Past Event
CHAPTER LUNCHEON

Thursday, February 21, 2008
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Taix French Restaurant
1911 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA  90026
TOPIC:  “BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE ENRON INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL:  Lessons for
Corporate Governance and the Right Internal Investigation.”

SPEAKER:  John C. Hueston, lead prosecutor for the Enron trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey
Skilling.

DESCRIPTION OF SPEECH: As a corporate crisis expert and the former lead prosecutor for the
trial of Skilling and Lay, Mr. Hueston will discuss the key turning points in the investigation and
trial of Skilling and Lay.  He will then before lay out the internal investigation that could have
saved Enron, corporate governance failures that created the climate that enabled Enron’s
frauds, and lessons for avoiding Enron’s mistakes.

SPEAKER BIO:  John Hueston has extensive jury trial experience, and has been selected to
serve as lead trial counsel by Fortune 500 companies and by governments in a variety of cases,
including shareholder class action cases, patent litigation cases, trademark infringement cases,
environmental cases, and cases alleging unfair business practices. A former lead prosecutor for
the Enron trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, Mr. Hueston also devotes a substantial part of
his practice to internal investigations, corporate crisis management and white collar criminal
defense.

California Lawyer Magazine named Mr. Hueston a 2007 "California Attorney of the Year." The
American Lawyer magazine recognized Mr. Hueston as one of the nation's Top 50 Young
Litigators. Fortune magazine chose Mr. Hueston as one of 25 People Who Shaped the Face of
Business in 2006. The Los Angeles Daily Journal named him as one of California’s 100 most
influential lawyers (2006) and as a Top 20 California Lawyer Under 40 (2001). Mr. Hueston has
never lost a trial.

As Forbes magazine noted of his work in the trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, where he
served as a lead prosecutor, “John Hueston was quickly able to establish a clear, uninterrupted
connection between fraudulent activities at Enron and the two defendants . . . . a methodically
researched presentation of evidence proving the defendants’ guilt.” The Los Angeles Times
described Mr. Hueston’s cross-examination of Lay as “devastating” and The Associated Press
called him “the perfect David to Lay’s Goliath.”

As a prosecutor, Mr. Hueston was presented with four awards by three U.S. Attorneys General
for his trial work, including the highest award bestowed by the U.S. Department of Justice.  As a
partner at Irell & Manella, Mr. Hueston has been retained to represent clients in their most
significant and high-profile matters, including:
representation of the Navajo Nation in uranium contamination matters, representation of
witnesses at recent congressional hearings; representation of two former Chief Executive
Officers in two separate criminal and S.E.C. stock option backdating investigations;  
representation of a Fortune 500 company in a successful defense in one its most significant
patent litigation matters; representation of a Fortune 250 company in national class action
related to alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act; representation of UCLA in civil
actions against organizations and individuals threatening violence against faculty members and
administrators; representation of a major regional health care organization in parallel federal
civil and criminal investigations; representation of a Fortune 200 semiconductor company in
national anti-counterfeiting suits.

Before serving on the Enron Task Force, Mr. Hueston served as Chief of the Southern Division of
the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California and prosecuted cases of national
and international significance, including an international defense contracting fraud trial for which
he was decorated by the United States Army. Mr. Hueston also served as a lead trial attorney in
one of the first criminal trademark infringement cases brought to trial in Southern California.

Mr. Hueston has been specially commended by the National Federal Law Enforcement Officers
Association, the F.B.I., the I.R.S. and U.S. Customs for his performance as the lead trial attorney
in fraud, tax and public corruption trials. Mr. Hueston has lectured nationally at law and business
schools on topics of trial advocacy and corporate governance, including Cornell, Loyola, Stanford,
UCLA, U.C. Hastings, U.S.C. and Yale.

Mr. Hueston served as a law clerk for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr. of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mr. Hueston is particularly active in the Orange County legal
community, having served in numerous leadership positions in county civic and bar
organizations. A recent past president of the Federal Bar Association, Mr. Hueston has been
elected as Secretary of the Orange County Bar Association and in 2011 will serve as President of
the organization, the second largest bar association in the State of California with over 8,000
members.

Mr. Hueston graduated from the Yale School of Law in 1991 and from Dartmouth College in 1986
where he was magna cum laude with Honors.
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