<p>Widener University Delaware Law School is pleased to announce Ben W. Heineman Jr., senior fellow at Harvard Law School&rsquo;s Program on the Legal Profession and its Program on Corporate Governance, will deliver the 2016 annual <a href="ipl://678//W10=">Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law</a>.&nbsp;<br /><br />The media is invited to cover Heineman&rsquo;s lecture, &ldquo;Can General Counsels be Independent: Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension&rdquo; on Friday, Nov. 18 in the du Barry Room of the Hotel du Pont at 11<sup>th</sup> and Market Streets in Wilmington.<br /><br />Heineman is expected to discuss themes from his book, &ldquo;The Inside Counsel Revolution: Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension,&rdquo; published this year. In it, he looks at the past, present and future of&nbsp;the inside counsel movement, and&nbsp;the central role of General Counsel in advancing&nbsp;the core mission of today&rsquo;s corporation:&nbsp;to achieve high performance with high integrity and sound risk management. He is also expected to address&nbsp;the critical tension facing inside counsel&mdash;being&nbsp;partner&nbsp;to the board of directors, the CEO and business leaders, but ultimately being&nbsp;guardian&nbsp;of the corporation.<br /><br />Heineman will give an encore version of the lecture to students at Delaware Law School at 11 a.m. in Polishook Hall room 203, 4601 Concord Pike. <strong>Reporters</strong><strong> interested in attending the lecture at the Hotel du Pont are asked to contact the Delaware Law Public Relations Office in advance so that we may anticipate your attendance for breakfast, which begins at 8 a.m. The talk at the hotel will run from 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.&nbsp;<br /><br /></strong>Heineman is the former senior vice president and general counsel at General Electric. In addition to his other positions at Harvard, he is senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard&rsquo;s Kennedy School of Government, and lecturer in law at Yale Law School. A former Rhodes Scholar, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard, a graduate degree in political science from Oxford University and his law degree from Yale. A head shot is available <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/widenerlaw/30630247921/in/album-72157674554477972/">here.</a>&nbsp;<br /><br />The annual Pileggi lecture is presented by Delaware Law School and the <a href="ipl://565//W10=">Delaware Journal of Corporate Law</a>. The series has attracted many renowned speakers in the area of corporate law since the first Pileggi lecture in 1986. One continuing legal education credit is available to attorneys from Delaware and Pennsylvania who attend (no ethics). <br /><br />There is no cost to attend the breakfast or lecture. The event is made possible by the generosity of the late Francis G. Pileggi, a founding attorney of Pileggi &amp; Pileggi and father of Delaware Law alumnus Francis G.X. Pileggi, who conceived of the idea through a desire to create a corporate law forum for practitioners, judges and academics.&nbsp;<br /><br />Those interested in attending should register at <a href="ipl://678//W10=">DelawareLaw.Widener.edu/Pileggi2016</a>. For more information, contact Rose Callahan at 302.477.2014.<br /><br />Widener University is a metropolitan university that connects curricula to social issues through civic engagement. Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, applied leadership, and experiential learning are key components of the Widener experience.&nbsp; Its Delaware Law School is the First State&rsquo;s only law school, providing juris doctor, legal graduate and paralegal degree programs with an emphasis on developing legal professionals who reflect the Delaware Way and its traditions of civility, integrity and mutual respect. The school offers signature programs in corporate and business law, environmental law, family health law and policy, and trial advocacy. Widener University is proud to be tobacco free. Visit <a href="{staticroot}">delawarelaw.widener.edu</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>Contact: Mary Allen, public relations officer<br /> Office: 302.477.2175, Cell: 302-562-9239&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> <a href="mailto:mallen@widener.edu">mallen@widener.edu</a></p>
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