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Carla M. Jones is an attorney at Potter An- derson & Corroon LLP. Her practice focuses
on complex commer-
cial and employment litigation in the state and federal courts of Delaware. A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Delaware and Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, she is a mem- ber of the Delaware Superior Court Civil Rules Advisory Committee, Richard S. Rodney American Inn of Court, and Junior Achievement of Delaware Young Professionals Board.
James Levine is a partner with Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sand- ers LLP. He regu-
larly represents clients in
complex corporate and commercial disputes in the state and fed-
eral courts of Delaware. He is a member of the Delaware Board of Bar Examiners, a longtime member of the DSBA Litiga- tion Section Council, and the immediate past Chair of the E-Discovery & Technol- ogy Law Section. Levine has served on the Delaware Lawyer editorial board since 2012 and has edited multiples issues, in- cluding most recently our Fall 2022 issue that focused on Corporate Law.
Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick was sworn in as Chancellor of the Court of Chan- cery on May 6, 2021.
Chancellor McCormick first joined the court as Vice Chancellor on November 1, 2018. Prior to joining the Court, Chancellor McCormick was a partner
in the Delaware law firm Young Con- away Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, where she focused her practice on litigating internal governance and corporate disputes, pri- marily in the Court of Chancery. Before entering private practice, Chancellor McCormick was a staff attorney with the Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Chancellor McCormick received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her law degree from Notre Dame Law School. She is a Delaware native and a graduate of Smyrna High.
The Hon. Collins J. Seitz, Jr. was sworn
in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on November 8, 2019. He has served
as a Supreme Court Justice since 2015. Prior to his appointment, Chief Justice Seitz founded a corporate advisory and litigation firm in Wilmington, represent- ing clients in high-profile corporate and trust disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Supreme Court. He was also a long-time partner in a large Wilmington law firm, where he litigated corporate and intellectual property disputes.
Chief Justice Seitz serves as Judicial Liaison to the Corporate Laws Commit- tee of the American Bar Association and is an advisor on the American Law Insti- tute’s Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance. He also serves on the Judi- cial Conference Committee on Federal- State Jurisdiction. A member of the Delaware Bar since 1983, Chief Justice Seitz formerly served as a Board Member and Chair of the Delaware Board of Bar Examiners, and a member of the Board on Professional Responsibility. Federal and state courts appointed him as a Master and Trustee to oversee complex corporate, commercial and intellectual property cases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Chief Justice Seitz is a trustee of the American Inns of Court and serves as
a board member of Hockessin Colored School 107c — an organization dedicat- ed to celebrating Delaware's role in one of the cases appealed in Brown v. Board of Education. He has led court efforts in Delaware to promote greater diversity in the Delaware Bar through the Dela- ware Bench and Bar Diversity Project. Under Chief Justice Seitz’s leadership,
| CONTRIBUTORS | major changes were made recently to the
Delaware Bar Exam to make the state a more attractive and welcoming place to practice law and engage in public service.
Chief Justice Seitz received his un- dergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and his law degree from the Villanova University School of Law.
Dr. David Wilk, MAI, CRE joined Temple University Fox School of Business in 2018 and serves as an As- sistant Professor of
Finance and Director of the Real Estate Program. He has 34 years of academic experience teaching undergraduate
and graduate real estate courses at the University of Delaware Lerner College of Business (1989-2012), Johns Hop- kins University Carey Business School (2012-2017) and Georgetown Univer- sity (2016 to 2018).
Dr. Wilk has been a real estate man- agement consultant for over 35 years, including senior positions at Valuation Research Corporation, Arthur D. Lit- tle, EY, Duff & Phelps, SVN and Col- liers International. His specialization
is creating value for real estate assets held by public and private enterprises, private equity, governments, universi- ties, healthcare systems and nonprofits through optimization strategies that measure and deliver new earnings and cost savings.
His community service activities include being Chair and Interim CEO of the nonprofit organization Friends of Hockessin Colored School #107, where he led the efforts to transform a former school in Hockessin, DE into a Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Eq- uity over the past 12 years.
Dr. Wilk has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Uni- versity of Delaware, a Master of Science in Real Estate and Infrastructure from Johns Hopkins University, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Temple University Fox School of Business.
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