The Sedona Conference® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and educational institute, dedicated to the advanced study of law and policy in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, and complex litigation. Since its founding in 1997, it has developed an international reputation as a balanced and forward-looking law and policy think tank that has and will continue to provide constructive contributions to the reasoned and just development of law and policy. Already, judges, lawyers, consultants and others from 47 states (missing ND, WY., and AK), the District of Columbia, and 6 countries have participated in the Conferences and Working Groups of The Sedona Conference. Output from The Sedona Conference has been cited in cases, reports, articles, bibliographies, and commentary, both domestic and international.

Together with a blue-ribbon Advisory Board, founder and Executive Director Richard G. Braman utilizes his decades of experience in the litigation of antitrust, intellectual property rights and other complex matters to steer each conference to the leading edge issues of law and policy. His strategy is to bring the right mix of people to a remote, yet beautiful location, and then to provoke enthusiastic discussion, using the conference theme and written materials as springboards. The strategy has been succeeding; the level of discussion and debate at the conferences has been consistently described as "thought provoking and inspiring." (See Raves.) There simply is no comparable forum for the serious discussion of leading edge issues of law and policy involving fundamental aspects of our legal system and the structure of our society.

Advisory Board

Name	Affiliation
Alioto, Joseph M.	Alioto Law Firm, San Francisco, CA
Baker, Tyler A.	Fenwick & West, Mountain View, CA
Brady, Kevin F.	Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, Wilmington, DE
Cabraser, Elizabeth	Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA.
Calkins, Professor Stephen	Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI
Campbell, Mr. Justice Colin L.	Superior Court of Justice - Toronto, Canada
Carroll, The Hon. John L.	Dean, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, AL
Caufield, Barbara	Kaye Scholer, Menlo Park, CA
Cecil, Joe S.	Federal Judicial Center, Washington DC
Ciresi, Michael V.	Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN
Facciola, The Hon. John M.	United States Magistrate Judge, Washington, D.C.
Hausfeld, Michael D.	Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Hay, Professor George A.	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hayden, The Hon. Katharine Sweeney	United States District Court, Newark, NJ
Hedges, Ron	Ronald J. Hedges LLC, Hackensack, NJ
Hoffman, Hon. Morris B.	2nd Judicial District Court, Denver CO
Illston, The Hon. Susan	U.S. District Judge, N.D.CA, San Francisco, CA
Kanner, Allan	Kanner & Whiteley, New Orleans, LA
Letourneau, The Hon. Mr. Justice Gilles	Federal Court of Appeal, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Marten, The Hon. J. Thomas	U.S. District Judge, District of Kansas, Wichita, KS.
Michel, The Hon. Chief Judge Paul R.	Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC
Nast, Dianne M.	Roda & Nast, Lancaster, PA
Nolan, The Hon. Nan R.	U.S. Magistrate Judge, ND IL
O'Malley, The Hon. Kathleen McDonald	U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland, OH
Opperman, Vance K.	Key Investment, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Peck, The Hon. Andrew J.	U.S. Magistrate Judge, SD NY
Popofsky, M. Laurence	Heller Ehrman, San Francisco, CA
Redgrave, Jonathan M.	Nixon Peabody LLP, Washington, D.C.
Rosenbaum, The Hon. James M.	U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Rothstein, The Hon. Barbara Jacobs	Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C.
Saltzburg, Prof. Stephen A.	George Washington University Law Center, Washington, DC.
Scheindlin, The Hon. Shira A.	United States District Judge, Southern District of New York, New York, NY
Shaffer, The Hon. Craig B.	U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Colorado
Shulman, Daniel R.	Gray Plant Mooty, Minneapolis, MN
Sterne, Robert G.	Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, Washington, DC
Suplee, Dennis R.	Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA
Tidmarsh, Professor Jay	Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN
Tretheway, Barbara	HealthPartners, Bloomington, MN
Weinlein, Craig W.	Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, Dallas, TX
West, The Hon. Carl J.	Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA

Executive Director: Richard G. Braman