Moderator Scott Westfahl
Professor of Practice and Faculty Director, Harvard Law School Executive Education
As Director of Executive Education, Scott Westfahl leads the law school’s effort to support and develop lawyers across the arc of their careers, particularly as they advance to new levels of leadership and responsibility. He also teaches courses on leadership, design thinking and innovation.
GROUP 1: How corporate leaders can respond
Veta T. Richardson
President & CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel
In addition to leading the ACC, which represents more than 45,000 corporate counsel at 10,000 companies in 85 nations, Veta Richardson has advised hundreds of multinational corporations and the administrations of presidents Clinton, G. W. Bush and Obama on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. Her first book, “Take Six” (2021, ForbesBooks), was an Amazon No. 1 bestseller in the category of strategic management books.
Ricky Raven
Senior Vice President-Deputy General Counsel, Allstate Insurance
Ricky Raven is a member of the Houston Police Officers’ Civil Service Commission and former commissioner and secretary of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. He is also a regent of the University of Houston System and former director of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. He serves on The National Judicial College Board of Visitors.
GROUP 2: How judges can respond
Hon. Bernice Donald
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Bernice Donald was the first African-American woman to serve as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge and the first African-American woman judge in Tennessee’s history. She has been President of both the National Association of Women Judges and the Association of Women Attorneys and has received more than 100 awards for professional, civic and community activities.
Hon. Scott Bales (Ret.)
Former Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Scott Bales served on the Arizona Supreme Court for 14 years and was Chief Justice from 2014 to 2019. After retiring from the court, he was the Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver.
GROUP 3: How practitioners can respond
Judy Perry Martinez
Former President, American Bar Association
Judy Perry Martinez led the ABA, the largest voluntary association of lawyers in the world, from 2019 to 2020. She is Of Counsel at Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn and previously was vice president and CCO of Northrop Grumman Corporation. She is a vice-president of the World Justice Project.
Laurel Halbany
Attorney, Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood
Laurel Halbany is a past chair of the American Association for Justice LGBT Caucus and currently serves as California representative to the AAJ Board of Governors. Her professional specialty is representing victims of asbestos-related disease, particularly mesothelioma.
GROUP 4: How nonprofits and foundations can respond
Qudsiya Naqui
Officer, Pew Charitable Trusts
A lawyer and disability justice activist based in Washington, D.C., Qudsiya Naqui is also the creator and host of Down to the Struts, a podcast about disability and design. Her work on disability has been featured in Vox, Oxford University Press, the Disability Visibility Project and Forbes magazine.
Jocelyn D. Larkin
Executive Director, Impact Fund
Jocelyn Larkin is the Executive Director of the Impact Fund, a legal foundation in Berkeley, California, that provides funding, training and representation in support of social justice impact litigation. Her practice focuses on complex employment discrimination and class action practice on behalf of plaintiffs. She serves on the Board of the Civil Justice Research Initiative at Berkeley Law.
GROUP 5: How the legal academy can respond
David Yellen
Dean-designate, University of Miami School of Law; former CEO, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
Before joining IAALS as CEO in 2021, David Yellen served as Dean and Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and afterward was President of Marist College. He has been active in pro bono and community service work and led an inquiry into police torture in Chicago and argued a federal sentencing case at the United States Supreme Court.
Kellye Testy
President and CEO, The Law School Admission Council
Kellye Testy has headed the LSAC, an assessment, data and technology hub for law schools and their candidates, since 2017, the same year she was named the nation’s second-most- influential leader in legal education by National Jurist. Previously she was the first female Dean of the University of Washington School of Law and Dean and Professor at Seattle University School of Law.