Participants

SUSAN MUCK is a securities litigation partner at Fenwick & West and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. She has 20 years' experience defending securities class actions, SEC enforcement proceedings, and derivative actions. Ms. Muck also regularly serves as counsel to companies and directors in internal investigations, FCPA investigations, and corporate governance matters. Representative clients include Electronic Arts, Equinix, General Electric InVision, MIPS, Shoretel, Symantec and Zoran.
      smuck@fenwick.com
     
      BRUCE G. VANYO is national co-chair of the Securities Litigation Practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman. He has practiced securities litigation for 33 years and defended more than 250 major securities cases. He has represented clients from such diverse industries as high tech, life sciences, airlines, motion pictures, banking and insurance, including Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Dell Computer, Boeing Company, Fluor Corp., Amdocs Limited and Genentech. He was named to the National Law Journal's 2006 list of 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.
      bruce@kattenlaw.com
     
      RICHARD H. ZELICHOV is a partner in Katten Muchin Rosenman's Securities Litigation Practice Group in Los Angeles. His practice encompasses a wide range of commercial litigation matters, with particular emphasis representing public companies and their directors and officers in securities class action and derivative
      litigation in both federal and state
      courts throughout the United States. He also has significant experience handling matters before the SEC and with internal investigations.
      richard.zelichov@kattenlaw.com
     
      RICHARD M. HEIMANN oversees Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein's securities practice. He possesses substantial trial experience, both as a public defender and a prosecutor, and then in private practice devoted to complex commercial and financial litigation. Mr. Heimann obtained one of the largest jury awards in the country in 2002 in the trial of a securities fraud class action in Federal Court in San Francisco. He has written and lectured on accountant liability, and taught effective techniques for the deposition and trial cross-examination in securities actions.
      rheimann@lchb.com
     
      JORDAN ETH is a partner in Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco office and co-chairs the Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White-Collar Defense Group. He specializes in representing public companies and their officers and directors in securities class actions, SEC investigations, derivative suits, and internal investigations. Mr. Eth frequently speaks and publishes on securities litigation topics. He received a 2007 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award for his role in obtaining a defense verdict in a securities fraud class action trial alleging $20 billion in damages.
      jeth@mofo.com
     
      DARRYL P. RAINS works in Morrison & Foerster's Palo Alto office and serves as co-chair of the firm's Securities Litigation Group. He specializes in securities cases, including class actions, derivative actions, SEC enforcement proceedings, and internal investigations. He also represents financial institutions in individual actions brought by investors and portfolio companies. Mr. Rains has successfully tried cases in federal and state courts. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1982, is a regular commentator in news and legal publications on securities law matters.
      drains@mofo.com
     
      DANIEL J. TYUKODY is the partner in charge of Orrick's Securities Litigation Group in Los Angeles. His practice focuses on defending underwriters, issuers, and individual officers and directors in securities class and derivative actions, in SEC proceedings, and in conducting internal investigations. In May 2005, Mr. Tyukody was lead trial counsel and obtained a complete defense verdict in one of only six securities class action lawsuits tried to verdict since 1995. He has lectured on a variety of securities law topics in various forums.
      dtyukody@orrick.com
     
      ROBERT VARIAN is a partner in the San Francisco office of Orrick's Securities Litigation Group. He is one of the few attorneys who have tried securities class actions to verdict. Mr. Varian represents issuers, officers, directors, underwriters, and accountants in securities and merger litigation throughout the U.S., and in internal investigations and investigations and proceedings by the SEC. He earned degrees from Lafayette College and the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Maryland Law Review.
      rvarian@orrick.com
     
     

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