David C. Frederick is a partner at Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick, where he has focused primarily in appellate litigation. He has argued over 100 appeals – including 40 that rose to the U.S. Supreme Court, in every U.S. Court of Appeals, and in five state supreme courts. In 2014, Frederick was appointed to the ACS board of directors.
Noteworthy cases Frederick has either won or settled in the Supreme Court include Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, Tibble v. Edison Int’l, Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans, Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, Pacific Operators v. Valladolid, CSX v. McBride, Matrixx v. Siracusano, Jones v. Harris Associates, Merck v. Reynolds, Wyeth v. Levine, and Altria v. Good. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, first as Counselor to the Inspector General, then as Assistant to the Solicitor General.
Frederick’s published books include “Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy,” “The Art of Oral Advocacy,” and “Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941.”
During Frederick’s work as Assistant to the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice, he received the Guard Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 2000, the Inspector General’s Award for Exceptional Service in 1997, and the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998.
Frederick received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas in Austin, his D.Phil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his B.A. summa cum laude from University of Pittsburgh. He also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, and the Hon. Joseph T. Sneed on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Michael Faris is Vice President & Assistant General Counsel -- Litigation at Stericycle, Inc. Previously, Faris was a partner at Latham & Watkins, where he was the local co-chair of the Litigation & Trial Department. He has significant experience in complex litigation matters, with a focus on securities and professional liability litigation. Faris also has expertise in complex commercial litigation in the areas of antitrust, trademark and patent infringement, and insurance litigation. Faris serves on the ACS Board of Advisors and previously served on the ACS Board of Directors.
Faris’ noteworthy client representations include a public company in 11 consolidated class actions, two state court derivative actions, and one federal court derivative action alleging violations of federal securities laws and fiduciary duties. He has represented clients in private securities suits under blue sky statutes, as well as a large venture capital fund in litigation over several contractual and fiduciary duty claims. He made an oral argument on the client's motion for a partial summary judgment. He began his career at Latham & Watkins as an associate.
Faris received his J.D. from the University of Chicago and his A.B. in social studies from Harvard.
Tim Burns is a partner at Burns Bowen Bair LLP. He combines a deep understanding of insurance law and the insurance industry with a broad understanding of the civil litigation system that allows him to bring creative solutions to high-stakes problems.
Before founding Burns Bowen Bair LLP, Tim was a partner at three of the largest law firms in the country and led the insurance recovery practice groups at two of those law firms. Tim built from scratch one of the world’s top directors’ and officers’ insurance practices. He has co-authored two books on directors’ and officers’ insurance and lectured and written widely on that topic as well as many other areas of insurance law and public policy. For years, Tim taught at directors’ colleges put on by some of the foremost law and business schools in the country, including Stanford’s Directors’ College and the University of Chicago, Stanford and Dartmouth Directors’ Consortium.
Since the financial crisis, Tim has led a small group of lawyers who have obtained over $1 billion in settlements and judgments from the insurance industry under many different types of insurance policies, including general liability insurance, directors’ and officers’ insurance, professional liability insurance, fiduciary liability insurance, cyber insurance, property insurance, and crime and fidelity insurance.
Tim represents some of the largest corporations in the country and their boards of directors, and he also regularly partners with plaintiffs’ lawyers in seeking insurance recoveries for major liability claims and in holding the insurance industry accountable for financial fraud and other misdeeds.
Tim served on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society and serves on the board of the Wisconsin Justice Initiative. In 2019, he was appointed by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to serve on the National Commission on Uniform State Laws. He is a member of the American Law Institute and is the institutional representative for the American Constitution Society at the European Law Institute. Tim chaired the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association. After law school, Tim served as a law clerk to Judge George G. Fagg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 2015, Senator Tammy Baldwin forwarded Tim’s name to President Obama as one of her choices to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
