R. Michael Cassidy
Professor, Boston College Law School
Professor
Michael Cassidy is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He teaches and
writes in the areas of Criminal Law, Evidence, and Professional
Responsibility. He is considered an expert on the subject of
prosecutorial ethics, and frequently provides training to public sector
attorneys on their responsibilities under the Rules of Professional
Conduct.
During his extensive career as a government lawyer,
Professor Cassidy prosecuted hundreds of serious felony cases at both
the trial and appellate levels, including briefing and arguing numerous
high-profile criminal matters before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court. Immediately prior to joining the Boston College faculty,
Professor Cassidy served as Chief of the Criminal Bureau in the
Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
Among his many
professional and community activities, Professor Cassidy has served as
a member of the Governor's Commission on Corrections Reform, as a
member of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, as Editor-in-Chief
of the Massachusetts Law Review, as a hearing officer for the Board of
Bar Overseers, as a member of the Criminal Justice Section Council of
the Boston Bar Association, and as a member of the Board of Advisors to
the National District Attorneys Association. He is also active in local
government and youth sports in his home town of Winchester,
Massachusetts.
Professor Cassidy received his B.A. degree, magna
cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame, and his J.D. degree,
magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Following law school he
served as law clerk to the Honorable Edward F. Hennessey, Chief Justice
of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
James A. Champy
Chairman of Consulting, Perot Systems
James
A. Champy is chairman of Perot Systems’ consulting practice and also
head of strategy for the company. He is responsible for providing
direction and guidance to the company's team of business and management
consultants.
Mr. Champy is a leading authority on the management
issues surrounding business reengineering, organizational change and
corporate renewal. He consults extensively with senior-level executives
of multinational companies seeking to improve business performance. His
approach centers on helping leaders achieve business results through
four distinct, yet overlapping areas -- business strategy, management
and operations, organizational development and change, and information
technology.
Prior to joining Perot Systems, Mr. Champy was
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CSC Index, the management
consulting arm of Computer Science Corporation. He was one of the
original founders of Index, a $200 million consulting practice that was
acquired by CSC in 1988. Under Mr. Champy's aegis, the company's
consulting practice grew at a rate of 25% a year.
He is
recognized worldwide for his reengineering and change management
insight. He is co-author of Reengineering the Corporation, a
best-seller which sold more than two million copies and was on the New
York Times best-seller list for more than a year; it has been
translated into 17 languages. His follow-up book, Reengineering
Management, is also a best-seller and was recognized by Business Week
as one of the best business books of 1995. His newest book,
co-authored with Harvard Business School Professor Nitin Nohria, is The
Arc of Ambition. Mr. Champy also collaborated with Professor Nohria
for the book Fast Forward, which is a compilation of significant
Harvard Business Review articles on change; it was published in March
1996.
Mr. Champy’s latest book is X-engineering the Corporation,
Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age. In this work, Mr. Champy
takes up the opportunity and challenge for cross-organizational process
design and collaboration.
Mr. Champy has moderated programs for
the PBS Business Channel and he has also been a guest on Wall Street
Week with Louis Rukeyser. His columns on management have appeared in
ComputerWorld, Sales & Marketing Management, and Forbes magazine.
Mr.
Champy received both his bachelor's and master's degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his law degree from Boston
College Law School. He is a life member of the MIT Corporation, the
school's board of trustees, and a member of the Board of Overseers of
the Boston College Law School. He also serves on the Board of Analog
Devices, Inc., a world leader in high performance signal processing
solutions, based in Norwood, MA.
Paul K. Connolly, Jr.
Vice President and General Counsel, Energy East Corporation
Mr.
Connolly was elected Vice President and General Counsel of Energy East
Corporation effective January 1, 2006. Energy East is a public utility
holding company with electric and gas utility subsidiaries in five
states in the Northeast.
Before joining Energy East Mr. Connolly
was the Managing Partner for the Boston office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene
& MacRae for 25 years and head of the firms’ state regulatory
practice. The majority of Mr. Connolly’s professional experience has
been in the energy industry representing gas and electric utilities in
various aspects of their business including rates, mergers and
acquisitions, financings, purchased power agreements, natural gas
contracts, franchise authorizations, corporate disaggregations and
asset acquisitions. Mr. Connolly has participated in regulatory
hearings in over 15 states and in civil trials and appellate
proceedings in state and federal courts.
Areas of Practice:
Energy Law
Public Utility Regulation
Litigation
Education:
A.B., College of the Holy Cross, 1966
J.D., Boston College, 1969
Prior Experience:
Crane, Inker & Oteri (1969 – 1971)
General Litigation Practice
Assistant Attorney General Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1971 – 1975)
Started
the regulated industries section of the Attorney General’s Office and
represented the Commonwealth in over fifty major regulatory
proceedings.
Connolly and Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts (1975 – 1981)
Represented the Department of Public Utilities during 1975 and thereafter represented a number of major industrial energy users.
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP (see above: 1981 - 2005)
Author:
“Natural
Gas Law; Environmental Legacies of Public Utilities – Why Rate Payers
Should Bear the Clean-up Costs for Gas Plants,” 1990
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