Center for Leadership Development and Research

Rock Center Lunch for students
From Private to Public: Governance Issues in Growing Companies
Speakers: Robert P. Latta (SLS '79) and
Julia Reigel (SLS '96), Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Robert P. Latta (SLS '79) and Julia Reigel (SLS '96), partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati discussed how they advise companies on governance issues from start ups through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and beyond.

The Cooperation Dilemma
The New Realities of Corporate White Collar Defense Practice

This conference explored contemporary approaches to white collar prosecutions, including use of "The Thompson Memorandum." This timely conference will explore contemporary approaches to white collar prosecutions, including use of "The Thompson Memorandum." It will cover the following topics:

• The Origins and Purposes of the Corporate Cooperation Dilemma and the Phenomenon of Punishment by Indictment
• The Legal Context for Corporate Investigations
• The Defense Bar: New Professional Identities
• The Future of Cooperation

Panel
-Samuel W. Buell, Associate Professor of Law at Washington University
- John P. Cooney, Jr.,partner in the litigation department of Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Joseph A. Grundfest, W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at the Stanford Law School and co-Director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
- The Honorable Gerard E. Lynch, United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York
- Robert G. Morvillo, founding partner in the firm of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, & Silberberg, P.C.
- Julie Rose O’Sullivan, Professor of Law at Georgetown University
- Mark F. Pomerantz, partner in the litigation department of the Paul Weiss firm
- Linda Thomsen, Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School and Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Rock Center Faculty Lunch
Speaker: Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford Law School

Kenneth E. Scott, the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus provided an overview of his recent meetings with Eliot Spitzer's office and their discussions on federal-state prosecutorial rivalry, among other issues.

Rock Center Faculty Lunch
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Zweibel, Graduate School of Business

Professor Jeffrey Zwiebel of the Business School led a discussion on Executive Pay, Hidden Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment.

Hewlett-Packard Case Study Session: The Legal, Ethical and Governance Dimensions
Panel: Professors Joseph Grundfest, Deborah Rhode and
Robert Weisberg, Stanford Law School

Recent allegations regarding press leaks and the conduct of an investigation to identify the source of those leaks at Hewlett-Packard (HP) raise a plethora of legal, ethical, and corporate governance issues.

A panel of Stanford professors, including Joseph Grundfest, Deborah Rhode and Robert Weisberg reviewed recent disclosures regarding these developments at Hewlett Packard and explored the broader implications of these events.

Sponsored by the Program in Law, Economics and Business, The Rock Center for Corporate Governance, The Stanford Center on Ethics and The Stanford Criminal Justice Center.

Rock Center Lunch for Students
Stock Options Backdating-FBI Investigations and White Collar Defense
Speakers: Haywood Gilliam (JD'94), US Attorney's Office, No. District of California and David Anderson (JD'90), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Speakers from the legal, corporate and venture community spoke informally with students and faculty from the law and business schools about governance issues and how governance works in the "real world".

Speakers included Dave Anderson (SLS '90) of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Haywood Gilliam (SLS '94), Assistant US Attorney and Chief of the Securities Fraud Section in San Francisco, discussing FBI investigations and White Collar Defense.

Accounting Summer Camp

This two day conference, sponsored by the Business School Accounting department, brought together prominent academics to discuss research underway in the field of accounting, corporate governance, finance, law, and economics. Professor Rob Daines presented his research on takeover defenses, and Professor Larcker discussed his research on stock option exercise practices.

Lucky Strikes: A Closed Conversation on Option Backdating

Lawyers from many Silicon Valley firms explored the issues of backdating and other grant practices that have recently come under scrutiny. Presentations by faculty from the Business School explored research efforts that have led to investigations of many companies and offered insights into other backdating practices that may come under scrutiny.

Agency Capitalism: Issues on the Investor Side of Capital Markets
Speakers: Professors Ron Gilson, Michael Klausner, Robert Daines and Joseph Grundfest

This conference brought together prominent law firm representatives, the Delaware bar, academics and institutional investor for a discussion of hedge funds and their influence on shareholder votes and corporate actions. This event was sponsored by Ronald Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, and Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, who serve on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Rock Center, and included participation by Rock Center faculty directors Robert Daines and Joseph Grundfest.