About Us

Christine Durham retired from the Utah Supreme Court in 2017, after serving for 35 years, and as Chief Justice and Chair of the Utah Judicial Council from 2002 to 2012. She currently co-chairs Utah’s Coordinating Committee on Access to Justice and the Utah Center for Legal Inclusion, and consults on appellate issues. Before joining the Supreme Court she served on the state trial court after a number of years in private practice. She received her A.B. with honors from Wellesley College and a J.D. from Duke University, where she is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees. She is Past-President of the Conference of Chief Justices of the United States, and also past-chair of the American Bar Association’s Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the entity that accredits American law schools.

Roberta Cooper Ramo is a member of the New Mexico Bar. She was the first woman elected as President of the American Bar Association, the first woman elected as President of the American Law Institute, and is the only person to have served as both. She served as president of the American Bar Association, the largest nationwide organization of attorneys, from 1995 to 1996. She served as president of The American Law Institute from 2008 to 2017, and as ALI’s Chair until 2021. She has a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Colorado, a J.D. from the University of Chicago law school, and five honorary degrees. In 2015, Ms. Ramo received the American Bar Association’s highest award, the ABA Medal.

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and the American Bar Foundation. Roberta Cooper Ramo was appointed by the United States Senate and served as co-chair of a committee to review governance issues of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 2003. She is an honorary member of the Bar of England and Wales, and of Gray’s Inn.

Renee Knake Jefferson holds the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston where she teaches constitutional law, professional responsibility, and a seminar on gender, power, law and leadership. She also is a member of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the wake of the Nassar sex abuse scandal. She is an award-winning author of four books and numerous academic articles, including the Yale Law Journal Forum essay Lawyer Lies and Political Speech, and has testified before Congress and the federal judiciary about ethics reform.  She was elected to the American Law Institute in 2017, and was named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2016. She is a past-Chair for the Association of American Law Schools Section (“AALS”) on Professional Responsibility. She was appointed as the Reporter for the American Bar Association Presidential Commission on the Future of Legal Services from 2014-16. 

Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company. He is also a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, and a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security Program at the American University, Washington College of Law. He serves as an advisor to and former member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and a Contributing Editor of the Lawfare blog. He is a member of the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Advisory Committee on Admissions and Grievances. He serves, as well, as a Hearing Committee Member of the District of Columbia Board of Professional Responsibility. In 2011 he was a Carnegie Fellow in National Security Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Mr. Rosenzweig is a cum laude graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. He has an M.S. in Chemical Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego and a B.A from Haverford College. Following graduation from law school he served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson, III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is the author of Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World and of three video lecture series from The Great Courses, Thinking About Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare; The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You; and Investigating American Presidents. He is the co-author (with James Jay Carafano) of Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom and co-editor (with Jill D. Rhodes and Robert S. Litt) of the Cybersecurity Handbook (3rd ed.). He is also co-editor (with Timothy McNulty and Ellen Shearer) of two books, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, and National Security Law in the News: A Guide for Journalists, Scholars, and Policymakers. Mr. Rosenzweig is a member of the Literary Society of Washington.

Attorney Stuart Gerson’s respected trial and appellate skills and power of persuasion help him successfully represent health care, life sciences, and financial services clients in high-stakes civil and criminal matters nationwide.

Stuart has extensive experience litigating cases involving the cybersecurity of health care information, trade secrets, and other confidential data as well as civil and criminal fraud issues, particularly under the federal False Claims Act. He also defends various antitrust and securities matters for clients in the health care and financial sectors.

Stuart was appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States during the early Clinton administration, after having served as President G.H.W. Bush’s appointee as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). He has also served as an advisor to several presidents.

Since graduating from Yale Law School, Michael has focused his career on political law, civil rights, and employment law. Prior to taking on the role as Managing Director, he was general counsel at a national advocacy organization dedicated to expanding ballot access, served as an assistant attorney general for the state of Utah, and was on the faculties of several institutions of higher education, teaching constitutional law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, and election law.

Melissa is President of Moss Advisors and a veteran political strategist with over three decades of experience in public affairs. Melissa was the founder of Law Works, a bipartisan nonprofit dedicated to supporting and protecting the Mueller Investigation. Prior to forming Moss Advisors, Melissa was a Senior Vice President at Capital Guardian Trust Company and was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Consumer Network. She served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration and was the Finance Director of the Democratic National Committee and the first National Field Director of the Democratic Leadership Council. She also graduated UCLA and The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Eddie Vale is a partner at New Paradigm Strategy group and a veteran of Democratic and progressive political and legislative campaigns with an expertise in communications.
Before joining NP, Eddie was Vice President of the opposition research and communications super PAC American Bridge, where he oversaw a staff of nearly 100 with a $7 million annual budget working on federal and state elections and issue campaigns. Eddie has extensive experience planning and implementing concurrent national and state strategies having worked on four presidential independent expenditures, the Protect Your Care defense of the Affordable Care Act campaign, and the John Edwards for President campaign. Eddie is also a veteran of the labor movement having overseen communications for the AFL-CIO, the labor Super PAC Workers Voice, and Richard Trumka’s campaign for AFL-CIO President. Eddie has also done communications for Senate, Governor, and Congressional races.