Officers of the Business Law Section Standing Committees

Want to contact a BLS Standing Committee? Below are links to the committee officers.

Agribusiness Committee

Lauren D. Layne, Chair
Mark R. Bateman, Vice Chair
TBD, Vice Chair of Legislation
Elise C. O’Brien, Vice Chair of Programs
Kari E. Fisher, Vice Chair of Publications

Business Law News Editorial Board

Jerome A. Grossman, Editor-in-Chief
Everett L. Green, Vice Chair

Business Litigation

Philip Bonoli, Co-Chair
Ellen Fenichel, Co-Chair
Jon Pfeiffer, Co-Vice Chair
Neil Wertlieb, Co-Vice Chair
Michael Shklovsky, Secretary

Commercial Transactions Committee
(formerly UCC)

Loren Kessler Higgins, Co-Chair
Walter Oetzel, Co-Chair

Consumer Financial Services Committee

Tricia E. Engelhardt, Co-Chair
Hadi R. Seyed-Ali, Co-Chair

Corporations Committee

Evan T. Pickering, Co-Chair
Jerry T. Yen, Co-Chair
Katerine J. Blair, Vice Chair of Publication
Darren L. Nunn, Vice Chair of Legislation

Financial Institutions Committee

Michael K. Slattery, Chair
Jeffrey G. Huron, Vice Chair

Franchise Law Committee

David S. Levaton, Chair
Taylor M. Vernon, Vice Chair of Publications
Leopoldo A. Bautista, Vice Chair of Membership
Matthew J. Kreutzer, Vice Chair of Legislation
Gerard P. Davey, Vice Chair of Programs

Health Law Committee

Craig S. Rutenberg, Chair
David K. Leatherberry, Vice Chair of Litigation
H. Thomas Watson, Vice Chair of Communications & Education
Long X. Do, Co-Vice Chair of Legislation
Carol D. Scott, Co-Vice Chair of Regulation
Gabriel R. Ravel, Co-Vice Chair of Regulation
Jane Boubelik, Vice Chair of Membership

Insolvency Law Committee

Radmila A. Fulton, Co-Chair
John N. Tedford, Co-Chair
Rebecca J. Winthrop, Co-Vice Chair
Marcus Colabianchi, Co-Vice Chair

Insurance Law Committee

Virginia A. Bolman, Co-Chair
Robert J. Cerny, Co-Chair
Katherine Nichols, Vice Chair of Membership/Secretary
Limor Lehavi, Vice Chair of Programs
Steve Fleischman, Vice Chair of Appellate
Bill Gausewitz, Vice Chair of Regulatory
Alan Barbanel, Vice Chair of Communications
Dwight Ku, Vice Chair of Legislative

Internet & Privacy Law Committee
(formerly Cyberspace Law Committee)

Mark B. Aldrich, Chair
Ginny Sanderson, Co-Vice Chair
Joshua de Larios Heiman, Co-Vice Chair

Nonprofit Organizations Committee

Myron S. Steeves, Chair
Carol A. Bradford, Vice Chair of Membership
Steven Chiodini, Vice Chair of Communications
Nikki Pope, Vice Chair of Programs
Barbara Rosen, Vice Chair of Policies

Opinions Committee

Peter Szurley, Co-Chair
Kenneth J. Carl, Co-Chair
Douglas F. Landrum, Vice Chair
Carol K. Lucas, Vice Chair of Communications
Richard N. Frasch, Vice Chair of Social Media

Partnerships and LLCs Committee

Soyeun D. Choi, Chair
Nina L. Hong, Secretary