Board: Board Alumni

Ngozi Nezianya

Ngozi Joel Nezianya is an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. In 2016, Nezianya was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Nezianya previously worked as a Senior Research Analyst at the Democracy Alliance, where he conducted due diligence and program evaluations on public policy institutes, community organizing groups and other issue advocacy and civic engagement organizations.

Nezianya was previously a teaching fellow and acting head of the Leadership Department at African Leadership Academy.

He also taught leadership and entrepreneurship courses to equip students with skills to build and lead effective teams, identify market opportunities and manage and grow nonprofit and for-profit enterprises.

Nezianya received his J.D. cum laude and his M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and his B.A. in political science from Yale University.

William P. Marshall

William Marshall is the Kenan Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina. He teaches courses on civil procedure, constitutional law, election law, First Amendment, federal courts, freedom of religion, the law of the presidency and media law. In 2012, Marshall was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Marshall was Deputy White House Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration. He has also served as the Solicitor General of the State of Ohio, and as Special Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota. He has been a guest professor at Boston University, George Washington University, Case Western University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Connecticut and the College of William and Mary.

Marshall is the author of “Cases And Materials On Federal Courts.” His published articles include: Actually We Should Wait: Evaluating the Obama Administration's Commitment to Unilateral Executive-Branch Action; Bad Statutes Make Bad Law: Hobby Lobby v. Burwell; Abstention, Separation of Powers, and Recasting the Meaning of Judicial Restraint; The Constitutionality of Campaign Finance Regulation: Should Differences in a State's Political History and Culture Matter?; and National Healthcare and American Constitutional Culture.

Marshall received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in history and religious thought from the University of Pennsylvania.

Hon. Tim Lewis (Ret.)

Judge Timothy K. Lewis is the co-chair of the Schnader, Attorneys at Law ADR Practice Group. He works as a mediator, arbitrator, settlement counselor, and trial and appellate practitioner. In 2016, Lewis was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Lewis was previously the co-chair of the Schnader Appellate Practice Group. During his career on the bench, Lewis served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Lewis is national chair of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Diversity Task Force and co-chair of the National Right to Counsel Committee. He also serves on the board of advisors for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute and the Constitution Project. He is a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, a member of the AAA Council of Board Committees, the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, and the Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness.

Lewis was selected by Best Lawyers as the "2015 Lawyer of the Year" in arbitration for Washington, DC, and Lawdragon recognized him as one of the "Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America.” Since 2010 he has been recognized annually in The Best Lawyers in America for his work in Administrative/Regulatory Law, Appellate Law, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, and Mediation from 2010 to 2018. He has been awarded the American Arbitration Association’s Outstanding Director Award, Duquesne University School of Law’s Outstanding Achievement Award. The Legal Intelligencer selected him as one of the "Diverse Attorneys of the Year" in 2015. The Pennsylvania Bar Association awarded him the Minority Bar Committee Award of Achievement.

Lewis received his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law and his B.A. from Tufts University.

Brad S. Karp

Brad S. Karp is chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He has represented numerous clients in significant securities, commercial, and regulatory matters. In 2013, Karp was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Karp’s clients include Citigroup, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, UBS, Blackstone Group, KKR, SoftBank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Deloitte, The National Football League, FIFA, Xerox, Bloomberg, Citco, Ericsson, Mutual of Omaha, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, BB&T, and Zurich Capital.

Karp has given lectures on business litigation, securities litigation and corporate governance at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, New York University Law School and The Federal Judicial Center. He writes a column for the New York Law Journal, and is a frequent writer for The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

Karp is chair of the Legal Action Center and also serves as a director or trustee at Mount Sinai Hospital, The Partnership for New York City, the Harvard Law School Leadership Council, the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association, Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc., the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, American Friends of Hebrew University, the New York Bar Foundation, the Program Advisory Board of the Brennan Center for Justice, the Best Lawyers Advisory Board, the Economic Club of New York, the Union College President’s Council, and the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society.

Karp has been named “Litigator of the Year” by The American Lawyer, a “Litigation   Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal, and one of the top 10 practitioners by Benchmark Litigation. He has received more than a dozen recognitions for his pro bono accomplishments and charitable services.

Karp received his J.D. from Harvard cum laude, and his B.A. from Union College summa cum laude. He clerked for the Hon. Irving R. Kaufman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Christopher Kang

Chris is Chief Counsel of Demand Justice, a new advocacy organization empowering citizens to organize around our nation’s courts and fighting for progressive change because the rights described in our Constitution are only made real through the power of citizen activism. He has been an ACS Board member since 2016.

Chris served in the Obama White House for nearly seven years—as Deputy Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President; Senior Counsel to the President; and Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs.

He oversaw the selection, vetting, and confirmation of more than 220 of the president’s judicial nominees—who set records for the most people of color, women, and openly gay and lesbian judges appointed by a president.

From 2014 to 2015, Chris also was in charge of advising President Obama on commutations and pardons, working with the Department of Justice to establish a new initiative that would lead to commutations for more than 1,700 federal prisoners serving unjust and disproportionate sentences for non-violent crimes (compared to fewer than 200 commutations in the preceding 40 years).

In the Office of Legislative Affairs, as an advocate for the administration before Congress, Chris helped spearhead the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and passage of the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses.

Chris also served as National Director of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans and worked for U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Richard Durbin, of Illinois, as Director of Floor Operations, Judiciary Committee Counsel, and Counsel for labor issues.

The National Law Journal named Chris one of the top 40 minority lawyers in the nation under the age of 40 in 2011, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association gave him its President’s Award in 2012.

Reuben A. Guttman

Reuben Guttman is a founding member of Guttman, Buschner & Brooks, PLLC where his practice involves complex litigation and class actions. The International Business Times has referred to him as “one of the world’s most prominent whistleblower attorneys,” citing “wins recouping billions of dollars for the federal and state governments.” The Boston Globe’s STAT News referred to him as the “The Lawyer Pharma Loves to Hate.” In July 2017, on the eve of trial, Guttman settled a case against Celgene for $280 million.

In 2013, Guttman was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Among other clients, Guttman has represented workers, unions, and pension funds in complex litigation and for over a decade served as the chief outside counsel to the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers in a series of labor and environmental cases that enhanced safety and environmental conditions at Manhattan Project nuclear weapons sites while driving dread disease compensation legislation for nuclear weapons workers across the nation.

Guttman is an adjunct professor at Emory Law School and a senior fellow at Emory Law’s Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and he is a founder and Senior Advisor to the Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review (ECGAR). He has taught trial advocacy and complex case investigations in the United States, China and Mexico, and he has co-authored three case files — two published by Emory and one published by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy — where he has been a faculty member.

Guttman has written or co-authored more than 100 articles or opinion pieces and multiple book chapters; his article, Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States; a Confluence of Influences, was translated and published in Mandarin in the “Peking University Public Interest Law Journal.”

Guttman received his J.D. from Emory University and his B.A. in American history from University of Rochester. He is the founder of www.whistleblowerlaws.com. He began his legal career as a Washington, DC counsel for the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO where he served for five years.