Richard F. Ziegler — Managing Partner of The New York Office at Jenner & Block

Mr. Richard F. Ziegler serves as Managing Partner of the New York Office at Jenner & Block LLP. Mr. Ziegler focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and government enforcement matters, including contract, financial and intellectual property disputes, and corporate governance and compliance matters. Mr. Ziegler also co-chairs the Firm's International Arbitration Practice, formerly co-chaired the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, and serves on the Firm's Management Committee. He served as a Partner of Jenner & Block LLP since September 2007. Mr. Ziegler served as Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel of 3M Precision Optics, Inc., 3M Health Care Ltd. and 3M Company from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Ziegler has more than 30 years of legal and management experience. He was responsible for all of 3M's legal affairs worldwide and led a department of more than 150 lawyers. During Mr. Ziegler's tenure as General Counsel of 3M - part of the Dow Jones Industrial index - he oversaw changes in its corporate governance and business conduct processes, its largest-ever acquisition, and significant litigation involving intellectual property, antitrust, product liability, employment and environmental matters. Before joining 3M from 1983 to 2002, Mr. Ziegler was a partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York for more than two decades, serving as the Coordinator of its New York litigation practice and a member of its Executive Committee. He also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and law clerk for Federal Judge Milton Pollack in Manhattan. Mr. Ziegler chaired the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association. He has also taught a seminar on ethics and complex litigation at Columbia Law School. Drawing on his experience as in-house and external counsel Mr. Ziegler is a frequent author and speaker on compliance and governance matters. He has published on the role of the board of directors in corporate compliance programs, and wrote the chapter on FCPA compliance programs in a forthcoming treatise. He led a panel on the 'what, why and how' of Enterprise Risk Management at PLI's Corporate Counsel Institute in 2009, and a panel discussion on internal investigations at the 2008 Corporate Counsel Institute (of which he was a co-chair), both in New York. Mr. Ziegler has conducted more than 20 jury and bench trials and arbitrations. His notable victories include landmark rulings in which the Delaware Supreme Court, en banc, clarified the scope of directors' immunity from monetary damages for disclosure violations (Arnold v. Society for Savings), the Second Circuit changed the limitations period in securities actions (Ceres Partners v. GEL Associates), the Federal Circuit, en banc, narrowed the doctrine of equivalents in patent infringement cases (Honeywell v. Hamilton Sundstrand), the Eighth Circuit determined criteria for vicarious liability under the RICO statute (Tonka v. Luthi), and the New York Court of Appeals clarified the law of tortious interference with contract in the merger context (NBT BanCorp. v. Fleet/Norstar). He is a co-chair of the 2010 PLI Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute in New York. Mr. Ziegler was an Executive Business Fellow at the Center for Ethical Business Cultures in 2007-08. In 2010, Mr. Ziegler was recognized by the BTI Consulting Group as one of its 'Client Service All Stars.' Mr. Ziegler earned his J.D. law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his B.A. from Yale College summa cum laude in 1971.