Faculty

Program Director Karl S. Okamoto has experienced business law as both an attorney and an entrepreneur. Professor Okamoto was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and at Dechert LLP before working as a consultant for Soros Fund Management and becoming senior managing director for Atticus Capital LP. A former executive officer and board member of Harvest Book Company LLC, he was a director of Champps Entertainment Inc. and currently serves on the board of Cosi Inc. His scholarship includes articles in the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review and the Journal of Legal Education, among others.

Dean Roger S. Dennis is an expert in securities, antitrust, corporate law and the interplay between law and economics. Dean Dennis was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom after serving as a trial attorney and special assistant to the assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has held an elected seat on the American Law Institute for nearly two decades and chaired numerous committees of the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education as well as the Association of American Law Schools. His publications include articles in Publius, the Maryland Law Review, the Brooklyn Law Review and the Chicago-Kent Law Review.

Trustee Professor of Law Amy Boss is an internationally recognized expert on legal issues in electronic commerce, a widely published scholar on codifying international commercial law through treaty, a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and the first professor and second woman to chair the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Professor Boss worked with the White House and the Department of Commerce under former President Bill Clinton to draft a position paper on global commerce that laid the foundation for U.S. policy in this arena. A member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, she has been an integral part of the modernization of commercial law throughout the United States.

Assistant Professor Adam Benforado’s experience in business law includes international transactional work as an associate with Latham & Watkins LLP in London. Professor Benforado also handled trial and appellate litigation matters in telecommunications, international antitrust and commercial contract disputes an associate at Jenner & Block LLP in Washington, D.C. As a scholar, Professor Benforado applies the lessons of social psychology and related fields to law and legal theory, including the means by which corporations advance their goals through the legal system.

Adjunct Faculty

Professor Robert E. Connolly is Chief of the Antitrust Division of the Philadelphia Field Office of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he supervises 16 attorneys who enforce federal antitrust laws. He has investigated international, national and regional price-fixing cartels and obtained convictions against 45 defendants for bid rigging and price fixing.

Professor Robert L. Hickok is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of Pepper Hamilton LLP, where he focuses his commercial-litigation practice on matters involving corporate governance, antitrust laws, federal securities laws and class action defense. His expertise includes applying economic analysis to the resolution of legal issues.

Professor Helene Leone is a shareholder with Capehart Scatchard, where she concentrates her practice on corporate, commercial and general business representations, including counseling small and emerging businesses and entrepreneurs in matters of formation, acquisition, and ongoing operation, as well as real estate.

Professor Norman Stein has been a full-time faculty member at the University of Alabama School of Law since 1984, teaching federal taxation, business organizations, labor law and tax policy. He has served as counsel to the American Association of Retired Persons, was a consultant to the General Accounting Office, taught in the IRS General Counsel's continuing education program and has testified before Congress on pension issues.

Professor Robert Tomilson is Chief Counsel at Cigna Corporation, where he is senior counsel for operations and serves as lead counsel for recovery and manages insurance litigation. Previously, he was senior associate for insurance and reinsurance at Chadbourne & Park LLC in Washington, D.C. and an associate in dispute resolution at Bryan Cave LLP in Washington.