15th Annual SMU
Corporate Counsel Symposium

October 5, 2007 • Omni Mandalay • Las Colinas, Texas

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by Winstead PC

8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome
John B. Attanasio, Dean and William Hawley Atwell Professor of Constitutional Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Executive Compensation
John McKnight, Partner, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, Dallas, Texas

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Plaintiff Class Actions
William Lerach, Partner, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, San Diego, California

10:00 – 10:20 a.m.
Coffee Break
Sponsored by Baker Botts L.L.P.

10:20 – 10:50 a.m.
Hot Topics for the 2008 Proxy Season and Beyond
Patrick McGurn, Executive Vice President and Special Counsel, Institutional Shareholder Services, Rockville, Maryland

10:50 - 11:20 a.m.
NYSE Surveillance of Insider Trading and Short Selling
David Steiner, Vice President, Market Trading Analysis II, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York

11:20 – 11:50 p.m.
Developments under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
James Doty, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P., Washington, D.C.

11:50 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Luncheon Keynote
The McNulty Memorandum and its Ramifications
Steven Tyrrell, Chief, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

1:10 – 1:40 p.m.
FIN 48
Cym Lowell, Partner, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, Dallas, Texas

1:40 – 2:40 p.m.
Panel Discussion: The Role of General Counsel in Corporate Crises
Panelists
            Gary Kennedy, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, American Airlines, Dallas, Texas
            Ronald Mc Cray, Senior Vice President of Law, Government Affairs and Chief Compliant Officer, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Dallas, Texas
            E. Peter Urbanowicz, General Counsel, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Moderator
Marc I. Steinberg, Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas

2:40 - 3:10 p.m.
Legislative Developments in Austin
Chris Bell, Former U.S. Congressman; Of Counsel, Patton Boggs LLP, Dallas, Texas

3:10 – 3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
Sponsored by McKool Smith, P.C.

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Data Privacy and Data Piracy
Carol Butner, Principal, McKool Smith, P.C., Houston, Texas

4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Directors' and Officers' Individual Liability in Securities Class Actions
Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
International Corporate Governance
Joseph Norton, James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Financial Institutions Law and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas