stephen P. Lamb, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, Former Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Panelists:

John W. Noble, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Donald F. Parsons, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Sam Glasscock III, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

2:40-3:20:       Panel IV: Judges' Roundtable - Specialized Business Courts - Trends and Developments                                                                           

                        Moderator:  Theodore Mirvis, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Panelists:

Judge Gail Andler (Orange County, Calif.)

Judge James P. Kleinberg (Santa Clara, Calif.)

Justice Shirley W. Kornreich (NY Commercial)

Judge Ben F. Tennille (Retired) (NC)

3:20-3:30:       Break

3:30-5:00:       Panel V: Perspectives on Delaware's Future: A Roundtable on the Leading Issues Facing the Strine Court

Moderator:   Professor John C. Coffee Jr., Columbia Law School

Panelists:

Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School

Andre G. Bouchard, Bouchard, Margules & Friedlander

Jeffrey Gordon, Columbia Law School

Ed Rock, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Paul K. Rowe, Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz

Hillary Sale, Washington University School of Law

Gregory Williams, Richards Layton & Finger 

5:00-6:00:       Concluding Remarks (Justice Jacobs) and Reception