7:45 AM – 8:45 AM

Women in White-Collar Breakfast

In collaboration with the Women’s White Collar Defense Association

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Check-in & Networking Breakfast

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Healthcare Fraud

• Moderator: Miranda Hooker – Partner, Pepper Hamilton
• Lisa Asiaf Schlatz – Senior Legal Counsel, Partners HealthCare
• Frank A. Libby, Jr. – Partner, LibbyHoopes
• Gregg Shapiro – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Amanda Strachan – Chief, Health Care Fraud Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Toby Unger – Chief, Medicaid Fraud Division, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Securities & Financial Crimes

Panelists will discuss key issues surrounding financial crimes including: DOJ and SEC enforcement priorities; the impacts of self-disclosure, cooperation, parallel investigations, and monitorships; the features of a robust and effective compliance program; and disgorgement in SEC cases.

• Moderator: Cory S. Flashner – Member, Mintz
• Elisabeth O. da Silva, CPA, CFF – Partner, DGC
• Stephen Frank – Chief, Economic Crimes Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Paul Levenson – Director of the Boston Regional Office, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
• Sarah E. Walters – Partner, McDermott Will & Emery

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunchtime Fireside Chat with the U.S. Attorney’s Office

Nathaniel Mendell – First Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts

Moderator: Emily R. Schulman – Partner, WilmerHale

Track 1

Track 2

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

False Claims Act

• Moderator: Jessica Weber – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Jennifer Goldstein – Assistant U.S. Attorney, Medicaid Fraud Division, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General
• Kirsten Mayer – Partner, Ropes & Gray
• Jeffrey A. Newman – Jeffrey Newman Law
• Steven Sharobem – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts

Forfeiture & Restitution

• Moderator: Doreen M. Rachal – Counsel, Sidley Austin
• Deputy Patrick Burns – Asset Forfeiture Financial Investigator, U.S. Marshals Service
• Ryan Dobson – Senior Manager, Forensic & Integrity Services, EY
• Carol Head – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Francis J. Macdonald, Jr. – Assistant District Attorney, Asset Forfeiture Unit, Office of the Essex District Attorney
• Matthew Thompson – Partner, Butters Brazilian
• Elisha Willis – Senior Trial Counsel, Medicaid Fraud Division, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Emerging Issues in Cybercrime

• Moderator: David D’Addio – Assistant U.S. Attorney, Cybercrime Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Adam Bookbinder – Partner, Holland & Knight
• Amy Burkart – Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief, Cybercrime Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Charles DeBeck – Strategic Cyber Threat Expert, IBM – X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services
• Amanda C. Hawley – Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, LPL Financial LLC
• Hon. F. Dennis Saylor IV – U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Discovery Issues

• Moderator: Ryan DiSantis – Of Counsel, Jones Day
• Giselle J. Joffre – Partner, Foley Hoag
• Seth Kosto – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Sean Renshaw – Senior Director, National Leader, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, RSM

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Proffers & Plea Agreements

• Moderator: Tracy A. Miner – Partner, Miner Orkand Siddall
• Abraham George – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Michael K. Loucks – Partner, Skadden
• E. Peter Parker – Law Office of E. Peter Parker
• Carol A. Starkey – Partner, Conn Kavanaugh

Public Corruption

This panel will focus on recent developments in federal and state public corruption cases, including novel uses of the Hobbs Act, money laundering, and RICO statutes. It will also focus on the line between legitimate constituent services or public policy initiatives and unlawful public corruption.

• Moderator: Seth B. Orkand – Partner, Miner Orkand Siddall
• Jennifer Cotter – Chief, White Collar Public Integrity Division, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General
• Anthony Fuller – Partner, Hogan Lovells
• Zachary Hafer – Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Complex Multi-Defendant Litigation

This panel will discuss strategic and legal challenges that have surfaced in recent multi-defendant white collar crime cases. These include how the U.S. Attorney’s Office makes charging decisions, resolving competing interests with a joint defense group, how to properly exit a joint defense agreement if your client decides to plead, severance considerations, trial stipulations, and how to sequence sentencing hearings. It will also discuss whether the District of Massachusetts should have a related case rule relating to judicial assignment of cases.

• Moderator: Ingrid S. Martin – Partner, Todd & Weld
• Hon. Allison Burroughs – U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
• Brian Kelly – Partner, Nixon Peabody
• David Lazarus – Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts
• Dana M. McSherry – Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
• Michelle Peirce – Shareholder, Barrett & Singal

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Networking Reception