ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kelly L. Faglioni, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP / Richmond
Kelly Faglioni practices as a commercial and regulatory litigator on products liability and post-M&A disputes and issues and serves as one of the firm’s Deputy General Counsel focusing on law firm ethics, conflicts, and risk management issues.
Ms. Faglioni’s litigation experience spans both commercial and regulatory litigation before state and federal trial and appellate courts, regulatory agencies, and alternative dispute resolution forums. A significant amount of her litigation practice has focused on product issues that have included compliance, recall, investigations, retail sale, warranty, and products liability. She also has experience litigating professional malpractice, business torts, and post-M&A, contract, corporate governance, and partnership disputes. Her regulatory litigation practice has involved the nuclear and telecommunications industries. She clerked for the Honorable A. Christian Compton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1992-93.
As a Deputy General Counsel for the firm, Ms. Faglioni has substantial experience with law firm ethics, conflicts, compliance, and risk management, including defense of malpractice and third party claims. She is involved in training and formulating firm policies and procedures aimed at addressing a variety of risks. As an outgrowth of this experience, she has become involved in representing other law firms, lawyers, or corporate law departments in ethics and malpractice issues. Ms. Faglioni chairs the firm's Conflicts and Professional Conduct Committee, regularly advises on conflicts and other ethics issues and compliance with professional rules, and guides the firm’s Business Intake and Conflicts section. She has taught scores of ethics CLEs and served as an adjunct professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law.
D. Alan Rudlin, former litigation partner at Hunton & Williams / Richmond
Alan Rudlin’s practice focused on complex commercial and environmental matters, including class action, energy, and fiduciary litigation. His practice was diverse geographically as well as in dispute areas, involving him in numerous trials throughout the country. In addition to the core areas noted above, he has handled a number of significant appellate, defamation, and constitutional litigation matters.
Mr. Rudlin also engaged in various types of alternative dispute resolution and served as the chair of the VSB-VBA Joint Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and was a member of the leadership of the American Bar Association Litigation Section for over 30 years. Among many teaching positions, Mr. Rudlin has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law, William & Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law, and the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law. He has lectured extensively at Duke University Law School, American University, Washington and Lee University Law School, and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He currently teaches a course at William & Mary law school entitled Citizen Lawyers: Lessons in Leadership.