Adriana Riviere-Badell, Attorney, Kobre & Kim 

Miami

Adriana Riviere-Badell is an experienced advocate who concentrates her practice on high-profile contentious trust and estate disputes, complex multi-jurisdictional civil litigation — including appellate proceedings — and international judgment enforcement and asset recovery, with a focus on Latin America.

Alexandra Rose, Partner, Clayton Utz

Sydney

Alexandra Rose is a partner at Clayton Utz in Sydney, Australia. She uses her commercial litigation skills to help clients to head off and solve problems, and has over 15 years' experience working with clients on the defense of significant multi-jurisdictional claims including class actions and product liability disputes. She has been recognized as a rising star in Doyle's Guide "Rising Stars – Litigation & Dispute Resolution”.

Amy Frey, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery

Paris

Amy Frey is a partner in the international arbitration practice at McDermott, Will & Emery in Paris. She focuses her practice on all types of cross-border disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitration, as well as public international law and human rights disputes. 

Brenda Horrigan, International Arbitrator

Singapore

Brenda Horrigan is an internationally recognized arbitrator based in Singapore and the immediate past President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and remains a member of its Executive. Prior to establishing her own practice in 2021, Brenda was the Head of International Arbitration in Australia at Herbert Smith Freehills’ Sydney office.

Caren Ulrich Stacy, Founder & CEO, Diversity Lab

San Francisco

Caren Urich Stacy is Founder & CEO of Diversity Lab, created to focus exclusively on boosting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. The Lab experiments with unique and innovative ways to recruit, advance, and retain diverse talent through the use of data, behavioral science, technology, and design-thinking. For more than 20 years, she served as the head of talent for several of the world's top law firms, including Arnold & Porter, Cooley, and Weil Gotshal.

Carolyn Lamm, Partner, White & Case

Washington DC

Carolyn Lamm is a partner at White & Case in Washington, DC. She regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes matters, including significant international arbitrations involving international corporations and sovereign clients. She is also Chair of the Cross-Institutional Task Force on Gender Diversity in Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings assembled in 2019 to both publish and analyze the most up-to-date statistics on women in arbitration and to identify opportunities and best practices for promoting gender diversity in arbitration.

Daniel Winterfeldt MBE KC (Hon), Founder & Chair, Interlaw Diversity Forum; Managing Director & General Counsel - EMEA & Asia, Jefferies

London

Daniel Winterfeldt is a Managing Director and the General Counsel for EMEA and Asia at Jefferies. He is a senior corporate and securities lawyer with over 22 years of experience in London and New York. In 2008, he founded the InterLaw Diversity Forum which seeks to promote meritocracy and inclusion for all diverse and socially disadvantaged groups in the legal sector. The InterLaw Diversity Forum currently has more than 8,500 members and supporters from over 300 law firms and chambers, and over 500 corporates and financial institutions.

Elizabeth Brannen, Managing Partner & Chair of Intellectual Property Litigation, Stris & Maher

Los Angeles 

Elizabeth Brannen is the Managing Partner of Stris & Maher LLP and chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice. Recognized as a national Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation, Ms. Brannen litigates a wide range of intellectual property and complex business disputes in courts throughout the nation. She is a trusted advisor to Fortune companies as well as a number of closely held companies and high net worth individuals.

Faith Gay, Founding Partner, Selendy & Gay

New York

Faith Gay is a founding partner of Selendy & Gay. In a nationally recognized career spanning more than three decades, she has been lead counsel in over 30 jury trials and has successfully navigated bet-the-company investigations for scores of Fortune 500 companies. Chambers USA recognizes her as one of the nation’s leading litigators, citing “significant praise from sources for her work in high-stakes litigation covering commercial claims, white collar issues and matters of constitutional law”.

Jonathan E. Goldin, General Counsel, Pearl Health

New York

Jonathan E. Goldin is the General Counsel of Pearl Health, a leading physician enablement technology and value-based care marketplace company. Before joining Pearl Health, he came from an international consulting firm, where he served as both the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of its U.S. Financial Advisory business.

The Hon. Katherine B. Forrest, Partner, Paul Weiss

New York

Katherine B. Forrest is a former U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. During her tenure on the bench, she presided over a diverse range of matters. Over the course of her career, Ms. Forrest has been recognized as a leading lawyer by numerous professional publications, including The American Lawyer, Benchmark Litigation, Chambers USA, Global Competition Review, IP Law & Business, Lawdragon and The Legal 500 US.

Keith J. Harrison, Partner and Co-Chair, Litigation, Crowell & Moring

Washington DC

Keith J. Harrison is a partner in the Health Care and Litigation practice groups and a member of the firm's Management Board in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office. This year, Keith was selected to receive the Washington Business Journal’s Minority Business Leader Award. The award recognizes the region’s top 25 minority business owners and leaders and for their “entrepreneurial drive, creativity, and success.

Maria Ginzburg, Partner, Selendy & Gay

New York

Maria Ginzburg is a partner at Selendy & Gay, focusing on complex commercial and financial disputes. She has handled civil cases in state and federal courts and in arbitration, as well as internal investigations and related regulatory proceedings before the SEC, FINRA and New York attorney general. She has recovered approximately $3 billion for her clients in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) related actions.

Maria Eugenia Ramirez, Partner, Hogan Lovells

Miami

Maria Eugenia is a partner at Hogan Lovells with a practice focused on international arbitration. She has represented clients with respect to contract, construction, and telecommunications disputes. She is among Latin American’s Top 100 Female Lawyers by Latinvex. She has been ranked in Chambers Global, Dispute Resolution and Litigation, and received the Daily Business Review's Most Effective Lawyers - Pro Bono Award in 2017.

Megan E. Jones, Partner, Hausfeld

San Francisco

Megan Jones is a partner at Hausfeld based in California, with a focus on recovering damages for companies who are victims of antitrust cartels for price-fixing, tying, restraints of trade and other competition violations. With 19 years of experience in antitrust class actions, she is trusted by courts to lead large and complex antitrust cases. She attributes part of her success to belief in using diverse and inclusive litigation teams, which she has helped foster over a decade by creating and running a conference for women antitrust lawyers to exchange best practices.

Mylan Denerstein, Co-Chair, Public Policy Practice Group, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

New York

Mylan Denerstein is a litigation partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Co-Chair of the Public Policy Practice Group and member of the firm's Executive Committee. She represents diverse companies confronting a wide range of legal issues in their most critical times, typically involving federal, state and municipal government agencies.

Dr. Nadine Herrmann, Managing Partner and Chair, EU and German Competition Law Practice, Quinn Emanuel (In Memoriam)

Hamburg

Dr. Nadine Herrmann is the Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Hamburg office and Chair of the firm's EU and German Competition Law Practice. She has broad litigation expertise, including securities/capital markets and other finance litigation, antitrust, intellectual property and other regulatory and commercial litigation at trial and appellate level.

Nicole D. Galli, Founder, Women Owned Law, and Managing Member, ND Galli Law LLC

Philadelphia

Nicole Galli is a Managing Member of ND Galli Law LLC, where her practice focuses on commercial litigation, including intellectual property litigation and IP counseling, especially regarding trade secret protection. She previously spent over two decades in two AmLaw 100 firms. She is the Founder and President of Women Owned Law (WOL), the first organization dedicated to empowering, supporting and advancing women entrepreneurs in the law.

Noradèle Radjai, Partner, Lalive

Geneva

Noradèle Radjai is a partner in the international arbitration team, specialising in commercial and investment arbitration in the energy (in particular oil and gas), telecommunications and construction sectors. Ms Radjai is highly recognised by the leading legal directories. She is Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee (as well as co-chair of its Corporate Counsel Subcommittee), a member of the Executive Committee on the Board of ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association), a member of the Pledge Steering Committee and the CPR European Advisory Board. In addition, she is a member of the Swiss Arbitration Centre Marketing Committee and a member of several other professional associations, namely the LCIA, the BIICL, the American Bar Association and Arbitral Women.

Roberta D. Liebenberg, Senior Partner, Fine, Kaplan & Black

Philadelphia

Roberta Liebenberg is a senior partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black in Philadelphia. She focuses her practice on class actions, antitrust and complex commercial litigation, and white collar criminal defense. She was the 2019 inductee to the American Antitrust Institute Private Enforcement Hall of Fame and has repeatedly been listed in the highest band level as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in the country by Chambers USA.

Rufus Caine III, Co-Founder & Partner, DEI Strategic Advisory Firm

Washington DC

Rufus Caine was most recently Senior Vice President at Burford Capital with responsibility for helping companies, in-house legal teams and their law firms optimize the value of their legal assets. Prior to joining Burford, he served in various roles at Axiom Law, where as a Director he was accountable for working with leading in-house legal departments and managing executive level relationships, including with several Fortune 100 companies. Previously, he was a litigation associate at Willkie Farr and Gallagher in Washington, DC, and Legislative Counsel in the US Senate, where he oversaw a wide range of domestic policy matters.

Sophie Nappert, International Arbitrator, Co-Founder, ArbTech 

London

Sophie Nappert is an arbitrator in independent practice, based in London. She is dual-qualified as an Avocat of the Bar of Quebec, Canada and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Before becoming a full-time arbitrator, she pursued a career as an advocate and was Head of International Arbitration at a global law firm. For over a decade she served as the peer-nominated Moderator of OGEMID, the online discussion forum on current issues of international investment law, economic law and arbitration. She is commended as “most highly regarded” and a “leading light” in the field by Who’s Who Legal.

Stephanie L. Carman, Shareholder, GrayRobinson

Miami

Stephanie Carman is a shareholder in the Miami and Washington offices of GrayRobinson, focusing her practice on the health care industry. She provides strategic advice on regulatory issues, transactions, investigations and litigation. She has been recognized by Chambers, The Daily Business Review, South Florida Legal Guide, Attorney at Law Magazine, SuperLawyers, and Florida Trend.

Sue Prevezer KC, International Arbitrator, Mediator and Consultant, Brick Court Chambers

London

Sue Prevezer KC is a senior barrister with over 30 years' experience in commercial litigation at every level of the UK judicial system and in international arbitration. She sits as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division of the High Court and has conducted arbitrations, as sole, co-arbitrator and chair under the major arbitral institutions.

Susanne Schwalb, Partner, CMS

Munich

Susanne Schwalb is a partner at CMS in Munich, Germany. She primarily advises and represents clients in international arbitration proceedings. She has a focus on international commercial arbitration and the protection of foreign investments where she advises clients both on the structuring of investments and in contentious proceedings. She also has extensive practical experience in third-party funding.

Tara Lee, Partner, White & Case

Washington DC

Tara Lee is one of the leading trial lawyers in the United States. She was named the US Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2017 by Benchmark Litigation, the first woman ever to receive that distinction. She has numerous awards for her skills as a trial advocate and has been consistently ranked as one of America's leading lawyers by Chambers USA. In past years she has been recognized as one of the top Female Powerbrokers in Law by Law360, a Pioneer and Trailblazer in Litigation by the National Law Journal, one of the Ten Most Innovative Lawyers in the US by the Financial Times, and one of the Top 100 Women in Investigations by GIR.

Veta T. Richardson, President & CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel

Washington DC

Veta T. Richardson is the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). ACC is the world's largest legal association dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of in-house counsel. She raised the bar on the advancement of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession through the establishment of a multi-pronged platform that consisted of ground-breaking research and white papers; thought-provoking publications, such as Diversity & the Bar and best-in-class programs, services, and networking events.

Wendy J. Miles KC, Barrister, Twenty Essex

London

Wendy Miles is a specialist in international arbitration and dispute resolution with a focus on private and public international law. With over 25 years of experience, she has advised on international law matters and conducted arbitrations under all the major institutions and ad hoc. She was awarded “Best in Commercial Arbitration” in the 2015 and 2016 Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards, and continues to be listed by Expert Guides in its annual Women in Business Law list.