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1 RESUME BENJAMIN W. HEINEMAN, JR. Home Harvard 83 Turning Mill Lane Kennedy School/Littauer 362 New Canaan, CT JFK Street Cambridge, MA fax: fax: Born January 25, 1944, Chicago, Illinois; married, Cristine Russell; sons, Zachary R. and Matthew R. Heineman I. EMPLOYMENT Distinguished Senior Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School January 2006 to present Lecturer in Law, Kennedy and Business Schools on: governance, citizenship, compliance, globalization, public policy, legal profession, anti-corruption. Senior Counsel, WilmerHale January 2006 to present Counseling to corporations, CEOs, general counsels, internatonal organizations The General Electric Company Senior Vice President for Law & Public Affairs February 2004 to December 2005 Senior Vice President and General Counsel September 1987 to January 2004 Sidley & Austin Partner. January 1983 to August 1987 (regulatory, civil and constitutional litigation). Managing Partner, Washington office; firm Executive Committee Califano, Ross & Heineman Partner. December 1979 to December 1982 (regulatory, civil and constitutional litigation). 1

1944, Chicago, Illinois; married, Cristine Russell; sons, Zachary R. and Matthew R. Heineman I.

2 Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health, Education & Welfare November 1978 to November 1979 (involved in development of major departmental policy -- budgetary, legislative, regulatory e.g. welfare reform, national health insurance, education reform) Executive Assistant to Secretary, Department of Health, Education & Welfare January 1977 to November 1978 (principal staff aide to the Secretary). Williams, Connolly & Califano, Washington, D.C. July 1975 to November 1976 (constitutional and general litigation). Staff Attorney, Center for Law & Social Policy, Washington, D.C. January 1973 to June 1975 (test case litigation on behalf of the mentally disabled). Law Clerk to Associate Justice Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. August 1971 to July Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times 1968 (General reporting -- winner, Chicago Newspaper Guild, Best News Feature of 1968, with two others on civil disturbance after King assassination) II. EDUCATION University of Chicago High School (1961) Harvard College, B.A. (1965) Balliol College, Oxford University, B. Litt. (1967) Yale Law School, J.D. (1971) III. ACADEMIC HONORS/ACTIVITIES Undergraduate Rhodes Scholar, Illinois ( ) Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude Editorial Chairman, Harvard Crimson (1964) Law School Editor-in-Chief, Yale Law Journal ( ) Member, Yale Law Journal ( ) 2

(principal staff aide to the Secretary). Williams, Connolly & Califano, Washington, D.C. July 1975 to November 1976 (constitutional and general litigation).

3 IV. PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming High Performance With High Integrity, Harvard Business School Press (June 2008) China: The Balance Sheet II, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Peterson Institute of International Economics (Spring 2008) (organizer/editor) Books China: The Balance Sheet, PublicAffairs Books (2006) (organizer/editor) Memorandum for the President: A Strategic Approach to Domestic Affairs in the 1980s, Random House (1981) (co-author) The Politics of the Powerless: A Study of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, Oxford University Press and the Institute of Race Relations (London, 1972) (study of British civil rights movement) Recent Writing Big Firm Associates: A Lost Generation?, The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel (forthcoming). Arrested Development: The Fight Against International Corporate Bribery, The National Interest, November-December Current Counsel Issues, Association of Corporate Counsel Docket, November, 2007 How to Say NO to Your CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel Docket, October, Avoiding Integrity Landmines: An Inside Look at How GE Worked to Build a Culture That Sustains Both High Performance and High Integrity, Harvard Business Review, April, Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension, Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer, April, 2007 (tension for general counsel and chief financial officer in being business partner to CEO and guardian of the corporation s integrity) The Long War Against Corruption, Foreign Affairs, May-June, 2006 Law and Leadership, The Preiskel-Silverman Lecture in the Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the Public Interest, Yale Law School, November, 2006 (reprinted as essay in The Journal on Legal Education, December 2006). Hands Across the Water, Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer, October, 2006 (arguing that corporations need an affirmative foreign policy ) 3

to Domestic Affairs in the 1980s, Random House (1981) (co-author) The Politics of the Powerless: A Study of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, Oxford University Press and the Institute of

4 In the Beginning: GE s Legendary Lawyer Explains How He Revolutionalized the Role of In-House Counsel, Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer, April, 2006 Strategy: The Board s Role and Responsibility, Directorship, January, 2006 Introduction to the Global Revolution, Lecture to the Class of 2008, Yale Law School, October, 2005 Manager s Journal: Are You A Good Corporate Citizen, Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2005 "The Ideal of the Lawyer-Statesman," American Corporate Counsel Association Docket, 22, No. 5, May 2004 Ten Steps for Increasing Diversity,, Keynote Address at the American Bar Association s Managing Partners and General Counsel Leadership Summit on Progress, Success and Acheivement for Women in Law, May, 2005 "Corporate Social Responsibility: Back to Basics," American Corporate Counsel Association Docket, 21, No. 1, January Select Past Writing Some Rules of the Game: Prescriptions for Organizing the Domestic Presidency," The Presidency In Transition, Center for the Study of the Presidency Proceedings, Vol. VI, No. 1, Chapter 4, 1989 "Welfare Reform Revisited: New Consensus and Old Dilemmas," Work and Welfare: The Case for New Directions in National Policy, Center for National Policy, Alternative for the 1980s, No. 22, March 1987 "Potter Stewart: A Balance Wheel on the Court," 95 Yale Law Journal 1328 (1986) Comment, "Marrying Politics and Policy," The Reagan Presidency and the Governing of America, Urban Institute Press, 1984 Comment, "The Law Schools' Failing Grade on Federalism," 92 Yale L.J (1983) Book Review of J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, Serving Justice: A Supreme Court Clerk's View, 88 Harv. L. Rev. 678 (1975) Book Review of S. Lazarus, The Genteel Populists, 84 Yale L.J (1973) Book Review of A. Lester et al., Race and Law in Britain, 82 Yale L.J (1973) "Decentralization in New York City: A Proposal," 8 Harv. Jnl. on Legis. 407 (1971) (co-author) V. MEMBER OF THE BAR District of Columbia/ United States Supreme Court 4

Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2005 "The Ideal of the Lawyer-Statesman," American Corporate Counsel Association Docket, 22, No.

5 VI. OTHER ACTIVITIES Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology and Law (nominated) Member, Independent Review Panel on World Bank Group s Department of Institutional Integrity (Volcker Panel), March-September, 2007 Board of Trustees, Senior Advisor, Program Comm. Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies Board of Managers and Overseers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Board of Trustees, National Constitution Center Board of Directors, Transparency International-USA Member, Council on Foreign Relations Member, American Law Institute VII. RECENT AWARDS Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Best Lawyers in America, National Law Journal, 2006 American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award, Equal Justice Works (National Council on Public Interest Law). Scales of Justice Award, October, 2006 National Legal Aid and Defenders Association Exemplar Award, GE Chairman's Leadership Award, American Corporate Counsel Association Excellence in Corporate Practice Award, ABA-Section of Business Law National Public Service Award,

Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies Board of Managers and Overseers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Board of Trustees, National Constitution Center Board of Directors,

Josie Foehrenbach Brown [email protected] (803)777-6963

Josie Foehrenbach Brown Brownjf@law.sc.edu (803)777-6963 [email protected] (803)777-6963 EDUCATION J.D. 1985 B.A. 1982 Harvard Law School (magna cum laude) Finalist and Oralist, Ames Moot Court Competition Research Assistant for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Research