Gary Feinerman

Partner at Latham & Watkins

Speaker

Gary Feinerman is a former federal district judge and state solicitor general who representsclients in their highest stakes litigation. He serves as Co-Chair of the Chicago office’sLitigation & Trial Department.Gary leverages three decades’ experience — including 12 years as district judge for the USDistrict Court for the Northern District of Illinois, four years as Solicitor General of Illinois, andmore than a decade in private practice.

As a federal district judge, Gary presided over several dozen jury and bench trials, handled abroad array of complex civil and criminal matters, and issued over 1,000 opinions. He heardmore than 100 appeals sitting by designation on the US Courts of Appeal for the Seventhand Ninth Circuits, served by appointment of the Chief Justice on the Judicial ConferenceAdvisory Committee on Criminal Rules, chaired the Seventh Circuit Civil Jury InstructionsCommittee, presided over a multidistrict litigation, and served on the Seventh Circuit JudicialCouncil and the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and Employment DisputeResolution Plan for the Seventh Circuit.