NEWS & EVENTS
Veteran Business Lawyer Named Executive Director of Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy JOel a. FeUer, partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP since 1989, has been named the new executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. Feuer has significant experience in a wide range of business law matters including corporate and securities law issues, real estate, tax and contract matters. He has handled a broad array of complex business litigation, has significant trial and arbitration experience and has regularly counseled corporations and their directors and officers on corporate governance matters and transactions. Feuer served as co-chair of the firm’s litigation department for the Los Angeles and Century City offices and as one of the leaders of the firm’s securities litigation practice. “I am honored to join UCLA School of Law as the next executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy,” Joel Feuer said. “I look forward to working with Dean Moran and the UCLA Law community to build on the institute’s accomplishments and help advance solutions to current business law and policy issues.” Feuer received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in 1976 from Pomona College. He then attended University College, Oxford University, and received a first class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He attended law school at UC Berkeley School of Law and served as the Supreme Court editor of the California Law Review. After law school, he joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, but left in April 1983 to become United States District Court Judge Joel A. Feuer Pamela Rymer's first law clerk. Feuer is a frequent speaker on corporate litigation issues, and he is on the board of directors of the Constitutional Rights Foundation. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Pomona College since 2011, and in fall 2013 he became a member of the executive committee and chair of the trusteeship committee.
Business Law Breakfasts Address Executive Compensation and the Financial Crisis
Participants at the Bankruptcy Success Modeling Conference
Lowell Milken Institute Hosts Bankruptcy Success Modeling Conference the loWell Milken inStitute foR buSineSS laW and Policy hosted the Bankruptcy Success Modeling Conference in February, sponsored by the UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (BRD). The conference brought together leading bankruptcy scholars in order to begin developing empirical evidence on what causes reorganizations to succeed or fail. Conference participants shared findings and discussed the direction of future data collection and analysis, with the goal of creating a set of statistical models that can identify, predict and explain success and evaluate bankruptcy procedures. The BRD was developed by Professor Lynn LoPucki and contains information on every large, public company bankruptcy filed in the United States since 1980. Professor LoPucki donated the research database to UCLA School of Law in December 2009, and it is available without charge to scholars throughout the world at http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu/.
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the loWell Milken inStitute foR buSineSS laW and Policy hosted a Business Law Breakfast with Charles M. Elson, a leading expert on executive compensation and corporate governance, in September 2012. Elson, the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., chair in corporate governance and the director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, gave the talk “Executive Superstars, Peer Groups and Over-Compensation— Cause, Effect and Solution.” He argued that the common practice of tying executive compensation Charles M. Elson to competitive benchmarks is misguided, and offered recommendations for refocusing the premise and process for establishing appropriate executive compensation levels in today’s corporate marketplace. In January, Neil Barofsky, who served as the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (“SIGTARP”) during the financial crisis, was the featured Business Law Breakfast speaker. Barofsky, who is currently an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, discussed what he learned from his time as SIGTARP. He offered his views on the financial crisis, including his conclusion that it was mishandled by the Neil Barofsky government, and spoke about what should be done to keep history from repeating itself. The Business Law Breakfast series provides an informal venue for the discussion of current business law issues with the region’s business and legal communities, including attorneys, accountants, investment bankers and academics.
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