The sixth season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 3 p.m., with a dialogue featuring Richard W. Painter and Nick Akerman moderated by NY1 anchor Errol Louis.
Richard W. Painter, the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, served as the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush and for White House employees and senior nominees to Senate-confirmed positions in the Executive Branch.
He has published op-eds on government ethics for a number of first-tier national publications. He is also a nationally recognized authority on corporate, government, and lawyer ethics and ethics law, who brings a conservative perspective on meaningful reform in both business and government. Additionally he is an expert on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a key provision of which is based on his work.
He is the author of books on banking reform, governmental ethics reform, and most recently, the first book on campaign finance reform by a conservative. .
Nick Akerman is a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, where he helps clients navigate the Judicial System in dealing with complex civil and criminal issues and government investigations. Prior to private practice Ackerman served as a federal prosecutor as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a wide array of white collar criminal matters, including bank frauds, bankruptcy frauds, stock frauds, complex financial frauds, environmental and tax crimes.
Akerman was also an Assistant Special Watergate Prosecutor with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force under Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski.
Akerman has over 30 years of experience in helping clients respond to government investigations and prosecutions and assisting corporate clients prevent and respond to internal thefts and outside hackers. He is a nationally recognized expert on computer crime and the protection of competitively sensitive information and computer data.
Errol Louis is the Political Anchor of NY1 News, where he hosts Inside City Hall, a nightly prime-time show about New York City politics, on which he interviews political and cultural leaders. Louis also is a CNN Contributor, providing on-air commentary on key events from presidential primaries to Election Night. He writes frequently for CNN.com.
Following the dialogue, there will be a Q&A and refreshments.
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