Page 7 - Delaware Lawyer - Issue 2 - 2024

| CONTRIBUTORS |
The Honorable Mary M. Johnston (Ret.) is a retired judge of the Delaware Superior Court, where she presided over hundreds of jury and bench trials during her more than 20-year tenure, including more than a decade on the Superior Court’s preeminent Complex Commercial Litigation Division.
Judge Johnston was often cross-designated as a Vice Chancellor of the Court of Chancery, and was regularly appointed to complete panels of the Delaware Supreme Court for appeals from the Court of Chancery. As a jurist, Judge Johnston successfully mediated complex corporate and commercial disputes, and she now prac- tices as a full-time professional neutral with Delaware ADR, LLC.
William D. Johnston is a part- ner with Young Conaway Star- gatt & Taylor, LLP. He brings more than 40 years of practice experience as an advocate on behalf of clients in corporate and other business counseling and litigation to assist parties and their counsel as a media- tor, arbitrator, court-appointed
neutral (Special Magistrate) and expert witness. His re- cord of service includes President of the Delaware State Bar Association, President of the American Judicature Society, Chair of the ABA Business Law Section, State Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, and President of the American Counsel Association. He is certified by the Delaware Superior Court as a mediator and a com- mercial arbitrator, is a Distinguished Neutral with CPR: International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, is a Commercial Arbitrator and Consumer Arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals.
James H. S. Levine is a partner with Troutman Pepper Ham- ilton Sanders LLP, where he regularly represents clients in complex corporate and commer- cial disputes, including breach of contract, fiduciary duty and bet-the-company litigation. He has extensive experience in the Court of Chancery, as well as
in the Superior Court Complex Commercial Litigation Division and the District of Delaware. In addition to
his litigation and counseling practice, Levine has served by judicial appointment as a special master, and has also served as a mediator in corporate and alternative entity disputes, and in breach-of-contract actions. Levine is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Delaware Lawyer, a member of the Delaware Board of Bar Examiners, and has held leadership positions in multiple sections of the Delaware State Bar Association.
Peter J. Walsh, Jr. chairs Pot- ter Anderson & Corroon LLP’s Executive Committee and is a partner in the Corporate Litiga- tion Group. He joined the firm following a clerkship in the Delaware Court of Chancery and handles complex corpo- rate and commercial cases in
the Delaware courts. Walsh has first-chaired many trials in the Delaware courts and
has successfully argued numerous appeals before the Supreme Court of Delaware, as well as several in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He regularly handles Court of Chancery proceedings, including stockholder class and derivative actions, sum- mary proceedings pursuant to the General Corporation Law, and disputes involving alternative entities. He also frequently counsels officers, directors and board com- mittees in matters of Delaware corporate law, primarily in the context of ongoing or anticipated litigation.
ISSUE 2 2024 DELAWARE LAWYER 5