EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE
LAW: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR
SUCCESS IN CLIENT SERVICE,
DIVERSITY AND MENTORING
Speaker Biographies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Diversity and Inclusion Panel.................................................................... 3
Genhi Givings Bailey ......................................................................... 3
Jason L. Brown ................................................................................... 4
Paul Chadha ........................................................................................ 5
Carolyn H. Clift .................................................................................. 6
Mentoring Panel ........................................................................................ 7
Allyson Bouldon ................................................................................. 7
Mark I. Feldman ................................................................................. 8
John Mitchell ...................................................................................... 9
Mary Jo Quinn .................................................................................. 10
Client Service Panel ................................................................................ 11
V. Alexandra Darrow........................................................................ 11
Daniel Harper.................................................................................... 12
Christina L. Martini .......................................................................... 13
Jenifer M. Robbins............................................................................ 14
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PANEL
GENHI GIVINGS BAILEY
Genhi Givings Bailey is the Director of Diversity and Inclusion, based in DLA Piper's Los
Angeles office. She is responsible for advancing the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy,
throughout the US offices.
Immediately before joining DLA Piper, Ms. Bailey worked as a diversity recruiter and
consultant, advising law firms on diversity best practices. Prior to that, she practiced law in the
music industry advising independent artists and small businesses in the areas of entity formation,
contracts, trademarks and copyrights.
Ms. Bailey has appeared as a speaker, moderator and trainer on the topic of diversity and
inclusion and firmly believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is a richer one that
produces greater appreciation for differences and generates better business.
JASON L. BROWN
Since October 2010, Jason L. Brown has served as the Executive Director and General Counsel
for the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). He
provides direction, vision and leadership to NAMWOLF as it strives to become the leading
organization in the legal community dedicated to diversity through lasting partnerships between
minority and women owned law firms and private/public entities. In addition to his
administrative role as NAMWOLF’s chief executive, he oversees all programs and initiatives of
the organization and is responsible for all legal and government-related issues.
Prior to NAMWOLF, Mr. Brown worked for PepsiAmericas, Inc. as Director of Legal/Senior
Counsel – Domestic and Caribbean in Schaumburg, Illinois. PepsiAmericas was the second
largest Pepsi bottler in the world with operations in the U.S., Central Europe and the Caribbean.
At PepsiAmericas, he handled a variety of legal issues including – all forms of litigation, risk
management, government relations, promotional/sweepstakes issues, negotiating and drafting
customer and vendor agreements, corporate compliance and fraud. He also served as the
President of the PepsiAmericas Foundation.
Mr. Brown graduated from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. He began
his legal career as an associate at the law firm of Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. in Minneapolis,
Minnesota practicing in the area of general commercial and employment litigation. Mr. Brown
joined the law firm of Ungaretti & Harris in Chicago, Illinois in 2000. At Ungaretti, Mr. Brown
was a member of the firm’s litigation department and focused his practice in the areas of mass
tort litigation, internal investigations, contract and general corporate disputes.
Mr. Brown sits on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Corporate
Counsel and served as the Chapter’s President for 2008-2009. Since 2006, he has served as the Chair of
the Diversity Committee of ACC Chicago and has been instrumental in the development and growth of its
Summer Minority Internship Program. Mr. Brown served on the Executive Committee for the Chicago
Metro Golf Classic benefiting the American Cancer Society 2009-2010. He is also a Past-President of the
Chicago Chapter of the Howard University Alumni Association.
PAUL CHADHA
Paul Chadha is an attorney with Accenture. A key member of the Legal Group for more than
four years, his practice is in the field of corporate law and structuring transactions. Chadha helps
support many of the diversity initiatives driven by the Legal Group. Since 2006, he has served as
an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches a course on
negotiations. Chadha honorably served in the United States Air Force and United States Air
Force Reserves from 1993-1999. He remains an active member of many community and civic
organizations. He can be contacted at paul.chadha@accenture.com.
CAROLYN H. CLIFT
Carolyn H. Clift is the Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Health Care Service
Corporation (a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, operating as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Illinois, Texas, New Mexico and Texas). In this position, she is responsible for leading the
company’s diversity-related strategic opportunities.
Ms. Clift joined the company as in-house counsel and worked through the ranks, before being
appointed Vice-President - General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. A former Cook County
Assistant State’s Attorney, she received her bachelor’s degree from Chicago State University,
her juris doctorate from John Marshall Law School, and her masters of law in health care law
from DePaul College of Law.
Clift is currently the President of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation board of directors, and
serves on the boards of directors of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Chicago State University
Foundation, National American Lung Association, and the DePaul Health Law Institute
Advisory Board. Clift was recognized as one of the Chicago United 2005 Business Leaders of
Color. She is a former member of the Chicago Bar Association Board of Managers, and the
boards of the Federal Bar Association and the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation.
MENTORING PANEL
ALLYSON BOULDON
Allyson Bouldon joined Mead Johnson Nutrition Company in the Summer of 2009 as its Assistant
General Counsel, Labor and Compliance. Mead Johnson is a global leader in infants’ and children’s
nutritional products, including the Enfamil® and Enfalac® families of infant formulas as well as regional
children's nutritional products Enfagrow®, Enfapro®, Enfakid®, EnfaSchool®, and Sustagen® in Asia,
and Choco Milk® and Cal-C-Tose® in Mexico and Latin America.
In this capacity, Ms. Bouldon is responsible for the Company’s global compliance and related policy
efforts including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Code of Conduct matters. She is also responsible for
data privacy, employment and labor matters globally.
Ms. Bouldon is also immediate Past President of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Chicago
Chapter. The Chapter currently has over 1600 members and has received national recognition for its
membership retention, support of diversity, innovative programming, and overall outstanding
achievements.
Prior to joining Mead Johnson, Ms. Bouldon was the first General Counsel hired by Tegrant Corporation
and she subsequently became its Vice President and General Counsel.
Tegrant Corporation, formerly SCA Packaging North America, is a leading provider of protective, retail
and temperature assurance packaging products. Tegrant also manufactures component parts and building
product materials for a wide variety of customers. Composed of four business units, Tegrant operates
more than 30 manufacturing, design, sales, and testing facilities throughout the United States, Mexico and
Canada.
As Vice President and General Counsel, Ms. Bouldon provided legal and administrative support to the
Company in all aspects of its operations. Areas of responsibility included: serving as Corporate Secretary
for parent and subsidiary companies; M&A support; Antitrust counseling, Litigation; Litigation
Supervision; Real Estate; Environmental, Health & Safety; Credit; Labor; Employment & Benefits;
Intellectual Property; Crisis and Internal Investigation management; Policy development and Contracts.
Prior to joining Tegrant, Ms. Bouldon served as Counsel - Americas for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
located in Chicago, Illinois. She was also a law firm Associate and she held an in-house position in the
healthcare field. Ms. Bouldon is a graduate of The Law School at the University of Chicago and of
Dartmouth College. She is President of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Chicago Chapter, a Fellow
of the American Bar Foundation, an author, and a frequent guest speaker.
MARK I. FELDMAN
Mark I. Feldman's practice focuses on trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and Internet and
technology law. Mr. Feldman has extensive experience counseling clients on domestic and international
intellectual property registration, enforcement and licensing. His litigation experience includes oral
arguments before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has litigated the protectability of color as a
trademark in cases relating to low-calorie sweeteners, golf club shafts, and prescription pharmaceuticals;
the enhanced scope of protection for famous trademarks like the NutraSweet; trademark priority disputes;
the genericness of a religious leader's name; and the protection of the distinctive interior design and
exterior trade dress of franchised restaurants. He has determined the worldwide availability of new
company names for a number of Fortune 100 companies.
Mr. Feldman has written a chapter on "Trademark Law for The Franchisor" in a course book from the
Practicing Law Institute and has published various articles on trademark law in the Franchise Legal
Digest. He has been a speaker on due diligence, licensing and franchise issues and international trademark
registration strategies.
The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites Mr. Feldman in Chambers USA:
America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2010), and has commented that "clients praise Feldman's
business and sector knowledge as well as his "superb client service" and that he is regarded as "one of the
premier trademark lawyers in the USA."
Mr. Feldman was nominated by his peers to appear in An International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers
(Law Business Research Ltd. 2003 and 2004); the Guide to the World's Leading Trademark Law
Practitioners in every edition since 2002; and The Best Lawyers in America in the area of intellectual
property law. He also has been selected as an Illinois Leading Lawyer in intellectual property law by the
Leading Lawyers Network in every year since 2003. Mr. Feldman has been designated an Illinois Super
Lawyer in every year since 2006. He was also listed in the 2005 Who's Who Legal: The International
Who's Who of Business Lawyers.
JOHN MITCHELL
John Mitchell is a lawyer and a leader. He is committed to helping lawyers discover and
maximize their leadership potential so that they continuously develop themselves and their firms
in pursuit of changing the world. John specializes in working with lawyers who are in formal
roles like managing partner, practice group leaders and committee chairs and those in informal
leadership roles. He also supports junior associates, new partners, major rainmakers and senior
lawyers considering their “second season” in life.
Helping leaders transition to new leadership positions is one area of John’s expertise. He also
has extensive experience assisting women and attorneys of color successfully apply their talents
in new roles and new environments. Mr. Mitchell’s unique background brings personal
experience to these types of transitions and his educational experiences ground those first hand
experiences with sound theory and applied research.
During the past three years John has coached and/or consulted with hundreds of lawyers and
dozens of law firms throughout the United States. This work has included everything from
teaching inexperienced attorneys (and some later bloomers) business development skills to
helping senior rainmakers take their game up another notch or two; from helping to develop new
leaders to creating a process for successful succession planning and transition of senior leaders;
and from leading firm retreats to advising management committees on a variety of strategic
issues.
John’s 20 plus years of business experience ranges from working as a professional in a social
service agency, to practicing law in a large international law firm, to leading a large urban
affiliate of an internationally known not-for-profit housing development organization, to starting
a successful company that helps leaders develop and hone their own unique leadership style. He
also has extensive leadership experience serving on various not-for-profit boards of directors,
and in civic and professional organizations.
His experience is supplemented by his educational pursuits at Northwestern University that
include a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech (Communication Studies), a Juris Doctor degree,
and a Master of Business Administration degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management.
When he is not working with clients, John can often be found running or cycling along Chicago's
beautiful lakefront. He is also likely to be found with his wife at one of the city’s many
restaurants, cultural institutions or music festivals. An annual pilgrimage to the New Orleans
Jazz & Heritage Festival, visits with friends around the country, and bicycle trips anywhere the
terrain is more varied than Chicago's keep John on the move. So, if you get his voicemail leave a
message. More likely than not he is out someplace having fun. But do not worry - he will return
your call!
MARY JO QUINN
Mary Jo has been in the Law Department of Allstate Insurance Company since
September 1996, serving mainly in the Investment Law Division and for three years in
the Corporate Law Division. In Investment Law, Ms. Quinn mainly provides legal
review of municipal bond transactions, distressed securities and structured financings.
She is also active in legislative issues related to financial reform.
From 1990 to 1996, Mary Jo worked for the law firm of Jones Day where she served as
bond counsel to numerous governmental entities and had extensive experience in serving
as counsel to issuers, underwriters and letter of credit banks; and provided legal services
on tax-exempt derivative products. From 1988 to 1990, Mary Jo worked for Kutak Rock,
serving as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel.
Mary Jo received her B.S. with highest honors from the University of Wisconsin (1977),
and her J.D., from University of California-Hastings College of Law (1988), where she
was a Tony Patino Fellow.
Ms. Quinn’s recent speaking engagements include:
1. Chicago Municipal Analysts Society, Chicago, IL, Panel Member—“Uniform
Commercial Code Issues in Municipal Bond Transactions” 2002
2. Bond Buyer Specialty Credits Conference, Boston, MA, Panel Moderator-“Tobacco Securitization Update” 2003
3. Bond Buyer Health Care Conference, Chicago, IL, Speaker--Not-For-Profit
Boards in the Municipal Bond Industry, 2003
4. Joint Conference of the National Commission on Health Facilities Finance
Authorities and the National Association of Higher Education Finance
Authorities, Sedona, Arizona, Speaker--“Investors’ Concerns regarding
Experience of Not-For-Profit Boards”, 2004
5. National Association of Bond Lawyers, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Panel
Member--“Commercial Law Issues in Public Finance”, 2004
6. National Association of Bond Lawyers, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Panel
Member--“Municipal Bond Workout Issues”, 2005
7. Kirkland & Ellis; Booz Allen Hamilton Seminar, Chicago, IL, Sourcing and
Outsourcing 2008: The State of the Industry, Panel Member—“The Outsourcing
Process: is it broken? Does it work? Can it be improved?”, 2008
CLIENT SERVICE PANEL
V. ALEXANDRA DARROW
V. Alexandra Darrow is a Sr. Corporate Counsel for ADP, Inc. ADP, Inc. is a publically held
company that is noted for providing paychecks for 29 million workers worldwide, processing
secure transactions and delivering computing solutions for the automotive industry in 13
countries.
Historically, Ms. Darrow’s responsibilities have focused on negotiating international technology
transactions, intellectual property and providing day to day legal support for the Dealer Services
Division of ADP, Inc. In the last few years her practice has expanded and evolved to include
Digital Marketing, Digital Advertising and Social Media.
Prior to joining ADP, Ms. Darrow worked as in house counsel for AFLAC in Georgia and then
moved to Chicago to take a position with Lucent Technologies to negotiate international
telecommunication deals.
Ms. Darrow currently serves as the Secretary of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of
Corporate Counsel after being the Treasurer from 2008-2010. Ms. Darrow is also the past
president of the Western Auxiliary of Hephzibah Children’s Association and continues to work
with this organization to promote foster care services in the state of Illinois.
Ms. Darrow is licensed to practice law in both Georgia and Illinois. She received her JD from
the University of North Carolina and her BA in Art History, cum laude, from Duke University.
Between graduating from Duke and attending law school, Ms. Darrow served as U.S. Peace
Corps volunteer in the Philippines and worked as production assistant for CNN in Moscow,
Russia.
DANIEL HARPER
Dan Harper is Vice President, Corporate Counsel and Secretary for Océ North America, Inc. He
provides leadership and general legal guidance and counsel to the North American operations of
Océ N.V. a publicly traded Dutch company, the majority shares of which are owned by Canon,
Inc. Dan is a member of the Océ North America Wide Format Division senior management
team. His responsibilities at Océ include providing strategic advice to the senior management
team of Océ-USA Holding, Inc., Océ's U.S. parent. He participates as a leader on corporate wide
initiatives as well as provides counseling on commercial transactions (sales, ERM, licensing,
dealer), employment matters, internal investigations, litigation, corporate policy and procedure,
compliance, intellectual property, software licensing, technology and marketing.
Prior to joining Océ, Dan was Senior Counsel at Spiegel, Inc., reporting to the CEO. He provided
legal guidance to the Information Technology and iMedia groups for the corporate parent as well
as for Eddie Bauer, Spiegel Catalog and Newport News subsidiaries. Dan managed the Spiegel
Group intellectual property portfolio (over 600 registered trademarks), negotiated and drafted
commercial transactions, managed litigation, was a member of Spiegel Group Corporate Policy
Committee and was the chairman of the Spiegel Group Corporate Privacy Committee. Prior to
Spiegel, Dan was in private practice with the law firm of Carey, Filter, White & Boland, a
boutique general practice firm in Chicago, dividing his time between litigation and transactional
work.
Dan is the past Secretary of the Information Technology and eCommerce Committee of the
Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and is a member of the board of directors of the
Chicago Chapter of ACC, serving as Board Secretary for board years 2007 – 2009, PresidentElect for board year 2009-2010 and President for board year 2010-2011. Dan frequently serves
on faculty CLE panels at the national level for ACC and speaks to law firms on the ACC Value
Challenge and writes a weekly column for the on-line version of the Chicago Lawyer Magazine.
Dan received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Villanova University with a minor in
Religious Studies and is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law.
CHRISTINA L. MARTINI
Christina L. Martini is a partner with DLA Piper. She is Vice Chair of the Chicago Intellectual Property
Practice Group and is a member of the Policy Committee. Ms. Martini focuses her practice on domestic
and international trademark and copyright law, as well as domain name, Internet, advertising, unfair
competition and entertainment law. She has extensive experience in counseling, prosecution,
enforcement, due diligence and licensing matters, and in assisting clients in protecting their intellectual
property rights through litigation and other means, including the courts and uniform dispute resolution
procedures.
Ms. Martini regularly advises clients in the areas of brand development and management, and she
develops, manages, maintains and enforces large intellectual property portfolios. She works closely with
clients from the beginning stages of product development and provides strategic advice in searching and
filing for brand names domestically and internationally. She creates global filing strategies to maximize
clients' protection of their valuable brands in a streamlined, cost-effective way, and manages the global
registration, maintenance, enforcement, licensing and disposition of those rights. Ms. Martini also creates
and implements intellectual property policies which are specifically tailored to meet clients' legal and
business needs. In addition, she has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting a wide variety of
agreements which address various intellectual property rights. She has also been instrumental in
numerous litigation successes in federal and state courts, and in domain name proceedings before various
administrative organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Ms. Martini is one of only 165 lawyers named to the 2010 BTI Client Service All-Star Team for Law
Firms, which recognizes lawyers who "top the charts in client service excellence" and "have packaged
proactive outreach, counseling and a healthy dose of practicality with their deep understanding of clients'
business." Lawyers appear on the list only if they are named by clients in an unprompted manner through
BTI's research. The rankings are driven solely by feedback received directly from corporate counsel from
large and Fortune 1000 companies.
In 2010, the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, publisher of Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago
Lawyer magazine, named Ms. Martini one of "40 Illinois Attorneys under Forty to Watch." As the Law
Bulletin notes, clients, colleagues and peers consider her an "extremely talented," "outstanding" and
"profoundly committed" professional who "has very sharp analytical skills, great intuition and ability to
work in the gray areas" and "has a very practical wisdom, something you might expect to see in someone
who has practiced law for over 30 years."
In 2009, Chicago Lawyer magazine featured Ms. Martini in its cover story "The Next Generation of
Leaders," as one of a small group of "leaders of the future" who "go above and beyond practicing law
because they care about what their firm looks like today and will look like in the future."
Based on peer and client reviews, Ms. Martini has been selected as an "Up and Coming" lawyer by
Chambers & Partners, a respected English research firm, which states that she has "excellent client
service skills and is devoted to ensuring that all needs and objectives are satisfied," and praises her for her
"exceptional sense of responsibility to her clients," in its publication Chambers USA: America's Leading
Lawyers for Business. Ms. Martini has also been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer, as the result of
research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines.
Premiering in April 2010, the Chicago Lawyer is featuring Ms. Martini and her monthly column, "Inside
Out," in which she discusses life as an attorney in private practice alongside her husband, David Susler,
who talks about life as in-house counsel. Beginning in May 2010, videos of Ms. Martini's and Mr.
Susler's interviews can be found on YouTube and at www.chicagolawyermagazine.com.
JENIFER M. ROBBINS
Jenifer Robbins is the General Counsel of FPL Advisory Group, a family of companies which
provide corporate and managerial advisory services to the real estate and financial services
industries. In her role as General Counsel, Ms. Robbins oversees all aspects of the legal affairs
of FPL’s international consulting practice, including strategic counseling, contract negotiation,
transaction evaluation and execution, litigation management, corporate policy creation, and all
forms of legal risk management.
Prior to joining FPL, Ms. Robbins was with the Chicago-based law firm Katten Muchin
Rosenman where she counseled public and private clients on a variety of general corporate and
commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, start-ups and private
equity and corporate finance transactions.
Ms. Robbins is a past President and former board member of the Chicago Chapter of the
Association of Corporate Counsel and currently serves as the chapter’s coordinator for the
Chicago Public Schools portion of the ACC Chicago Street Law Diversity Pipeline Program.
Ms. Robbins is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Bar Association
Alliance for Women and serves as Co-Chair of its Cross-Career Networking Committee.
Ms. Robbins received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Finance and
Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.