Date: Wednesday, April 29, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET/3:00 PM– 4:15 PM CT/2:00 PM – 3:15 PM MT/1:00 PM – 2:15 PM PT
Lawyers lead in a variety of capacities in and outside their representation of clients. Law schools have increasing realized both this fact and their obligation—or at least some responsibility—to educate students more directly for these many leadership roles. This webinar features a conversation with two law faculty members who engage with teaching and researching lawyer leadership. Their work as instructors and scholars and the observations that come from that work offer key insights on why teaching lawyer leadership remains so important in an era of rapid legal change, what leadership knowledge and skills lawyers need to survive and thrive, and what law teachers can do to foster that knowledge and those skills.
Hillary Sale, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance; Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University Law Center
Hillary A. Sale is an influential business leader and consultant as well as a recognized expert in financial services, ESG, securities, crisis management, compliance, corporate governance, strategy, and leadership. She is director for the Cboe U.S. Securities Exchanges, Cboe Futures Exchange, and Cboe SEF. She served the maximum of two terms as a member of the FINRA Board of Governors from 2016-2022, where she Chaired the Regulatory Policy Committee and served on the Executive, Nominating and Governance, Compensation, and Regulatory Operations Committees. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Foundation Press, an educational publisher of scholarly books, is a faculty member with the National Association of Corporate Directors, speaks and works with boards across the country, and is also the Chair of the DirectWomen Board Institute.
Hillary is the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance at Georgetown Law Center and a Professor of Management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. As an award-winning scholar and industry-focused academic, she writes and speaks about corporate governance, ESG, securities, compliance, strategy, and leadership. In the spring of 2017, she was the Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, teaching Corporate Boards and Governance and Leadership.
She is an accomplished business partner who speaks to industry groups and academic audiences and was selected by the St. Louis Business Journal as a “2014 Most Influential Business Woman.” In addition to running governance and leadership programs, Hillary consults regularly with CEOs, C-suite executives, and boards on governance, strategy, ESG, inclusion and diversity, company culture, board effectiveness, and compliance. She also works with business leaders in both custom executive education programs and programs at Harvard Law, where she Chairs the Women’s Leadership Initiative, and at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and the Law Center.
Hillary graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and holds a master’s degree in Economics from Boston University, where she also completed her B.A., summa cum laude. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, she was the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and a Professor of Management at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, Hillary served as the F. Arnold Chair in Corporate Finance and Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Kate Schaffzin, Director, Reeves Institute for Professional Leadership and Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee Winston College of Law
Kate Schaffzin is the Director of the Reeves Institute for Professional Leadership and the Douglas A. Blaze Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law. She is the former Dean of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. She has been teaching law students for over two decades at four different public, research universities. In addition to her roles as professor and dean, she has served as associate dean for academic affairs, director of faculty development, and even on the board of trustees at prior institutions.
Professor Schaffzin focuses her teaching and research in the areas of evidence and leadership. Her most recent research explores the experiences and characteristics of women attorneys serving in leadership positions in collaboration with the Association of American Law Schools. She also examines evidentiary privileges, breaking ground in defining the common interest doctrine, which was adopted by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Prior to teaching, Professor Schaffzin’s legal practice focused on construction litigation at Pepper Hamilton, LLP, in Philadelphia, and Mazur, Carp & Rubin, P.C., in New York. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable James Knoll Gardner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She earned her J.D. and her LLM degrees from Temple University, where she served as a Freedman Fellow, and her B.A. from LaSalle University.
Professor Schaffzin is a proud native of Philadelphia, but she has resided in Tennessee since 2009. She is raising two teenagers with her husband, Professor Danny Schaffzin, and can often be found walking Maisy, her golden retriever.
Joan M. Heminway, Director, Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law and Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee Winston College of Law
Professor Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate practice experience to the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law when she joined the faculty in 2000. She practiced transactional business law (working in the areas of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings) in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1985 through 2000. She has served as an expert witness and consultant on business entity and finance and federal and state securities law matters and is a frequent academic and continuing legal education presenter on business law issues. Professor Heminway also has represented pro bono clients on political asylum applications, landlord/tenant appeals, social security/disability cases, and not-for-profit incorporations and related business law issues.
In her research and writing, Professor Heminway focuses most closely on disclosure regulation and policy under federal securities (including insider trading) law and state entity (especially corporate) law. Some of her work explores these topics in the context of sex or gender difference. She is best known for her work involving crowdfunding and, before that, for a series of articles relating to the insider trading and criminal securities fraud actions brought against Martha Stewart in connection with her December 2001 sale of ImClone Systems, Inc. common stock. Other areas of interest manifested in her work include institutional reform at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, teaching business law, and business finance and governance planning and drafting. She has coauthored a series of annotated merger and acquisition agreements and related ancillary documents for Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. Her work has been published in a wide variety of general and specialty journals. She also has authored numerous academic and trade book chapters and co-authored two business law teaching texts: Business Enterprises: Legal Structures, Governance, and Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 5th ed. 2924) and Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles (Carolina Academic Press 2006).
Professor Heminway is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Association, and the Knoxville Bar Association and a research fellow of the Neel Corporate Governance Center. She also teaches business law in the professional MBA program at the Haslam College of Business and leadership in the Haslam Leadership Scholars undergraduate program.
he currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Knoxville Bar Association and on the executive council of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Business Law Section (of which she was the chair from 2019-20). She was president of the campus faculty senate for the 2010-11 academic year, Mic/Nite coordinator from 2016-19, and co-chair of the Chancellor’s Commission for Women for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. She served as a member of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville advisory board for a two-year term ending in June 2024.
